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For anyone looking into getting a fuller picture, I'd recommend reading Churchill's Secret War ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%27s_Secret_War ). Where this differs from s…

Some of the secret names of sugar I came across when I was sleuthing in the supermarkets—agave nectar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, or corn syrup solids, dehydrated cane juice, dext…

I did something similar last year and quitting sugar cold turkey was probably the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. I documented my experiences over each of the four …

:-) Aren't you bikeshedding? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557

In some cases, yes. You've to realize that each country in the WTO picks which battles to fight and which one's to let go. For example, when Novartis lost the case, in Indian supre…

People wer exporting them from Canada, but big pharma lobbied for bans ( http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1&id=526618 ). Anywhere close to US mainland, especially Mexico…

Might be unrelated to the topic but I don't understand how you came up with the summation "India is creating a drug resistant bacteria because antibiotics are overused" from that n…

Sorry for your experience. But this is the problem with US visa process—it is not at all objective. It is very subjective and depends on the person interviewing you. Chances are th…

If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. -- http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...

I don't. Take the extreme programming approach. Don't try to familiarize yourself with a new codebase all at once. Start small. Work on a small ticket. It will, organically, help y…

This is why I love programming!