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Sometimes deficiencies in other parts of your diet can reduce Vitamin D uptake, i remember reading somewhere. something to consider

I think you'll find that many of the difficult problems in this space worth solving require a great deal of domain specific knowledge, expertise and specialized apps for dealing with it.

For example: I'd like to find Chinese listening material, that is at my level, with pinyin and character subtitles, that follows a certain word repetition strategy optimized for listening learning. Plus, it needs to be able to playback at a fast speed and not too fast speed.

there's a lot of chinese audio podcasts out there but finding one that's exactly at my level and entertaining is challenging. Some apps do it really well, like "immersive chiense" but they need more material. Du Chinese is also a great contender but there's no word progression to the audio, so any listening you do, even if it's intermediate, contains words from HSK 5 and beyond. then those words aren't repeated for a long time, which means you have to repeat the same dialogue many times.

And those are the 2 best Chinese listening apps out of 100s of crappy ones.

the point is, these problems are complicated.

The article seems misleading: they keep insisting that the only innovation we have is software because that's how we want it. As if, investors and entrepreneurs only have interest in producing software. As if, we don't see the enormous potential for innovation in other industries which much bigger problems (education, housing, transportation and medical). As if, no one wants to do anything about it.

I've mentioned this before. Just look at what happens when a company wants to do even the slightest bit of innovation: and put a few buses on the road in the bay area. they're not asking for much, just a few buses. And they were shut down immediately, denying society the benefits of lower traffic and less pollution. With that kind of government/voter attitude, you can't go blaming innovators for just producing yet another lame software app.

How many permits would be required to create a factory that produces millions of masks? And, what about housing and transportation: these are industries that are absolutely unassailable. in it's current state of regulation, a potential entrepreneur or company, couldn't even begin to imagine any innovation.

The solution is for government to start talking to industry, and businesses to find out which regulations are preventing innovation and progress. You first need to make innovation possible before it can happen. Until then, it's just going to be yet another software app.

Regardless of what your hobbies are, nothing will change the fact that your Asian American, and that's huge disadvantage. I don't know if getting another citizenship of another country will help much: if you can change your application race legally, that should help.

I would suggest a different major other than CS, or at least go in as undeclared: that should help a little bit. Or try a major that's not typically associated with Asian-american.

The China Study, one of the largest ever undertaken has been vetted and reviewed by 100s and thousands of scientists.

The case studies presented in the documentary are accurate and credible, with numerous historical facts.

As for bioavailability, the difference isn't very huge and you'll get more then enough amino acids from plant based sources without all the carcinogens that come from animal based sources.

Animals do Not make their own protein. They all get it from plants. Plants make the protein. Then the animals eat it. When you eat an animal, your just eating recycled protein. So, why not just cut out the middle man.

Meat has many problems. Dr. Milton Mills a stanford doctor, explains it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nti7JrBOQAk

Also, the people who live in the blue zones (the 100yr+ zones) typically eat very little or no meat/dairy.

It's not commonly known but Vegetables, Grains and Beans are extremely excellent sources of protein. Most of them have between 10-20% or more of their calories from protein. if you want exact numbers, check out this: https://kale.world/c

And, if people reduce their meat consumption form these shortages, it could have excellent results on people's health. The last time a country went completely without meat or dairy was in durring the world war, when the Nazis took all the dairy and meat from Sweden. Their rate of heart disease went down dramatically for many years. As soon as the war ended and meat returned, the rate of heart disease sky rocketed back to the original numbers. (source: Forks over knives, a netflix documentary).

I can identify with this essay. And, I've always wondered why people don't want to build, why people are so hell bent on preventing others from building. I mean, what on earth is the problem with letting others build? build more housing, build more transportation? Even when a start up wants to do something as simple as put more buses on the road, it quickly gets shut down by regulation (at least in the bay area)

I'm talking about the regulation that prevents stuff from being built. obviously all the normal laws like no murder would still be in place.

This is exactly why we need innovation in politics. Imagine for a second, that you declare a region, say 1 square mile, somewhere as almost completely free of all regulations. Then, let all the companies that want to build there, go nuts and build whatever they want. This then serves as an innovation incubator, and an example for the rest of the nation as to what can be built, when we allow it to be built.

Imagine the speed of innovation when it's not regulated. Remember, in the early days of the internet, we had companies and application popping up all over the place. FB, had 100,000 apps in less than 1 year. What allowed such quick pace of innovation is the concept of permissionless innovation. We desperately need this to happen in the real world: maybe not the whole world, but at least some small region, perhaps a new city, or a square mile block.

>>You see it in transportation. Where are the supersonic aircraft? Where are the millions of delivery drones? Where are the high speed trains, the soaring monorails, the hyperloops, and yes, the flying cars?

>Because none of this stuff is economically or physically practical. He seems to want us to live in a science fiction fantasy world.

I'm pretty sure most of that stuff is highly illegal. Make things illegal, and they don't happen. It's that simple. I mean, just look at uber: it's just a glorified taxi company that was able to circumvent the taxi monopoly medallion system (yet, another system that made competition illegal). And, it took a huge army of lobbyists just to make that legal. Such a small innovation requires so much lobbying, it doesn't give hope for any other kind of innovation.

There was a start up in the bay area: all they wanted to do was put a few more buses on the street. It was rejected very quickly and made illegal. Turns out people would rather get buses off the road with all the pollution and traffic that would have saved, rather than allow workers to get to work a little easier.

He's right about a lot of things.

But, as far as education goes, if everyone got a degree, then what's the point? it would have no value at all. The whole point of awarding degrees is to separate those who have them from those that don't. How are employers supposed to know who to higher, if everyone has a degree?

There was an article written up about ebay and how they paid 20 million$ per year for that first google slot for certain keywords.

Then some consultant came to Ebay and proved, without a doubt that the ads don't work. So, they created a test: they removed the 20 million $ worth of ads for that top slot and watched the traffic afterwards, it was pretty much unchanged! It's because All those people that clicked on those ads, were going to come to ebay anyways, despite the ads, not because of the ads.

In this case it works well. In other areas...

I always thought that if the government wants to get you, then they'll definitely get you. The powers of government are already so vast, Not having your browsing history won't stop them one bit.

i really don't see any harm in tracking. What are people afraid of? the article was not in any way able to show how it harms people.

When you go to the starbucks, and the waiter recognizes you and remembers your name, is that creepy? What if they remember that your usual drink is a latte and remembers that the next time you come is that creepy? What if, heaven forbid, they tell a coffee company that you like dark roast, and now you receive an advertisement brochure in the mail for a dark roast coffee you wanted to buy anyways.

I really don't see the harm. Is it the fact that they have the info? or is it what they might do with it?

are people worried about embarrassing websites they've visted? I get that. But, for that you just use incognito mode.

But, those animals are trained to stay away from humans. You won't see them out in the wilderness, at least not for long. And, you won't be able to catch up to one in the brushes where there's thorns, bushes, and all kinds of stuff that can stick you.

I've been on long hikes through the woods where few people tread. One thing I've noticed, is the apparent scarcity of food: at least food that we recognize as "food". There's no animals to hunt for, no bird's nest, no wild animals, even after a 4 hour long hike. No berries, no blueberries or anything fancy like that.

What there is quite a bit of is edible greens: dandelions, oxylis, purslane, amaranth, lots of edible green plants and weeds. I can only imagine that our ancestors must of lived off greens.

Modern day studies of wild human tribes in africa that really do live the way people lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, actually mainly subsist on greens. They've been studied, and the researchers have noted that they basically graze on leafy green vegetables all days, lucky to find anything else.

As, the article alluded to, hunger was the norm, pretty much all day, everyday. This day and age, people think of hunger as an anomoly, a problem, something you can't experience for more than a few minutes without going crazy.

well said. I for one don't like all those touchscreen buttons. Screens should be for maps and other non-interactive stuff.

10K sq ft lots isn't too much to ask for is it? especially when there's open land in every direction you can see as far as the horizon. It doesn't even look like all that open land is used for anything at all.

i'll never understand the CA obsession with keeping so much land undeveloped at the expense of humanity.

You can drive out as far as fairfield, about 70 miles outside of the bay area and still see housing communities packed together like slums with nothing but yellow and green for miles in every direction.

It's sad, but here in CA, most people don't have yards and there's nowhere to grow food. It's especially dumb because there's miles and miles of undeveloped land everywhere (at least in the east bay suberbs), not being used for anything in particular except maybe some farms with cows on it: I'm sure they're taking advantage of huge tax wholes because they're sitting on land that would cost 10s of millions of dollars in property taxes were it taxed at the same rate that people need to pay.

Also, there's no community compost which means people need to buy all of it at stores like home depot, making it expensive because they have to bag it and warehouse it, etc. The nearest compost I have to my house where I can get compost is nearly 35 miles away.

I've listened to a number of Reply All Podcast stories and I must say, most of it, is really good stuff: I highly recommend it. Many of them seem to be like investigative journalism, but they do it on internet/social media related stuff.

I wonder how much of this has to do with the lack of development in the bay area. With a huge amount of undeveloped area all over the bay area, there's probably a lot of places for coyotes to live, since so much living space has been zoned and allocated for them and other wild life. It's too bad, we're not this kind to human beings.

Personally, I like my food data normalized to a given calorie quantity so i can easily make comparisons and rank foods/recipes easily. I like to search for foods based on their nutritional content: micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. i couldn't find anything like that on the web. anyways, so i created: https://kale.world/c. (shameless plug, i know)

try cronometer. i've been using them for several years, they are by far one of the best calorie tracking apps out there.

as a male, i also use it for #1 and #2. but, i guess as a male you use less on the #1.

all this toilet paper nonsense got me thinking about how much TP people actually use. I looked up the statistics and it said the average US person uses 1 to 2 rolls per week!! I was floored. What are these people eating?

I'm mostly vegan and i do fast a lot, due to a slow metabolsim. But, I barely use 1 roll per 2 months. We shop for costco TP, maybe once per year, if that much.

Conclusion: people use a lot of TP.

He's no where near rich enough to have any impact on the world economy let, not even the US.

In fact, even, if you took the combined wealth of every single billionaire in the US and totaled it up (2.5 Trillion) and then gave it away to every US person (divide by 300M), over the 30 year period it took to earn all that money, you'd still only get about 250$ per person per year.

It's our first and only impuse: just spend more. Personally, I think a much better way is to find ways to spend less. How to find ways to provide for people with fewer costs.

Keep in mind, the 8 months they mention uses a lifetime of accumulated wealth: https://checkyourfact.com/2019/02/15/fact-check-wealth-billi...

i know i'll get downvoted for this. but he's absolutely right. Price caps on these high value items will only dissuade more suppliers from entering the market and supplying these extremely valuable items. This is exactly the type of thing that caused venezuela to end up the way it is right now: a country that should be one of the richest in the world and yet is now an impoverished third world country.

Also, there are other benefits to higher prices too. when a bottle of soap costs 5$ instead of 3$, a few less get bought up, allowing others to buy them as well.

the forces of supply and demand are the signaling mechanisms that allow markets to work. Our society, everyone's prosperity and market economy deeply depends on them, far more than most people can imagine. Preventing them from working harms everyone. it's a double loss, not just for the supplier but for all those that want to buy.

>>> "The higher prices encourage higher levels of production for goods like masks and hand sanitizers, which then increases supply. Even some companies that couldn't afford to produce these goods in the past will be prompted by high prices to now do so. The Japanese electronics giant Sharp started to use its TV factories to make surgical masks when the domestic supply went dry. Manufacturer FoxConn did the same in China to protect its employees who assemble iPhones."

but what about this one: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...

daily new cases (at the very bottom) shows there's very little increase from the 13th to the 14th.