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My own experience attempting to use exercise to reverse moderate depression was that it correlated with me crashing into more serious depression.

It didn't make sense to me as I'd always heard that exercise was a solid remedy for mild depression.

It was when I read this 2005 article on Kuro5hin (RIP) called Demystifying Depression [1], that it made sense.

The section "The Role of Sports", with its explanation of the physiology behind the benefits and drawbacks of exercise for people with depression or burnout, is consistent with my own experience.

These days, having done a huge amount of work over 10+ years, including emotion-based treatments, diet/nutrition, and some pharmaceutical treatment, I can and do often undertake intensive exercise without negative effects.

But I still have to be careful - as the article says, listen to your body.

As a general comment about this document:

Anyone experiencing depression should seek professional help and should not make treatment decisions based on comments on internet discussion boards or online articles.

But as a lay-person's summary of the mechanics underpinning depression, I've not found anything better than this in the 14 years since it was first published.

If someone can recommend a better one, I'd be pleased to hear about it and will gladly start recommending it instead.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression/Print_...
As noted elsewhere, that's not the trade-off being made (as we're assuming like-for-like work conditions, thus equal free time in both cases).

But it's a fun exercise in compound interest, so I'd recommend doing the math to discover how many years of extra retirement you get from working, say, a full year of 80 hour weeks, billed hourly at your current salary, at age 30.

Once you've gotten past the steep part of the salary curve, that starts to look like a really good tradeoff. Put an extra, un-looked-for, quarter million into the market early in life, and you can essentially not worry any further about saving for retirement.

That is, you can move forward spending every cent you earn (or only working as many months per year as necessary to cover expenses) and still retire as per usual at age 60.
>(...) but more effective measures will follow if we don't change the political willingness to withhold knowledge from the masses.

The EU just passed the directive for the new copyright package which further cements the status quo (the two often mentioned articles are just the worst of it), so don't expect any progress if people don't start to elect more progressive politicians.

The projections for the EU election show that the shares of the fractions won't change much, beside a slight shift to the right. The composition of the Conservative wing, however, will become more Euroskeptic and nationalistic.

And from an economic perspective, I don't see any big shift towards more consumer-oriented party programs, while the right-wing generally tends to be liberal(classical), or neoliberal even, anyway.

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> end-users may be experts on the problems and frustrations they are having, but not on the design solutions

This is the key here. We have continuously designed our healthcare system for “quick-fix” instead of the right solution that takes longer. Even the HITECH push for EHR adoption and Meaningful Use - twisted the arms of providers to find and use an EHR before they could be built to positively impact patient care.
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>When pressed, the man reportedly told the woman the packages contained something "very valuable," while pointing to the ocean.

Not the brightest poachers..
Would be an interesting experiment / use case for IPFS.
Python/django I'm not so sure, but ruby/rails illustrates the point well. Ruby rose and fell with rails. It existed in relative obscurity for a decade before rails came along and showed that world what you could do with it. Despite it's merits (I like ruby) without this killer app most programmers would probably have never heard of it. Functional languages don't really have that killer app, the only things I can think of that's close is emacs.
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Is there that much difference between spending your time and your dollars? I'd argue that in most cases spent dollars value is negligible compared to spent time value.
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It's quite clear the OP is speaking in an anecdotal manner.

The use of [citation needed] is one of the most infuriating, passive-aggressive internet trends perpetrated by people who clearly don't understand the point of citations [1].

[1] citation not required
They'll be picky even if you capture the 'original' compressed stream, though.
Didn't know these sites. Thanks to the French ISP for helping to spread the word.
Yeah that makes sense but I actually don’t have it on LinkedIn, apparently we’re not allowed to for secrecy reasons. I still get a lot of unsolicited messages but almost nothing finance related so far...
I was diagnosed as a teenager and prescribed Zoloft. I hated the medication because intrusive thoughts would spiral from “what if I jumped infront of this car” to “what if I locked the doors of this grocery store and set it ablaze”. So I stopped taking it and got fat.

As for high intensity, I’m sure that my use of the term isn’t correct, but I do something that raises my heart to 165+ for 30 seconds, keep my heart at 130, do something to spike it after 5 minutes and repeat until tired. I’ve been able to recently accomplish this reliably on an elliptical at the highest resistance level and maintain activity for 60 to 90 minutes.

After longer sessions I feel pretty good and sometimes a bit euphoric.
Whilst I didn't get that exact impression from the book, Barkley is known for being "realistic" about ADHD: he doesn't hide the fact that, depending on severity, ADHD can levy a heavy toll on a person, significantly impacting their quality of life. ADHD sucks, but we can make it suck significantly less through good habits, good routines, healthy eating, exercise and, where appropriate, medication and other forms of psychological support.

It's a cliché, but comparing yourself to others is a bad idea in this domain. I have yet to meet an ADHDer who makes these sorts of "upward comparisons" and derives anything useful from them; they typically just exacerbate feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness.

Personally, I know I might never be as effective or productive as a person without ADHD is capable of being, but I can be the best version of myself — it's fruitless and unhealthy to ask more of yourself than this, right?
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The first sentence of the abstract which you quoted defines what a closed system would be in economics. Closed systems are a common concept, and expecting someone to read more than one sentence to find out their methodology is reasonable.
> immersion in nature

That's a benefit for those who consider it a benefit. I personally don't find this interesting.

> social bonding

This applies to plenty of videogames as well - both directly to multiplayer, and to singleplayer games as social objects for discussions with other people.

> cardiovascular/muscular/mental fitness, tolerance to pain

In the same sense, videogames exercise your reaction time, complex reasoning skills and spatial awareness.

Point being - side effects are side effects, but both videogames and those outdoor pursuits listed are just waste of time, economically speaking.
I am doing exactly this. As a matter of fact I am working on something eerily similar. I took a year of just to muck about with my own project to see what happens. In particular the field of user input.

Seems like we're thinking very similar on this problem as my approach would be to have a constant onscreen HUD.

Initially my target was gamepads and other things viable for Virtual Reality. To try to demonstrate the universality of the method however I am working on a musical input method. Where musical keys can turn into keystrokes.

When you think about it you'll find that having a HUD onscreen gives a lot of room to implement clever algorithms that can speed up the process. Think huffman trees and other things that'll make the necessary keystrokes compressed.

What I have in the pipeline as of now is an FFT based algorithm that extracts the notes from the microphone, opening up for all instruments basically. The FFT part was surprisingly simple when dealing with one note at least, the tricky part might be chords and noisy environments...

What's so cool about far out ideas like this that you do for fun is that someone somewhere might find a usecase for it. Say for changing note cheats while playing a guitar or something similar.
An IPFS node would help significantly more people with a much lower overhead, however. :)
Thanks for the reply. Yes sure, that’s the way to go. The trouble is that I don’t even live in the US (I’m Swedish), so I’m sort of disconnected from that world. I do have one or two friends that went into HFT and similar, but only in Europe and I’d rather work in NYC right now.

Any tips on firms that even have those kinds of positions, I can always cold call a few to get a feeling for what they might be looking for.

My theoretical physics degree is from the best university in Sweden, but that probably doesn’t go very far in the US...
My feelings are somewhat more mixed. Many open world games are wonderful for both the creative output of their developers and because it allows for more creative game play from the player. Closure isn't really a big thing to me since it is all about exploring the worlds and creating my own place in it. If anything, the lack of closure is a bit of a bonus since there is always something to return to.

On the other hand, I am often left questioning the value exploration and creativity in virtual worlds when there are so many alternatives. This is especially true since many of those alternatives can be equally engaging and relaxing.
I'd not like to cycle in Brussels either.
Mostly cause of the (car) traffic there. Neither would I feel that comfortable at night in certain parts of Brussels :D
From personal experience, having dealt with MDD/bipolar^, I can attest that exercise does help.

However, exercise alone is not always sufficient. Daily meditation sessions help tremendously. But the icing on the cake (pun intended) is, in the end, nutrition.

Our body (and thus our mind) works with what we put inside it. In fact, our body is made exclusively of what we, or our mother, ingested in the past. There is no escaping that fact, and most people seem to ignore it every single day.

Personally, switching to a zero-carb ketogenic diet has done wonders for my overall health and well-being, including mental health. I am of course very biased in affirming this, but I honestly think sugar and most other plant substances (except perhaps some fruits and their oils) are there to harm us. The phytotoxin defense hypothesis really resonates with my experience.

^: I have had recurrent depressive episodes throughout most of my life, and antidepressants make me manic, but I otherwise experience no "natural" mania, only a mild hypomania.
It's all about the play situation. It's a genre adapting to one-handed interaction and 30-second engagement loops or shorter. If you can't play it on a public transport commute, it doesn't qualify.

Yet somehow the majority of F2P games adopted an outright abusive artificial "idle"-component, that's heavily monetized, it's just bad, if you see one just stay away, no good will ever come from that place.

Especially don't let your kids anyway near them, your parenting stands no chance against hyperoptimized gratification loops, that slowly transition over into Pay2Win-only in the first 8h or less.
Seems like it is gone now (you still have to juggle with DRMs though). However when it happened I searched for the error code and found some posts on Google forums. They were 6 months to 1 year old, with no provided solution.
I don't think they've tested their website design at smaller window sizes - full screen for me looks fine, but when I reduce the windows size things start overlapping unpleasantly.

Personally, I'd rather they stopped the transitions while scrolling and keep it a bit simpler so it resizes properly!
In my opinion, notifications are poor UI solution:

- they distract attention

- they obstruct content below

- they disappear quickly

Also this allows the site to monitor whether user's computer is on or off even if all the tabs with the site are closed.

In Windows XP the way for an app to ask for user's attention was to highlight app's button on the taskbar (it also could flash several times which I never liked). While this is a little bit distracting too, it is still much better than Android-style notifications. With Windows XP, you can switch to the app when you have time.

Browser push notifications were designed with interests of developers in mind, not with interests of users.

A better solution might be to highlight the tab that needs user's attention and highlight browser's button on the taskbar.

On the other side, Android-style, annoying notifications might be easier to notice and understand for users who don't understand computers well.

I think Firefox devs should also consider switching from Android-style distracting notifications to time-tested solution from Windows XP. I don't think the ideas from the article will work.

For example, they suggest to show an icon in the address bar but there are already too much icons and users might not notice it. And if you allow to show permission popup only after click, then sites will show it after you click anything.
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Yes and no; as a Brit I would probably have chosen a car for that trip, because local buses are infrequent and unreliable. Trips other than via London are often easier by car.

The UK never really had the space to develop US-style suburban sprawl, even in its designed car-centric new towns like Milton Keynes.
>And of which the creators were as passionate about the their creation and genre as you, as opposed to cynical 'let's make another addictive MMOG' or 'let's make another FarmVille' or 'let's make Angry Birds 335' studios?

This is how I feel too. All games are addictive and have psychological "feel good" hooks in them. However it feels like a lot of those scummy mobile games prioritize engineering addiction and exploiting those hooks over making a fun game. Add to that recent controversies about some games being considered gambling which, as an industry, shares this goal of making people addicted to the rush so that they spend more.

What pains me the most is that it works. People vote with wallets and support these developers.
Hey, still waiting on a reply here!

By the way, check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19551463
this one: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/masterminds-of-programm... ? Very interesting interview indeed.
This article is basically an advertorial for Drobo
Wadler had a paper on inhibitors: How enterprises use functional languages, and why they don’t. [1] Hope that this is relevant.

[1] https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/how-and-why/how...
>Were Tetris to come out today, people would look at it, think "what a boring, shallow game" and go back to Candy Crush or whatever is currently the hottest casual.

I don't think so. If anything Candy Crush has even less gameplay and is more boring and shallow than Tetris.
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they certainly are not too big to fine.

that would be the end result, put the onus on the DNS providers. who needs to China to disrupt the net when the West is just fine doing it on its own.
I'm not super well versed in storage stuff, but why is it when I read on building your own NAS with ZFS I have to use all the same capacity hard drive. If I have 5x 1tb drives and 1x 4tb I don't have 9tb of storage (minus replication costs) I have 6tb.

It seems with Drobo, I can throw any different size of drives in, and it just works. How can I build something like that on my own?
Past the mid eighties, any personal computer platform not using the 68000 family of processor was just doomed.

In hindsight, x86 (which was a shittier ISA) survived, but it shouldn't have been.
My favourite thing about using 1Password to store my credit-card details is the number of times I've gone to pay, started moving my mouse to the 1Password button, and the exit-intent fires and gives me a discount I wasn't expecting.
How does it compare to electric cars?
Yeah, the place in Brixton that sells these has made a big deal every time I've eaten there about how hey, this doesn't have meat in it, and I'm like "I know, believe me, if you made burgers with meat that were like this I would never eat here again". It's passable, but it is not good. Like you I'm conscious of the need to consume less meat, and these burgers are a step, but let's hope this isn't the destination. They've taken the "veggie burger" from "actually I've changed my mind, I'm not hungry after all" to reluctant acceptance.
Anecdotal counterpoint to the anecdotes posted here - I had a 200 day streak of >1km runs in 2015 and it didn't help my depression.
Cool when the code will be released?
Ashwagandha works great. It is well studied too (check ksm-66). Prolonged use is safe and has no side effects. Depression is a result of hormonal imbalance which it corrects effectively along with aiding with deep sleep when taken at nights.

Exercise raises few hormones like endorphin, serotonin and reduces cortisol (depending on the kind of exercise, like long walks), but I am not convinced if someone says it balances them.
Melatonin is just a very small part of all the variables involved in sleep. If you are excited or stressed you'll have high levels of adrenaline, cortisone, or cortisol. Diet will affect levels of ghrelin, leptin and insulin. Low testosterone levels, or antidiuretic hormones, can be found in many people. All these things will affect your sleep just as much, if not more, then melatonin does.
> Many vegetarians/vegans don't mind cross .termination.

Massively wrong. Most are easy going regarding using the same cutlery, pots, pan, etc (only ones I've met who aren't happen to be Indian mums or super strict vegans).

However... cooking up on the same griddle? Yeah, that's something most veggies and vegans I know who be very unhappy about.
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Two thoughts.

There should be an auto block feature. If you have it on and they downvote you, they get blocked and can't see your posts anymore.

Second thought about gamification. A downvote should cost the person a point or two of their own karma.
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Is it possible that the poorer factions in a society learn skillsets that are keeping them poor? Their skillsets help them through poor life but are prolly useless when getting more money?
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I've been using Synology NAS devices for some time now and I'd definitely recommend them too. They have great support, even for their 'budget' systems, and provide many years of software updates and fixes. Their main web interface doesn't suck, and they also support SSH and command line management of the devices too.

I've not invested in backup power, but this is one area that I'm a little skeptical of... nowadays all filesystems are supposedly advanced (log-structured records, etc) so in the event of power loss, in 'theory' you should only be losing at most a few minutes of work, depending upon caching. i.e. stuff that hasn't yet been written to disk might be toast, but everything else should be safe. Or can worse corruption still happen?

(quick edit to add: I'm not saying that backups are a waste of time, not at all, just that I'm questioning having a short battery power-supply backup)