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A somewhat related question: I'm about to start a job at a company with "open office" structure, after having my own office for the last 4 years. Anything I should be prepared for?…

"The Devil's Cup" is great! He also has "In the Devil's garden", which is quite good as well. It presents the history of food in terms of the seven deadly sins.

Just finished Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A time of gifts" and I can't recommend it enough! One of the best English books that I have read. You will particularly like it if you're inte…

Compared to, say, Russian or Ukrainian French is really not that complicated. It also has way less "exceptions to every single rule" than English. You should choose a language base…

What was the rationale for excluding oils, nuts and avocados from the diet?

There is so much more to Vermeer's art than just clever use of tools. I like this article much better (it got completely ignored on HN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725444…

To anyone who is actually interested in the subject, I highly recommend this excellent free class: https://www.coursera.org/course/plantknows

> I figured someone who speaks X and wants to begin learning English would use an X-English / English-X dictionary. At first. You should switch to X-X dictionary as soon as you can…

> I find it ironic to think that in Australia the government is singing praises for copper network lines [...] yet war torn anarchic Somalia is pushing in the other direction. http…

I'm so glad they put this guy in charge of the content!

>My favorite, by the way, of all the things I posted recently that didn't get any attention, is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713259 . Off topic. So, what's the opinion on …

Any particular "math" you're interested in? If you just want to get your foot in with pure math I'd recommend studying basic abstract algebra and analysis at the same time. For abs…

Are you saying that you, or someone you know has developed celiac disease after eating exclusively chemicals-free wheat their whole life?

Textbooks and exercises. Avoid shortcuts such as online tutorials or anything with "for hackers" in the title.

@facebook.com was supposed to make people feel that all their electronic communication needs can be met by facebook. I'm guessing, it turned out people didn't mind that much loggin…

Of course not. In fact the police brutality towards a few peaceful student protesters was what triggered the mass protests in Kiev and all over Ukraine, it wasn't about any particu…

Here is an ELI5 version of what's going on in Ukraine: Ukraine doesn't have any money, it needs to borrow it. It can ask the west, but the west gives back a list of conditions to b…

Exactly. Sometimes HN'ers scare me...

Maybe your website will help people see the plethora of inconsistent findings, so they can start questioning the state of science and think of "better ways" for themselves ;)

Thanks for the link!

You didn't understand me. It's not about being lazy or not getting enough exercise. It's about being more connected to your work. Maybe it's not the case for you, or even most peop…

I really don't want to diss your work, I respect your intentions to bring scientific discoveries to the masses, but... This is part of a huge problem in science, the "one sentence …

I kind of wish for something opposite, not a tool to minimize my physical movements, but to actually make me move more. I'm not talking about a computer on a treadmill. But, for ex…

It is the largest country that is entirely in Europe http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_...