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This is just my story, not a medical advice. I have been talking to a therapist weekly for a couple of years. Some time ago he suggested I try talking to a psychiatrist and maybe try some SSRIs. I did just that and throughout 2021 I was on 10mg of Lexapro daily. It helped my mood tremendously. It was even better than I imagined.

As for the side effects, it wasn't too bad. Lower sex drive for sure, but not non-existent. Slight paranoia for a day or two in the first week, but not after. Towards the end of the year I was getting some fatigue during the day, but that might have been long covid as well.

After a year of taking them my doctor decided to try tapering them off over a month period. I did that and since January 2022 I've been feeling very well, libido is back. Probably no side effects of withdrawal, or slight enough to be indistinguishable from daily life. Now it's been ~3 months and I'm still feeling good, no relapse at all.

All in all - 9/10, would recommend to a friend. Although I'm just one person and surely other people have some horror stories to share...

I'm trying to get into japanese green teas. They are plenty artisanal for me, at least the good stuff is. Temperature and time control when brewing is close to coffee pour over brewing, maybe not quite there. Water quality matters just as much - I'm adding minerals to osmotic filtered water, just as I did with coffee. When done properly they taste wonderful, although this is subjective of course. Caffeine content is much lower than coffee, unless you go into matcha tea, which is even more artisanal and expensive (per gram). And if you love spending money, making it can be even more expensive than coffee (per gram, not per cup) - it's not really difficult to spend over $30 for a 50 gram bag. And some even say it's healthy.

tl;dr: try japanese green coffee.

> why hasn't any mammal evolved to start destroying them?

I think that evolution selects mostly for reproduction and not longevity. You don't have to live very long to have many kids (in like caveman / hunter-gatherer type of context as this is where evolution is basically), you just need to have great genetics. I guess sticking around for a few years after to protect the kids and provide for them is a bonus, but that part may be handled by the tribe too. But there's not much to be gained (from evolutionary point of view) from an individual living up to a 100 years or so.

I think that one of the other and rather important reason for people giving up on having kids is money, or rather lack of them. I feel the general feeling is that the wealth disparity is only getting bigger and therefore more and more people may not afford having babies. On the other hand poor people will probably not "die out" within a couple decades...

I agree with the general point of course, but:

> It was a cash grab by a corrupt government, something that would never happen today.

I'm afraid corrupt governments doing cash grabs are unfortunately still a thing nowadays.

Honest question - as far as I could find out the files will be scanned on device but before upload to iCloud. Before they were scanned in the cloud after upload. That's the change as far as I understand it. But if it's scanned before upload then what is the difference? A few seconds? It would be scanned either way, before or after upload. Is that it?

What I'm basically getting at is: are the files scanned after the user has expressed the intention of uploading them? That's what I understood. Am I wrong? Are the files scanned the moment they appear on your device, regardless of you iCloud status (even if you have disabled iCloud somehow)?

Edit: typo

Yeah, I guess it would be cool to do an X-ray or CT scan of every patient, preferably in repeatable and controlled conditions similar to the AI training set. On the other hand there supposedly were very good results with training dogs to identify covid patients by smell alone. Which sounds faster, cheaper and probably even less error prone (judging by this article). I guess it doesn't scale well and there's not much money to be made, so there's that.

I think it may be the case with AI researchers where if the only tool you have is a hammer then every problem starts looking like a nail /jk

There have been studies of it influencing testosterone in men. My levels have never been very high (around middle of the range) and now as I'm >40 I try to limit things that negatively influence the levels. Here's one study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660879/

Poland here, about 20 Euro for 1Gbps asymmetric (100mbps upload), multiple competing providers.

Yeah unless they work from an office in e.g. Moscow. The US is powerful for sure but even they would think twice before droning a building in Moscow over some hacks, especially without concrete proof that's where they originated. At least I hope they would because if not then we may be closer to a world war than we thought...

Actually, is there a need to block anything? They're coming up with a mining-focused product line now. Just make them slightly cheaper per hash and voila - all miners will be buying the mining-focused products. They lack the video outputs so it makes sense, you can skip some of the BOM on the card, save a few bucks. As it has already been mentioned in the thread miners are super sensitive to squeezing every cent out of their setup. If they can save some bucks on cards, they will surely go for it.

So either the mining cards will be cheaper than regular, which makes this block a moot point in near future, or they will be more expensive per hash than normal graphic cards. In which case the block makes sense but in my opinion is a bad move by Nvidia. Making the mining cards more expensive than regular cards is throwing a gauntlet to the whole world to break the drivers or workaround the hardware. It will be fascinating to watch the cat-and-mouse game of hackers and Nvidia developers, but it will not fix the horrible GPU market situation we're in now and that is a shame.

Disclaimer: I want to buy a new GPU soon but for the MSRP and not the price equivalent of a small car. So I may be biased...

I'll go on a tangent to most of the comments I read here. In my opinion it's mostly based on your location. Some would say it shouldn't and I tend to agree, unfortunately it usually is. In the US your rates are (no offence) laughable, and not even taking SV rates into account. For some parts of Europe they would be far too low (e.g. Scandinavia). For some parts of Europe (eastern mostly, e.g. Poland where I work) they would be okay-ish, that's about what I get (senior-ish position) but in a stable situation, not as a contractor. In Belarus or Ukraine I believe this might be quite good money (e.g. Belarus in 2019 I found around $1500 to be the average pay in this industry, as far as I could google this). tl;dr: it depends.

Just to give one data point I'm in Poland and I'm earning around 3500€ in a fully remote senior developer/engineer position working on AI tech in a company of around 1k employees. I'm one of the best paid people among my colleagues. The absolute top range job offers in this field in my country would be somewhere around 5000€ but that may be available only to a few developers in the entire 40 million country. I'm sure one could argue that one US engineer is worth 2+ polish engineers but I'm doubtful it's such a large difference. Quite the opposite in fact, I heard rumours that our engineers are quite valued internationally, once you get past the language barrier of course.

Just my 3 cents.

Apart from great comments already posted, please read about "long covid". I'm not sure if it's officially recognized yet but it's a strange illness lately and a large number of people suffer from it. One of most important symptoms is chronic fatigue. I'm fighting it since last year and one thing I can say is that the fatigue is different from anything I experienced in my 43 year life. It's crippling and even getting up requires effort. Caffeine in large doses helps somewhat but only to an extent.

There's always been a "post viral fatigue syndrome" with many other viruses and it is a known phenomenon, maybe it's just a similar thing with Covid. Only it affects much more people I think. And most importantly you can get it after asymptomatic Covid, so you don't even know you had it.

But not paying taxes on your income is illegal "in general". So one could interpret that as "all organisations should pay taxes if they have income"...

Well I'd be inclined to agree with the parent as even per the link to ProtonDB included by the GP about 40% (as of this moment) out of top 10 most popular games are not working under Linux (status: borked). I love linux and use it 90% of the time every day but I also have an old and derelict windows partition just so I can launch a game or two from time to time. Maybe the day will come when all games work flawlessly on Linux and I certainly hope it will. But evidence suggests that we have still some way to go...

> All of those in theory are based on "one man one vote", so if you concentrate ownership of supply you drastically reduce the number of votes it gets.

Well let's not forget lobbying, corruption (more important than lobbying in some parts of the world, e.g. my country) and the plain and simple fact that politicians are usually quite rich (in many countries, not all) and so will own and rent houses, while having great influence on local laws.

> [...] temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists

I'm sorry, I'm not from USA, can somebody explain why it has _just_ been _temporarily_ banned to use "force or chemical agents" against journalists? I was under the impression that using such things against journalists was banned a long time ago in most of the developed countries, what with the freedom of the press and so on... Is Minesotta an exception here? Or USA?