Clinical depression is a physiological condition that produces irrational negative emotions that are largely unrelated to the sufferer's circumstances.
Telling a clinically depressed person "buck up, things aren't that bad" is about as helpful as telling somebody with diabetes that "sugar is actually pretty tasty, you should just try it again and see if you like it."
Those pills you so casually dismiss prevented me from taking my own life and have lifted a lifelong fog.
Hope you can find something better to do with your time than writing incredibly ignorant comments on Hacker News. I know you can.
- I went through clinical depression myself 10 years ago. I think the OP deserves a second opinion.
- I would tell someone with type 2 diabetes to stop taking drugs and instead stop eating the carbs (of course the politically correct pharmaceutical / govt response is to take drugs which only treat the symptoms - funny how financial interests work). Again, first hand experience with this.
I had to think about your question for a while. However, I think the issue is the premise: you imply "has it better" = "how you feel". Whereas Dr. Frankl says (and has observed) "you always have the power of choice, that's the one thing nobody can take away".
So no, I would say you can look to either people "having it bad" or "having it good" and finding in both cases they have the power to make choices.
- account recovery (using only a phone) THIS IS DUMB.
I only use an alternate email for recovery (my wife and I cross). Thus, each recovery account is still 2FA secured.
There's already been a story floating around about a young kid charging his dad's credit card because of the phone recovery option (he had the android phone in this case). This is NOT the same as 2FA auth.
To me it's clearly simpler. Paxos involces special client numbers (to guarantee ordering), but you still have to fall back to randomized delays to avoid livelock; raft just starts with randomized delays up front.
If you can read the raft paper and come away also knowing how group membership changes (wow) and log compaction works, in additional to the "basic" log replication consensus, that's huge.
edit: I'm sure it's still 'hard' to implement, like bringing a brand new replacement machine up from scratch (copying the full data set over, to warm him up, and then starting replication efficiently), i.e. there's still a lot of coding to do
This is pretty awesome and I think only real hardcore folks who need time-guaranteed leader failover (like, I don't know, a heart pacemaker or something) would stick with paxos. (Assuming paxos can provide that).
hmm, actually watching the paxos video posted above - even basic paxos needs randomized delays to avoid livelock with multiple proposers. ouch. so why would people choose it over raft?
I would like to offer a small historical perspective on the power of banks:
Legal Tender Act, 1862 [1]:
"Thaddeus Stevens, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee of Ways and Means, ... denounced the exceptions, calling the new bill "mischievous" because it made United States Notes an intentionally depreciated currency for the masses, while the banks who loaned to the government got "sound money" in gold."
Banks always get the first class life boats, and set their own rules (think about it, they buy influence, it's not that hard when you're a bank). I think Europe just missed some kickbacks the old fashioned way.
> this is nothing compared to the banks getting caught fixing the LIBOR rate a few years back
It's really nothing compared to the fact that banks can print trillions of dollars of credit out of thin air - and not go to jail for counterfeiting. Heck, counterfeiting used to be a capital offense in this country.
So the lesson is always: rules don't apply to rich people.
agreed - but a small point - the banks printing money are really basically government entities (the federal reserve, ECB, etc). the banks the article + book are talking about are private entities committing serious fraud and not getting being prosecuted for it.
I disagree about the federal reserve being a government entity. It's owned by banks - a "self regulating" private cartel by charter. Even congress can't "audit" the fed. The fed controls the government much more than vice versa.
Sure they will spin some line like 'profits' from the fed go to the government (profits above which are distributed to the private bank shareholders, of course!) but that's like saying I get reward points for every dollar I charge on a credit card. If you really think banks are "giving up" a lot of profits, you might want to check the total % of profits that go to the financial sector in the US economy. What are "profits" anyway when you can just print money - what is profit measured by?
Furthermore, even your 'small banks' that "loan" money under fractional reserve rules are, if you squint, awfully close to counterfeiting as that can raise the money supply 9 fold.
So I recommend you keep digging and follow the money.
Banks are complicated shell structures for sure, just look into BIS, a 'central bank' for central banks. However the federal chair is appointed by the white house.
Man, if you thought there were too many lawyers in programming already... just wait until we have retroactive protection of (corporate owned) APIs (and instruction sets?). Talk about a 'submarine' attack.
Hope you find something better than pills and/or paying a shrink for the rest of your life. I know you can.