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>I've wondered if the frequency with which people are experiencing mental illness has increased, or if the rates have remained stable but diagnosis and reporting levels have improved.

Both although I'm very skeptical that diagnosing more people as mentally ill is the same as an improvement. The criteria to be diagnosed with a mental illness has loosened. Probably the most extreme example is the DSM-V declaring bereavement over 2 weeks to be a form of mental illness - depression. What has been considered normal human behavior for most of human history has been medicalized.

I've seen no evidence that increases in diagnosis in the last 2 decades have improved mental health in the developed world. Metrics like the suicide rate have gotten worse during that time. Self-reported anxiety and depression is on its way up.

This is not to say you cannot find individuals or groups helped. However the increase in labelling causes insecurity/stigma, while the field itself like all field does have some deadweight costs. The mental health field also, even if it effective are getting overwhelmed by broader societal issues.

I've found universities to have far more robust mental health services than the general population has.

I would be very surprised if AWS does not get spun off at some point.

Bet they run the Antivirus companies too! It's all a racket!

Yes but fucking with the metrics costs almost nothing. Does almost nothing too.

It can even backfire by sending a bunch of disadvantaged kids to programs they're not prepared to succeed at to "help them" get saddled with college debt they can't discharge.

So we need to correct the SAT so that the students most likely to be doomed to fail will be admitted to higher education?

To me it doesn't sound like you're trying to make the SAT reflect say academic potential. It seems like you're just trying to inflate the appearantly already inflated scores of the disadvantaged. Who will proceed to not get scholarships, fail out, and be saddled with debt they can't pay off or be discharged. This of course is the road to an egalitarian society!

Who needs to bother with difficult things like making the disadvantaged do a little better in school? Just add 100 points to their SAT. Problem solved.

What's going to happen is the transformation of people believing that you succeeding in SPITE of hardship is no big deal since you got a leg up.

I truly loathe those who "help" the disadvantaged by lowering standards for them.

>Its no longer stigmatized [since 20 years ago]

Maybe I should have told the people slamming my back into hooks repeatedly that and they would have stopped. Or the people who refused to hire me. Or the people who refuse associate with me. Maybe you should tell the associates I have who accidentally let slurs slip out of their mouth with me right in front of them. Just look at the slang internet shitheads use. "Retard" and "Autist," are super common.

Just because you're blind to the stigma out there doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Mental illness causes many problems and often the easiest way for somebody to deal with those problems is to not deal with the mentally ill person. Even if its not right. Stigma is practical. People in the developed world give a lot of lip service to how mental illness shouldn't be stigmatised I guess.

I'm curious if you believe the developed world doesn't have sexism or racism anymore.

I guess something being such terrible value nobody uses it is a sort of advantage...

I've seen people paying twice the minimum wage for the no-skill job of picking vegetables and still seen farms not get enough takers resulting in the food rotting on the fields.

Bring on the robots. People hate that work. Literal backbreaking labour.

Become?

The idea of immortality is absurd. At some point you have to toss out the old model and replace it with a new one.

Way longer lifespans than we expect today we might just see. Immortality means forever though.

Google had been receiving shit from people for violating privacy since they had the novel idea to release a free email service that scanned your emails to deliver you targeted ads. The consequent centralization of email (ISP provided email pretty much died after) was subsequently used to allow the NSA to scan a huge amount of peoples personal information.

I think in the last few years is when things tipped to me distrusting Google more than the boogeyman of older times - Microsoft.

I see this as being a more plausible implementation for say multiplayer twitcg shooters. Market needs to scale up a lot for this to be viable though...

Witcher 3 is a single player game and the users who care about lag by far the most are multiplayer gamers.

Certain games like rhythm games would also be pretty miserable with jitter...

Actual video gamers right now go out of their way to get displays with very low input lags. 1080p144hz TN low input lag displays are used quite a bit in esports to shave a few msec. You literally win more often if you react faster. People aim to get TVs with sub 16ms input lag.

However that's not most of the market. The appeal of cloud gaming is for single player non-competitive games. These are the most pirated games and the games where input lag matters the least.

Yeah but MBP aren't running 4k. 3k/2560p screens seem to have a lot easier time with battery life at the moment. I actually think Apple is being more sensible than say, Samsung when it comes to the resolutions they choose.

I looked at reviews of several laptops with a 1080 vs a 1440 vs a 4k option and 1440 > 4k was the biggest drop in battery life.

Or you could just schedule people to arrive at the same time but have them work shorter hours.

I wouldn't cargo cult everything leaders like Jack Ma propose just because they're highly successful.

Sure some 996er's at a company at say, the senior management level can be worth it since you do actually get more work done. Abliet incredibly inefficiently while getting paid the entire time.

I don't see how its efficient to have the core of your business being nothing but employees who are working at decreased efficiency yet are getting paid the same wages. Theres some benefit in cutting down on communication/management overhead but more employees seems like a better idea overall...

It's also simply a practical reality not everybody in society CAN work like this.

1080p strikes me as the pinnacle of a workstation display for laptops right now since I highly doubt any productivity improvement from higher dpi is gonna beat out battery life in the vast majority of cases. Even in the one use case where it matters, 4k video production, theres a reasonable argument for using screens similar to what your consumers will use at least some of the time. Especially if it saves you money and you get to use discounted top performing cpus to boot.

Realistically the AMD laptops lack of color accuracy compared to shit like the trutone Intel macs, and lack of display connectivity especially compared to a thunderbolt outfitted x1 extreme that can connect to four 4k displays is a bigger problem. Especially since external displays actually need the resolution.

Well there was the whole Japan making Korean women into their sex slaves during WWII thing.

This is also hardly a phenomenon unique to video games.

The failure rates for SSDs I've seen when I've seen them compared to HDDs are lower. So long as you aren't using QLC in certain servers. Although there is indeed less warning of impending failure.

Use case also seems important as HDDs are relatively adversely affected by mobile usage.

I feel these games are less dangerous than gambling is. It seems to me gambling has a greater ability to suck money out of peoples pockets. It's also the case these games are doing nothing magic the gathering hasn't been doing for decades.

There is zero reason these games should not have 13+ restrictions however. Under 13 and you're too young to play these games. Don't care if this means there's a bit of a double standard.

Hard drives are very nearly dead for hot storage. I expect them to by wholly dead by the end of 2020 because the TCO of HDDs is going to outstrip that of SSDs because of the fundamentally lower reliability.

Is this REALLY cost efficient?

My concern wasn't getting offended. Nor is my intent to use autism as a "get out of jail free card". Yet its simply true that if you don't communicate you have a disability with people they will not understand your situation, misinterpret the situation, and assume things about you which are not true. This leads to stigma. You can try as hard as you want to accomidate others but if you have a social disability you will always fall short in some way that others do not. That is the nature of being disabled.

The issue is that taking responsibility for what you did involves clearly communicating that you have a disability or at least that you have specific social problems. If you don't do this the lack of communication WILL cause confusion and harm where it otherwise would not have happened. Communicating you have a disability is NOT a "get out of jail free card" its a way to explain you have some differences and when you act a bit differently it's not because of any ill will towards other people. It's about helping people to help you to learn how to interact with people more harmoniously.

Yet being open like this does cause stigma and patronization. Disclosed I was disabled to a job placement agency once in the efforts of clearly communication. I am closed and cautious about disclosing disability but I've had so many good experiences with public servants I trusted them. Huge mistake. I wanted try to get a job the same way as everybody else with no preferential hiring or special recruiters involved. I got assigned two case workers. Neither of them sent my resume to anybody but a disability recruiter. The jobs they found for me were bad fits for my skillset because they were more concerned with finding me a "disability job" than something I could do well.

I eventually got what I wanted by searching for a job on my own getting hired after a single interview with no disclosure of my disability. I do my job well. Yet now the lack of communication gets me in trouble at work.

The entire DSM-V definition of autism was transparently guided by political concerns such as making sure nobody no longer qualified as disabled. Which fundamentally makes it an expansion of the prior definition.

It's absolutely mind boggling how the bible of psychiatry can be so dominated by politics and have very little actual connection to replicable science or empirical data.

Okay. So if you're autistic and upset somebody have a choice now. Tell people you're disabled so they don't take offence but stigmatize/patronize you instead. Or tell people nothing and let them be pissed off at you. They will jump right to retaliation like you say for seeing you as cruel.

No matter what you do. You always lose. The only escape is withdrawal. Temporary or permanent.

>If you can brush your teeth, comb your hair, tie your shoes, and iron and fold clothes but choose not to then you aren’t autistic.

"Choose" is an awkward word here. There are autistic people who will do alk these things, have a slight road bump on life, and it will all fracture apart. Then they will self-isolate for awhile and eventually emerge and try it again. There's a sort of category of people who can do these things, want to do these things on a genuine and honest level, but can only manage them with great difficulty.

I do agree with the general notion that todays conception of autism was generated out of thin air due to the hypercompetitiveness of society. The entire concept of a "spectrum disorder" is a bit odd. I also notice how nobody seems to be correctly measuring if this new paradigm is actually helping the patients. The amount of stigma that exists now that did not exist in the 80s towards the exact same kind of person is incredible. Many of these people would manage, with difficulty, completely unassisted.

I sometimes wonder if the mental health field has damned the people they call autistic while believing they're helping them. The insistence on labelling peoples psychological quirks as a "disorder" it hurts people in profound ways.