FleursDuMal

I found the same thing, taking K2 (the Carlson labs MK-4 version) with some D3 drops helped hugely.

Not a bad list, out of these I enjoyed Children of Time, Gideon the Ninth, The Martian and the Murderbot books the most. Another good book which I saw an another HN post is "There is no Antimemetics Division", well worth a read.

It's interesting that both the Denisovans and the Neanderthals were named after religious individuals. The Denisovan remains were found in the Denisova cave, Denis being a Russian Orthodox hermit who lived there. The word Neanderthal comes from the Neander valley, which was called after a German minister who enjoyed walking the area and writing hymns.

A Poison Tree

William Blake, 1757 - 1827

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears

Night and morning with my tears,

And I sunned it with smiles

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright,

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine,--

And into my garden stole

When the night had veiled the pole;

In the morning, glad, I see

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

It's generally a bit taboo to directly address dominance in social interactions, but you were manipulated into doing and then handing over work for nothing in return.

You were successfully made to believe you would be the bad guy for walking away when nothing could have been farther from the truth.

You worked, for nothing, on a project which belonged wholly to someone else, and they didn't even bother to turn up for project meetings.

There's often a big disconnect between people's superficial behaviour and their genuine intent, and you have to learn to read the signals which tell you the difference.

This episode might have been unpleasant but could be a cheap lesson if you learn the right things from it.

The painter Monet had cataract surgery near the end of his life, which removed the lens from one eye entirely and allowed him to see ultraviolet light. He continued to paint, and his renditions of white flowers became blue-tinted.

I have an encyclopedia from the 1950's at home with a page entitled "Asbestos - the new wonder material".

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Is it possible to have a sincere discussion about this? If I falsely believe in free will then surely I don't have a choice in the matter.

"Would anyone here make the argument that Craigslist would have failed with proper whitespacing, appropriate font selections, and logical visual hierarchies? Those can all be accomplished with a single stylesheet."

Many successful websites (Google, craigslist, ebay, wikipedia, myspace etc) are both highly functional and divergent from "good design practices".

What I find troubling is that I don't believe any of those sites would have been constructed in their successful form by a design professional. We don't fully understand how people's perceptions are shaped by the presentation of information.

Having appropriate whitespace/fonts etc produces a clean looking site which conforms to a very particular aesthetic which has no proven connection to the success of a site and may substantially harm it.

I've had huge success with the following: no sugar, no white flour, 20 minutes of intense exercise every day.

This is true in the same way that being poor is due to money spent > money earned. It reduces a complex and difficult problem to a smug soundbite.

Excellent work . . .you could make a really cool short film with this technique.

The example of Gaelic here in Ireland is a poor one. The attempt to preserve the language has been badly handled. It is compulsory for every child to learn Gaelic through first and second level education, and never spoken afterwards (except for one or two areas totaling less than 1% of the population).

Many people end up resenting Gaelic after being forced to learn it for no practical purpose. This is a shame because it is a beautiful language to read and speak.

I used to have a very weak immune system, it turned out I was gluten intolerant which was making me exhausted and susceptible to colds/flus. Taking vitamin D and avoiding all grains worked for me.

My favourite is:

The body of

B. Franklin, Printer

(Like the Cover of an Old Book

Its Contents torn Out

And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)

Lies Here, Food for Worms.

But the Work shall not be Lost;

For it will (as he Believ'd) Appear once More

In a New and More Elegant Edition

Revised and Corrected

By the Author.

(The Epitaph of Young Benjamin Franklin)

Benjamin Franklin _was_ a successful businessman/entrepreneur. He became very wealthy as a publisher, and retired at 42 to pursue science and politics.

Am I alone in thinking this is quite a bizarre article which doesn't really scratch the surface of anti-intellectualism?

His argument about children and their lack of genuine creativity seems a little misplaced - they are disparaged as 'tinkerers' rather than creators, but I can think of no better word than 'tinkerer' to describe Leonardo, or indeed many other great artists/scientists.

Aside from all that, I can think of plenty of reasons why anti-intellectualism would exist:

- not all forms of expert knowledge are equally valid. It was only around 100 years ago that medical expertise progressed to the point where it was more likely to cure than kill you.

- the value of expert knowledge/intellectual capital can be hard to determine. For example, once you move past the hard sciences, to sociology and literary theory and beyond, how much is contributed to human knowledge and wellbeing? How much power/status should be accorded to people in these intellectual disciplines?

- societies are composed of counterbalancing forces, between elements which are conservative/progressive, peaceful/aggressive, practical/visionary etc. No more than every business can be a startup, how can all people in a society consider intellectual investigation the main objective, as opposed to more mundane aspects of maintaining and running the society?

- science seems to have been stranded on one side of an ideological divide, where its support/derision is now a badge of political identity.

Have you got any advice on the tax situation there for a self-employed programmer/online marketer? I'm in the process of checking it out now, just curious about a local perspective.

'I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.' - Michelangelo

This is easily one of the most valuable business books I've ever read. It has an exceptionally honest personal perspective on success.

This is a despicable thing to do, but let's not swing towards a reddit-style diet of stories which perpetually feed our sense of outrage.

I find this idea ridiculistic.

They need to start selling tshirts as fast as they can.

This has been my secret motivation for the last few years.

I would sell carbon-neutral, zero-environmental-footprint water. A portion of the price of every bottle offsets the manufacturing/transport costs to the environment, so people are free to enjoy the water totally-guilt free.

- Start work at 9am

- Work for five hours till 2 (with short break for snack), only on very important stuff, no distractions/interruptions like email/chat etc. This time is for writing, designing, coding.

- After lunch, work on emails, planning, organising, less important stuff etc for 2 or 3 hours

- Finish at 6, personal stuff afterwards

As long as there are no distractions, and I get 5 hours of uninterrupted, valuable work done every morning, then I end up being very productive. Much moreso than the old 14 hour days I used to work where all activites run into each other and blur into endless drudgery.

"In challenging decades of poverty research, Karelis draws on some economic data and some sociological research. But, more than that, he makes his case as a philosopher, arguing by analogy and induction."

This, for me, is the biggest problem with the article.