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I think there's probably a decent correlation with people who are depressed going for convenience meals rather than take the time to cook or shop for healthy foods and that type of thing. It sounds like they tried to control for some of this but it's not clear how successful that was (I'm not a statistician so I can't speak to that).

At the same time, I think diet and gut health can have major impacts on physical and mental health as well so it makes some intuitive sense that certain foods might be linked with depression. I've always been suspicious of artificial sweeteners, they just seem a lot more chemical and artificial than the natural ones which we evolved to properly ingest.

The first type of 'no' is summarized as just being annoying to implement and not making a big difference, but I think it can be a lot deeper and more consequential than that.

There can be regulation that will damage a companies profits, but also provides positives to public health or other beneficial outcomes. Deeply profitable companies will fight tooth and nail against these regulations even if they are full aware of the damage they are causing. They will come up with as many convincing sounding reasons to say "no" as possible in the name of those immense profits they enjoy, and use techniques like expensive lobbying, sponsoring pseudoscientific studies, running ads, play up fears about economic damage or other negative outcomes of the policy, etc. They try to make it sound like the second or third kinds of "no" in the article and paint it as a bad idea, or impossible to do, or anything else they can to prevent the regulation. And if a certain individual at that company doesn't want to fight for their unethical profit, they'll be swiftly replaced with someone who will.

The obvious (non tech) example is something like the tobacco industry, which spent millions on manipulating public and policy opinion using misleading scientific sounding language or studies to prevent or delay regulation despite being fully aware of the many health detriments of smoking. Public health has been significantly improved as a result of smoking reduction, restrictions on where you can smoke in public spaces, age restrictions, whatever.

I think there is a lot of this currently in companies profiting off social media, oil and gas, and selling user data.

I have to work on a legacy site using statamic v2 regularly and I absolutely hate it; it's slow as all hell and littered with template rendering and parsing bugs.

I'm sure v3 is nicer though from the amount of times I've searched the docs with an issue and seen "fixed in v3".

Trombones are actually just trombs that have bone.

Interesting that Github has been getting slammed by people upset with the outages, but it doesn't seem like there's much movement towards Gitlab as an alternative.

I use both near-daily for different clients and I have grown to prefer Gitlabs... the price is higher, but it might be worth it to some of the people in the daily HN github issue threads (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30790593 )

If you look at the article data, the lower income bracket have FAR less confidence than higher income brackets.

Also, I think it actually doesn't all go in an instant. I've worked with local businesses that are over a hundred years old and seen many market turns both positive and negative. During recessions they'll make a reduction in employees or other costs and be able to stay open on that until profits rise again... or worst case, they sell the business or real estate and pocket a huge amount of money even though it closed.

The folks that have it all go in an instant are the ones living paycheck to paycheck who get laid off at the first sign of trouble. Their losses insulate the businesses and owners.

This doesn't happen to most people so you have a clear personal identity problem. Maybe your name is on a list (when I worked at a brokerage, we had to do identity screens and close accounts if someone was on some sort of international security list... I wasn't a member of compliance so I don't know the full details). Possibly your identity has been stolen and is being misused. Or maybe it is just one specific rogue email account that you are using that is causing you problems. I would recommend reaching out to customer service at some of these companies, possibly Fidelity first as they are a financial institution with strict requirements and might be able to tell you most directly what your problem is. You should probably also make an attempt to check / lock down your credit and any other important accounts you have.

Just don't subscribe if the value isn't worth it, and there are plenty of services available subscription free.

I watch a lot of youtube videos and I have never been tempted by the $12 a month premium service. Sure, I've probably consumed some advertisements in between videos, but that's been worth it to me for the amount of youtube content I've enjoyed.

A service I might find more worth paying for is Spotify, since there is value in the easy access, centralization of all the artists, etc. But I don't always listen to a lot of music, only sometimes. So maybe if I know I'm working a job where I can listen to music in the background it's worth the cost that month to enjoy it ad free, but if I'm not going to be stuck working the warehouse I might not be listening to music and not spend the money on it.

Not exactly correct or incorrect. Some projects built as a single page app (SPA), using a fancy framework like React or Angular with little configuration, end up loading all DOM content client side via javascript which has a number of drawbacks on performance and SEO.

It doesn't have to be that way though. If you want to use React, there are tools to help you easily make something like a static site generator (SSG) which will transform your React code down into pre-rendered HTML pages. Two popular ones are Gatsby (https://gatsby.dev/) and Next.js (https://nextjs.org/) which also supports Server Side Rendering (SSR).

So out of the box plain HTML / CSS might be more optimized than a fresh create-react-app repo, but if you prefer to use the toolset provided by React to build your site (or Vue or Angular, etc), there are plenty of options to make that equally performant.

You should take a year or two and work at a grocery store, then once you've figured out what you enjoy and don't enjoy in your work life balance you can make better decisions about professional development or education.

Also, things have a tendency to work out. When I was in college I wanted to study astrophysics because I thought space was awesome and humbling and I loved learning about it. However, as I worked through my courses I found myself doing a lot of heavy math and very little cosmic wondering. So I switched to English Literature and absolutely loved reading about philosophy and politics and the human condition. Nowadays I work on software development, which has the right balance of creativity and quantitative reasoning for me. I didn't set out on that path, or spend any of my university time studying it directly, but by being flexible and open and listening to my own needs I arrived at a great place (and I hope you do too!)

Copy writer was genius for using Containerization in the title; gonna get a lot of views from people like me who assume it's about computer software container and not a physical shipping container.