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If anyone is in (or knows anyone in) agronomy, please fund/start studies on the viability of using bacillus subtilis, the bacteria behind natto, to ferment animal feeds, thus increasing the latent levels of vitamin K2 in their diets.

Notionally, this would lead to conventional livestock (and the people that consume them) receiving adequate levels of vitamin K2, which would likely lower incidents of osteoporosis, dental caries, and heart disease throughout the population at a marginal cost without altering any consumer patterns.

Secondarily, food scientists: please work on making natto-derived non-soy legume products fashionable amongst Westerners to directly increase their K2 consumption.

With the rise of legume consumption and high-protein bean pasta products, finding ways to use non-soy fermented legumes as a base would increase their nutrition substantially without the externalities associated with contained feedlot operations.

Also, if anyone is in (or knows anyone in) criminology or criminal justice reform, please advocate for continuous glucose monitors for LEOs and judges. Reactive hypoglycemia is positively correlated with aggression and punitive judgments. Time of day when court is held has a documented impact on severity of sentencing. This is almost certainly caused by varying degrees of reactive hypoglycemia.

Notionally, legislating that judges and LEOs formally monitor and regulate their blood sugar levels should lead to fewer incidents of systemic abuse of power.

> Also, if anyone is in (or knows anyone in) criminology or criminal justice reform, please advocate for continuous glucose monitors for LEOs and judges. Reactive hypoglycemia is positively correlated with aggression and punitive judgments. Time of day when court is held has a documented impact on severity of sentencing. This is almost certainly caused by varying degrees of reactive hypoglycemia.

All I have to say this is equally logical, fascinating, and terrifying. Thank you for this comment - exactly my kind of mind-opening aha moment.

Logical, fascinating, and terrifying, yes. Actually real? Maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect

Hungry judge and hypoglycemic judge are two very different things. Related, but definitely not the same.

The proposed monitoring gets directly to the hypoglycemia.

This guy doesn't think it's real https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-...

I had no idea natto had these health benefits. I eat natto a few times a week, mostly because it is yummy and really easy to prepare. It is basically instant food if you already have rice. If you like fermented food, I can’t recommend it enough. I guess a lot of people are hesitant though since it is quite slimy and has an odd smell, but if you can get over that, it is really a perfect instant food.

what is the definition of "perfect food"? For me that would probably be a banana. eady to eat, tastes great, relatively easy to ship all over the world.

even in Japan, half the country doesn't like natto.

> what is the definition of "perfect food"?

I kind of meant it as a figure of speech. For me natto is perfect when I have a pot of rice, don’t feel like cooking, and want something substantial with a rich flavor. So lots of food can be “perfect” under different circumstances.

However if I were to pick one perfect food, I think I would pick the potato.

What nutrients does a potato offer? Maybe a sweet potato...

I am an adventurous eating and love trying new foods.

Natto made me retch when I tried it. And it made me retch again when I unknowingly ate it a week later hidden in some rice.

This is not gonna be a staple in the European diet unless the world goes through some radical changes making it an absolute necessity.

There's a range of reasons why sharing ideas help foster a positive culture of creativity so if you don't already have a time and place to do so I strongly suggest brainstorming, 10xing, or whichever other method makes this process easy on groups of individuals. It's a lot of fun and we get a lot out of it.

  - you never know who might be interested in your idea
  - putting your ideas out there helps you to get feedback and improve upon them
  - it's an opportunity to practice articulating your ideas to others
  - sharing your ideas can inspire others, help in creating a community of support around you and your work (culture++)
  - getting your ideas out there can help you to build momentum, gain traction, find allies in your project or business
  - sharing your ideas with others they could lead to new opportunities or connections that you never would have otherwise

On the rare occasion I make an effort to contribute my thoughts in a positive way I get downvoted but nobdy even mentions why.

Is it that obvious? Maybe someone else can tell me? I'd like to understand if it can help me improve my online etiquette or the HN rules better.

Looks like you've since been upvoted, but try not to read too much into stuff like this. HN is usually decent on upvoted/downvotes, but honestly sometimes your comment just gets read first by that one random person who doesn't like it, or touches on something that a couple people disagree with. All you can do is move on. As long as you try to keep your commentary constructive, the stray randomly downvotes comment won't affect you much in the long run.

I can’t speak for OP but when I get unexplained/unexpected downvotes I don’t care about it affecting me eg in terms of karma. I care that I’ve contributed something I think is either helpful or at worst innocuous and people haven’t explained what they found wrong with it. I can’t learn anything from that. Usually with a similar appeal for feedback I get what OP has apparently experienced: my original comment levels out, my appeal gets downvoted. To HN’s credit this time, at least there’s been some feedback along with that.

I have another comment about Lord of the Flies downvotes (on the post about the HN parody). I suspect either no one wants to do anything about it, or else they think it's a feature, not a bug. They're dreaming of a world that's long gone.

The received wisdom of the rest of the social network Web is: up/down vote the comment, not the commenter. That doesn't quite solve your problem, but it's a good start.

Your first three paragraphs are a précis of the article so at a glance your post seems pointless. I suspect that prompted the down votes. Maybe skip the fluff.

I didn't downvote but summarizing the article in your second paragraph felt like a chore to read after having read the article, and I did initially skip the rest of the comment (which is good) because of that.

Its meant to be that you don't downvote people just because you disagree, but in practise its different.

If I were to downvote (and I don't recollect that I ever have) I hope I would take the time to explain why.

I think your point is good - downvoting because someone is holding an unpopular but considered opinion is bad practise - ultimately it will lead to us here being in even more of an echo chamber than we are already.

Thanks for the honest feeback. Also shortened my comment considerably to keep it to my thoughts and not the ones expressed in by the author of this article.

What do you mean by "10xing"?

I tried googling, and all the hits were variations of "How to 10X Your Life", or "Become 10X Awesome", but nobody using it as a verb.

In English, famously any noun can be verbed!

True, but keep in mind that verbing weirds language.

I've found, actually, that if I happen to be thinking "I wish there was an X", I can search on "X" and it's already been done.

My wife has a saying, “you don’t get what you want unless you ask for it”

Similar I’ve heard “if you ask you might not get it. If you don’t ask, you definitely will not”

Even if the OP didn’t get their guitar, what did they lose by trying? Nothing. But since they were willing to put themself out just a little they ended up with something I’m sure they love.

There’s a fine line between this attitude and demanding from people to things you think you’re entitled to. But with the attitude OP had, I think this is a really healthy way to realize your hopes.

As the say here "shy bairns get nowt."

Had to look closer into it, there's a nice audio file of it here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shy_bairns_get_nowt

Unfortunately the accent on that audio file is strongly US to my ear.

I googled and got “In North-Eastern English dialect, ‘shy bairns get nowt’ is a well-known idiom that essentially translates to ‘shy children get nothing’. Often used to encourage children (or adults) to speak up and have self-confidence”. The original commenter gidorah has a UK email address. https://www.wordsense.eu/shy_bairns_get_nowt/ looked like a reasonable reference.

Edit: here’s it said proper good - skip to 42 minutes: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaErbstVKAQ Aside: The transcript feature on YouTube is amazing but the UX is soooooo frustrating - the feature doesn’t exist on iPad Safari - and the text is not searchable on YouTube iPad App.

I'm not sure where you're from but it's incredibly cool that you still use words recognisable from Anglo-Saxon (bearn and nawiht).

Swedish and Norwegian languages also/still use "barn" for "child".

It's Scottish or maybe northern English - "nowt" is more common south of the border but "bairn" is more common in scotland. The fun thing is that we also use "wean" (wee one) as another common word for "child" but with a completely different etymology.

Whilst I am from Southern UK, I live in the North East UK. Accents here are strong and vary quite a bit. DO NOT confuse a Geordie for a Mackem (or vice versa) at all!

It is interesting that there is a lot of slang that I had never heard befote moving here, but slang from the South is more widely known. A coworker suggested getting 'ket' for a meeting. I did not know 'ket' here means sweets (candy)...

Rejection is not a big deal, and you should just move on.

This is the reason I looked past the rejection argument in my reply below; because there is so much more to gain from sharing than to lose from rejections.

I don't understand why my first reply below is being downvoted. If someone disagrees and downvotes at least drop a note that would make sense. :-)

As they say here "No you've got, Yes you can get."

Ok, if anyone from Leaderman is reading: I believe you could make a bicycle-specific multi tool and it would sell like hot cakes.

I meant Leatherman of course

If you are curious, the standard price for this guitar in a flat color is $1100, and the limited edition he wanted is only $1600. So not even anywhere near double the price.

The "deluxe" model is $1300, and one painted just like Eddie Van Halen's distinctive red/white/black "Frankenstrat" is $1750. Making your own out of the best parts you can find in pawn shops like Young Eddie did is probably less than any of these; masking tape and a few cans of spray paint are only a few bucks more. :)

yeah, if putting it out there doesn't work, make a custom guitar from components, or buy it from a custom maker like Ed Roman.

Kiesel guitars is one of the more more impressive direct to consumer guitar manufacturers is America where everything is customizable. And for a good price, too!

These are the ex-Carvin folks, so it's unsurprising.

Funny to see Kiesel mentioned here. I have two, plus a mid 90s Carvin.

What's your impression on the build quality? Which models do you have? I'm constantly playing with their online builder. Their headless stuff has me intrigued.

I have an Aries and a CS3. Both are made really well. It's really cool to have the builder now vs calling them up and talking them through it. I do recommend calling them, because the sometimes have options that aren't in the builder.

I've been (publicly begging for) wanting a 7-string classic-ish strat style guitar (with single coils in middle and neck position) for a decade and we're finally starting to see some from Ibanez and Kiesel.

https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/az24047_00_01.htm...

But I'd love some more color options other than Model-T black (just putting it out there).

Seriously, though. There's never been a better time be a guitar player. The quality and options have improved tremendous over the past 15 years. There's been some real innovation in neck design as well as in the headless space.

If you can swing the cash, check out Kiesel. You can customize most of the guitar (wood, neck woods, colors)

I asked NFL+ for the ability to hide scores, since I have evolved to avoiding the news, and then watching selected games as though they were live, and it was there the next week.

Yeah I was amazed last Olympics how my local provider spoiled the result of literally every clip in their streaming service. Surely most people want to watch without knowing the result?

The olympic broadcaster here did that here too, in the thumbnails of finished events, where you would go if you missed it live. A friend (and I would guess plenty more people) mailed them about it and they actually stopped pretty much immediately.

This is why I write every idea down that comes to mind. Even if I don't get around to doing my idea, someone else might like it enough to try. Hopefully they share it with me.

I am up to 700 ideas. See my profile.

I also keep a "wants" repository where I list what I want on my github.

I have had a few outlets for where I'd share random ideas I came up with: used to have one on the Elm slack, and also various places in work channels. I found that sharing my ideas was always fun, then when I'd implement them, I could take feedback from others to lead me in a new direction. I particularly liked difficult ideas - things that others would consider impossible or at least very hard to solve. Bouncing ideas off of others is a great way to discover what problems _other_ people are facing.

As a corollary to this rule, if a company responds positively to a request/suggestion, they had better do it.

I asked Eero for the ability to assign a specific ethernet port to the guest network and they responded that this was a great idea! But that feature never came; when my (preorder) Eeros burned themselves out, I replaced them with a different wifi mesh system.

I have often thought it would be great to have an idea marketplace, where someone could put up an idea and their 'cost' for giving it to someone ("just give me a lifetime subscription to its use and you can have all the profit").

There would undoubtedly be hundreds of issues to be thrashed out, but it could conceivably do a lot of good as well.

Seems like putting up an idea is giving it away, so the cost part would be redundant.

You should check out https://www.halfbakery.com/

I do something similar by sharing ideas I think would be good for startups/SaaS in a newsletter called Unvalidated Ideas (link in bio).

I've had people be so interested that they went off and tried to build some of the ideas (usually market validation first is the goal), so it’s been nice to see that.

At our startup we go out of our way to get customer / potential customer feedback. We give away Yeti mugs and gift cards so yeah, any feedback is greatly appreciated, even for companies that have already "made it".

They kept the tone knob, though.

“proof that publishing your wild ideas still matters”

I’m curious if it was ever confirmed that the published idea was consequential. That would be the part of the story I’m really interested in details of.

Is the red button a momentary mute? Also, volume and tone or dual volume? Beautiful guitar. Only change I would make is remove the Floyd bridge for a fixed bridge.

Yep it's a kill-switch. Here's Buckethead using one (a killswitch not the evh guitar) while playing Jordan, a song Guitar Hero 2 players might remember

https://youtu.be/Pas-cMsWIgM

Posting that you are willing to pay double the price of an existing product for a bit of custom features isn’t exactly Manifesting Your Vision Board.

“Just post that you have money to burn on [x thing] and maybe somebody will accept your money” is kind of… obvious advice?

Sounds like survivor bias to me

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