chrisandchips

> However, in the real world many people are resistant to the idea of therapy and/or medication as it feels like admitting defeat. Or perhaps they've read cherry-picked horror stories of bad therapists or medication side effects on the internet.

This is hugely compounded by the fact that even when people do decide to go for treatment like therapy, they discover that its painfully inaccessible. As in, if you don't have enough money to afford the 100$+ hour sessions, you feel like you completely run out of options.

There are more services trying to address this cost issue but from my experience (in Canada), they leave a lot to be desired

+1 verification tends to be the easy part.

Agreed. I think the more you push yourself to learn and pursue things that seem abstract to you, the better. As you do so in various fields that interest you (the arts, maths, whatever) you start to draw a lot of patterns around seemingly unrelated things, and I think it teaches you a lot about yourself.

I used to struggle a lot when I first started studying mathematics seriously as part of my Computer Science degree. I could never understood how people ever came up with proofs for problems that seemed completely abstract and foreign to me. Even the very notion of proving a theorum or time complexity itself seemed alien.

It was a painful journey, but in the end I found that it comes through the following:

Practice, a lot. I don't believe that anyone pulls solutions out of thin air. When tackling an abstract problem, people draw on the similar things that they do understand and then leap to the solution they're chasing.

Study the field you're trying to understand. Read over as many examples of solutions to abstract problems, and really analyze why they work. Try to solve your own problems, using what you've observed in those ones. Hop between these two until you start to close the gap more.

In reality, you're always going to make lots of mistakes and the practicing is never going to end. Its all part of the learning, and that's a journey that shouldn't stop.

If you're interested in this field of Mathematical Logic, I suggest you listen and read about it as much as possible, that you try to pursue problems you are interested in, and that you collaborate and discuss things with others. This constant doing, in small quantities but without getting up, will eventually help you see the abstract problems for something that is much more relateable.

It's great to read this comment - it's always nice to know that community suggestions aren't just cast into the void

Well, if they reach the 100k mark like the article’s author, the risk of a tax audit may start to keep them up at night

That’s a good point, I mostly would just want a canadian number for all the bureaucracy that requires it, unfortunately

I yearn for the day when our god-awful telecommunications industry finely catches up to the rest of the world. I just moved back from France, and its better keeping my French number’s international plan (18 euros a month for 30 gigs of data) then any competing canadian offer. Since I have a phone supporting dual sim, ill probably get the cheapest canadian plan I can just so that I have a canadian number.

If spacex wants to do this, I’m all for it

Edit: I know the article isnt targeting this, I just cant help but rant

The definition I used comes from the same team behind the Oxford dictionary. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/war

I see where you’re coming from, but I disagree that the normalization argument is the only interpretation of whats going on here. Language is extremely fluid and its development often exceeds our own conscious understanding.

« A sustained campaign against something undesirable » is already a commonly accepted definition of the word war. It can grow to mean different things in different contexts just as much as any other word can. I think we need a lot more argument to prove the normalization of the word causes peoples perspective of conflict to change

I don't use trending often enough to know that I'm correct in saying this, but I get the impression that the author is describing a shift from "most star-ed projects each day" to some new algorithm which seems to resemble "most interesting projects as of late", with the later being less dynamic. I suppose that's in part why they feel less excitement and less value in the tool.

I agree that a lot of the recent changes to GH have been really cool. This article sort of makes me wish that features like the trending page were more configurable.

TBF, I don't think the author is saying that Github needs to be fun, but rather that it used to be and now isn't. It's lost a nice quality that it had.

I suppose it does, but I feel like echo chambers are more dangerous when people don't necessarily realize they've entered one (e.g. when all of your FB friends only share posts centered around a particular political view).

I feel like there's less danger here since one needs to manually click that they don't want to see a particular type of content

Well, any student who's interested in playing sports at school will likely be interested in that sort of thing.

I think more generally it adds to the general culture of the school - people will pick up on the fact that some athlete they know went there and think that's cool, even if it doesnt impact their academics at all.

More cynically, lots of students love to associate their school's legacy with their own ego

Fair enough, I'm just surprised

> The story made little sense and appeared to have little, if any, depth.

I felt similarly the first time I watched it, but I walked out feeling confused rather than feeling like the film lacks depth. IMO a large portion of the film is spent exploring the notion of power than one can't control. In fact, we can split the different characters of the film into those who are corrupted by this path (the scientist who clearly wants to see Akira's power blossom, the military lead who wants it controlled for public safety/the military, Tetsuo who is always trying to take on more responsibility and leadership then he can. Only character's like Kaneda, who don't submit themselves to their own desires for power, seem to faire well in the world around them .. but that's just my two cents.

> The graphics looked dated and not very inspiring.

I can't disagree with this more. This film came out in 1988, and nothing else even came close in terms of its visual effects for an animated film. I'm sure at the time people couldn't believe what they were watching, it must have seemed really alien.

I'm honestly surprised that you think it looks dated. Even today, animes I've seen (although granted that isn't many) don't achieve the same level of beauty in their animation of light. You can see examples throughout this link to jog your memory if it's been a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0WjeE6eyM

I’m not sure I’d pick either efficiency or humanism to describe what’s going on here. Personally, I’m not as optimistic as you seem to be about the nature of the service that insurance companies provide but I can still see why the case isn’t clear cut.

In my mind, the insurance company neglected a particular outcome of their service, and she enacted the loophole. It’s their mistake for not catching it and they’ve now made sure it can’t happen again.

I agree with you that insurance, as a concept, isn’t a means of making money as this woman has treated it. I also think the notion of insurance isn’t as sacred: the company is providing a service not some fundamental right, so this woman isn’t necessarily in the wrong for taking advantage of a “bug”

This is a great idea, but its always felt super daunting for me. As in, just walking into a massive code base makes you wonder where to even start. Do you reach out to other contributors ? Look for easy bugs and hope you can keep finding them ?

To OP, or another curious reader, I think you need to take these kinds of posts with a grain of salt. That salary is rare in montreal, but it is also an extremely affordable city to live in. If you are seeking a comfortable life, I personally don’t think you need to be sweating whether you’re earning 120k or 200k CAD in a city like that.

Its funny, because it almost makes the few of them even more enticing. I didn’t realize that you could change the colour of the top bar past a certain karma, but now that I do there is literally nothing I want more than to get there

you’re assuming that people can work in libraries, cafes and other places. these places are barely ever conducive to jobs that might require you to hop on a call at a moments notice (which is far more common when in remote) or handle sensitive data.

moving to a cheaper location also usually means giving up a lot of things that urban life comes with as well. you cant expect that everyone is going to be happy with that decision

I think it lives on in big platforms like Reddit, but I agree that it used to be far more prevalent on the net than it is.

Youtube is a good example. It used to be so fun to just throw up videos on the internet, without caring how far they would really go. I definitely think there are great content creators on it nowadays and I'm glad that they're being paid for their hard work, but it still feels like we've lost something.

It’s a bit hard to give concrete advice without knowing more but it sounds like the anxiety is linked to a fear of failure?

You should try to weigh the pros and cons of your options as best you can, of course. You should also try to break down your tasks into achieveable goals as much as possible so as to build up your confidence as you achieve them and lessen your anxiety.

But at a certain point, you can only know and project so much about your options unless you actually try them. When you choose something, dont quit when you start to doubt if theres a better way. You aren’t actually equipped to make that evaluation until you have tried and succeeded/failed with your current path. Its a good thing to fail, it teaches you a lot going forward.

I think the real problem you need to address is your difficulty accepting risk, which i suspect is tied to a fear of failure. Start trying to convince yourself that mistakes are good things.

When choosing a path, plan benchmarks where you can step back and evaluate concrete work up until that point. Only consider changing your path if you have concrete evidence to prove that you’re going astray. And ask others for their opinions along the way, don’t do it all alone

Good luck

Maybe. Although I think it really takes a multiplayer open world (possibly an RPG?) to even get close. I wonder if people who use to play WOW back in the hayday of its popularity feel this sort of nostalgia too

Also, hahahaha, nothing better than walking about and seeing the text “selling GF 10k” wave around in raindbow text

Thats too funny. And honestly, the fact that the game translates to the real world directly like that just blows my mind. I met a guy at a hackthon during uni who ran Sals realm of runescape. He told me that the selling the website basically payed his (canadian) tuition in full

Old school runescape. I played it as a kid and have never otherwise had such a wonderful and memorable experience playing a video game. Im quite young (23) so when I was playing it back in 2006-2008, I learned a LOT about life. Trading and bartering, getting scammed, talking to people to get help moving forward in the game, etc. Most of my friends who used to play agree.

You can still play, they brought it back a few years ago, but the community and popularity - as well as the feeling of discovery I used to get while playing - won’t ever come back

As a canadian, I disagree with how strict you’re describing the issue to be. There are a fair amount of big and well established companies that are not going to penalize you for lacking the five years and connections. With that said, they’re almost all in Toronto, but that’s a different issue ..

I don’t know much about the subject - when one of these institutions discovers a vaccine, do the rest just give up and settle the loss of having come second in the race? Do the private companies then automatically switch to producing as much of the successful vaccine as possible to meet demand and turn a profit?

You really should read allen carr's easy way to quit smoking. I was a smoker for a long time and would say exactly what you've said here. The main pull for me was always the social smoking as well.

The tl;dr is that, for a lot of different reasons that aren't your fault, you've become convinced that quitting smoking is a lot harder than it actually is. If you have any feeling like you would like to quit (or that you think its gross) then go grab the PDF and give it a shot.

I dropped the habit two years ago and have never had a slight urge to try again. The text is a little cringeworthy, but if you can look past it you will see the benefits

I mean these changes make sense to me; anyone who uses facebook actively can tell how much people gravitate to groups and events (and little else). Since groups have really picked up I've found myself using Facebook more than ever before.

I think the main benefit is that a lot of people have a facebook account, including those who would never have thought or bothered to join forums in the pre facebook era, so now we're seeing a ton of really great communities. Then again, I wasn't on the internet for all that much of the pre-facebook era, so maybe I don't really know how things were before.