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choicewords··on The Depression Thing
Very much agreed on the exercise.

I've been writing an article in the past few days that explain why movement is so critical to fighting depression.

Still, this author's experience resonates with me in the sense that I get that taking drugs is a way to fix the depression problem.

When depression is that crippling and intense, it just doesn't seem like any one thing can help. Like you said, it's baby steps, and if drugs and therapy are on the menu along with exercise and nutrition, then all the better.

At some point, I'll be exploring the really hard causes of depression, those that come from society's own anguish.

In any case, being personally fit will add immeasurably to your mental fortitude, and events that would otherwise bowl you over won't.

https://medium.com/@geoffrey.ducharme/depression-you-can-cur...

choicewords··on Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men
Didn't Alexander die of poisoning, not combat wound?
choicewords··on Dear Dash Users – A message to all Dash users from the Kapeli Blog
I feel bad for this developer. He's clearly quite driven, and that might have inspired his family to reach for the same success. And wanting to help, he gave his card, and now his program has been terminated.

I'll keep using Dash, but I hope the dev will clear himself out from someone that is not helping.

choicewords··on Man Posing as Delivery Person Hides Resumes in a Box of Donuts
Wasn't this the exact premise of another HN article on dating, and how few choices are better?
choicewords··on An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
Exactly. You have an individual at the head of the corporation that has done fraud. Do you really believe that's going to change from this point? Most people would have enough sense to let shame see them out. That's even more alarming.
choicewords··on Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges
Because bankers are better at committing fraud and hiding their tracks?
choicewords··on A theory on how insulin resistance, metabolic disease begin
Interesting. Any ideas on how the bacterial flora interacts with the sensing small intestines? Would they react as well when the sensation of sweetness goes over them?
choicewords··on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane
I wonder if it's too late to short Samsung.
choicewords··on An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
Honestly, it hard to see why. She does have name recognition, but it's like Martin "I'll jack up the price of your drug and laugh about it"-type notoriety
choicewords··on Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing?
The reality is there is still plenty of hard, material stuff that needs to be made.

Just look at SpaceX. It's cool, it's tech and it is most certainly hard material science.

We won't be able to make it with just soft skills and software. Improving our material lives (including not wasting resources) matters.

choicewords··on Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
Make AI startup, get acquired, quit, repeat
choicewords··on Vim Anti-Patterns
My eyes. Good content, but very hard to read.
choicewords··on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
You should have downloaded "Totally Not a Scam Pro" when it was on the store!
choicewords··on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
measured on performance/risk on the Seller Performance and no one wanted to take a chance on you?

i'm just guessing here.

choicewords··on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
I'd like to say that it is possible to reach paypyal. They've even been moderately effective.
choicewords··on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
I don't do that type of analytics, but what I can see is that's it's quite hard to hire a good FE guy.

Backend can be hard as well when looking for specialized stuff like Elixir, OCaml, Scala, Rust, etc. On the other hand, pure Ruby - Python - Java - C++ that's fairly common and not as likely to fetch high salary, since you'd be competing with a larger talent pool.

choicewords··on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
I'm in the same boat. I'm no longer interested in the plumbing, much more the type of questions that can be answered with large scale data, and other types of efficiencies that are dormant with 'pure' code.
choicewords··on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
I remember when there was a huge fight in Rails to change JS framework.

Seems quaint now.

choicewords··on How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
There is a money issue.

If you do keep up, you'll get amazing job offers.

If you manage to really be on the edge, you can give talks as well, expose yourself as a consultant.

That's much easier in JS than with Ruby, Python or whatever else.

choicewords··on Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?
If you don't eat a lot of carbs, that means you need to eat fat during the day to replace it. Would you rather eat the butter raw, or with a cup of coffee?
choicewords··on Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?
Keto (and any diet change really) will have effect on the microbio in our guts. That's also a likely large source of weight loss.
choicewords··on Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/keto_in_a_nutshell
choicewords··on Safari 10.0
Anyone know the release date?
choicewords··on First Tesla Taxi in America after 100k miles
Not only that, but the parts he did replace are more expensive that his old car.

In other news, a luxury car does not compete well on economics alone.

choicewords··on Scientists pave the way for large-scale storage at the atomic level
I thought natural radioactive decay was sufficient to mangle DNA.
choicewords··on The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-In-the-Game” Insiders
The 'higher standards' are often influenced by large amounts of money coming from corporations. I would not so much think of it as a religion, then, as another means of propaganda from the overall system.
choicewords··on The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-In-the-Game” Insiders
So why is there such a strong lobby against GMO labeling laws?
choicewords··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
It's only a matter of time before AI gets trained to handle all orders and communication in a war.
choicewords··on Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
Would like to see some of these techniques as well. Or just I just hangout in BTC irc more?
choicewords··on Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed
Indeed, if this software beat me soundly (and it would since I don't play Go), could I still claim that the AI hasn't mastered the game, because a handful of humans are better than it?
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