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What a fascinating rabbit hole.

Indian English might be classified as a type of Creole.

That's hilarious. Does the test involve arcane grammar rules?

You are talking about two human beings. HN can be shocking for its collective lack of empathy, but this is a new low.

The article doesn't explain what the unintended mutations might be..?

Is this NSFW? I'm afraid to click.

> and we know it could have a better design

You've REALLY underestimated the power of design.

I have a hard time understanding the value that Chicisimo provides to anyone. The people who might actually use the app are people for whom fashion is not a chore, but a hobby.

The TCM treatment I am currently using is, in fact, proven to treat ulcerative colitis via a clinical trial.

The antibiotic treatment is only effective within a few weeks of getting bitten. If you are misdiagnosed and miss the treatment window, the antibiotic treatment is no longer effective.

That's certainly true, but what other option do you have? When you have Lyme, you are an explorer in an alien landscape. Medicine has not caught up to the incidence of the disease, and people with Lyme must do something. They can't all just wait around in pain and misery for the FDA to approve a treatment.

I've been told by a practitioner that saliva activates the kambo better than plain water, but who knows.

I've been trying kambo for ulcerative colitis over the past year. My gastroenterologist is perfectly happy to have me take a variety of medications for the rest of my life, whose safety has only been studied over a six-month period.

Western medicine gets the job done, it's true, but it's time to open our minds to Eastern medicine and so-called "folk medicine." Many of these treatments can complement Western medicine.

In my case, Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs have been clinically proven to enhance the efficacy of drugs used to treat Ulcerative Colitis

This sounds a lot like the Amazonian medicine Kambo, which is tree frog poison. The practitioner burns a small hole on the top layer of the recipient's skin, rubs off the burnt layer, and applies a drop of frog poison mixed with the saliva. The poison almost immediately causes an extreme lymphatic reaction that is thought to clear toxins from the body. Kambo is called the vaccine of the Amazon.

The bee sting mechanism seems much the same. Poisoning the body in order to stimulate the immune system.

Natural drugs, maybe? Seems bizarre.

HN links rarely make me laugh but this was hilarious.

My dog used to love eating bees. Then her little muzzle would get all swollen. Silly gal :)

None of these three links offer the same concise summary that the article provides.

I don't care if minute details aren't correct. I just wanted an overview (key word being overview) of how the entire process of internet ads work and OP delivered.

Thanks OP.

Martial arts are really hard to get into as a beginner. I'm physically fit and fairly flexible, but the dogmatism of many martial arts and the high barrier to entry (extreme strength and flexibility seem to be required even to start) made me really uncomfortable with a wide variety of martial arts. I've tried aikido, capoeira, kung fu muay-thai, boxing — but they all seemed to required beginners to immediately be able to do side-splits, acrobatic flips (I'm in NYC, so maybe the quality of beginners was much higher).

I'd recommend yoga in combination with weightlifting or HIIT training.

I don't know you, but I'm so happy for you. You have done such incredible work.

Is it so outlandish to have a professional LinkedIn account?

Your worldview is the direct result of a traumatized mind. How secure was your childhood? Were your physical and emotional needs met? Were you bullied? Did you grow up in a family where you might be beaten or yelled at for minor infractions?

So odd to see numerical URLs. There was an article here on HN about that a month or so ago.

This gratifies my intellectual curiosity.

Latin is indeed still taught in elite private schools across the country. But let's be realistic: we'll never, EVER see a widespread push to get Latin into American education.

You shouldn't have tipped. Don't let people push you around because you feel uncomfortable.

There were two families.

The "ego" comprises of what makes you "you" — or more specifically, what you think makes you "you". Your personality, your likes and dislikes, your memories, your history, your judgements. All the things that create your "identity". The ego is your custom filter through which you experience consciousness.

It's helpful to be able to experience the world without the influence of the ego, because then you are able to experience the world in a completely unfiltered way. You are able to get closer to an experience of objective truth.

Many people who have used psychedelics or work deeply with meditation all come to similar conclusions: the ego is an illusion. All beings are one and the same. Your sense of "separateness" from every living thing on this planet is a function of your ego-filter — and your ego-filter is wrong.

Kundalini awakenings can be just as harmful (if not MORE) as psychedelics awakenings without proper integration work. It always helps to work with a teacher or guide when traveling through a shadowy psyche.

I grew up in LA but moved away in 2009. I was shocked when I visited this past year. Homeless encampments everywhere, taking over sidewalks in West LA, kind of scary aggressively homeless men harassing people in the street in West Hollywood. No wonder everyone drives everywhere in LA.

At 2.5, your daughter is probably too young to get any of those films anyway. You have, like, 5-8 years before she'll be fully able to appreciate them.