anonymouswacker

Google needs to just give up and realize they're an ad and marketing company, and continue to be very, very good at it.

Why do developers not see the forest for the trees?

I suppose seamless may have been an oversell. I consider it seamless because BitWarden provides the import functionality for a variety of competitors' exports (XMLs, CSVs, etc), so all I had to do was export my LastPass passwords to my desktop and then import it into BitWarden via the web interface. HTH

Switched from LastPass to BitWarden over the weekend. I have 1,200+ passwords, and the transition was seamless. I even set up BitWarden on one of my web servers so that I can control my data -- even that took less than 30 minutes, thanks to BitWardenRS docker container.

The only thing I have yet to figure out for BitWarden is how to get a little icon to show up next to user/password fields in forms. I just have to right click and go to BitWarden (FireFox) to get there, which it just slightly more work. Still worth it.

Why would I pay $36/year (LastPass) for something that I can control for free?

I'm just an n=1, but I got rid of my two Fitbits (returned to Costco as they were still within 90 days) primarily for this reason.

Apple is taking a moral stance against addictive substances? Perhaps they should ban Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram next, to really free us from these unhealthy addictions.

Regardless of how stupid, wrong, and dangerous this is, it or something just as useless will crop up because government can easily justify wasting money when "your safety" is at stake.

This really hit me in the feels. Thank you. I wish more gov workers were like this.

I hit the pay wall, but the introduction of it has two unfounded premises:

- Eating meat is bad for the planet

- Eating meat has a direct causation of negative health outcomes

If China were too gluttonous on meat for current supply, then wouldn't that just cause prices to go up, and supply to go up too? Perhaps government central planners and those who support them at the Economist need to learn basic micro-economics.

Large, centralized bureaucracies routinely make mistakes with sweeping reforms intended to improve quality of life at the cost of freedom -- and then rarely if ever apologize or make corrections. They lack "skin in the game", and work on an asymmetry in power and information and almost always a lack of consequences [0].

This is why many industries & sytems in US are broken: medical (including psychiatric), educational, drug & criminal justice, etc.

[0] - Skin in the Game (book), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)

Using Magic Mushrooms and Ayahuasca both made me more in touch with my body, and pushed me to take care of myself more. I noticed, while on Ayahuasca, that much of my anxiety was due to physical pain (or vice versa!), and that self-medicating with alcohol & tobacco were ultimately causing me more pain and dependence.

I was addicted to smoking, but not addicted to alcohol. Now, trying either leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Although, for health reasons, ironically, I am trying to pick up drinking Pinot Noir on occasion!

People give Google too much credit. It was never a good idea to give them so much undeserved trust with your personal information. They are an advertising company, and should be treated as such.

Move your account(s) elsewhere because they are ephemeral and untrustworthy.

It's a fad.

I think it got solved on its own for me. Filling that void of social interaction can be taken as part of the time to adjust.

I cannot imagine how the informal interactions with co-workers would happen remotely, but I work in an unimaginative bureaucracy where my co-workers are about twice my age.

One idea that has been floated is meeting together for training with my teammates, but I have yet to meet anyone in six years -- even my boss.

Working at home, the existential dread and feeling of meaninglessness in my tasks increased with remote work for a time, given my separation from the distractions of workplace politics, drama, etc. that pervaded office life.

It is hard to make connections with coworkers, and it is so important to build a social life outside of work if you do not have one.

I find I work less hours in front of the computer, accomplish more, and have to spend more time "screwing off" to fill in that void of losing office banter, work lunches with coworkers, etc.

Great tips. I am not sure why you'd limit caffeine intake? Is this to prevent circadian rhythm disturbances?

Thank you! It only took so long because of my hubris and obstinacy. I hope you have found wellness and happiness, too.

2/21/20 $95 Put is what I got. I already tripled my money earlier in the month on the last fall from its post-IPO peak.

Yes... but large organizations (“major”) are bureaucratic, political organizations predominately funded by, not healthy consumers or scientists, but governments and food/pharma/tech industries. Follow the money, check the biases, and see that the existence of the organization would be jeopardized by biting the hand that feeds it...

A fair amount :) Put your money where your mouth is goes both ways...

I learned more about human biology, how to read research studies, and to self-experiment rather than just "reason".

Having low testosterone, constant pain, mental health problems, etc. before and during my vegetarian/vegan experiment seemed like it was "NORMAL".

I read a little bit about the foods I was eating causing inflammation, which has a high impact on all of this, and how keto & carnivore diets were low inflammation, and affected biomarkers that I do not even understand.

I switched to low carb vegetarian, but this did not help much. And it was not satiating. And it's expensive. And, from what I've read from the authorities I somewhat trust, it is not as healthy.

I then switch to all meat (literally steak, eggs, butter, and salt) for a couple of weeks and my mood and body composition improved immensely. I wouldn't recommend that diet long-term, but it made me realize that life did not have to be as miserable as it was on the vegetarian diet...

I am as health and environmentally conscious now as I ever was, only aware that vegetarian & vegan diets in America are atrociously unhealthy. Offering cheap, low quality, fake food is not a technological advancement.

And I am not sure meat consumption is the problem.

Factory farming and industrialized agriculture are the big issues: the greed of the majority of the food supply causes death, destruction, and misery on beings regardless if you are eating kale or cow.

Eat pasture-raised & local if you care about the environment and your own health...

I was a vegetarian, vegan, then back to vegetarian, then flexitarian, and now predominately carnivore -- over the course of 15 years.

The me from 2 years ago would be overjoyed about this "progress", from an ethical standpoint and from believing that meat is bad for you.

Present me sees this as what it is: another unhealthy product in an already oversaturated marketplace to dupe suckers.

Eating red meat is Lindy.

Eating processed food with seed oils in factories is not.

The market is manipulated because of status games using bad science... it will unravel itself soon.

The fake meat movement is just a cash grab for those who want to eat like crap but feel good about themselves.

Looking at the ingredients list, it's pretty obvious that cancer/heart disease will go up.

I've already got a long-term Put Option on $BYND because not even the CEO or big celebrity investors believe it is a good long-term bet -- cashing out at its peak a few weeks back.

Given the relative ease of spreading information about its deleterious health effects of their products, I think it's a house of cards that will fail, the sooner, the better...

It's just a victim of the times we live in. Reddit, like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, simply grew too much outside of its original intention. It was a place to form anonymous communities around niche interests, but these interests started to spread into the dark elements of hate speech, child pornography, etc. When profitability comes into question, as any company wants to strive for, it has to appease.

Reddit was a nice idea, but it just got too big. Either it has to take responsibility for its users' content, and act as an editor/publisher, or it has to find a revenue stream outside of pursuing advertising revenue.

Bingo, Bango. Manufactured market manipulation.

Farmed fish can be on par with wild fish (healthier in some ways, less nutritious in others) depending on the farming methods, which have improved since the old days.

http://sciencenordic.com/how-healthy-farmed-salmon

I'd wager that fish from modern farms will soon be healthier (statistically) than wild fish caught in increasingly polluted oceans.

Exactly. This is why there's no point in encryption, or any sort of obfuscation.