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Kashif Shah

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  • Is this discrimination?

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  • So I think someone with ADHS alone would have a big evolutionary problem, but in a group of people they can jump into action whenever the right circumstances occur and then solve whatever it is quicker than anyone else.

    Interesting insight - presumably any evolutionary advantage to ADHS would be due to an improved ability to procreate (jumping into action, making the opposite sex… happy… by saving the day) or to stay alive (jumping into action and staying alive to procreate another day).

    I think, however, that still only works out under the right circumstances and might only be an advantage in the statistical median

    I definitely agree on both counts. I’ll have to go looking for some recent studies to see what’s going on these days in the research.

    The statistical significance is always key. But effect size is important.

    There’s the concept of correlation, as well - there could be a statistically significant correlation, but it could still be either a weak correlation or a strong correlation.

    Again, definitely piqued my interest for digging into some psychology research again! Thank youfor that.

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  • Interestingly, some of the research that I’ve read has been pulling at that thread - there are possible evolutionary advantages to ADHD and specific situations in which people with ADHD (innattentive type, myself) actually excel over neurotypical people.

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  • Well, in that case, advise him to the pressure on the centros de dia o centros de salud to get him the help with cleaning house like he did with the doctor and Adderall.

    As an aside, indeed, in the US, if you have a problem with paying your taxes, you have to talk to the IRS. Same with healthcare, you have to engage with the social services system to get the right services.

    But again, don’t lose sight of my main point - leverage social services assistance for custody purposes in the long run.

    Peace and out, before I further annoy you.

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  • Well, I spent a little bit of time digging, because I was curious, but the language barrier is making it a little slower.

    My best advice for you would be for you to reach out to the Minesterio de Sanidad. Tell them that you are reaching out in concern for a friend, explain the basics of his situation, with an emphasis on his struggles with keeping a clean house, etc., and that you want to find out what services the Sistema Nacional de Salud offers on an outpatient basis for assistance with daily living skills or rehabilitation.

    They ought to be prepared to handle a request like that without too much routing around. The goal is to find out what they can do to help your friend satisfy the courts requirements for a child rearing environment.

    edit: oh, also, check out https://sid-inico.usal.es - in Spain, what you need is one of the publicos “Centros de Dia” services, or maybe privados con plazas concertadas, but T sounds like he would belong to the Asistidos category of needs

    edit 2: https://sid-inico.usal.es/otros-centros/

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  • Ah, well, then none of my advice likely applies, unfortunately. It would help to know what country you need the advice for. Some western countries might follow a similar style of treatment, where you need to get the help of a “social worker” for “skills of daily living”

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  • Mental health services here are criminally underfunded

    Par for the course in the USA.

    He has been seeking that help, but it was only after being annoying for years that he got a doctor to agree to prescribing Adderall.

    Also, par for the course in the USA. Recently, Adderral has been undergoing a DEA mandated supply shortage and since the 00s doctors really have been averse to prescribing it, in particular. There are now non-stimulant alternatives with less side effects.

    What I am saying though, is that he needs a social worker to be spending an hour every week with him. If he is on Medicaid, due to his financial and medical situation, then he should be readily approved for the “skills training” side of mental/behavioral health care, which often comes from a social worker.

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  • T would benefit from reaching out for mental/behavioral health assistance above and beyond just seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist. He needs additional supportive services that may be called something like “skills training”.

    With that in place, and a demonstrated record of showing signs of improvement, and a lawyer, he ought to be able to get custody back.

    Might be worth seeing if the administration can come to an agreement that he gets further supportive services before they reduce custody.

  • For security reasons

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  • Haha that is a great idea! Give the landmine kill a special animation just to make sure that the cheaters get the message or let them figure it out in time lol?

    Heh, did you share that inventory technique on news.ycombinator? I could have sworn that I read a story there a team doing that.

    I know exactly what you are talking about - I was digging into the modding of this one game and happened upon a cheater’s forum. Blew my mind that the first step was to completely gut your computer’s security lol. But at the same time, was enlightening to see that. Seems like some of the work has been moved to the Anti-Cheat systems, but I’m guessing that there must be large gaps in what the AC can actually do for you at the application level?

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  • Heh, I saw it on news.ycombinator.com back when it was announced- they have made strides if you can access TSA now!

    In the beginning it was just a form for every manner of authentication and then a big CTA, essentially telling other .gov entities to start making project requests.

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  • Kudos for looking out first your future self - I had to leave the field entirely after it got to the point where I couldn’t stand to look at a computer anymore. Still can’t for more than an hour, two years later.

    I intend to reply more later, because this does deserve a longer reply, but I am short on steam.

    In the meantime, have you heard of login.gov? Check that out. The day that .com gets a hook into that is the day that identity problems are (mostly) solved.

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  • Risk management is the name of the game, as always, eh?

    That’s a slick technique for anti-cheat, heh. What did you think of the Call of Duty “fake data” approach? That cracked me up - things in game that only cheaters can see, so they end up self-reporting themselves as cheaters lol

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  • I spent about a decade in the enterprise software development space, so I totally get it. I couldn’t put it into words as well as you did, however.

    After watching the FCC bigwigs debate robocalls several years ago, I’ve become a believer in a future where your internet access is always authenticated to your real life ID, dark web excepted of course.

    In their case, it was posited as a best-in-class solution to the problem of spam in the telephony space. Same logic applies to email. I mean, look at what Twixxer did with the verified checkmark requiring a credit card. The trend is already there.

    I get the fear of being de-anonymized on the internet, but it may be the case of something we hate being something we need, when you start to throw deepfakes into the mix.

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  • Let’s talk about the security of using email to do anything in this day and age.

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  • Security ain’t free.

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  • lol “security” in this case is probably more like expediency in trying to solve a spam problem

  • A new trolley era

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  • Who sold PayPal?

  • A new trolley era

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  • lol read Stranger in a Strange Land if you want an interesting Mars story

  • A new trolley era

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  • Until they go the way of PayPal, at least. Musk’s exit plan is Mars, remember?

  • Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

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  • I second the idea of finding a way to make your website using markdown and a template, that’s what I do for https://kashifshah.sdf.org