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Just work supper slow and do a super good job; spend one hour or two with each patient. I don't see how that would result in any complaint to medical board. If patients complain, just tell them that the company is scheduling too many patients per day... Dare Concentra to release one earlier. What happens if one takes long lunch, show up to work late and leave early, calls in sick often? Is there any issue with the medical board? Does concentra have other stuff written into the contract about performance where one would have to pay 4 months of one's salary?

This is probably not quite the right time of year for this post. I see:

Fillable Forms is closed for the year

November 17 was the last day to access accounts, make changes, print or resubmit a rejected return. After November 17, 2022, you will not have access to your Free File Fillable Forms account and your 2021 federal tax return.

I would suspect that it will open in this next month or so. Does anybody use free file (https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...)? If so, what do they think of it? Why is it better than just sending postal mail (which one has always been able to file for free)? From a security point of view, is it better to send postal mail or have to worry about hackers and filing over the net?

Also, note that there is open source software that might work for some people (depends on state and forms needed)? I found:

https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

Is there other opensource software?

If it helps, one can have one's provider disable data. I did this, my phone can only make calls and SMS. One also does not need to worry about hackers hacking the phone.

Think of being optimistic or (positive) as a placebo that one has a positive view about. Is it realistic that one can be happy and have a negative view about the future? If one has a positive view; wouldn't it follow that one is more likely to be happy. Also, if something most people would be considered bad happens and one thinks that it is helping them grow, one is more likele to accept what just happend. If one does not accept the past, there is no way to be happy. So, think of it as prepping to accepting a past that might be painful or most would consider bad.

I would think a lot of long time meditators are much more in touch with reality and accept the past and don't worry about the future. So, I would expect them as a group to be much more likely to be happy. I would expect all enlighted individuals to be happy.

There are 2 main things that make us not happy: 1. not accepting the past. 2. fear of the future. One can't change the past, so being angry, having grief, or whatever emotion one has where one is not accepting of the past feeds negative energy; just accept what has happened in the past because it can't be changed. FYI - think of life as a movies that one has a unique view of; nobody else has the view you do, appreciate it and be greatful for the experience. Also, one can't predict/control the future, so spending time being fearful of it also feeds negative energy. Accept that the future will bring exactly what one needs to grow. Be happy by accepting the past and not worrying about the future.

MDMA and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and both in later stages of research and could be approved by FDA. From what information that I have read, one treatment of magic mushrooms can have a profound impact for one's life time. As I understand it, ketamine treatments don't last that long, so one needs to continue them. As far as magic mushrooms being toxic, they can't find a limit where it is toxic. The biggest problem as I understand it is that one might have a bad trip that could cause something like PTSD; so proper screening and preparation is needed. Check out youtube videos: https://youtu.be/kxFTWk9lLDU, https://youtu.be/smBMn-CV9KE, https://youtu.be/SwMHr43fTqE, https://youtu.be/NGIP-3Q-p_s

I have no clue who SBF, perhaps the title should change to reflect that or at least say in your message.

This is very low class for the state to do. It devalues the refund, but more importantly it gets a private entity involved that they are giving tax payer information to and I would assume some very sensitive information. Thank you state of CA for violating my privacy and making it more likely for me to have to deal with identity theft. Refund should be given in a similar way to how money is sent to them. Can I send the state a debit card for payment where they have to activate it and enter their SSN and so forth? If not, then they should not be able do this to the tax payer. I would like to know the cost difference. If it is less expensive, then I would probably asssume that the private entity is making it up by gaining access to the private information of CA tax payers.

One can hit i to change the style, so of the other styles will work.

I found a bug in vim/neovim. if the file name is approximately 33 characters long. When one opens one of the feed directories in vim, neovim and tries to open that file, it fails. For me, there need to be 2 spaces between the file name and the file size or other part of the directory listing when I do "gvim ." for current directory. I use default listing style of 1 for long listing.

I like the simplicity of this. The source code is small, so one can easily change it as one needs and looks like other people have posted links to similar projects. Really appreciate this and the thread.

I also like seeing new breathing techniques. However, as other have pointed out; I would look to the yoga pranayama that has been used for 5,000 years or longer. As I have learned from pranayama, the description in the article tries to make everybody breath the same. Each individual has their own lung capacity and rythym that they should follow. ne should find out what is the natural amount of time for one to go from empty to full lungs then do the rest at the same rate. So, if it takes one 9 second to naturally go from empty lungs to full lungs, then hold it for 9 seconds, then exhale out over the course of 9 seconds. Then hold out for 9 seconds. Then repeat as appropriate. I would personally consider 4 seconds to inhale from empty to full lungs or 4 seconds to exhale from full lungs to empty lungs too quick and not relaxing. I would suggest find experienced yoga teacher that can guide one and tailor to one appropriately as the description in the article and following referenced page seems not giving full/accurate instructions:

https://www.verywellmind.com/abdominal-breathing-2584115

I have also been coping with many things of the past 2.5 years; it has been very stressful.

You can't "Try" meditation/yoga nidra over a short time and expect to be doing it at a high level. It may take many years to make progress on them, but don't give up. Keep working on them. The dividends will definitely come.

Ideas that may help:

1. be in the present moment. (I.e. be mindfull) This is the most important things that one can do. In order to do that one must accept reality. One can't change the past, it has already happened; so don't worry or stress about it. Accept it. Learn from it; use it an opportunity to grow. If you don't accept it, that will cause all sorts of mental problems. Also, don't worry about the future, you don't know how it will unfold. Don't make the assumption that it will be bad. The key is to stay in the present.

2. Breath using your diaphram. I.e. belly breathing. Lots of times when stressed or nervous one breaths only in the upper chest, which will add stress to the body.

3. Pranayama - yoga breathing exercises. These should balance one out and help one calm down. Alternate nostril breathing to balance out at the start of pranayama or yoga session. (One needs to do the clearing practice.) Then move practices to calm one down. For example, exhaling longer than inhaling is calming. Generall a 2 (exhale) to one ratio (inhale). You should get an experienced teacher for this. It can do wonders to calm one.

4. Keep doing exercise that is physically tiring that will help burn up excess energy.

5. Some times when one is stresed, tension will build up in the body. That is where yoga asana comes in, it can help remove the tension by stretching the muscles that are tense/tight. This also bring up the point of trying to recognize how one's body feels. Can one feel the emotion or stress in the body? If so, try to release it. (whether mentally or by physically stretching) I found a relaxing meditation that did a body scan where it had one mentally release tension as one scanned one's body when I had trouble sleeping one time. It helped me sleep, I noticed that when I woke the tension in my lower back was greatly reduced or gone. The mind can definitely relieve tension on its own. I would look for a yoga teacher that can apply ayurvedic practices to the yoga.

6. Try a weekly deep tissue massage.

7. Try flotation station (isolation talk filled with salt water). I have only tried this a couple of times; it seems very relaxing and helps to remove tension from the physical body.

8. Try a therapist. If nothing else, it is a person that one can dump whatever shXt on and talk about as opposed to burdening a friend or family memmber.

9. Two books that I have found very helpful for one's mental state:

- Untethered Soul by Michael Singer - Power of NOW by Ekhart Tolle

They are geared to help one be in the present moment. I read them in that order and recommend that order. These are not quick reads, one will need to think about them deeply. If you only want to ready one, then go for Power of NOW.

10. Socialize. Do something in the physical presence of other people. Do a jog or hike with somebody. Take your dog for a walk regularly.

11. Cut out media and do other meaningful tasks. This means internet, TV, streaming, phone, etc. A lot of the media is geared to get one addicted and stirred up. Whatever has happened, is already in the past and one can't change it. Get a feature phone that only does talk and SMS text (or disable other features), then one will not be addicted to it like crack.

12. Don't avoid doing stuff. Avoiding stuff difficult to deal with will likely make it worse. Deal with it get it over with and move on to something that enjoyable. If one puts it off, it will keeping being mental burden that will keep crossing one's mind and pulling one out of the present. Also avoiding that stuff sort of is like not accepting reality. One needs to accept reality to be happy.

Unless I am missing something, there is a terrorist watchlist or similar and I don't think it is legal to send to groups on that said list. So, I will stick with my statement that they should not be biased against parties that can legal participate in transactions.

As long as the transaction is legal, paypal should allow it to go through. They should not be discriminating against certain groups (as bad as they might be). They should maximize stock holder value as opposed to being biased against some groups. If they are wasting time/money with stuff like this, it really make one wonder what else they are wasting their time/money. I think I need to make sure that any paypal stock (and funds containing it) that I have needs t be sold and not to purchase any in the future.

I think that the terms mindfulnes and meditation must be defined first. Mindfulness is easier to define; it is being in the present moment and concentrating on the task at hand, not thinking about the past or future. Meditation on the other hand is defined differently by different people. I would probably look to the eight limbs or yoga to look at meditation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)

The yamas, niyamas, asana, pranayama are preparation for meditation, pratyahara is the transition point. One starts withdrawing from the external sensory input and brings the focus inward. Dharana and dhyana are the stepping stones to samadhi.

Meditation is not easy and it takes many years. Many people are not succesful at Dharana; i.e. able to maintain the focus. Consider the constant stimulus in today's environment with instant messaging, email, texts, etc kills out concentration. Also, one can't measure one's concentration during dharana otherwise one is not doing it. So, for us techies, it is difficult. The point is to keep improving one's ability or length of time to maintain the concentration during this phase.

From my point of view, weight lifting and similar activities can be done mindfully; however, they are not meditation. The reason is that they are externally focused.

So, I guess I have defined meditation as being mindful and concentrating inward. I would think that somebody that has reached samadhi and/or nirvana or what ever it may be called in their practice could probably give more precise definition of meditation.

One also needs to look at one's goals with meditation. Is it samadhi/nirvana/enlightment? Is it being able to clear the mind? (If it is to clear the mind, then one's goal could be to do dharaha; for example, to maintain the the concentration for 20 minutes.) It is probably difficult motivation wise to do meditation, if one does not have an end goal.

When you tried it, what was your goal?

I would also mention that it is something that one has to do daily to improve. If you do it once a week, very unlikely to see improvement. I would also look to do as many non-meditation activities mindfully, to see improvement in meditation. Perhaps the goal for some people is not the meditation, but to be able to be more mindful and present in their daily activities. It is very unlikely that one can enjoy an activity if one is not mindful during that activity.

So after writing this, I would think two goals would be good for people that are not necessarily looking at samadhi/nirvana as the end goal: 1. able to concentrate better. This should lead to better grades, better performance at work, better pay. 2. enjoy life more because one is more present during one's life.

Glad they were able to automatically detect/catch this. There seems to be so much bloat when dependencies get pulled in.

Wonder if something like pledge and unveil around library code could be helpful; perhaps library code needs to be separated out into a separate process that would not have reason to access AWS keys.

Also, looking at the screenshot, could a simple programming searching for URLs in the library code help in this case?

Looks like they removed the modules, so one can't examine them any more.

I agree, one can definitely go on a long rant about this. The common person has little input into the election process, it is the corporations and the powerful that have far more input into the laws. I think a lot of the hot button issues, like abortion, are probably smoke screens to distract the common people from noticing what is happening behind the scenes. Politics are so polarized, that people vote with their party and rarely cross the line.

Lets put some caveats on this. 2nd ammendment is not going away, regardless or one's interpretation of it. Also, the firearms manufactures have a very strong lobby... So, can we find pattern that can be exploited to cut down on the mass killings that the powerful entities can agree to? Also, the guns don't kill people, it is the person using the gun. Is there something that can be detected personality wise, like low empathy? Is there a graduated gun ownership? (There could be grade of deadliness of the weapon and one can't buy/own grade 2 until one buys owns grade 1 for 5 years or something.) A friend pointed out that nobody with a concealed weapons permit had commited a mass killing, perhaps force people through that training.

FYI - if all guns are taken away, it will not stop mass killings. It just makes it more challenging for said individuals. The goverenment can't realistically ban the items used to make a molotov cocktail. One of those could actually be more deadly than a firearm in a crowded location...

There are different definitions of mass shootings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting

I am wondering whether the data can be crunched and find a pattern to mass killings where we can sensibly cut down on the mass killings. Is the perpetrator in a certain age range, easy access to guns, does the school raised the kid or are parents involved, played lots of first person shooter games, were the guns illegally obtained, what type of weapons used? I am not sure what sort of stats are collected, but there are some very smart people at finding patterns. Can a pattern be found that we can make use of AND have both left and right agree to do something to cut the number mass killing incidents?

As I just replied to "cle", some disadvantages doing the way that it is because one can't predict what content ID would be produced. Perhaps the hash of the entire contents of the file could point the hash that is current the content ID would solve this issue. To me, IPFS does not seem useful unless this issue is solved. Also, multiple hashes (different algorithms) of the file could point to the content ID/merkle DAG; so if both SHA2 and SHA3 were both used and one of them had a security issues, then just use the one that is OK.

not sure that I follow what you are asking. I would expect if sha2-256 is used then the content ID would be the same. However, depending on how the content is chunked, the content ID will change. Two disadvantages that I see:

1. if new packages are produced for a release of open source, could I see if there is a copy available via IPFS? No, because one can't predict how it would be chunked. So, one would have to download and then derive a content ID and one can only tell if it is available if the same chunking algorithm is available.

2. if I want to push a package or other binary, can I figure out if it is already available via IPFS? No, one can't.

I used to be very gung ho on IPFS, until I learned that the content ID does not depend solely on the content of the file. When one puts a file into the system one can choose different hashing algorithms, which will cause the content ID to be different obviously. However, even when using the same algorithm the content ID will change depending on how it is chunked. I would expect any sane system to consistently produce the same hash/content ID a file. I can see if the system is moving from using SHA2 to SHA3 that it could be stored twice. Don't know whether they have changed things so that a consistent content ID will be produced or not.

There is open source software that one can use for the main flows and forms:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaxsolver/

It seems to work and will produce PDF of the forms with data filled in for one. I appreciated it. It will also handle some of the states. It took a while, but I did find how to check out via subversion:

svn checkout 'https://svn.code.sf.net/p/opentaxsolver/SrcCodeRepo'

I use subversion so rarely, I always seem to have to figure out that the package name is "subversion" and not "svn" to install on my OS. Then I need to find a tutorial to know how to check it out. Then I just needed to build open tax resolver (no binaries are available for my OS). I have gotten way too used to git and github. :)

For some reason one can't download the California 540 booklet directly from ftb.ca.gov. One ends up at:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/Search/Home/FormRequest/4852

One has to give them an email and then they mail the pdf to one. WTF??? I can't fathom why they would want to do this. This is a total waste of space. Why clog email systems with a big PDF. Why do they need one's email in order to receive the instructions for form 540? Something smells funny.

edit: fix several typos.

I can't read the article because bloomberg says it has detected unusual activity... If the person has been there 40 years, the person is very likely retired. Retired people might be on fixed income and so forth. 1% of 3 million is $30,000 per year. Compare this to other areas where property is cheaper and one might be paying $3,000 per year for property tax. I am all for paying fair taxes, but I think one should be able to continue living in ones home and not be forced out due to huge property tax increases. Not sure what the right balance is.

forgot to give reference to the 8 limbs of yoga:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali

Yamas and niyamas are basically to live clean, ethical life. Samadhi is enlightenment and should be the same as Nirvana is to Buddhism.

They seem to be treating yoga and meditation separately. Perhaps, they need to understand that yoga has 8 limbs, one of which is asana (generally what most people consider yoga). Yoga has 4 limbs/levels of meditation. Suposedly, one can't have an ego to reach samadhi (the highest level of meditation). The yama, niyamas, asana (what most people yoga) and pranayama (breathing exercises) limbs of yoga are steps or precursors to the meditation. Seems like they don't know this and are testing beginners; I am not sure how meaningful that is. If they had a way to measure how compent each person was at each limb and then gave results based upon their skill at each limb, that would be interesting. Not sure how one would measure whether a person is competent at the 4 meditation levels.

The hash will change depending on how the file is broken down into chunks and and a different hash can be used for multiple versions of the same file. I expected to be able to compute a hash and see whether the file is in the IPFS network; then upload it if it not in the network. That just feels wrong to me.