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I'm no brain healthologist, but yoga has been absolutely, irrefutably, amazingly transformative to my mental health.

I started with no prior experience at age 39 nine months ago, and have gone to 140 classes since.

My happiness, attentiveness, and friendliness have all increased to the point that I am hardly recognizable, mentally, as the same person I was one year ago.

In addition to the effort and focus you have to put in during class there are other benefits, like seeing and feeling muscles you never knew existed growing and strengthening, having better posture and balance, and getting a good night's sleep every night after practice (because you're so damned tired).

On top of all of that, my studio is full of very friendly and welcoming instructors and my fellow students are just as nice, so I've made tons of new friends-- which is really hard to do when you are a working adult.

I've also lost 40lbs since March. Because I'm so tall, one hour of yoga burns about 580 calories on average for me, and I feel better afterwards-- not worse like with some other forms of physical activity.

But I didn't go for weight loss so that's just a nice bonus.

I'm relatively sure that the same could be said for many forms of physical activity, but yoga seems more suited to a variety of people regardless of age or physical ability.

Having become a bit enamored by yoga, I've started recommending to everyone I know, including my elderly parents, that they at least try it.

I don't understand the article, particularly because airline travel is the cheapest it has ever been in the history of aviation.

Is the author asserting that mutual funds are preventing air travel from being even cheaper than it already is, which is the cheapest it has ever been in the history of aviation?

This is, of course, excepting approximately six months post-9/11 and the winter holiday season post-financial crisis when the industry was on the verge of collapse and nearly every carrier operated at a loss temporarily both times just to keep people in seats. Except for that brief period in time airline travel is the cheapest it has ever been in the history of aviation.

>One area of AB 5 that has sparked great concern is that if freelancers fall under the occupations listed in it and they do work for a company that could be viewed as a “core capability” of that company, they must be paid as an employee, according to Zaino.

This does not concern me. Why does it concern others?

Why shouldn't uber and lyft be required to pay minimum wage and offer health insurance to the people performing the core capability of the company like literally every single other enterprise in the state?

Why isn't this nationwide?

I have a custom domain in Fastmail, and after I did all of the DKIM/SPF and other email validation stuff (took an afternoon via their helpfiles) and got a green light from a couple authentication verifier services, I haven't had a single problem with being labeled as spam.

You can't compare apples-to-PCs.

You have to compare apples-to-workstations.

The Dell Precision 7920 I am wasting my company time on right now was more than $10k. Most PcMaStErRaCeRs would comment that they could throw together some aliexpress parts and "beat" it but my workflow won't... flow with less than 768GB of RAM and I can't guarantee (within comfortable margins) that my output is correct unless it is run on a Quadro RTX-- with 32GB of memory.

But yeah, a pee-cee can get more eff-pee-esses in Doom.

A firm that is processing several million dollars worth of data on a workstation doesn't really care, within reason, about the price of the workstation.

The cost of catering for some of the projects that these workstations will be working on will vastly exceed the price of the workstations, and you poop out the catering at the end of the day while the workstations keep on workstationing.

And if my Dell breaks? A guy will drive for over an hour to where I'm sitting and put a brand new one on my desk before the end of the business day, and he'll swap out the drives. Try that with stuff from pcpartpicker.

I don't know what applecare does for the Mac Pro, but if they start carrying them in stores I'm willing to bet you'll be able to walk in with a broken one and walk out with a fixed one.

In 1991 we would sit around the lunch table at school with our EGMs and GamePros and argue about the SNES vs. Genesis.

Angry online comments about Apple have led me to believe that the people making them are either:

a. tweens sitting around the 2019 equivalent of a cafeteria table, or

b. adults who never grew out of the SNES vs. Genesis phase

One of those is embarrassing, the other is pathetic.

It could also be that they're broke-asses who are jealous of people who can afford Apple products but that doesn't make sense because there are very few similar comments about other luxury products-- though they do exist.

ps. Genesis does what Nintendon't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You’ve been able to have shipping containers of the stuff delivered from China and other places to your loading dock for decades.

They grow millions upon millions of tons of it each year and have an entire infrastructure of university and government research organizations built up around hemp cultivation.

The industrial products are never coming. Access by US domestic engineers and scientists to hemp on the order of days instead of weeks won’t change that.

There are billions of people on earth for which hemp cultivation has never been illegal, where they have grown it for centuries if not millennia.

To think that domestic production will spin up the release of industrial products can only lead to one of two conclusions:

1. There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim. (The ludicrous ones) or,

2. Most of rest of the world, around 3 billion people, are all stupid and/or incompetent and only the smart and industrious US domestic engineers and scientists can figure out how to use hemp for things other than hippy bags.

I’ve been around the world. I’m going to go with 1.

I’m not saying hemp doesn’t have industrial uses.

I’m saying that the claims by some of its more fervent activists, on the order of “hemp fuel will power hemp steel-manufactured flying cars adorned in hemp faux “Rich Corinthian“ leather, that land of runways made of hempcrete and it’s all going to be carbon neural and organic because hemp violates the laws of thermodynamics and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticide” are wrong.

> That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations.

That’s... exactly what I was getting on about.

The article you posted exactly and precisely directly asserts what I’m asserting.

A few knuckleheads pouring money into a shortsighted endeavor.

>expecting people's values to at least be correlated with the values of the people who raised them is not unreasonable and it's a pretty decent rule of thumb.

I'm more of a "content of one's individual character" guy.

And I'm not an proto-human from 500,000 years ago who has to rapidly distinguish friend from foe or face a painful death on a grassy plain in what is now Ethiopia so I have the wonderful luxury of being able to evaluate everyone individually.

Expecting people's values to at least be correlated with the values of the people who raised them is unreasonable and it is not a decent rule of thumb.

It is prejudice.

Here's a pretty good analysis of Patanjali's statements on prejudice (Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (4.24-28)):

>Prejudice is always based on misperception, which comes from ignorance. Ignorance arises from being told a lie and believing it and then continuing to tell yourself and others that lie—deepening your belief in it to such an extent that it affects how you see yourself and the others whom you are prejudiced against, resulting in a distortion of the truth. Prejudice is a mental affliction that pollutes the mind with deception. To rid yourself of prejudice, you must destroy the lie at the root. Only knowledge can burn prejudice at its root and reveal the truth.

Of course, there are many philosophies that repeat this or something virtually similar to this, and have done so for thousands of years so for a happy, more ethical, less prejudiced life you can take your pick.

It's adorable how every generation, predictably, without fail or exception, falls victim to their day's Tulip Mania.

As far as I'm aware, in 2019 only one country has an official policy of prejudging people based on the actions of their family members.

North Korea.

If my life had been weighed based on the actions of a few of my relatives, I would have been executed at birth.

I highly recommend we attempt no landing there.

I consume less with online shopping.

With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door.

No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more.

My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the week's shopping in it because I don't have jars and boxes of HFCS-laden garbage that I bought on a whim.

As far as non-consumable goods go, I spend the time I used to waste driving to and from stores and trying to find objects hidden in a sea of shelves finding written and video reviews of big-ticket items and I do not purchase anything unless I know it has passed the muster of several trusted reviewers, has all of the features I want, have seen it from every angle, know its precise dimensions, and know it has documentation and patches/upgrades available on the manufacturer's website.

Can't really do that looking at a box on a shelf in a store.

Regarding a steady stream of deliveries, it is too easy to set up a once-a-week delivery, at least with Amazon Prime. I set mine to Saturday.

People who impulsively buy things online are the same people who would have gone to the dollar store for "shopping therapy" pre-online shopping and come home with a basket full of cheap Chinese crap.

I don't know what answer they're due, except "This happened because you reused a password".

Doing business with US customers in US dollars and interacting with US banks automatically places you under the jurisdiction of US laws.

Investigators in EU countries often work with US agencies because our laws are so much stricter, and often urge people under investigation to cooperate otherwise they'll turn over the case to the Feds.

Tom Hayes, of LIBOR scandal fame, spilled his guts and signed a confession after being told he might be handed over to the Americans. Then he tried the aspergers defense, followed by the "I only confessed because they threatened me" defense, but neither swayed the jurors and he got 14 (reduced to 11) years in a UK prison.

That's not unique to the US. Countries own their currency and regulate their banks therefore using them gives a country the right to control what you do.

This is grossly oversimplified but generally speaking, if I lived in France and started a payment service that accessed the Japanese banking system and performed transactions in Yen, I would be subject to Japanese banking laws as well as French laws.

Well shiver me timbers, they've been out for weeks!

>Hermès’s $640 Clic H Bracelet is one of those luxury baubles that’s financially out of reach for most shoppers. So how is it that Amazon shoppers could recently search for the Hermès piece by name and find a bracelet for just $24.99 on the e-commerce giant’s website?

I think this is why I've never received anything fake from Amazon.

I'm not stupid enough to think I can get something priced at $640 for $25.

>Still, Philip Thomas recently bought a counterfeit Novel Duffle bag from Herschel Supply Co., which generally retails for $85. The New York-based tech executive didn’t care much about color as he browsed, so he scrolled through the various options to pick a black version available for $45.10, even though it meant waiting three weeks for delivery.

I also am not stupid enough to think that I can get something priced at $85 for $45 and I know that three weeks means a "China ePacket" full of shit.

Even the people who complain about getting fake SD cards must know that a 256GB "not eligible for prime", 2-3 week delivery time, SD card that only cost them $9.99 has got to be a scam, right?

Right?!??

I must either be using Amazon wrong or have some magical superpower that causes me to be able to comprehend what is going on around me.

Are there any current products one can buy, regardless of expense, using Intel's 10nm?

I know there was one product, the Core i3-8121U, a very middling performance chip which saw an extremely limited release.

But it was discontinued.

I have an ASRock X399 Professional and a TR-1950X.

64GB DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM runs perfectly on it, and the kernel reports ECC support.

Day-one memory support was very, pathetically, bad with Threadripper, but it has gotten better. It improved even more with Threadripper 2000.

If Ryzen 3000 is any guide, the gaping memory compatibility gulf between Intel and AMD will probably be closed to a slight gap by the time TR 3000 releases.

As far as I'm aware, every X399 motherboard vendor supports and warranties ECC support on the platform, but only if you use memory on their QVL at its rated speeds.

sTRX4 will likely be no different.

As far as cost-effectiveness, a W-3175X ($2,978.80) and Dominus Extreme ($1,868.74) is indeed $552.45 less expensive than a Supermicro MBD-H11SSL-NC with EPYC 7702P ($5399.99), but the the 7702P is about 37% faster multi-threaded, and about 13% faster single-threaded.

The never-ending blame-shifting has to stop.

Nobody killed the local grocer except for consumers.

Consumers killed the middle class. Sometime, somewhere, someone walked into a store and saw a Philco radio made in Pennsylvania by unionized middle-class manufacturing workers and a cheap Japanese/Tawianese copy of the radio and bought the cheap radio.

Sometime, somewhere, someone saw a mailer from Walmart and saw that they had eggs for 98 cents a dozen instead of the 99 cents a dozen at the local grocer, where the employees were unionized and fairly paid, and they went to Walmart instead.

The same thing happened with air travel. People complain about poor service but the vast majority only ever sort by price and click on the "race to the bottom" fare that shows up first. And then they complain about being nickel-and-dimed.

Now the malls are dying and people are blaming Amazon for physical retail centers turning into ghost towns and eyesores. No shit Sherlock, when you buy everything on Amazon you go to the mall less often and the stores start turning into physical manifestations of the stuff you can get on aliexpress, or they close the doors completely.

If people spent 1% of the time they spend complaining about Walmart into shopping conscientiously, there would be a butcher closer than one hour away from my house and I could support a small local business, paying more in exchange for ensuring a higher quality of life for me and my neighbors.

But I can't because sometime, somewhere, in the past, someone went to Walmart and saw floor-scraping ground beef for 95% the price of the butcher and started getting meat at Walmart, so the butcher locked his doors.

I spent 10 years dealing with sleep issues.

Then I started yoga and mediation back in March.

Meditation daily before bed, Vinyasa five days per week after work and Yin on Sundays.

I sleep like a corpse. I get into bed at 11:00pm, close my eyes, and then open my eyes and it has been seven and a half hours.

edit: Yoga and meditation are no joke.

Last night's sleep: https://i.imgur.com/F7IJKy3.jpg

Last night I got into bed an hour early at 9:50pm because it was thundering raining and trick-or-treating was cut short. I meditated and read for 30 mins, noticed I was falling asleep, put my book on the nightstand, rolled over and was out like a light until 6:30am. The wake-up spike at 1:20am was probably me stirring over because my cat was trying to sleep on my face.

Before meditation and yoga, I would have been awake, lying in bed despairing, until 1am and then groggily rolling out of bed after a restless night barely making it to work on time.

Something has to change, radically, when it comes to mental and medical healthcare in this country.

I am very, very, fortunate.

In 2018 I was suffering from the effects of PTSD: social isolation, anxiety, hyper-vigilance, poor physical health, and depression.

Many men are experiencing some of these issues, not brought about by PTSD but by other factors and they turn to drugs and alcohol to cope.

Luckily, instead of coping with PTSD brought about by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan through drugs and alcohol I turned to food and extreme isolation.

But I make money. Lots of it. I also have persuasive parents, and a great job with awesome co-workers who spurred me into action.

With my money I hired a registered dietician, therapist, and a personal yoga instructor, and have completely changed the trajectory of my life. I meditate daily, go to yoga six days a week, have lost 50 lbs (22.7 kg) in eight months. I have had more, positive, social interactions in the last year than I have had in the last 10. My daughters say I am a completely different person, and I feel healthier at 40 than I did at 20.

I am tapering off the industrial quantities of anti-depressants I was on, and no longer eat anything that came off an assembly line.

There are very few social problems that lead to shortened life expectancy that cannot be overcome.

And while "diet and exercise" seems to be met with derision on HN, it's not just about that. It is about the mindfulness and care one puts into themselves when dieting and exercising. The slow changes that are barely noticed from day-to-day but hit you like waves, like when I was brushing my teeth and some toothpaste fell from my mouth and instead of landing on my belly, it landed on my feet. Or when you struggle for months with sitting still and focusing on your breathing while meditating and then one day your timer goes off and you are amazed because it feels like you just started your timer two or three breaths ago.

It is unacceptable to me that just because I used the GI Bill to get a degree in Computer Science and now make lots of money that I can save myself from a downward spiral of isolation and addiction (to food), while most other men cannot.

Because of my limited ability to effect change, the only thing I can propose is that we collectively throw the stigma associated with depression and isolation in the trash and look out for each other as best as possible, talking openly and candidly about those things and trying to support each other with low-cost evidence-based self-improvement methods like diet, exercise, and positive social interactions until access to the same resources I used to save myself of are attainable by everyone.

Try Shakespeare and Greek Mythology before that.

Or if that's too far back, television's The Honeymooners (1955-1956). Or the Flintstones for that matter.

Or Fibber McGee and Molly if 30s radio shows are your thing.

The bumbling male and the stalwart woman is a trope that is thousands of years old.

Complaining about it is new.

By what metric were they important?

Economic output?

Influence abroad?

Cultural contributions?

Trade hub?

A cultural impact that lasts to today that makes them important in retrospect?

A city-state conquering 21,000 square kilometers (roughly the same area of Clark County, NV, chosen purposefully for my example) of olive groves and poor towns on a peninsula that is almost completely surrounded by sea with no other major players doesn't make one important, in the big picture.

I mean, I know philosophers liked to wax... philosophically... about them, like they were the lost city of Atlantis or something, centuries after the slow and creaky absorption of the hellish nightmare that was a declining Sparta into their neighbors, but so what?

I don't know what your gun stuff was about.

edit: I can imagine all of the rulers of the ACTUALLY relevant kingdoms and empires that surrounded Sparta looking at a map that was all colored in except for Sparta and saying to their generals:

"You know what? We'll give it a try but even if we do conquer Sparta all we'll get is a bunch of olives, goats, and a whole bunch of whacked-out weirdos with no gold, no navy, and a lot of baggage. So commit but don't 'Commit' and if we lose we'll just wait them out and color in the entire map later when they inevitably collapse."

The only reason Sparta lasted as long as it did was because it was a valueless minor city-state not worth the effort of conquering until the point that conquering and absorbing it was so effortless that it was done almost as an afterthought.

It was a sick and broken society populated by fanatics, that was quickly (on a historical timescale) out-advanced by its neighbors.

Imagine if a casino-less (Mormon Fort-era) Las Vegas, NV was full of militiamen and religious zealots and got involved in a war with the surrounding area and it managed conquer all of Clark County, the county that surrounds it, and control it for about 30 years by implementing a cruel system that enslaved most of its population.

And then that short-lived city-state collapsed after the rest of the Nevada developed over the decades to the point that a coalition of other small counties quickly steamrolled the now-decrepit and hollow Clark County city-state.

Like, super steamrolled. Like the rest of Nevada had developed tanks and artillery and the "Vegans" still fought with Mormon Fort-era weaponry.

That's Sparta.

I don't get why Sparta seems to be so fetishized, particularly by people who are not pleasant to be around.

Airpods aren't professional?

At least people aren't telling me that they are also not made of air or shaped like pods.

That would warp my sense of reality to such a degree that I wouldn't know what to do with my life and I would have to write a 7,500 word essay on why everything should be named literally and post it to medium.com, thus bringing shame to myself, my ancestors, and my descendants.

From afar, the Media Lab has always appeared to me personally to be a place where engineers who are not good at engineering and artists who are not good at art get to burn through cash at astounding rates.

I may be wrong.

> Right - because say, there's obviously no nuance required between "rough sleepers are still people" and "let's add spikes to the building entrance so we don't have to look at rough sleepers in the morning".

Every single person, without exception, you included, would be really pissed off with and do everything to get rid of a rough sleeper sleeping on under their window.

Instead of adding spikes, they will call the police. They would add spikes, but the police are free.

I know this, you know this, I know that you know this, and you know that I know that you know this.

But because it is "others" getting rid of bums, people get to scoff online.

Like I said, it is one of the most deliciously hypocritical things about the internet. It causes my heart to race from excitement whenever I see someone do it.

Everyone is cool from afar with sexwork until a meth head is jerking it on their doorstep. "Like, wouldn't you rather have it be regulated and legal?"

Everyone is cool from afar with homeless until they're sleeping in their own doorway. "Like, why are you trying to get rid of all of these poor homeless people?"

"What's the big deal, maaaaan?" they ask, "Why do you have a problem with it?"

But the second the problem comes to their own doorstep they call the cops.

It's one of the most delicious hypocrisies of the internet. People get to bitch about people dealing with all of the negative aspects of any problem while self-righteously pretending to be open and accepting from thousands of miles away.

Mine is. And it's all 2FA'd up. That was a part of the "Take Responsibility for your Own Stuff: For Dummies" guide I followed.

I imagine it would be easier to socially engineer a cellphone store employee and get a SIM to do a SMS-based password reset for a Google/Microsoft/Apple email account than it would be to hijack my domain.