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In particular, shrink-wrap sealed records from the 70s, when exposed to heat from storage or from direct sunlight, can warp the hell out of the record and sleeve as the shrink contracts and expands. I would even say this is a common problem for sealed records of that era.

I find the layout of poster downloads on the detail pages of the individual laws, with the text of the law and lawofux.com tag on the right side, unfortunate. The layout of the posters on the top-level page are 100x more evocative and elegant. They are the posters I want.

Reminds me of when my wife conveyed enthusiasm about her tech job to some family and friends of family back in France, how interesting the work was, creative, etc, only to have them snicker and declare, "look at you, so American now, you can't stop smiling." And yes, the connotation was something like vanity and superficiality.

"It’s just that grinning without cause is not a skill Russians possess or feel compelled to cultivate."

Unlike depression, and mathematics.

I often think about Arthur Rubenstein, the phenom mid-century pianist, for whom a lot has been written about his mission in early life to "practice as little as possible." There's a lot of hyped up romanticism in these quotes and anyone who plays at his level has spent a lifetime playing piano, period. Regardless, his guidance about spontaneity, creativity, and the relationship to practicing too much, which I equate to the current discussion on overworking, is highly interesting.

"I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long, but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary—and the audience feels it." Of his own practice methods, he said, "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew."

Not all work benefits from risk, the drop of blood, the unexpected, that are all baked into the right amount of effort, but a great deal of valuable and innovative work does.

All of the employees suddenly stay.

In addition to differences in recommended calorie intake, is there a good, scientific, international comparison that puts dietary guidelines side-by-side, nutrient guidelines, balanced meal?

It's amazingly difficult to find clear information anywhere. For instance, CDC Nutrition guidelines?! It's an example of something that, in trying to be comprehensive, results in a mess of awkwardly qualified terms and difficult to digest (couldn't help it) high-level recommendation.

USDA Food Patterns, Healthy US-Style Eating Pattern. https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/appendi...

Meat poultry and eggs in the same line? They are completely different foods with wildly varying nutrients.

[UPDATED: good start] - Pictorial Nutrition Guidelines: http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/cms/lib04/CA01000848/Centricity...

- Comparison of International Dietary Guidelines and Food Guides in Twelve Countries across Stages of the Nutrition Transition http://www.fasebj.org/content/29/1_Supplement/898.36.short

Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz writes brilliantly in The Captive Mind how intellectuals, elites and creatives alike, essentially the intelligentsia of Krakow, Poland, were easily conscripted into the communist propeganda machine by various mechanisms which were essentially human weakness towards conformity.

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

There is at least one other distinction of French books, especially in the anthropology domain: They are almost ALWAYS WHITE!

Spines schmines. A friend of mine is a French anthropology buff and his library is white, shelf on shelf of whiteness, titles all in this wild direction. It's madness!!

In defense of Roger Ebert, the dude wrote the screenplay to Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Didn't Warren Buffet say that Benjamin Graham's margin-annotated Intelligent Investor, or was it, Security Analysis, was his most prized possession.

Otherwise, what funny coincidence in the examples of this article: C.S. Lewis "Lion ..." which I just finished reading to my daughter yesterday, and DFW, who we just finished electing Pres. Gentle.

The Great Concavity - it's coming.

Lol. I once worked with a guy who, when asked for his input on critical emails, would meticulously comb through and delete second spaces after periods. "What did you think? Did you make any changes?" "I removed all of the double spaces after periods." :)

More productive is to try and understand why Minority Report has successfully captured the imagination of so many, persisted over a decade, spawned an entire genre of syfy interface trope that we see in virtually every film having anything to do with future, beyond film, well into games and now commercial interface development.

The assertion that the gesture interface is some kind of virulent ear-worm, dismisses what may be the most interesting thing, the fact that it has captured the imagination of so many. Why?

The irony of Hacker News articles on productivity and focus is not lost on me.

And what is an SRE at Google? https://www.atlassian.com/it-unplugged/devops/site-reliabili...

Totally agree. The article was de-railed by the time it used Musk's personality as part of some tweet-fishing closing one-liner. If this is really about evolving competitive landscape, Musk as a cult of personality is really far from the point.

More constructive is pointing to 2013, where Tesla's public regard for competition was from a position of superiority. http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-response-to-bmw-i3-...

You are truly seeing the future, my friend.

You're talking about neurogenesis via progenitor cells and neural stem cells. Evidence was there for several decades but anyone that touched the subject was essentially blacklisted from the neuroscience community. At MIT, they would talk about how Kaplan was denied tenure and basically kicked out of his university because of his lab's controversial focus on neurogenesis. Kaplan feels similarly. Here's his personal account entitled: death of a dogma and a research career.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11576677

Disclaimer: this is not medical advice and I am not a medical professional.

If the long-term protective benefit of the otc drug specifically as it relates to AD has not been studied, don't start taking it under 30.

What has been studied are the links between your lifestyle and both protection from disease onset, and maintenance of cognitive function at the highest possible level throughout the early stages of disease. Stay smart. Always learn. Be physically active. Challenge yourself.

Also, as treatments emerge over the next 30 years, the barrier to adoption will be the social stigma and an education problem. People don't want to get diagnosed for Alzheimer's Disease. Geriatric Psychs lament that family members are bringing in their loved ones nearly 100% of the time. Preventative drugs, as they become available, need to be taken early, yet, the earliest phases of the disease are difficult to disambiguate from normal cognitive decline that occurs with aging. Add in the fear - you just don't want to know - and you get most patients arriving to diagnosis too late. You're already on the right track by being confident, proactive, and taking responsibility to do what you can to remain as healthy as possible throughout your life. Don't stop.