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To me it comes off as a kind of PSA for Vice's 20-something target audience. There's nothing really new to take away if you're generally familiar with the current understanding of how the brain develops, and if you've experienced adolescence.

It's a given that mental health is difficult to understand and will be for a long time. How can a human fully grasp the pathology of another brain? To get reach even a basic understanding requires a lot of individual time and effort.

But prevention - that's something we all might be able to do something about. Mental illnesses are systemic and build up from patterns of stress that we deal with in youth and adolescence. This researcher mentioned social "risk factors" like poor engagement and sheltering. But I can't help but suspect that the sheer scale of modern society is just not something we are designed to cope with. People thrive with structure, and modern societies give us the curse of too much freedom and not enough guidance.

We're talking about illnesses that cost us $300 billion/year (in the US), more than twice that of all cancers [0]. Some kind of mental illness affects almost a fifth of adults. You can't look at this and not suspect that this is a disease of modernity. If we want to solve it, we need to solve society.

That's a bit bold, sweeping, and maybe tangential, but it's what I wanted to say.

[0] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/cost/index.shtml

From what I've read, that wouldn't be relevant for an electric vehicle, since there is no transmission. Or that might only be for the Tesla.

If it was working well, why stop when your SO arrived? Did she not, ah, agree about the lack of smell?

I had to give it a couple tries, but it loaded

I assume you mean to use Singapore as an example of where strict laws and reduced violence have had a positive effect on development? As opposed to India?

All right I'm intrigued. What kind of coding were you doing under fire? Were the problems interesting in their own right or was the danger factor the biggest part of it? Was the work anywhere near the "principled reasons" category?

The scrappy startup: can you share a couple textbites about the lessons you got there? What kind of crossover did those lessons have in the war zones - or was that afterwards?

The project is really impressive, you have some truly beautiful examples in the gallery. I see what you mean that user content creation doesn't seem easily accessible enough to hit Minecraft's level of self-marketing. But there is tremendous potential I think once you reach a more fleshed-out demo. Hope to see that soon.

I believe he's talking about Voxel Quest [0], which was on HN some time ago. I see what he means, it has clearly been a big time investment.

[0] http://www.voxelquest.com

I think you mean primates?

This something I've been curious about for a while now. I don't have a lot of experience, but I've worked on a farm and with a research team looking at agricultural water management. It seems like there is a lot of potential in distributed small-scale farming, and later, small-scale automation. I just don't know what would be the most viable route to get into the business of... I guess I'd call it small-scale decentralized farming? But these kinds of ideas are getting me thinking about it again.

I'd guess the greatest interest comes from educated young Western homeowners. But I would rather dream of it breaking into the mainstream and becoming the new pattern of food production. I want to do the math and find out if it's a feasible future, because I suspect it will be, but the question is when. But I'm not sure where to start, or if the data to answer that even exists yet.

According to their rules, "screen time" is not equivalent to "using computer".

It seems like a reasonable way to limit unproductive, pure-entertainment computer use. A parent with some common sense should be able to identify what is productive.

Not sure how complex your use case is, but I've found Pandas (on Python) to be just as powerful and much more performant than R for working with scientific data. It's built on Numpy so you can use Scipy's statistical functions with it seamlessly.

And since the post now links to Vimeo, here is the LtU link: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5054