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If it were strictly a placebo effect, I would expect any sort of treatment-- anti depresents (I've been on a dozen), talking theraposts, anccupuncture, accupressure, hypnotism, etc. etc. To have worked. If it were just the fact that I was being treated that caused my mind to cure itself, why did all of the previous lengthy and cost-incuring treatments fail?

If "placebo effect" is proffered as a debunking explanation, I'm curious as to the explanation of why this particular sham treatment had the placebo effect, while other sham and real treatments failed to have any effect, real or placebo.

> but look for people from degree programs you trust

How is someone who doesn't really keep tabs on departments of psychology supposed to have developed a sense of trust of particularly degree programs?

Do you mean like preferring Vanderbilt's psychology program over Harvard's? Or preferring Psychology over Acupuncture?

A personal anecdote-- I suffered from cluster headaches for about 20 years, starting in high school.

Because of bad emotions and not having much success with traditional psychotherapy and anti-depressants, I started going to primal therapy.

I'm well aware that primal therapy is not considered valid in mainstream psychology. I'm not trying to debate that.

I found my therapy helpful for dealing with my daily emotional swings and negative thoughts and feelings.

Surprisingly, I found that it greatly reduced the number of cluster headaches that I had.

Long story short, I had been suppressing my actual emotions in order to appear okay and not an over-reactive emotional wreck. This was a much deeper and subtle process than "I'm okay"-- it was a subconscious, physio-psychological process involving arresting the subtle motions of my face and neck that normally create expression. This process, which I did often throughout the day, subconsciously, when I thought of something personally painful, would eventually lead up to a cluster headache.

That whole paragraph above is something I figured out on my own, while I was doing the therapy, not something that the therapist presented me with or helped me figure out. But I would not have been able to do it if I had not had a space to enact my emotions, which is what primal therapy is (it's not screaming--or, I should say, not just screaming).

Being in a place where you can actually emote what you are feeling, not just talk about what you feel, is a game-changer when you grew up not being accepted for validated as a child. I can talk about how I feel all I want-- that's what I had to learn to do as a child, going to psychologists. That has no therapeutic or helpful effect for me-- it became just another coping or defense mechanism. I'm completely dissociated from myself when I talk about my feelings. I was never allowed to actually feel.

I still have general physical pain, and get crushing migraines from time to time ( I just started a new medication for that), but thankfully I only have cluster headaches about once every six months. I attribute this entirely to the changes that came about from going to primal therapy.

I know that primal therapy has not been rigorously studied, and is generally considered "debunked" by mainstream psychology. But anyways, it really helped me. I entirely certain that the lessening of cluster headaches to almost gone was not a coincidence, and a result of primal therapy.

Yes.

There are four fundamental forces that govern the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and strong and weak nuclear forces.

Dark matter interacts with gravity, but not electromagnetism. Electromagnetism is the force that we are acting upon when we touch things, or things bump into or collide with one another. Also, it's what makes light and magnetism.

So dark matter would never hit or bump into anything, but it can, say, orbit something.

I'll want something that probably communicates with web through REST calls, with authentication, so I'll need ssl.

Is there an authoritative source on POSIX shell?

I guess I'm not so concerned about doing it in c, but rather getting stuck in certain places (I'm only thinking of memory management, but I suppose there are others) that higher level languages avoid completely. Also, as a learner, I am afraid I would be writing idiosyncratic weirdness instead of idomatic, readable code.

I would want the codebase to be accessible to a wide audience.

Funny, my thoughts exactly

I would rather say that it's argument from evidence, but that's perhaps an academic point.

But I disagree that drug policy is judged on the merits you mention; we have evidence of decriminalization in portugal, and its relative success in preventing destruction. Meanwhile elsewhere in the world there is very little appetite to entertain the idea of decriminalization or legalization, despite evidence supporting the theory that prohibition exacerbates the effects its intended to directly prevent.

Can't say I disagree with him on that

What were the false claims?

Probably because we don't generally become aware of anyone's heroin usage, whether they're a celebrity or someone you know, until it's a problem spiraled out of control. Most people never see non-addictive, non-destructive recreational use.

Which it turns comes across as ignorant, to people aware of how successfully Portugal handled their heroin addiction crisis, through decriminalization.

I'll be honest, I'm not going to look up the work.

Do those experiments show definitively that babies and animals understand that 1 + 1 = exactly 2 and nothing else? Or do they understand that 1-ish + 1-ish is more than 1 -- because this isn't that much different from what anumeric groups understand. Less and more are different from discrete arithmetic, strictly speaking.

For instance, 1 fish + 1 fish might be > 3 fish, if the first two fish we're talking about are 20 and 40 lbs respectively, and then the second set of three fish are ten pounders each. In the "real world", hunter-gatherers deal with continuous mass problems at least as often as they deal with standardized, discrete units.

Did these babies and animals understand that 1 + 1 = 2 and only 2, and not 2.5? Or 3?

The abstract idea of arithmetic is something on the scale of reasoning about an idealized circle, say, which doesn't exist in nature on a day-to-day basis.

The same way any other adaptive trait evolved.

Those offspring with random mutations drowned less, and and more reproductive success.

Interesting to me -- as a kid, the only place I smelled lily flowers was at funerals. Their pungent and slightly unpleasant odor I thought was enbalming fluid, or something else associated with dead bodies. I can't smell them to this day without immediately associating them with the pallid, sunken skin of dead, elderly white folks.

From a fresh build, I agree with you.

However, for MySQL in an existing application, the migration costs might make it not worth it. There can be a number of pernicious gotchas that aren't obvious at first. MariaDB is more or less set-and-forget.

Another aspect I suspect is that older people have been around the block and have better BS detectors. This makes them less easy to roll over, and also they are more likely to offer a counter-narrative to whatever BS mgmt is pushing down to the workers.

You would use it over PostgreSQL because it's a drop-in replacement for MySQL. PostgreSQL is not.

If you're not using MySQL in the first place, why would you care?

Why does it have to change? It's a free market, internationally. Perhaps if they don't want to pay for drugs, drug companies should stop selling to them.

You're saying the rest of the world is so poor, their health care systems are bouyed as a /side effect/ of the research that companies do, financed by the their average American customer?

MariaDB is a thing.

Experimentally, when they entangle photons, they just pick two random photons.

If two random photons used in an experiment weren't ever really separate entities to being with, even before the experiment ever started, then one should probably conclude that /all/ photons are not really separate entities.

Otherwise, every quantum experiment we've ever done has just /happened/ to pick two photons that were actually one entity, unlike most other photons.

Not a physicist, but questions of "how" and "why" are complicated by their ambiguity in English.

In common English, "how" means the mechanics of a system, and "why" generally means for what purpose someone has undertaken an action. Think of "Why did you build a garage?" (for what purpose or to what end?) vs. "How did you build a garage?" (what exact method did you use).

To complicate things, for action by non-agents, "why" can also mean "how". Children might ask "Why is the sky blue?" but what they mean (or the answer they get) is "How is the sky blue".

So when it comes to physics, we generally say there is no "why" (teleology, or mental purpose of an agent), only "how" (observable physical mechanisms). As far as physics is concerned, there is no God who set up the universe in a particular way, because he liked things a certain way, or he wanted a certain outcome.

However, the ambiguity of "why" can still be re-purposed, if you will, in physics. It's not referring to the will of an agency, but instead to lower-order phenomena that give rise to higher-order phenomenal. Why does the Earth sky have to be blue instead of, say, red? We're asking about why the mechanics of Releigh scattering play out one way verses another.

Make with the numbers.

> Because wages are tied to supply and demand, not productivity. Increased productivity will rather lower wages.

You ever notice how right-wingers dismiss economic statistics quasi-scholastic talking points, and never show you numbers?

> Well, how high should they have risen? They can't rise indefinitely.

Why couldn't they be on par with the rise in productivity? As they did from 1950 to 1970: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6H3OQjdwq4w/T6Hs2Dz3X5I/AAAAAAAAD0...

> "It all goes in the pockets of a few super-rich" > It's repeated like a mantra on the left, but when do they ever show you the actual numbers?

Yes, quite frequently. Here's an article with numbers and a graph: https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/graph-day-1-get-richer/

Have a look at WISP, which I just found out about from this thread: http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/

LISP without parentheses.

Why not put this disclaimer at the top of the essay?

Oh, I agree, there's probably several /systems/ that are all-around good.

My argument is that there is no organizational structure that is more likely to product and maintain such a system.

People identify the bad parts of an open-source project and say "See? This is why we need Serious Engineers|Business Acumen|etc". Meanwhile, the bad parts of private project simply aren't made public.