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It's hard to get a balanced nutrition on a bush diet for two main reasons: 0. Lack of nutrition understanding: what are/where to get essential nutrients. 1. Nutrition-balanced food…

> If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with "human skills" also…

FBSD: I was just dealing with circular dependency hell (or misunderstanding of docs/conventions) in some rc.d scripts. Maybe someone here knows how to do this properly (or better):…

Most, but not all, companies generally don't donate any money to server OSes and open source they deploy by the hundreds of thousands. It sucks but it's the current state of affair…

One risk of using OpenBSD is a lot, but not quite enough, people use it on enough on random hardware and give actionable feedback to make it battle-tested, "Just Work" (TM).

So true. We would consider OpenBSD if it ran on AWS and stably supported ZFS. (We use FreeBSD with PF and ZFS.) "NIH syndrome" resulted in signify rather than using normal, proven …

Yup. Business theater is usually stuck in maintaining in-group approval, "industry standards" and historical continuity. My favorite HR signal which doesn't seem to qualitatively w…

There is no debate that a hateful double-standard (lifetime ban) is allowed to stand, the questionnaire can be essentially eliminated right now by more rigorous and comprehensive t…

It's a form of discrimination equivalent to banning African Americans from donating blood. [0] Because a group "might" engage in risky behavior, it's unfair to assume all members d…

The entire blood donation routine lifestyle/behaviors questionnaire of self-reporting is of little value because people can make mistakes or intentionally misrepresent their status…

Yeah, I've seen it on the questionnaires. That's just wrong and an obvious form of pervasive hate. I think the determination should be strictly related to risky behaviors like not …

Yup. It seems better than inhaling smoke particles though. For people that use weed, vaping is probably safer than inhaling unfiltered joints. http://www.theweedblog.com/smoking-ma…

What does killing oneself with excesses and risky habits like drugs, alcohol, food, driving too fast, riding a bike/motorcycle without a helmet, etc. have to do with being gay? PS:…

Sadly, I think the only way for most Americans to maintain a healthy lifestyle would require significant, paternalistic education and intervention. One idea others have proposed wo…

Just curious: Will Code staff eventually transition to 1 or N other departments, or are most already maintaining other projects?

"The problem is, if you're not a hacker, you can't tell who the good hackers are." http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html Relying on coding challenges or automatically-generated code me…

This is cool as another resource to get seemingly curated recipes, but there's not really a place comment, sort/filter/search recipes, make changes or see user reviews before viewi…

Interesting. It so happens I took provigil (modafinil) more for this reason than for sleep deprivation or to cram in more all-nighters in college. The experience was like caffeine,…

Perhaps if there were some semantic way for HN to link an article to a previous one, like threading. For example, a text field with previous HN item ID and a type drop-down with "d…

Community archivism FTW (with a dash of leadership, out-of-pocket $, project management and planning).

For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad. http://piratepad.net/

Another cool, live EtherPad fork which has existed for a long time (anonymous pads, w/o source): http://piratepad.net/front-page/

Maybe the platform runtime one, but I could be wrong. ;)

Let's face it. What's most important in life/business is social access and maintaining trust/confidence/respect to stay in those relevant circles in order to keep it. IOW, staying …