- 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 stop eating the carbs (of course the politically correct pharmaceutical / govt response is to take drugs which only treat the symptoms - funny how financial interests work). Again, first hand experience with this.
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) "you always have the power of choice, that's the one thing nobody can take away".
So no, I would say you can look to either people "having it bad" or "having it good" and finding in both cases they have the power to make choices.
- account recovery (using only a phone) THIS IS DUMB.
I only use an alternate email for recovery (my wife and I cross). Thus, each recovery account is still 2FA secured.
There's already been a story floating around about a young kid charging his dad's credit card because of the phone recovery option (he had the android phone in this case). This is NOT the same as 2FA auth.
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 with randomized delays up front.
If you can read the raft paper and come away also knowing how group membership changes (wow) and log compaction works, in additional to the "basic" log replication consensus, that's huge.
edit: I'm sure it's still 'hard' to implement, like bringing a brand new replacement machine up from scratch (copying the full data set over, to warm him up, and then starting replication efficiently), i.e. there's still a lot of coding to do
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 raft?
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. (Assuming paxos can provide that).
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 Ways and Means, ... denounced the exceptions, calling the new bill "mischievous" because it made United States Notes an intentionally depreciated currency for the masses, while the banks who loaned to the government got "sound money" in gold."
Banks always get the first class life boats, and set their own rules (think about it, they buy influence, it's not that hard when you're a bank). I think Europe just missed some kickbacks the old fashioned way.
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 controls the government much more than vice versa.
Sure they will spin some line like 'profits' from the fed go to the government (profits above which are distributed to the private bank shareholders, of course!) but that's like saying I get reward points for every dollar I charge on a credit card. If you really think banks are "giving up" a lot of profits, you might want to check the total % of profits that go to the financial sector in the US economy. What are "profits" anyway when you can just print money - what is profit measured by?
Furthermore, even your 'small banks' that "loan" money under fractional reserve rules are, if you squint, awfully close to counterfeiting as that can raise the money supply 9 fold.
So I recommend you keep digging and follow the money.
> 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 credit out of thin air - and not go to jail for counterfeiting. Heck, counterfeiting used to be a capital offense in this country.
So the lesson is always: rules don't apply to rich people.
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 about a 'submarine' attack.
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 cheese for the crust. amazing. Its better than regular pizza, really.
* lasagna/spaghetti you can use zuchini or spaghetti squash as noodles, and can eat in a bowl (just a tad more soupy), still tastes great (again, I love italian)
* I went through a phase where I ate cheese crisps (microwaved cheese, super yummy like crackers) and made flaxseed wraps (like bread). I don't make either any more, just pointless work.
* Pork rinds are amazing - good with soup, like a cracker, like croutons for a salad, with guacamole, nachos, hummus, or peanut butter. (note that the last two are easy for me to indulge on, I just have to watch)
* I Make 24 eggs at a time as a fritatta, make a pork shoulder in the oven, braised chicken thighs, oven roasted whole chicken, big batches that have many servings.
* I used to eat cereal every day, I but got over that quickly enough - now it's just 2 eggs each morning (slice of fritatta).
* I like hamburgers, but usually just eat them plain with a few pickles on top. less messy, and frankly you taste the meat more.
* I gave up beer completely, which I used to drink with pizza. Now its just red wine once in a while.
I don't go out to restaurants much because frankly we have better food at home and admittedly they're not usually low carb oriented. But you can always get a burger without the bun. Or a gyro plate. Mexican fajitas (hold the tortillas and chips) are a winner too.
I started off reading the wheat belly blog, and after I lost 10 pounds I bought his book. I also recommend "The art and science of low carb living". There's also great vids on youtube of atkins & LCHF stuff. I also read william banting's old pamphlet for inspiration.
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 regression due to eating too much fat (fat bombs, sour cream, heavy cream, butter, etc.) and I bounced up.
So I decided to just eat protein and what fat comes naturally with it, and not add any extra pure fat, for as long as I'm trying to burn my own fat. And that's worked well - basically meat, eggs, cheese. In fact, I'm probably about done with the loss phase now. Yay!
And I don't get 'hangry' as my wife would say, due to blood sugar crashes, so mentally I'm much better.
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 the logic problem.
I have to shake my head at people trying to run around the problem of carbohydrate intolerance by insisting theres a 'healthy way' to consume them. Any other food would have people advising you to stay the hell away from it if you're intolerant. But you know why carbs are different? Because they're so cheap, and governments for whatever reasons seem to want a large population (in more ways than one) rather than smaller, healthier ones.
Anywho, good luck to everyone doing the exact opposite of what the government funded "science" and corporate "health care" tell you what to do. It would be hard to do any worse...
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 charset, and thread locking shit you don't want.
- I would tell someone with type 2 diabetes to stop taking drugs and instead stop eating the carbs (of course the politically correct pharmaceutical / govt response is to take drugs which only treat the symptoms - funny how financial interests work). Again, first hand experience with this.