gr33nman

The "massive weight changes" from stool transplants are most often weight loss, to my knowledge.

If so, this would be consistent with increased biodiversity (from the stool transplant) correlating with reduced visceral fat.

At any rate, the interaction is probably more complex than our current understanding, as this is a very new area of research.

I didn't know about this until recently, but when you are shooting on the iPhone, you can touch any area of the screen (e.g., a blown out highlight, or white sky) to adjust the exposure so that the area you touch is correctly exposed.

Or as Donald Rumsfeld would say, the less competent individuals are suffering from unknown unknowns

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

I'm curious: do you extend the work from home option to your employees?

This is a good argument for a basic income, combined with free healthcare and higher education.

I suspect that lowering the risk of entrepreneurship could unlock enormous innovation potential for society.

Those interested in the philosophy of door handles will enjoy Don Norman's classic:

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465050654/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_OkRx...

Being honest with yourself, would an employee exactly like you really be an ideal employee? Would they dedicate all of their productive hours toward your business or might they be spending some energy working toward starting a business on their own?

For many it is a calling - a deeply felt desire to explore and seek answers to questions that are currently beyond human understanding. There are few careers outside of academia that enable the focused pursuit of knowledge. Only the most advanced societies in history have supported such endeavors, and public universities were a democratic experiment in extending this support beyond the wealthy elite.

Sadly, it seems that the United States has lost the will and vision to provide this opportunity for its citizens. Now we only talk of job training and ROI. The financial burden has been shifted from the society to the individual, and the true promise of higher education is but a fading memory.

"the number of self-made billionaires is rising year after year; there really has never been a better time to become a winner."

There is so much wrong with this article, which is reflective of how we in the business world speak about success.

Is there really such a thing as a "self-made" billionaire? Or did those people have advantages like access to food, shelter, education, healthcare, mentors, support from family and friends, freedom from disease, violence and oppression, and so on?

Is amassing wealth really the measure of a "successful person"? Or are a person's actions in the world and toward fellow human beings also important?

Also, it sounds like you are talking about (software) engineering, rather than basic science (e.g., astronomy). There are plenty of questions humanity would like for science to answer for which there is no financial incentive to a corporation.

There are a few industry options for the sciences but less so for the humanities, where tenure is intended to protect scholars who investigate and question things that the wealthy and powerful might find dangerous to their interests (e.g. Marxism).

Yeah man, I don't own a Tesla but I hate waiting for shit too. Like when you dial 911 and they don't show up till an hour later:

https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tgvzffz3io7iw6zwczbul5...

/s

From the article: "Much of 2015 has seen the open-source board maker defending itself from its former manufacturing partner, which recently claimed ownership of the brand, launched its own Arduino product line and website, and has worked to bar distributors from buying Arduino products from other manufacturers."

The value is in networking (meeting other like-minded people who can afford the $8,500 price of admission).

Perhaps accepting the normalized injustice and oppression within the society in which you were socialized is a precondition for emotional stability. Maybe that is why so few of us are willing to question it. Just a thought.

Do you have any gigapixel panoramas that you'd like to share? I work at a visualization lab with a 328 megapixel display. These images would be breathtaking on it.

And if you drop your trousers while you are doing that, the people behind you can see the man in the moon

Lack of sleep alters human gene activity http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298948