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brookside··on Lime and Bird are growing rapidly
Do you not subscribe to the idea stealing=bad?
brookside··on Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US
Touring is expensive and has a certain number of fixed costs.

While popular artists indeed can make a killing touring, it costs money for those playing smaller venues, or god forbid, playing as an opening act.

Labels have a tour marketing budget to cover the expense of building a following on the road.

brookside··on JavaScript Equality Minesweeper

  NaN == NaN 
is falsy, no? (Shows as truthy in the game, unless I am misunderstanding.)
brookside··on Bullshit Job Notes
> Clearly a safety and health issue.

Why clearly?

I like standing up to workplace nonsense as much (or way more) than the next guy/gal, but seems rigid to refuse to code from a different room for a day.

brookside··on The cult of WeWork
I love the Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge co-working space in Long Island City. Really just some tables and chairs but in the middle of rock climbing walls.
brookside··on I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
David E. Davis, founder of Automobile magazine was known to ask "Is your life a rich tapestry?" instead of the usual "How are you?". I like that.
brookside··on Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press
While Tesla's claims are probably largely accurate, I agree this seems like a distraction / side narrative for when they don't hit their stated goals and need to raise more money ASAP.

Worked at a startup that used the "we had saboteurs in our midst, but they were discovered and now things will improve" story on the eve of needed new financing round. The story was somewhat accurate but had very little to do with the overall arc of growth or progress.

Tesla will need something to say about why they didn't make their targets, and this is going to be one of the things said.

brookside··on Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?
My understanding of zocdoc is that is is a marketing service for doctors, not a legitimate review site.
brookside··on Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?
> But most importantly, the way a good therapist works is by reflecting and empathizing with you.

In my very humble opinion this is the way a bad therapist works.

I've gone to therapy to deal with real problems - attention issues, a bout of anxiety - and having somebody mostly repeat back to me what I said was so, so unhelpful.

brookside··on Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?
I know at my previous job the Aetna payment towards my therapist ended up being $10 per session. (I believe I paid $50 and insurance paid $10).

For this reason, the vast majority of "good' therapists, in this market anyhow, choose to not accept below-market rates.

brookside··on Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?
One argument against is cost - weekly CBT in NYC is going to run about 150 a session which will work out to ~7800 a year.
brookside··on American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
You definitely free to argue that, but is there some scientific basis or any study you can point to?

The issue with sugar is how the body processes fructose and glucose. Unless there is indication that substances present in non-organic vs organic sugar modify digestion of sucrose and fructose there isn't much to the theory organic makes sugar less harmful.

brookside··on American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
The issue here is consuming fructose and sucrose. Organic or not won't factor in.
brookside··on Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings
> Researchers studied five different diets to see which lowered the risk of heart failure: convenience (fast food and pasta), plant-based, sweets, Southern (sugary beverages and fried foods), and alcohol/salads.

What kind of study design is this? It seems like they compared veganism with 4 garbage diets. Seems like all we can extract from this is plant-based is better than eating trash.

brookside··on Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings
What are the rates?
brookside··on Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app support on the Mac
Yep this is the the best real solution I think. A recording is a snapshot in time and it makes sense to print track/s to stems after plugins so can be remixed later if so desired.
brookside··on Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)
Join the financial independence movement. Spend little and save much, and with a programmer salary you can not have to work again in a few short years.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

brookside··on Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit
> Such credentials are worth a lot in our societies, hence the high wage.

Lots of professionals with great titles and affiliations steer people down a totally incorrect path.

An easy example of this is Harvard study published in the New England Journal of Medicine promoting dietary fat reduction, shaping what every credentialed person would advise for diet for the next 50 years: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

Drug companies shoulder the rep of being cold evil capitalists. Psychiatrists also become extremely wealthy as part of this medical complex, and get to keep a positive reputation. It reminds me of ticketmaster essentially being paid to shoulder negative PR for excessive ticket fees which are often largely passed on to performers.

brookside··on Research suggests some potential benefits to being a loner
> According to everyone, I should have gone out to see the latest movies, taken a cruise, traveled to cities, experienced night life...

This response makes me wonder how exactly you are answering the question. I can't image almost anybody giving guff for "honestly i've been working non-stop and just needed to unwind and clear my head".

brookside··on Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?
Psychiatrists don't have special powers when it comes to choosing an SSRI, the process is almost entirely trial and error.

There is nothing wrong with going to a general practitioner, trying Lexapro, and if you don't feel anything on that, trying Wellbutrin, and then on down the line.

If you administer the Beck Depression inventory to gauge your own mood on some consistent basis before and after starting antidepressants you will be introducing far more of the scientific method into the process than most psychiatrists will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory

brookside··on Failed intercept at Dhahran caused by a software error in handling of timestamps
Sure but

> I'd have loved to be a fly ...

loving anything about that sad scenario seems impossible.

brookside··on The Substitutability of Physical and Social Warmth in Daily Life (2013)
I'll agree with the other post here...where is the warmth in your own comment history?
brookside··on How poverty changes your mindset
So many of us are in debt, but I would definitely encourage you to think about re-shifting your own paradigm if it's comfortable to do so:

If you would like entertaining reading to assist in your own building of a new mental model around money:

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

(written by a programmer who retired early and is part of the "financial independence" movement/blogosphere)

brookside··on In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better
I like elemental cars without bloated features as well, but most new cars both ICE and electric have screens and the like. I don't think this is unique to EVs.
brookside··on Undiagnosed adult ADHD could cost UK billions a year, report finds
What happens when diagnosis? Seeking help (add your own scare quotes) will get you amphetamines with an expensive monthly 5 minute refill appointment.
brookside··on Tesla’s Elon Musk May Have Boldest Pay Plan in Corporate History
I wouldn't want a 3 because it isn't a hatchback. Hatchbacks are just so wonderful for transporting large items and even for sleeping the occasional night!
brookside··on Amazon Go and the Future
NYC Trader Joe's aren't convenience stores but my shopping times are informed almost entirely by the expected line length.
brookside··on [dead]
I fully understand Silverman's troll is in a great deal of pain and/or addiction, but his twitter postings are still a tragic mess after her intervention. https://twitter.com/jeremy_jamrozy.
brookside··on Why Am I So Lazy?
I so much agree that praising ability instead of effort is a mistake.

However, a word like "lazy" is a bit tricky. While you are saying "stop being lazy" (meaning - please cease the behavior you are exhibiting in this moment) it can have an undertone of "you are lazy", especially if repeated over the course of days/months/years.

I wonder if there is a better phrasing to respond in a scenario like a kid not searching for his own backpack. Maybe "Do the work!"

brookside··on Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access
There is an increasing awareness of the "reproducibility crisis"[1] where it seems a large portion of published scientific studies have dubious findings.

I wonder if this is another argument to overthrow Elsevier to as clearly their peer review for publication is a poor filter. Or, is it possible the peer review process will become even weaker in a new more open paradigm?

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778

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