Sounds like learned helplessness to me.

The only sensible inner practice I've found is refinement of character. It works both when practiced publicly and when practiced privately.

And aspects of character can be built, sustained and recycled. Like anything.

Once you're a billionaire, what incentive do you have to better yourself when you can just pay to change the world around you?

Those people actually become larger by virtue of occupying their minds with money. Numbers signify connections (groups) so it's just natural.

It's a lack of exchange caused by lack of specificity of requests and a lack of discernment on the part of the hubs.

Let me attempt to draw you a pyramid of home location needs:

5. Political situation - not a warzone? Not under sharia? Very democratic, or key to world issues you consider important?

4. Climate - no tundra/sahara? Would you benefit from living near the sea?

3. Food - is the local food edible? Is the local food cheap, including the restaurants? Or is it just very good?

2. Access to nature - do you want to try mountain ranges? Forests? A kind of people you like having around? If I feel disconnected from the city, I just use the public utilities more: coffee, beer, parks and benches for reading on. Not quite collecting mushrooms in the forest but I'm getting there.

1. Culture and language - any cultures you want to learn about? New languages? What would bring your personal and professional development in harmony?

Good luck!

P.S.: The Netherlands are decent. Everything is very "duidelijk", clear, and direct. People don't mind speaking English and speak it well. Weather is mild, can be a bit rainy but not half as bad as Britain. Housing aplenty for a programmer's salary. Consider visiting for a week or so if it peaks your interest.

Come live in Tasmania. We double-tick the top 4 on that list imho

Tried to live in the Oz after a working holiday visa! None of you all wanted to sponsor me -- and I had professional creds. Applied everywhere too.

AWS/Amazon Australia still send me recruiting emails occasionally.

I've been in Tasmanian for 6 years now, without a doubt the best place I've lived in, of the handful of places I've lived in Australia.

Contact email in my profile.

That tactic makes sense when you want to communicate to people on a much lower level than you are at, and you want them to get the surface level rapidly.

If this were to be levied at me accusingly I'd throw a programming Bible at them, get thee hence and study.

However, MAN spaces are everywhere, Japan especially is having great success creating spaces that are exclusively occupied by a single man for weeks, and sometimes years at a time.

You're throwing swines to the pearls, it doesn't work that way either.

No, it was a platform for free speech and sharing images, which happened to include discussions between national socialists. It wasn't a "Neo-Nazi" platform any more than YouTube is.

"Elliot Rodger's Retribution" was posted on YouTube. How is this situation distinct from the Isla Vista one? E.g., why should YouTube not be blockaded, other than for reasons of corruption and nepotism?

They're not! Confidence and unregulated overt vulnerability are conflicting (but not precisely opposite).

By acknowledging the possibility that you may have done something wrong, you make yourself vulnerable to judgment, and by doing so confidently you gain respect. Facing judgment is a sign of confidence and it requires making yourself vulnerable.

In a more subtle example, showing signs of vulnerability in personal relations is a way of letting others know you, and that takes courage. There'd be no point to having social interactions if you were invulnerable, any interaction would literally be inconsequential for you and thus unmotivated.

You "dress up" the vulnerability with a higher level strength (e.g. the capacity to listen to and analyze your own shortcomings), and then it's all good.

There's a difference between being vulnerable, and putting yourself in a situation that will hurt you. It's fine to show yourself vulnerable if you can do so in a way that incentives good behavior from your peers.

Some syntax errors re.: "chosenOrient" and "orientRobust"? I'm on Firefox 60.8 and uBO but not blocking stringently, just Google Analytics from the logs.

I got overloaded by the page being fully editable/interactive AND with errors AND with foreign mathematical constructs. Somehow the possibility to edit it makes me walk on eggshells, even if it's just a local edit.

It otherwise looks good, I'd probably enjoy reading it if I was more fit. I'm going to take a walk outside now, thanks for the unintended inspiration.

Interesting, can you share the exact log of the errors you're seeing? There are none for me on both Firefox & Chrome with uBO.

Some more advanced Git operations (I sadly never needed so far) can be used to break the "append only" part, right?

Like for instance rebases?

You can always break append only logs, the point is, it's detectable.

What do you mean by detectable in the context of Git-as-append-only-log?

Mirrors that pull down the version with rewritten history will not be able to run a fast-forward (because they will contain commits that are not in the upstream version), and will loudly complain.