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The article links to another article in the fourth paragraph. The use of the word seem implies we don't exactly know why.

"That’s because decades of agricultural research has shown that antibiotics seem to flip a switch in young animals’ bodies, helping them pack on pounds. Manufacturers brag about the miraculous effects of feeding antibiotics to chicks and nursing calves."

The above raises the question, do antibotics increase the BMI of human children long-term ? According to this article[1] the answer is yes.

[1] https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2015/children-who-t...

Starting a new business project is like owning a puppy. Everything is fun and the future looks bright because you think you will eventually have a useful and loyal dog that will serve you. But the whole time you had a wolf pup without realizing it. Perhaps the wolf will ultimately serve you. Or perhaps it will keep you up at night, eat your food (money), and coerce you. Once you make that realization the anxiety can cause a loss of motivation.

The article doesn't mention, but the USPS no longer allows you to submit a change of address from a commercial address. I tried to do this last September when my business moved and I received a letter from the USPS denying my request. This included any personal mail that was being sent to the commercial address even if it didn't have my business name.

I am not sure when the above restriction went into effect. It appears the crime mentioned in the article was in 2016, so perhaps it is recent.

Which supplement you are taking and where are you buying it ?

For a moment this was the best news I had read in years, until I noticed the story is a year old and the research paper[1] is two years old. Hopefully there has been some progress in the past years but if that were the case we would should have seen another headline by now. At least I haven't.

Normally 2 years wouldn't be much time to go from a research paper to production. But this appears to be a simple solution to an urgent problem so it's hard to be patient.

[1] https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/43225/

From casual observation it appears that spouses who aren't introduced by mutual friends rarely like their spouse's friends. Friendships take time, are valued because of shared past experiences, and require a certain personality alignment to be sustained.

Also when spouses go and spend time with the other spouse's friends, its challenging to simultaneously catch-up with their old friends while also trying to include their new spouse in the conversation.

Some married couples work through this but others just privately and repeatedly criticize each other's friends so eventually they are left with only one friend -- their spouse.

"find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life".

By then it is too late. Because you aren't a "friend", you are a protégé at best or an opportunist at worst. You will never relate on a deep level because you missed their struggle, foolish mistakes, and hardships as they journeyed towards a good life and wisdom.

It is hard to imagine one could become so prominent, accomplished, and well respected without having good habits and virtues. It would be odd he would share virtues that were not attributable to his personal success.

Frankly if you were to ask anyone their virtues what often comes to mind is their personal aspirations not necessarily the habits they mastered.

And then take that answer and invest even less given that, as an employee, you are already exposed to downside risk.

There was remarkable moment in one episode where the company had made a really bad deal on a long term lease. Somehow Marcus solved the problem and I immediately grabbed my notebook and leaned in...

After a commercial break you learned he solved the problem by, drumroll, buying the entire building! IIRC it was a $20Million+ purchase since it included the neighboring suites as well.

There is much to learn by watching the Profit, but that moment was just another example of a recurring theme. That money can solve a lot of problems.

> FYI, if you lose hearing from noise exposure, you'll generally lose it around 4 KHz

I used http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ to quickly profile my hearing and found significant loss around 4.0kHz. I have ridden a motorcycle most of my life and it is much worse in the ear that is on the same side as the exhaust.

I am not sure what a spectrogram looks like for a motorcycle but I would have assumed that most of the energy is in the lower end of the spectrum, given the steady cruising RPS is around 40Hz-70Hz. But, your comment seems to suggest that there is not a direct correlation between the frequency of the noise exposure and the hearing loss frequencies.

An acquaintance once told me she had accidentally inhaled a sewing needle as a child. She had loaded it into a straw and was planning to blowgun it at her little brother. But she made the horrible mistake of deeply inhaling after the straw was in her mouth thereby inhaling the needle.

IIRC the doctor advised her to eat cotton. She eventually passed the needle in a wad of cotton. Personally I am skeptical of this story. Does anyone feel that this approach might work when a bristle from a BBQ brush is not recoverable by surgery ?

This is science!, therefore, metric system. Also GPS navigation errors of 1 mile would have been something you would have noticed.

Is that to say you don't like handshakes either ? I am genuinely curious as I currently do a slight bow and look down to preempt a handshake from occurring which is just exacerbating the crisis of touch issue.

The shoulder shake was in lieu of a hand shake and it hopefully is reciprocated. People tend to be judged, often unfairly, by the quality of their handshake. And there are definitely people who use a firm and prolonged handshake as an opportunity to express dominance.

It's something I made up. I just fully extend my arm towards another person's shoulder and give it a brief rub/pat/shake with my open hand. The other comment where you rub shoulders and perform a tango dance move is definitely not what I had in mind.

I'm just going to start doing shoulder shakes instead of handshakes and see how people react. It's a warmer greeting than a hand shake and less likely to give me the flu.

[update] -- I guess I won't given the down votes.

Yes, I should not have implied otherwise since how one leans is really a reflection of how one defines their morals, not a deficiency of morals.

Disgust is a challenging emotion to study because it is so intertwined in the brain. Moral "disgust" activates the same region as the "man eating a can of worms" example in the article. It activates the same facial expression. Even our language fails to separate the emotions at times as dis-gust (i.e., gustatory) can be in reference to disgusting behavior. VS Ramachandran discussed this in a lecture but I can't find a link.

Oddly before opening the article I had assumed it was about how moral "disgust" is positively correlated with left-leaning. But then the study was referring to digestive disgust which appears positively correlated with right-leaning.

Side note, the most disgusted I recall feeling in both senses of the word was hearing a military leader describe a delicious a piece of chocolate cake while simultaneously describing the bombing he ordered on a foreign country. He could describe the cake in great detail but he forgot what country we had bombed the previous day. My right leaning friends didn't see this as a big deal.

As an extra data point, I have eaten worms on a survival trip and was fine with it and I never really liked chocolate cake. So maybe this line of research has merit.

While there may be HN readers who have little income and possessions and are therefore living in "poverty", true poverty is a lack of those things and a lack of hope that your situation will improve.

If you are really feeling hopeless you don't turn to HN for news on the latest programming frameworks.

The scariest WSJ headline the week prior to when volatility started was the following: "New account creation hits all time high at E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, etc".

The stock market engine has been hot for 5 - 6 years now and we just threw a can of nitro into the engine by way of massive tax cuts and deregulation. And then pundits and our President brag about how awesome this ride is as if managed growth is somehow anti-American. The retail investor masses heard that message and have arrived. The masses that don't know the difference between an income statement and balance sheet or how a market cap relates to the stock price. Historically they have been a catalyst of instability and trade solely based on the chart and trends.

So volatility seemed obvious two weeks ago. But when an obvious thought arises regarding the market two quotes always come to mind:

"Far more money has been lost anticipating the correction than in the correction itself". P. Lynch

"The first person you must not fool is yourself and you are the easiest person to fool". R. Feynman

It's unfortunate this study didn't compare differences in tips. Do passengers subconsciously assume men are the primary wage earners in a household and inadvertently give higher tips to men. Is that subconscious bias is higher in male vs female passengers ?

In two recent conversations I was told that the coyete[1] rates are $10,000 from El Salvador and $8,000 from Mexico. The Mexican fellow told me he wouldn't return to the US not only because the rates were high too but the smugglers now seem more menacing. The fellow used to perform home construction in the Bay Area. Incidentally, a recent report in the area cited labor shortages as the #2 road block in the SF builder industry.

The US administration seems to believe that our economic growth was cash constrained, hence the massive corporate tax cut. But for many industries growth is labor constrained.

[1] Colloquial phrase for Central American human traffickers.

>> the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it is quick, but also because it can hold an incredibly still gaze while pursuing prey.

A bit off-topic but I have a theory on athletic ability when it comes to certain sports related to this post. Before I share my theory, consider this 1 minute clip narrated by an apex predator.

https://youtu.be/S9MtJ164XJI?t=1m24s

When I was young there was a lot of ethic tension in my neighborhood. Being a minority, I always felt like prey. I didn't even trust the police. I lost every street fight and broke a few bones along the way. And I was terrible at almost all ball sports because I could not get my eyes to smoothly track the motion of a basketball for example.

I suspect, but don't know for a fact, that they eyes of prey being chased by said cheetah are darting chaotically looking for any and all escape routes and to avoid additional predators.

In my 30's I spent time training in brutal martial art combat techniques. I trained in powerlifting and 10 years ago I weighed 200lbs. I grew muscles I didn't know existed. Now, I have lost nearly all of these gains because I no longer train, but I managed to achieve and maintain that predator instinct. When I play racquetball, I murder that ball. I can track it perfectly.

The downside is I have safely ridden a motorcycle most of my life. I find I have more "close calls" now that I lost my innate ability to feel like prey which no longer comes naturally.

Does anyone know if you can count a business you personally own and operate as part of your assets assuming you use reasonable valuation methods ?

Honestly, I have only heard the term fly-over states when someone is mocking how liberals hypothetically mock red states.

This video involving insects and children made me reflect on my childhood passion and the day it ended.

Like most children, I loved insects. In 2nd grade I wrote a poem about insects that so impressed my teacher that I was promoted from the “slow” 2nd grade class to the “advanced” 2nd grade class. It’s my first memory of experiencing pride.

But I didn’t actually love insects, I loved studying them. To the young mind these are just animated toys which you could freely disassemble and experiment.

When I was around 9, I recall taking my collection of insects and using my saliva as to perform a pre-selection test to determine which insects in the collection could potentially be amphibious. The next step was to take the ones that performed well and increase the severity of the experiment in hopes of discovering an amphibious insect.

My father was in our yard at the time and, for some reason, I paused to ask, “is it OK if I kill these bugs”. To which he replied “you can kill them, but don’t let them suffer”. I don’t recall if I proceeded with my full water immersion experiment. But I do recall the use of the word “suffer” had implications that would soon end all my research. Kill is used metaphorically in mechanical systems, you “kill” an engine, but it comes back to life later. But there is no creative interpretation of the word suffer.

Years later I had the similar experience my first year in EE grad school. I wanted to research/improve cochlear implants as aiding the disabled is a noble pursuit of study. But then I went to meet a friend of mine, a PhD candidate, in the lab, he was literally eating a sandwich, talking to me, while operating on auditory system of a chinchilla. Maybe it was a cadaver, it was a really healthy-looking one if it was and I didn’t ask. I just wanted to leave so he could focus on his patient and so that I could reconsider what else I could study.

To be clear, my comment is not a criticism of biological research and I am grateful for the resulting knowledge and benefits. It is Sunday morning and I just felt compelled to write.

Or to hedge against the US immigration policy that could hurt their labor supply in the long term. It was not lost on me that half my engineering grad school classmates wouldn't pass the Bannon/Miller test.

For me chocolate causes acne (usually on my back). It happens to my father too. When I eliminate that one item from my diet I am fine. Every few years I eat chocolate in hopes that my body's reaction will change. But 30 years later it still causes a reaction.

My high school health teacher insisted that chocolate does not cause acne, according to the research. Her definitive statement made me ignore what my father had been telling me for years. That's the problem with health science, you never know if you are an outlier to which the research does not apply.

On the other hand one of my childhood memories is waiting ahead of an African American family to view an apartment. The landlord said can you please "just say you are going to take the apartment on your way out". And this was in Jackson Heights, NY, historically known for its diversity.

I now own two rental properties and I have them both under management. I would like to think that I wouldn't discriminate against someone with a minor mental illness, or single mother with kids, or an immigrant that isn't from my parent's country, etc. and I am glad I will never find out.