3520 | 4 years ago | on: Video game play is positively correlated with well-being
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3520 | 4 years ago | on: Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program
It's quite easy to label something as a fad rather than to attempt to parse the data that supports the interventions they prescribed to the patients in the study (of which there is plenty).
3520 | 4 years ago | on: California is the first state to ban 'stealthing,' nonconsensual condom removal
I would argue that the risk of someone not taking their medication is not "very high". The individual with HIV is highly incentivized to take their medication because it ensures their continued survival.
3520 | 4 years ago | on: Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
You may be able to configure F.B. Purity [0] to your liking. I installed it last night after seeing it mentioned in another thread here and it's cut down on all of my newsfeed clutter.
3520 | 4 years ago | on: California is the first state to ban 'stealthing,' nonconsensual condom removal
You're right. HIV isn't just another communicable disease in someone with an undetectable viral load, it's just another untransmissible disease [0].
[0]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27209...
3520 | 4 years ago | on: Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
I wonder if people will view it as sufficient that a digital copy of 'them' (or at least something identical to them at the point of copying) exists, despite their original biological minds eventually perishing.
It excites me to think about discovering the origin of our consciousness and being able to transfer that.
3520 | 4 years ago | on: Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots
At last, a use for all the tuition fees I've paid.
https://mega.nz/file/oB8z1aoJ#nm3pz9LO4uGMwMiQMh6SbO3PZmfTnR...
3520 | 4 years ago | on: The undiscovered country: Can suicide be predicted?
In order to predict suicide you'd need real-time data of wide variety of aspects of a human being (levels of pain, hopelessness, connectedness, capability for suicide, etc) in a way that is impossible to achieve at the moment (insufficient measures and insufficient data gathering techniques).
3520 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD
I've found Productive to be very helpful
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Since you're putting it forth as an absolute truth, surely you'd have no problem providing us all with a citation; would you be so kind?