sedivy94 (u/sedivy94)

sedivy94 commented on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2... · Posted by u/renameme

plandis · 7 days ago

What is your point?

Surely you’re not trying to draw some conclusion between an entire countries modern day medical field and a theory a person proposed in the 1800s, right?

sedivy94 · 7 days ago

Hi, not the parent poster here. I believe the argument being made is that diagnostic criteria, and diagnoses themselves, can be shaped by cultural norms. As the Overton window shifts, so do the thoughts and behaviors that we deem pathological.

sedivy94 commented on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2... · Posted by u/renameme

Retric · 7 days ago

> What’s the psychiatric equivalent of a sprained ankle?

A concussion? Obviously it’s not considered a psychiatric condition but concussions check a lot of the right boxes abstractly.

sedivy94 · 7 days ago

What’s the right word to differentiate this from a psychiatric diagnosis? Neurological?

sedivy94 commented on UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption theverge.com/news/761240/... · Posted by u/iamdamian

amelius · 15 days ago

Meanwhile, who believes that the US has no backdoors in these devices?

sedivy94 · 15 days ago

Why litigate it when you can buy it from the NSO / IDF?

sedivy94 commented on Minimum effective dose winnielim.org/journal/min... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

sedivy94 · 7 months ago

“Minimum effective dose” is a concept I picked up from years of amateur bodybuilding. Seeing that same context in the beginning of the article was a treat! Minimum effective dose has been a pretty powerful concept for me over the years and has some overlap with “The 80/20 Rule”. It’s allowed my to make small investments in goals and snuff out insecurities that arise, such as the feeling of not trying hard enough.

sedivy94 commented on Visualizing the Nucleus [video] youtube.com/watch?v=ach9J... · Posted by u/sandebert

sedivy94 · 10 months ago

I found this film recently and cannot recommend it enough. One of the most visually captivating and thought-provoking pieces of media I've consumed in recent memory. It details the emergence of space-time, matter, chemistry, abiogenesis, and human culture. The CGI and sound design are especially good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJVCrldAfM

sedivy94 commented on Libgourou: A Free Implementation of Adobe's Adept DRM on ePub/PDF Files forge.soutade.fr/soutade/... · Posted by u/gorky1

sshine · a year ago

I’m probably reading this wrong, but “gourou” (狗肉) is dog meat in Chinese.

sedivy94 · a year ago

Isn’t the pinyin for “肉” typically “ro”?

sedivy94 commented on So you wanna de-bog yourself experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/world2vec

BlueTemplar · a year ago

I've recently watched for the first time Neon Genesis Evangelion (+ The End of...), and powerful (and a bit painful) art like this seems to be a good slap in the face to get out of at least some of the versions of that bog - I'm a bit sad that I didn't watch it years earlier when I was stuck in some bogs...

(Another commenter there mentions a quote recommending books - great literature I'm pretty sure in that context, not "self help" books... I guess I should hurry up and read Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being already ?)

sedivy94 · a year ago

Fellow Neon Genesis fan here. Watching the original series was an incredibly frustrating experience for me. It does not follow the typical hero’s journey. There few wins, if any. Mostly losses. Idiot Shinji was a helpless and pitiful protagonist, so much so that you eventually stop rooting for him. The 1.11, 2.22, 3.33, and 3.0+1.0 rebuilds were much, much better in my opinion. But they also lacked that depressing trajectory that made the original series so unique.

sedivy94 commented on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly nytimes.com/2024/03/21/te... · Posted by u/jcfrei

nox101 · a year ago

Your mobile device is a gateway to much of the world. You seem to think it would be okay for a car manufacture to make it impossible to use your car except to drive to business that pay the car maker 30% of every purchase. I'm guessing you'll say people should be able to opt into such a car if they want but if that car has 60% of the market now it's effectively influencing the entire economy. Prices of groceries are 30% higher. Prices of clothing are 30% higher. Any company who wants people to come to their store are forced to sign up to pay the car company 30% or else they won't have access to 60% of the population.

Can you see the issue now? It doesn't matter that people could by other cars. It matters that Apple's market is so large that its influence is too big to be left as is.

sedivy94 · a year ago

Poor analogy. This is already an issue with servicing automobiles. Overly-complicated construction and proprietary tools that can only be acquired by licensed dealerships. Read: Audi, Mercedes-Benz.

sedivy94 commented on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly nytimes.com/2024/03/21/te... · Posted by u/jcfrei

HDThoreaun · a year ago

If I switch to android I lose the apps I paid for and my ability to text American iPhone users is completely hamstringed

sedivy94 · a year ago

Completely hamstringed? SMS is the standard, and yes it sucks horribly. Elevating the experience with additional software features and cloud services on one platform does not immediately entitle all smartphone users on the globe to the same experience. Google made a push for RCS, botched it, service providers either didn’t adopt it or only partially implemented it. That was upsetting to me. Do we sue Google and service providers as well?

I do agree that losing app licenses is upsetting. But this is no different than the licensing model for many softwares in the desktop market (e.g. per-user and per-install licenses).

sedivy94 commented on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly nytimes.com/2024/03/21/te... · Posted by u/jcfrei

dmitrygr · a year ago

My theory: the problem is iCloud encryption at rest. The solution is to hang this over Apple until they relent.

sedivy94 · a year ago

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The USA is a surveillance state and Apple’s security posture combined with its market share is a considerable hindrance. The arguments against anti-competitive and consumer-hostile mechanisms ad nauseam pale in comparison to this. I very much want to see real numbers, perhaps survey data, supporting the narrative that customers are locked in, unhappy with their experience, or otherwise underserved by Apple. Because IRL, I see nothing but happy customers.