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This article from about ten years ago asserts that "a highly cohesive story [was] emerging regarding the etiology and treatment of ADHD": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894421/ and gives an overview of that etiology, which concerns norepinephrine and dopamine in the prefrontal cortex.

My experience was otherwise, but you might be right in general.

I think you probably have a different idea about what constitutes success in higher education than the commenter to whom you're replying, and possibly also to admissions officers at prestigious universities.

It can be true that the SAT is a good predictor of university grades, and also that there is more to university life, and life in general, than grades. The parent comment is suggesting that optimizing for grades may not produce the ideal set of university students/graduates. But if you think that graduating with high grades is the whole point of the endeavour then obviously you'll disagree.

Certainly I enjoyed spending my time at university surrounded by people who had more going on than just academic excellence.

Surely that kind of play would indicate a rating considerably above 1200.

> the theatrical editions made it onto DVD one time

Even then, it wasn't really what was being asked for by fans. The goal at that time was to get LucasFilm to release the pre-Special Edition versions of the movies, which were available on VHS and Laserdisc, on DVD at DVD resolution.

LucasFilm insisted that it was impossible to reassemble the negatives and that they had no suitable print from which to produce a new digital scan. Instead, they released digitized copies of the Laserdiscs on DVD bonus discs.

Since then, enthusiasts have managed to produce Blu-ray resolution versions of the original movies first by piecing together a variety of sources and later by acquiring and scanning surviving prints.

Icelandic and English are cousins, but the former has retained a fairly extensive inflectional system that requires a lot of memorization to learn.

A lot of professional models are kind of odd-looking; it makes their appearance striking.

I think the TV mini-series is very good.

One reason to have state-run lotteries is as a harm reduction tactic to keep organized crime out of it.

Fun fact: Ukrainian anarchist general Nestor Makhno is credited with the invention of the technical during the Russian Civil War, in the form of a machine gun mounted on a horse-drawn wagon.

What are bystanders going to do? If you call the cops about someone stealing a bike they'll show up three hours later and shrug, if they show up at all.

I think the edition I read mentioned that the Norse society in Greenland dwindled to nothing because of an inability to adapt to the conditions created by the Little Ice Age; sounds like this podcast has the same idea.

Nope; I used the Wikipedia article I mentioned. This is a different, more detailed, table of temperature data.

I didn't think anyone would post this to HN when I wrote it, so I certainly wasn't baiting clicks, except perhaps from the friends with whom I shared it directly.

It's a recreation of the style used by Edward Tufte, who wrote an influential book on data visualization.

My takeaway from reading Grænlendinga saga and Eiríks saga rauða was that Iceland is where you went when you got kicked out of Norway for killing too many people, and Greenland is where you went when you got kicked out of Iceland for killing too many people.

It's Stanley, Falkland Islands.

> I take it the person writing the article prefers anything, including a constant drab rain, to ever having -15C or +30C.

That's about right. I don't mind -15C so much but don't care for anything below about -20C or above 20C. I don't like rain either but I think I'd put up with it for a narrow enough temperature band.

Depends what you think is nice!

I'll tolerate any amount of rain if I never have to sweat through another shirt.

My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like.

I didn't include humidity, precipitation, wind, etc., mostly because I threw this together in an hour or so and didn't intend for it to be a "serious" analysis, just a novelty.

This is a neat tool/visualization!

I'd prefer if the `tufte` theme would render the "|>" pipes as "▷" but I wasn't prepared to do that level of tinkering.

I will consider adding a section mentioning the tools! (I'm the author of this page.)

It's still possible to use the version of YNAB from before they switched to a subscription model.

The 6th century Indian Buddhist logician Dignāga's ideas about evidence and deductive reasoning remind me a lot of the analytic philosophy of the early 20th century.

The standard mortgage in Canada has a five-year term, amortized over 25 years. You generally cannot lock in a low rate for 30 years the way you can in the United States.

What is it like to be a bat?

95 years is not even the longest copyright period in the United States: some sound recordings will not enter the public domain until 110 years after their first publication.

Something I think helps a lot to bring moral clarity to one's thinking about the Israel-Palestine conflict is to locate where the material power to end it lies, rather than to search vainly for a party without blood on its hands.