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Yep it’s a small minority of herbs whose effectiveness is backed up by quality studies. Modern herbalists have “debunked” some traditional remedies. Some herbs have legitimate uses but are also fairly dangerous, like lobelia. There’s a whole continuum. Flower essences are popular among legitimate herbalists, but smell bogus to me. I suggest to try for yourself and come to your own conclusions. The areas where I have found the herbs decisively effective are improving my sleep quality, quieting anxiety, and soothing and improving my digestion.

The short answer that an herbalist will give you is to use the whole plant in order to benefit from non-active compounds that balance out the active compounds, perhaps providing benefits like reducing side effects or potentiating the active compound. Also sometimes there's a sensory quality of the herb that contributes to its effect, eg. digestive bitters. Sometimes the herb tastes good. And often they are nutritionally beneficial too (vitamins, minerals, etc).

Personally I have observed the benefits firsthand of herbs including blue vervain, California poppy, chamomile, gentian, kava kava, lemon balm, marshmallow, motherwort, Oregon grape root, pedicularis, skullcap, wild lettuce, all quite safe (though some you don't want to take regularly). My herbalist doesn't bother with willow themselves, they've tried it and it's just not as effective as acetaminophen or ibuprofen, so I haven't bothered to try willow. Apparently the concentration of aspirin compounds in willow is quite low, perhaps that's why: https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/2021/07/28/willow-bark...

Record of relevance is important for validating oneself, but not the same as the quick discrete feedback the article describes for engineers. Your first two examples the feedback loop is very long. Recruiting a great connection is a great example of an endorphin hit for managers though!

Managers get endorphins on some special occasions: Closing a star candidate, getting a high-level promotion approved for an engineer, smoothly managing someone out, observing a brand new team make their first significant delivery.. what other circumstances?

fluentd today is a popular (most popular?) log collector in k8s land.

Off topic, but when you’re waiting for a gap to make your turn into your driveway, do you pull the left edge of your lane to allow people behind you to pass on your right? (I observe people that don’t do this, they dwell in the middle and often even the right side of their lane, and I’m wondering if they are just oblivious to traffic building up behind them, or there’s a safety reason to block people from passing on the right or other safety reason to stay to the right of their lane..)

Erm human population is pretty far from uniform, and is a certain population threshold is a pre-requisite for building one of these sites.

Did the delta show up on the strobe? Or is issue that the quartz is off and it’s feeding both the motor and the strobe? (Sorry if this is a dumb question. I don’t recall seeing speed calibration in the mk2 manual when I was setting up my secondhand decks)

On a quartz deck like the 1200 mk2, the strobe is also quartz right, not mains? (Otherwise the strobe would be far less accurate than the motor..)

Sigh, missed opportunity to use sleep sort to do the ordering. https://web.archive.org/web/20151231221001/http://bl0ckeduse...

Before ngrok we set it up in 15 minutes by configuring ssh and nginx a la https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/4586758

+1. They also will write new prescription for low-risk things. And you don't necessarily need video, they do it over messages and just ask for photos of symptoms, in some cases.

Yikes. I occasionally forget bags, and appreciate that we can get paper bags here for 20-25 cents. I also reuse those paper bags once or twice, and then use them for collecting compost on my countertop, and then throw the whole bag in the big city compost bin. This system means I don't need to clean or line a proper countertop compost container.

I live in CA where we have a ban on single-use plastic bags. We still have single-use paper bags. So your footprint would be the same here, not higher.

I also use a moka only when camping (French press and espresso machine at home).

Why it’s great for camping: 1. Indestructible 2. Cheaply found at a garage sale (no worries if it gets lost in a pile of camping gear) 3. Takes up less volume than a French press 4. When camping, everything tastes better. Even “ok” coffee is a luxury

All this to say: a $500 device is a tough sell for camping

For what it’s worth, I lived 50 yards from an at-grade freight track in the city, where from 10pm-7am the trains did not blow their horns, relying on the crossing protective lights and gates only, and that worked for me. Charming train horns during the day (yes they occasionally interrupted me when speaking during video meetings, but it was quaint and no big deal), peace and quiet at night. Great neighborhood, quite desirable, and I would be happy to live there again in the future.

Not sure the safety track record, but if it’s favorable, perhaps this kind of program could be expanded.

https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-office...

Great book. If you like fiction, also check out The Monkey Wrench Gang.

Yes, let’s free the incarcerated, absolutely!

In my opinion, drug testing should only required for certain roles (like driving or operating machinery). And it should only look for active intoxication.

In my opinion, it should depend on their role. And only look for active intoxication.

(Separately, regarding business and political leaders in particular) I’m not in favor of the “blackmail vulnerability” arguments in this discussion. Substance use should not be stigmatized.

Exactly! It’s the same distraction as the noise about Hunter’s substance use. I do not care about either.

I would look at the behaviors and decisions made by the CEOs of Boeing and Raytheon. If they meet my expectations I would excuse the substance use.

If it’s a problem, it’s a minor problem, not justifying the attention. Elon has a lot of major problems that this distracts from, and creates the suspicion of a media bias against him, which is harmful.

Yea, I’m a downright Elon-hater. I could not care less if business leaders use drugs responsibly. This is the wrong tree to bark up, an utter distraction when Elon’s actual meaningful behaviors and decisions are so objectionable.

Also, it mentions no precedent, when REI started #optoutside in 2015 (and received a lot of positive PR). Now I wonder who did this before REI?

Even when Patagonia is closed, their items are being sold by other retailers, so it seems like a way smaller sacrifice than REI closing on Black Friday when it will lose sales to competitors. Patagonia's thirst for PR annoys me and detracts from their credibility (some of their products are pretty good though..).

What is notable about this submission?

Would you share a reply that is more helpful than this “technically correct” reply? IE what is this “database” useful for? Why is it noteworthy? I’m genuinely curious.

This, uh, isn’t a database? I clicked through to the GitHub and see only a hard coded html file with the small handful of Tesco comparisons, and a single screenshot. Where is the database? What am I missing? Why is this interesting?

I am not familiar with the author, and read it as genuine, examples where they exhibit humorous self-awareness and humility:

"If your brains are still too small to process such esoteric terms"

"It’s a crazy thing to try, when even your own local predictions are so far from perfect accuracy."

"I cannot quite remember why I thought this would be a good idea. I blame the pronatalist influencer conspiracy."

That's a half-joke, for what it's worth.

There's a segment on HN that comes out of the woodwork to poo poo artful writing. Parent commenter was not going to appreciate this article. I'd say it's a testament to the author's writing ability that they were able to pull parent commenter in a couple hundred words before they recognized it was "balderdash"!

Well said. I should have said “you don’t have to use the API if you don’t want to” instead of “don’t use this”.