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I feel dizzy now, thank you.

Anarchy doesn't mean "absence of law". Absence of law is anomie. One is often confused for the other, but there is a slight difference.

Anarchy is more about you and your community having the autonomy to decide your own rules, not a central authority. I believe "autonomy" is the key word here, not "law".

I heartily recommend "The Search Space" podcast to anyone interested in learning more about logic programming. The host is very good at introducing concepts in an easily understandable manner, and at chaining them in the right order so that you don't feel overwhelmed. I'm a complete noob, plus not a native english speaker, yet I didn't feel the need the rewind things at any point while listening to it.

https://thesearch.space/

I may be mistaken but Han Chinese weren't forced to undergo sterilization. If you had a second child, you were fined and your child wouldn't be recognized as a Chinese citizen. Still horrible though.

And for people wondering why caring about on-premises hosting when you have the cloud, a few weeks ago there was a thread about why would you do the former in favor of the latter. It puts on display that actually a lot of people are still on-premises, and for good reasons, which makes a good case for a company like Oxide to exist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999

Oxide Computer Company

https://oxide.computer/

“True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.”

Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...

Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap.

They also have a podcast, "On The Metal", which is such a joy to listen to. Their last episode with Jonathan Blow was really a treat.

https://oxide.computer/podcast/

It's mostly anecdotes about programming for the hardware-software interface, if that's your thing ;).

This article gets why Emacs is awesome so right, that, to be honest, there's nothing to add.

I'm always amazed by the people leaving Emacs for a few years to then come back and falling in love with it once again. Only very good tools make us feel like that. Everything else is nostalgia.

A lot of people here are suggesting, like you, that a low-carbs diet or ketos can help your body "heal" from T2D. I just don't see why starving yourself from carbs, which is like the basis of life for your cells, is going to help. From what I gleaned here and there, T2D is more linked to fat-heavy diet, which clutters blood vessels and keeps yours cells from absorbing the insulin your body produces, thus preventing them from "disgesting" the carbs you sending to them, resulting in diabetes. Reducing all the cholesterol in your diet will help your body "cleanse" gradually from these plaques on your blood vessels.

I'm not doctor, nor a nutrionist, but this guy makes really good and sourced videos on these subjects:

On Keto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzHLAqyO7PQ

On carbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyOACAdvAsE

I really recommend watching them. They're clearly oriented (duh), but still quite informative.

I'm sorry, my reply is a bit rushed and not that polished, but I really wanted to reply to see if anyone has something to say about this interpretation of carbs and T2D. (And it's damn late right now where I live!)

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

These things you classify as comfort may not be that essential and good for you and the others. Someone that eats animal products everyday and claims that it's their comfort, while it's affecting their health, the lives of 56 billion animals per year and the environment, is, to me, problematic.

I always, in my head, compare it to slavery. While it's not the same thing, of course, the pattern is the same. Something that's not ethical at all, but we, for a long time, did not care because of the comfort it brings us. Can we still live without it? Of course. And well.

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time getting my point accross in these topics, but what I mean is that what you call "comfort" may not that critical to your well-being at all. You don't need to change eveything from day 1, but doing it a bit more everyday will make feel like a better human being, as you know you're living by respecting others and your environment, while giving money is kind of too easy and doesn't influence what's surrounding you. If you want things to change, you have to be this change. By being it you expose others to the issue you're fighting and make think about it in another way, up to a point they might understand it and join the fight, or at least acknowledge it. It's a very slow process but this is how sustainable change goes since the dawn of time. Actions matter, but ideas win. And ideas don't get seeded with money (well, in the long-term... because propaganda and stuff, but I hope you get the gist).

In another comment you mention you don't like walking. These likings are not by any means frozen in you. Maybe you never tried enjoying walking alone, with your thoughts drifting away in your mind and just living the present moment. Comfort is really subjective, I really think what we should all yearn for is the greater good, which, suprisingly doesn't cost that much in the end and gives you a real sentiment of fulfillment. It's just a matter of /being/ that change.

The computations used to do symmetric and asymmetric encryptions are completely different. Asymmetric encryption is just about factoring out big numbers into primes, if we simplify things a bit. And modern computers aren't very good at it, but Quantum Computer happens to be, and can break it. Read a bit about Shor's Algorithm[0].

On the other hand, symmetric encryption can be seen as a super convoluted and costly shift cipher. And it seems that Quantum Computing does not help much with dumb and costly mathematics like this.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

I don't think I suffer from a disorder like you seem to have, but I, too, can't keep any habit, regardless of my motivation. The most annoying 'habit' that I can't keep is sleeping. I never fall asleep and wake up at the same times. Trying too hard to setup a sleeping schedule only worsen the issue.

This is kind of frustrating when you see all those self-improvement books and people saying they 'achieve success' by twisting their will and forming the right habits.

I also use taskwarrior, this is really a wonderful to-do list manager. Along with Khal[0] to plan things (even if I can't stick to what I schedule, this is still stimulating to layout tasks in a calendar), it gives enough confidence to keep the head high and not sink under all the work that awaits me everyday.

The last sentence sum it up for me, these tools just help me to accumulate confidence and get things going.

[0]: https://github.com/pimutils/khal

Hello, just wanted to thank you for answering to every question this post gets. It really helps to get the gist of what BigchainDB is! Will read the primer/white paper for sure!

Thanks for the website you linked, I was searching for something like this for a while now.

"Regular" people doesn't need in any way of to these B12 supplements, as there is plenty of it in animal products, which have already been taking B12 supplements all their lives. However, vegans need to take these supplements if they want their B12 intake, without animals as the intermediary.

As a side note: B12 is created by micro-organisms in the soil, making our vegetables and fruits completely covered of it. With our modern lifestyle, the soil is terribly poor of these micro-organisms and having cleaned-as-hell vegetables reduces even more the B12 we can find in these vegs.

Thanks for your reply, will definitely read this mailing list thread.

I remember of this long article, that, technically demonstrates that systemd is badly designed, as you said: http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/

Didn't read it entirely at the time as it dives really fast into the technical stuff and provides an ever growing flow of informations that you have to absorb to understand it correctly. Seeing people like you being so concerned with systemd makes me inclined to re-read it fully.

And why FreeBSD and not voidlinux or something in this fashion ? More secure ? More mature ? Will never be subject to such issues ?

> I went from wondering why/what is going on to switching all my home/work/server machines to FreeBSD.

Can you develop on some of the reasons that convinced you to run away from systemd ? I'm really curious to know why (honestly). Thanks :).