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For those reading this and wanting to pick nettle, it is important to pick young leaves, and not from plants that are in flower.

Once the leaves are older, there are all sorts of oxalates, and you should really avoid them if you are sensitive to kidney stones.

These plants also absorb pollution very effectively, so keep in mind where you pick them from.

Zip codes are great for anything with delivery logistics.

Anything else is a loose correlation at best, that will likely change over time.

I was once in a fast-growing startup, where the CEO told us in a company all-hands that we had 18 months of runway and that our future was looking great! Some of us devs booked long-delayed vacations after months of grinding hard on releases.

Turned out that this "runway" factored in dumping all the American devs and replacing us with workers overseas who made ~35-40% of what they paid us.

My recent experience in the "data" world taught me that many companies in the US actually want contractors, but our employment laws make it make being "full-time" not that different than a contractor.

Another thing I learned was to never jump on R&D type projects unless you are in a very close communication loop with the leadership. If they are going to see you as a consultant on retainer, you have to always be delivering and improving on stuff that affects the business. I was put on some sort of "special projects" role in three fast-growing startups and those are always the first on the chopping block when things tighten up (and they almost always do at some point, especially in a startup).

No, but it is related to alıç. That family spread around the world.

Yeni dünya (loquat in English, which comes from Chinese) is a completely different thing.

I used to get very frustrated that others could not intuit information the way I could. I have a lot of experience trying to express quantities to leaders and policymakers.

At the very minimum, I ask people to always think of the distribution of whatever figure they are given.

Just that is far more than so many are willing to do.

There was a graduate statistics seminar program in Pyongyang for a bit.

https://community.amstat.org/sspa/communityblogs/blogviewer?...

http://www.the-psi.org/psi-in-the-news.html

Someone recorded a few car journeys and put them on Mapillary.

Here is one that anyone interested can check out.

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=1680771775466497&lat=39....

Probably the closest thing to a Street View that we will get from there for a while.

One of the major uses of graph databases is to sell companies on the need to use graph databases.

100% agree.

It is a race to the bottom that Americans will never win.

Americans who want a normal wage and life are never going to be able to compete on price with someone in South America or Eastern Europe.

This is the kind of things that should result in massive tariffs and extremely onerous tax and paperwork for the companies that do it.

Otherwise, all of our expertise will just move outside of the world and to the desperate abroad. And for what benefit?

It is all a house of cards. A bunch of people in the city became dangerously levered bagholders, and the city is pushing people to come unnecessarily. It is a huge amount of waste of time and resources for the sake of an economy.

I lived in Turkey for over 3 years. It is really sad how taxis were by far the worst part. When Uber came to Ankara, it was a massive improvement in my quality of life.

In Istanbul, there are a few things to watch out for but Uber is still a million times better than calling a random taxi. Part of it is because taxis in Istanbul are surprisingly cheap and it encourages bad behavior. During peak times in the most busy places, Uber drivers may cancel on you if the ride is short. Whatever happens, Uber support in Turkey has been very responsive to me. So I have to give them credit for that.

There has been a massive (but slow) sell off of natural diamonds. People in the industry have known this time was coming for a while.

It is very much a bag holder problem.

In some countries, people (often families) have saved for a long time to accumulate some inventory of something that is now worth a lot less. The diamond industry varies a bit by country, but in places where individual dealers hold a lot of inventory, there is a lot of incentive to be against synthetics.

I saw this firsthand in Turkey. I gave my a fiancée a ring with a very nice moissanite stone about a year and a half ago. She showed it to some jewelers and most had to really make a show of things like, "Congratulations on your upcoming wedding, but I can only work with real stones. We are not supposed to even look at these."

And I don't blame them for at least having to act this way. A lot of these family stores have hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of natural diamond inventory that they took years to accumulate, and along comes something that is superior in every way for a fraction of the price.

Yes. In some other places around the world, the resistance to lab grown stuff has been violent. But the industry of natural diamonds is much more violent, and it is great to see that the way we mine diamonds will soon be a thing of the past.

I have had a lot of success using BoundaryML (https://www.boundaryml.com/) for this. They have also been super responsive for any of my questions.

Yes. They just have to pay a few thousand per month to places that do it as a service.

It is a very compelling article and nice to read about the Liberian farmer entreprenuer, but the South also had tea, tobacco, and yaupon (black drink) which are all stimulants.

If you think this way, you should be covering up the camera lenses on all of your devices. It is happening everywhere already.

This is a completely unfair and unfactual assumption you made.

I entered Saudi Arabia just this morning with a star of David necklace on my neck (yes it was under my shirt, but it wasn't hidden or anything). There was not even the slightest sign of discomfort nor disapproval. Just a friendly and helpful border officer who said, "Welcome to Kingdom. Have a wonderful time".

And this notion of separation into "undesirables" in Gulf countries is also just plain false. The UAE just granted visa-free access to Indian nationals.

I would check the information you are relying on if this is the kind of assumptions you are making.

I am someone with a computational physics background who is coupled with someone who is training to be a surgeon. We lived together during much of her medical school, and thus, are constantly around medical professionals.

I would absolutely trust a physicist (who has done actual empirical lab work) who has deeply studied a problem in the nutrition space over someone conventionally trained in nutrition.

You may be stunned to see how little numerical sense so many in the medical field have. And as someone who grows medicinal plants and follows that literature closely, I read tons of papers in that space. It is full of experimental design flaws and dubious correlations.

I have worked on a medical device that went through clinical trials.

While American chestnuts are often more flavorful, they are almost always smaller than the commercial Chinese and Japanese varieties.

What will become clear over the next 5 years is the extent to which the worldwide environment is polluted with PFAS.

Given how much PFAS has been found in remote corners of the world, I think it is safe to assume that most of the world has been touched by PFAS. Everywhere humans try to find PFAS, we find it. The reason we hear about it so often now is that we are checking for it everywhere. And like the article describes, there are new PFAS being discovered all the time.

This is a generational issue.

Only someone with a PhD could come up with a take this bad.

The article essentially boils down to a plea to let people grow hard drugs instead of the food they need to eat. "Money" is better than actual usable things they can grow.

I wish this was the case in Turkey, where I am currently living.

But it seems like QR menus are one way to handle inflation and changing prices for the restaurants.

I hate QR menus with a passion, but I also feel for the restaurants who would otherwise have to print new menus every few months.

The reality is that US regulatory agencies have been extremely permissive for many years. Many other nations piggy back on their findings. We need a massive increase in enforcement.

What we will see with cheaper and more available testing is that PFAS are everywhere. It is hard to find waterways or soils, even in remote areas, that are not contaminated. It is really tragic and the extent of the pollution can make you crazy.

An example of a gambling dystopia is Serbia. There are gambling places everywhere, even in small towns or next to otherwise scenic places. It is terribly depressing to be constantly reminded of this massive suck on productive society. And these places are a visual assault, the front of the buildings are a mix bright, flashing lights and blackened windows on otherwise lively streets.

I really wish I was exaggerating. The Google Street View of Belgrade hasn't been updated since 2014, but if you look up "Belgrade Casino", you can see just how many of these have spread in the last decade.

I do agriculture stuff in Turkey. This has been a useful heuristic. I estimate that 90% of the people I have faced who get angry or make a big deal about this are bureaucrats who didn't get into their position by merit.

Quince is able to hybridize with apples and pears.

https://cornusmas.eu/catalogue/intergeneric-hybrids

has some information about some interesting mixes (and he sends out great plants if you are in Europe).

Palms also form fascinating hybrids and there is an active community of people around the world doing this and sharing information.

I worked at a fintech and it was obvious that some of our users had serious issues with gambling/game spending. Like so bad that they would run out of money regularly before their next paycheck.

This fintech didn't exploit them, but it was very obvious how this data could have been used to exploit them and other addicts.

Carpinito Brothers out in Kent is doing one this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 until 4 PM. They are a great spot if you haven't been there before.