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> Such as when people just discard mental health issues as "just matter of will" ?

I am very much aware of mental health issues as I am healing trauma, self harm in one way or another (internalized anger and even rage). I am healing a childhood of abuse and neglect. Lots of broken people in my family, generational trauma from the wars, I believe.

You're talking about ignorance. But it's better for people to understand inter-dependence then. Telling them they have no freewill will only meet resistance. Inter-dependence, ultimately, reaches the same conclusion.. but it can help develop a sense of connection and warmth to life. In theory I can see that for some people "no freewill" implies as much and is obvious but I suspect for most, it's not obvious that "no freewill" means "we are all one".

What is generally misunderstood about mental illness is the mechanism of dissociation. Dissociation goes hand in hand with suffering, and is behind much of the news of the world everyday.

From my experience healing trauma, I'd wager most mental health issues are related to an imbalance between the left and right brain hemispheres (cf. Ian mcgilchrist "the divided brain" for a lot of research on that). The left hemisphere deals with narrow attention and the "map" of the world. When traumatized, our nervous system is overwhelmed. Somehow, it causes a shift where we live life predominantly from the left hemisphere, because mind provides an illusion of safety through a known world. Why this happens I don't know.

This is dissociation at work. This is why dissociated individuals act in what seems completely irrational ways. They are acting from a map that has become their reality.

I make this connection because since doing trauma therapy, massage and yoga... last couple years... I started to "fall" sometimes back into silence. (edit: i should mention also, that "integrating" is a key aspect of trauma therapy which incidentally means.. to be with present experience.. the direct opposite of dissociation). It's as if the body starts feeling safe enough, to say, ok... no need for right hemisphere right now. This shift is not something you control directly. The individual needs to feel safe for this to happen AND somehow I think you also need the curiosity, the desire to fall into the silence because of exhaustion... you have to be really exhausted with thinking.

> And doesn't the idea of "free will" also do harm ?

Yes but it goes hand in hand with the materialist paradigm we are in. Our entire society is based on the notion that we exist, independently, as separate entities. That "oneness" is merely a feel good thought.

And honestly i don't know what the next paradigm is. It's a very peculiar question... we are wired quite clearly in our brains to experience life as individuals. Our conceptual mind inevitably sees cause and effect (its is after all said to be "dualistic").

Thats why I think right now the next big step forsociety is to undestand trauma, understand that it is the nature of suffering, that addiction and dissociation goes hand in hand. That dissociation is actually rampant in our society and unconscious developments in technology can become a further support to dissociate which doesn't help at all..

Yes I'm with you that much of the world still believes in good and evil.

But... as I am healing trauma and have prior experience in the "spiritual seeking", it has become clear to me that the mechanism of dissociation is key to understanding human suffering.

For traumatized individuals and anyone with a long history of depression or anxiety, the teachings on "no self" and/or "no freewill" will almost certainly be grasped on by the conceptual mind, in order to further protect one self from pain. Where there is significant pain that needs to heal, there will be the compulsion to disengage from life that is threatening, especially from social engagement. Worse, a traumatized individual believing they have no free will, and can't do anyhing, may even abandon healing... which is pretty tragic.

I was a in a pretty confusing place myself for a couple years after some glimpses here and there. Whether that can be avoided I don't know. But I think if this were to be taught in larger circles, then it would be better to always pair this understanding with the notion of inter-dependence.

> I don't believe in free will, to a large extent, and this doesn't stop me from trying to do good.

So, you believe in free will.

As Ramesh Balsekar once said "as long as you believe you have free will, then live your life as if it's true" (otherwise "no freewill" is just a belief and it's doing more harm then good)

> and I'd be confused, why people were laughing and interacting without words. It was a while till I realized that they were chatting on IRC.

Call me oldschool.. I'm just 43 and I still have that split second confusion every time I see someone speak aloud in the metro or tram here with their glassy stare, looking in front of them, while speaking to apparently no one. Every god damn time I'm like "(0.3 seconds) OH..."

But am I not wrong. I don't need to "understand" anything. My body is that through which I know myself and everything else. All of what we call "reality" is experienced through, and as, a body.

If anything technology should honor, and augment that instead of dissociating us.

Same here. More specifically, I keep my general browsing history , and YouTube history more relevant by opening random / "lol" content in a private tab.

That way the omnibar suggestions show me content that I'm more likely to revisit and doesn't get clogged up with random results I don't care about; and YouTube gives me more interesting recommendations.

Firefox's private browsing lets you restore closed tabs, unline Chrome, which is a small but noticable improvement for me.

Interesting thanks.

Is there an example in there of how you'd go about to create a basic bundle with the css/js frameworks, and then create additional bundles which depend on the first one, but do not include it?

It's an issue I need to solve now in a legacy app which already had a bundle for one area of the site, and another for another area. I need the same in Webpack, but I don't know how to declare the dependency on a common "root" bundle in webpack.

Yeah this isn't the same at all. For example I don't know how to add a custom search like:

http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/%s

When I add a search via right clicking the search box on that site it doesn't work.

Plus, the completion UX is great on Chrome, as soon as you press space or tab aftert he keyword it confirms with a special UX "Search Wikipediea" for example. Here, you get no feedback whatsoever... if I type sfs 1.1.1.1 is it going to google that, or is it actually going to search StopForumSpam for the IP ? I have no idea until I press enter. :(

UPDATE

Looks like you have to use "keywords for bookmarks"

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

The omnibar is less convenient than Google Chrome: it appears that pressing DELETE does not actually remove a search suggestion from History. Instead it seems to be ranked down. This is not useful, there should be a way to completely remove a suggestion (unless it is currently a bookmark).

In Google Chrome I navigate with the omnibar so much, it was the game changer for me when Chrome was new. The ability to quickly recall any page I visited before. Coupled with the ability to finetune these suggestions by removing unwanted entries.

Isn't that turned off when you disable "search suggestions"?

I don't like search suggestions even in Chrome. I find it makes the omnibar less useful.

The omnibar was the game changer for me when Chrome did it. I never have many tabs open as I can recall anything I've visited previously by typing a few words. More often than not what I want is one of the first suggestions.

So to help with this, I turn off search suggestions since they are not relevant to my past browser activity. I also got in the habit of frequently using Private window so that my History has more relevant content. It's great and I'm confident I don't need to bookmark a lot.

Is it possible in Firefox to remember the "pinned" state of a tab matching a bookmark when it is closed?

It' be awesome if some of my bookmarks always open in a pinned state. Examples: rain.today (white noise). ... But I don't want them to be there everytime I open the browser, hence to remember the pinned preference with bookmarks.

I see, thanks. It seems the flexibility of entering a custom URL with the %s in it for the search term is lost.

1) Is it possible to change the shortcut for Private window to CTRL Shift N somehow like in Chrome? (instead of Ctrl Shift P). (I like that I could use that shortcut with my left hand (albeit with some nice thumb extension action).)

2) Any way to remove the bottom bar icons when the omni bar completion box shows? ... wait... How do I even edit search engines in Firefox? Like say, typing "yt (space) search term" to do a search on YouTube?

On Windows 10, am I dreaming or the font smoothing looks a tiny bit different (from Google Chrome)?

I kinda like it, small text looks a bit stronger and smoother à-la OS X.

Front end dev here. The main issue I have for now is that whenever I hit CTRL Shift C to open the console, you can clearly see the thing draw itself for nearly one full second. It would be fine if it somehow cached, but if you close it and open again, same delay.

Short of being able to optimize it soon, perhaps you could try buffering and displaying it at once. It would look less clunky and flimsy.

That said I'm giving FF57 a run as my main browser, will keep using Chrome Dev Tools for now.

I'm sure he believes his own jibbi jabba. This is what happens when you have to rationalize everything you do for money, on a consistent basis. There is a high price to pay for that, and he must be dissociated from himself at some level.

As a society it is something we don't recognize as such.... at least not yet. It is a violence that we all do to ourselves as a collective. Partly I think because of an economic system that is essentially based on necessity and survival. This economic system, is a reflection of us, so it's a catch 22 situation whereby living in fear makes us dissociate, and while dissociated we act from the "map" not the actual reality... so we keep spinning the wheels of these comanies as well as the old mindsets.

You know... I also had a hunch Google "profiles" me from my searches and because of that, seemingly returns better results.

But now we are back at the greater discussion... the feeling that your searches happen within a bubble. The odd realization that you haven't discovered anything new in a long time.

This has been discussed on HN many times. But usually people talk about how Google doesn't index the sites the same way.... But here we are pointing out a much more specific culprit: Google actually tries to help you, but does it? (I mean, with the SAME index it will show different results to different users. So the INDEX itself is affected by their algorithm, and then on top of that, Google filters and tweaks results to fit your own bubble.)

You know I may be walking around the block to look for new appartments... and maybe I stumble on a nice bookstore. With this "help" from Google, this doesn't happen anymore.

Anyone know if you can turn off this profiling entirely while reamining signed on?

( I have the same issue on YouTube... With YT I have got into the habit of using Incognito (ctrl shift N) for random youtube browsing.. that way when I go to the home page I get recommendations I tend to like, because I only allow certain content in my youtube history. )

My bad. I could swear it was removed at some point but I can't find articles.

A quick test reveals maybe the change is that you can't do an exact "ascii" search, ie. google searches for an exact sequence of words, but the casing may be different , there-may-be-dashes and so on.

Even putting politics & world events aside, Google Search doesn't seem to get better.

For me the biggest disappointment is when they turned off the ability to search for "an exact match within quotes", as well as the ability to use +plus and -minus to refine results. (EDIT: could be wrong about that, I thought it was disabled at some point)

But the most dumbfounding is the fact that you still get several year old results whenever you search for a bug, hardware/driver issue, or even simple programming questions related to a not too old framework or API. Every time I have to go into the advanced options to restrict the results to one year, or one month.. you'd think they would make recent activity the default and then let the user know they can "search older results".

The term "free money" is a silly put down term designed to close a discussion before it even started. Nothing is free. Money comes from somewhere, and it goes somewhere.

Even if this money did not end up creating more jobs, or reducing health care costs and so on, it's still going somewhere and doing something.

I'd rather make few, but meaningful contributions to creators with a system like Patreon or Kickstarter, than make many "micro", meaningless payments without a clue where my money is going.

This is failed from the get go. The whole idea that the program is going to determine where your attention goes, and how that relates to your contributions. Maybe I read a blog I contribute to, and it takes a lot of time, yet I download music from an artist I want to contribute even more to, but I spend 5 mins on his site to download the music.

For small creators I think this is dumb and almost deceitful. You're not going to make anything from hundreds of micro payments. You aren't an (fairly popular) artist on Spotify earning revenue from millions of streamings.

I have a small site on Patreon that people find useful and earn a little over a hundred USD a month atm, from less than 30 patrons. I don't even have any "perks" atm. I can't imagine earning even 10 $ from something like Flattr, much less Google Ads (but I digress ;)).

Point being for small creators the connection to the audience, and how meaningful their contribution is I think is key. Making micro payments in a way that's invisible to me as a contributor, that's meaningless and I feel no connection to the creator.

Your analogy barely applies to the iPhone / iPad situation. You're talking about APIs accross many generations of an OS, while I'm talking about apps for the same , current OS not supporting different layouts.

edit: rewording my previous comment, yes I am using iOS 11 ... and the AIR 2 is not that much behind anyway.

/side rant

Do you truly mean "iOs" or did you mean "iPhone"? I couldn't care less if an app is an "iOS" app when it doesn't work on my iOS device (iPad AIR 2 with iOS 11).

ps: i'd love to see something like that on iPad. I don't like the builtin player. I used the "track 8" app for a while sadly not updated to iOS 11.

Here is a similar argument from Alan Watts illustrated by Matt Stone and Trey Parker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA3NLyQNDBQ

Another way to look at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEunth9YCgo (You are the Big Bang)

I've been coding for 20 years but some random fresh face out of university goes into HR and looks over my CV and decides whether I'm suitable for an employer or not. Neverlmind that they can barely tell the difference between Java and Javascript. I mean what the fuck, you've got a university diploma, which I don't even have, and THAT's your job? What a waste.

Your job is tedious and pointless, end of story.

In general yoga is always great. The quality really depends on the teacher however. I had a teacher of Iyengar style who was somewhat strict in his approach. His heart was in the right place but he was too focused on "correct" posture.

After a good yoga course of ~1h30.. your mind should feel quiet. If it isn't then it's not a good course. Over time, you should also become aware of bodily tneisons in various areas. ANd perhaps even become aware of old memories, perhaps even cry. Those are completely normal aspects of yoga when it has a therapeutic potential. It happens as consciousness is more evenly distributed in all parts of the body. It restores the left/right brain hemisphere balance, it takes you out of the map, and more in touch with reality in its raw form.

Yes I am well aware of Reich and Lowen. As I am in therapy for trauma I have concluded after many experiments that bioenergetics is not complete, and in case of trauma is not very helpful.

The way to heal trauma is to create a safe environment, and for the individual to gradually also come out of dissociation that comes not only from drugs but also anger... one has to put the shield down so to speak.. to be able to regain the full range of physical and emotional sensitivity and feel alive in this world.

With that said, it is one year of self exercises from a bioenergetic book that helped me become aware of the anger I had repressed much of my life. And that was the necessary step to go and reach out for assistance. But once I started therapy the exercises just made things more difficult.

I found the same with chinese plants. Some plants clearly have noticable effects on emotional states, such as Bupleurum, Cyperus, ... by helping release constriction in the solar plexus / liver area. However afterm onths of experimenting with them and in the context of trauma, I can only conclude that it made things more difficult.

In the end, it is consciousness that heals. So no amount of plants of bioenergetics sexercise can heal trauma. That's because they are still a way of controlling experience, while healing is the opposite direction: to release control, to allow everything to bubble up in awareness. Control comes from the left hemisphere, and is precisely what created the suffering in the first place.

Fascinating subject. Much more is address in Iain Mc Gilchrist's book

"The Master and his Emissary : the divided brain and the making of the western world"

http://iainmcgilchrist.com/

ps: put short, the book explains how pop psychology belief that left is maths and right is arts (you get the idea), was wrong, and yet.. there is a physiologically noticable difference as well as observable differences in how each hemispheres processes reality. In short, each hemisphere attends to the world with a different kind of attention, left is narrow and focused for what we commonly see as intellectual acvitivites, left deals with a map of the world. Right hemispheres takes the world as one whole, it's broad attention required to survive in our environment, but it's also necessary for empathy, etc. The book then tries to show how the over relianceo n our left hemisphere in today's world has roots in the last few centuries, and that perhaps it is not in our best interest. BOTH hemispheres are always needed, but we are increasingly acting in the world from the left hemisphere (hence the book title "the master and his emissary").

Meh. I've been sitting at a computer for the past twenty years or so let's be honest.

Yet in just a few months I feel my posture improving since I started psychotherapy and somatic experiencing therapy for trauma. Along with that I go to yoga once or twice a week. It's importnat to note here because I see the cogs spinning already... I actually did yoga years ago and did not notice the same effects. Therapy has been key to the changes I've observed in my posture.

My conclusion is a lot of bodily tensions are connected with unresolved emotional charges. This is related to the nervous system at some level.

My point is that posture, and general routine is symptomatic of your general emotional wellbeing.

As with all things in life, moderation is the key. Just doing a 1h30 yoga class once a week will probably offset much of the problems mentioned in the article.

I mean, I've sat at a computer (both for passion and work) for the past twenty years and have NEVER been fat. In fact I was underweight due to anxiety. I put on some weight in the gym in my early thirties which 70% have stayed without doing any regular exercise (which further confirms a health issue symptomatic of emotional / nervous system troubles affecting appetite).

I suspect that improving posture and making an effort to keep a good posture goes a long way also to offset the problems of sitting.

Don't get me wrong.. I can see in yoga class that sitting a lot has made muscles between inner thigh and pelvis very tight, as well as all the front making it diffuclt to stretch in various postures.

The problem here is assuming that N hours spent sitting equal N equivalent "damage". But that's not how our body works. It may be that you only need a good gym or yoga session just once a week to offset much of the problem. Not that it "undoes" the damage; but rather seeps into the rest of the week with more tonus in posture, and more postural awareness.

TLDR: context. Nobody gets fat because of sitting. If weight is really an issue I would suggest to seek therapy or if you feel that is not needed, try yoga or massage. Anything that takes you out of the left hemisphere's imbalance (cf. "The Divided Brain" by Iaian McGilchrist), and nurture more being in direct contact with the body, sensations, breathing.. as well as being more connected with others outside of intellectual activities. Surprisingly a lot of people think that "socializing" means talking. No, to be truly with others around you, is to be able to be there instead of taking refuge in the mind. That means to be at home in your body and how it feels. It's a journey.. it doesn't need to be taken in a couple days ;)