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suneilp··on The language of productivity is now being used to advocate napping on the job
Great comment. Just to add, if you carry the stress of work around with you outside of the workplace, it'll also hamper your parasympathetic and sympathetic balance. Of course, this also applies if you are carrying around too much personal stress as well.

Next time you get into a conversation about work-life balance and say you don't have time for a workout, think again about that.

suneilp··on The Relationship Between Intelligence and Anxiety
I noticed quite a change in mood when I started reintroducing foods with choline into my diet. Of course, some of those foods have some other nutrients that are harder to get. Eggs and beef were the main sources I targeted.

Obviously, overall diet, sleep, exercise, etc. etc. matters as well.

suneilp··on The best icon is a text label
It's about blocking google analytics (or whatever else).
suneilp··on To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy
"Yet in 1961 LOR was a completely insane idea."

It's not that you have to be crazy, it's that most people around you are actually the crazy ones who push conformance on you because they can't hack it.

Innovating is difficult due to many people being so very risk averse. Ideally you have a balance between caution and boldness, however, people lose the will to take chances when the "bottom" line is at risk.

Of course, when it comes to what NASA does, the bottom line also involves human lives. Although, then NASA's existence would have and probably is still considered crazy by some number of people.

suneilp··on Jury Duty
We're so conditioned to be afraid of evil we can't recognize the true "evil".
suneilp··on Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss
I don't count calories anymore. I feel it's a waste of time and frustrating at times.

Instead, I focus on nutritional quality including density and variety. I find it leads to better health at a lower calorie count. Yes, you have to adjust for your lifestyle like working out, etc. However, it's much easier to manage and squeeze in those indulgences.

suneilp··on The Sieve Hypothesis: Human Stomach as Gatekeeper
The role of acid in destroying hostile pathogens is something that has been mentioned in the alternative medicine circles for a long time.

Anxiety, Stress, lack of sleep and/or proper nutrition also plays a role in decreasing production of gastric juices. Naturally this leads to a downward spiral of compounding issues.

On a related note, there has been some interesting research on how acid reflux and gerd are usually more likely to be caused by too little acid.

http://chriskresser.com/what-everybody-ought-to-know-but-doe...

suneilp··on Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
Sold out at Adafruit which is really the only place to buy it in the US. Life is sad right now...
suneilp··on The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx
Those can be disabled and I always do so. Location specific configuration can be put in the main configuration files.

They should never be used unless you're in a shared hosting environment where you don't have a choice.

suneilp··on An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education
Too much anger. Too much self-entitlement that has arisen out being told one has the right to feel what they want and expect their dignity to be respected. Those are good things in of themselves, however, as your typical kung fu or jedi master would say, anger clouds the mind.

These "kids" can't regulate their emotions or put themselves in another person's shoes. Those are difficult things. Teaching them isn't easy either.

suneilp··on Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year
Monolaurin is a natural antibiotic. It's on the GRAS (generally regarded as safe) list. My doctor suggested it to me. It won't impact healthy bacteria. It's found in coconuts (oil being the best source) and human breast milk... in other words it's one of the first things we have all consumed. It's OTC.

Ordinary probiotics such as the powdery capsules that is so prevalent aren't the most effective. They don't get retained as well. Liquid ones will stick to the small intestinal walls more easily. I implemented my own hack by eating something that is mucilaginous which sticks to the intestines. Then I take a capsule shortly afterwards. Seems to work well... for me.

This protocol worked for me after I hosed my gut microbiome which caused me to lose 80 lbs in 2 months. Take of it as you will.

Exercise is critically important, when you digestion is in turmoil as peristalsis likely gets impacted, at least it did for me. Peristalsis is the undulation of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines which pushes food forward. Exercise restarts this if it isn't functioning correctly.

It's important for keeping the healthy bacteria in the large intestines out of the small intestines. You don't want to cross the streams in this case as it can be very painful and even debilitating.

That's my recipe for a holistic reset and restoration of floral balance.

suneilp··on A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free Electricity
Arsenic, cadmium, lead, polyvinyl fluoride, and probably more. There are indeed liquid based solar panels. The toxicity of solar panels both in their production and their usage has been reported on a great deal. Some companies are making changes to make them safer but I have no clue how far along those efforts are.

Solar farms are hurting the ecosystem when they break and leak out. Even if they aren't liquid based, solid state versions have thin films which contain some chemicals like cadmium and arsenic. Cadmium telluride has been introduced more recently has it is safer.

suneilp··on A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free Electricity
Solar panels would have to be maintained rigorously for any leakages. Some of the chemicals in them are not so good for us.
suneilp··on What causes autism? Environmental risks are hard to identify
Why was this downvoted? Even if you don't believe in alternative modalities the link is actually quite interesting and so far the content presents some intriguing content.
suneilp··on A lot happens
I question love, and I'm not yet willing to even share those musings... probably because it is equivalent to such concepts as hope and happiness. And those are among the deepest, core, precepts on what we should be striving for.

There is nothing wrong with them per se. What I feel is wrong is our perceptions and expectations of them. Then, to add fuel to the fire, people benchmark their lives based on how much of these "resources" they have.

People can't even show respect for the dignity of other people and allow them to be themselves. To do so makes many people feel that they are invalidated in life as they so obsessively struggle at a breakneck speed to secure their sense of self-worth.

Even something as daring to be big is such a huge problem. Look at entrepreneurs and think about all the arguments presented about what it takes to be a successful one. How many are portrayed as "eccentric".

So imagine trying to question something like love... it's like questioning a religion, only much worse...

suneilp··on Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business
"the price of the cars that are sold needs to be high enough to cover the costs of building and storing the unsold ones."

We shouldn't be having this problem anymore. It's a massive detriment to the economies of scale model. Most people don't need to buy a car overnight, which ironically is because they are so expensive.

Keeping a small amount of cars for test driving and personal inspection is all that is needed. Then all that needs to be done is to batch up requests for production and shipping. Charge more 2 day shipping. Maybe Amazon can get into selling cars and same day deliveries for free with Amazon Prime.

suneilp··on Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days
I read an interesting article on how excess sugar clogs the tiny blood vessels and tissues where there aren't really any blood vessels.

Circulation in these areas won't be as great by the nature of things so clogging them up has a greater impact. It prevents nutrient/waste flow to tissues. Just think about that for a bit. Accumulating waste and blocking delivery of nutrients.

Balancing sugar intake and moving around, even if it's just walking, on a regular basis will fix you up real fast.

suneilp··on NIH’s mental health chief on why he’s leaving for Google
It's not as if Google or anyone else needs to go find the person and forcibly detain them. Google can steer people towards more ads or inject websites for treatment into the search result pages.

Also, the hue detection was triggering on people who clearly had temporary issues and could have been helped instead of subjugated. Some of them were far more interesting and "healthier" than the sheep, like Kogami. It's more of a problem if someone doesn't get angry about something like Kogami has.

suneilp··on Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet
I thought you were being an ass but I googled 'chinese spring' anyways and found out about the Arab Spring. For those who don't know here is an article on it: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100535405
suneilp··on Turing CEO Defends $750 Pill in Reddit AMA
What does this have to do with socialism? How does drug companies charging for an arm and a leg or insurance companies paying for it and raising premiums relate to socialism?
suneilp··on Texting reduces need for pain medication during surgery
Distraction really works. Meditation works really well. I used it recently when I was having a lot of pain. Also, this works really well but I'll understand if you're skeptical http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/the-most-famous-ac...
suneilp··on Nearly Every USGS Topo Map Ever Made (2014)
This is interesting, now if only they had 3d topography maps.

I'm building a GPS tracker that I can take on hikes and will store coordinates and altitude to an SD card so I can generate 3d models of the path I take or overlay with 3d maps.

suneilp··on Study: CEO effect on firm performance could be mostly due to chance
The "who-you-happen-to-know" part is very true. It's a small world up there in the "upper" tier. While I generally agree to the implications of chance, has much to do with that inner circle and who gets picked to do the job.

No one is perfect, and the upper tier do not seem to have a solid understanding of this fact. People get picked because they can talk the talk or had some success at some point and that automatically decides they are good. Even failing can increase your prestige for reasons such as learned from failure or the blame gets shifted. However, I feel that it's all too often that the CEO failed to adapt and shifted blame.

suneilp··on Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit?
This will perpetuate a broken system and widen the economic gap as companies start profiting on the demise of the opposition.

It's one thing when someone invests as a form of aid, however, I see this being gamed for profit.

suneilp··on Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?
It's great your trying to improve yourself, but that also adds stress when you can't manage expectations well (which isn't easy anyways for many people).

You can leave and take a break. Or talk to your boss. I don't know what your responsibilities are but it's never worth it to go burnt out for a long time. You risk breaking yourself.

I experienced that and it sucks, big time. I'm becoming stronger because of it. However, I'd rather see people learn without going through that.

I suspect you're worried about the consequences of talking to your boss. If he's an asshole chances are that was already contributing to burnout. You'll win if you get canned. It doesn't reflect on your skills so don't let your ego get bruised because of a trifling matter. If your boss is semi-human, you also win.

What helped me a lot was therapy and yoga/meditation. In yoga, good instructors reinforce forgetting about worries of life for a "mere" hour and focusing on myself. Once I stopped resisting that concept, life started improving rapidly. It's a hard thing to go, dropping "everything". Finding someone to talk or a group of people who understand is really important and there are many people who have gone through these kind of things.

Many don't learn or understand the meaning of priorities until the experience something traumatic.

So talk to your boss and don't quit before finding a new job. Or quit and take a long break.

suneilp··on How the war on drugs creates violence
Is it creating violence or exacerbating violence? I'm more inclined to choose the latter. The reason why I distinguish the two is that I see the continuation and increase in drug use as something symptomatic of other issues in the big picture.

Economic issues, politics, racism.... oppression on various fronts from the system down to the family to the self.

Drugs (and alcohol) are an escape. Normal activities also provide an escape when people get obsessed with them. TV, video games, food (my escape), exercise for some addicts, sex, etc.

Just legalize cannabis and decriminalize other drugs already.

suneilp··on Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (2005)
Does this count as a breach of contract in the sense that we're not getting what we paid for in a product that doesn't do it's job as advertised?
suneilp··on Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (2005)
I'm certain thats doable, but is there a guarantee that the watermark is in a fixed location? I would think the software would adjust placement to avoid being drowned out by blocks of yellow, etc.
suneilp··on The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
The problem is that x-rays use ionizing radiation which is more dangerous. Some people could be more sensitive or in a more likely scenario they get a lot of x-rays and/or ct scans due to medical issues which requires them being very careful about spacing out scans and exposure to other sources.

Then there is the possibility someone walks in between the van and target. At some point you have to stop the argument that this and that does x and y so z is ok. People are afraid of excessive radiation and the government isn't listening to people.

One thing that infuriates me is that people making these arguments don't even know that x-rays (and cats) use ionizing radiation which is what carries real risks. Incidentally, MRIs do not use ionizing radiation so you can stay in there a "while". Thats how they can do so many cool studies using MRIs.

suneilp··on The UK is replacing roundabouts with traffic lights; US is doing the opposite
Now that is crazy, I just look around for cops a dozen times and floor it (carefully).
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