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- I went through clinical depression myself 10 years ago. I think the OP deserves a second opinion. - I would tell someone with type 2 diabetes to stop taking drugs and instead sto…

I had to think about your question for a while. However, I think the issue is the premise: you imply "has it better" = "how you feel". Whereas Dr. Frankl says (and has observed) "y…

Have you read "mans search for meaning"? That guy lived in a concentration camp, so you probably don't have it that bad... Hope you find something better than pills and/or paying a…

So when are they going to stop suing android for having the nerve to try to interoperate with their shit FAT filesystem?

>If I ever again have quite some money to spend Sounds like voice of experience from both sides... ?

This article is conflating two things: - two factor login (you need password + sms text) - account recovery (using only a phone) THIS IS DUMB. I only use an alternate email for rec…

To me it's clearly simpler. Paxos involces special client numbers (to guarantee ordering), but you still have to fall back to randomized delays to avoid livelock; raft just starts …

hmm, actually watching the paxos video posted above - even basic paxos needs randomized delays to avoid livelock with multiple proposers. ouch. so why would people choose it over r…

This is pretty awesome and I think only real hardcore folks who need time-guaranteed leader failover (like, I don't know, a heart pacemaker or something) would stick with paxos. (A…

horrible intro; tl/dr. Someone tell me specifically WTF I give a shit about this, what the pros/cons are. And write a concrete intro.

One puppet (WH) appointing another puppet (fed chair) IMHO. We all know it. Re: BIS, I haven't looked into that much; I'm afraid I'm depressed enough already :-)

I would like to offer a small historical perspective on the power of banks: Legal Tender Act, 1862 [1]: "Thaddeus Stevens, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee of…

I disagree about the federal reserve being a government entity. It's owned by banks - a "self regulating" private cartel by charter. Even congress can't "audit" the fed. The fed co…

> this is nothing compared to the banks getting caught fixing the LIBOR rate a few years back It's really nothing compared to the fact that banks can print trillions of dollars of …

Man, if you thought there were too many lawyers in programming already... just wait until we have retroactive protection of (corporate owned) APIs (and instruction sets?). Talk abo…

as far as cravings - that's a bit strong of a word but here are some things I missed and was glad when I found a substitute: * there's a really good pizza recipe that is just chees…

Congrats on such a long time sticking with it. I've been on low carb 2 years, no wheat, down from 225 to 180 with 0 exercise, and I'm 34. In the middle of that stretch, I had a reg…

So low tar cigarettes are not as deadly as regular. Let's all have low tar cigarettes, because they're healthy. Yeah, that's shamelessly ripped from Dr. William Davis, but it shows…

That's how I was until I hit my 30's. Insulin problems take a while to develop. I've been on low carb, no wheat for 2 years now. It's been a miracle, really...

1. nothing generic is as fast as making your own custom solution 2. a lot of libc is lowest common denominator / tons of bloat. printf/sprintf probably does extra locale, multibyte…

Amateurs. We're all prisoners to ZIRP, QE, 'collectible' taxes on gold, and central banking which is all legalized counterfeiting for the .01%

I totally agree; many drugs are a racket these days, made only for profiteering "sick care", and the government is totally on board with it. Two examples I can personally testify t…

I should have said "all credentials". The local one may unlock all of the other remote ones. Or you just enter the remote ones directly. Point being, theres a lot to protect. Is a …

That overpopulation isn't binary, it's qualitative, and having more than two kids/family is reducing the well being of the rest of us.

As a 15 year vet, I agree, surely its time for something with new design goals. - safe by default: you have to opt in to extra magic / conversions. c++ is totally broken here. sure…