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Excited to learn about this. From my limited research, metal oxide VOC sensors are not very accurate due to sensor drift, instability, and cross sensitivity to temperature, humidity and inorganic gases.

How do you manage this and did you consider using an electrochemical or photoionization sensor?

Maybe their market research showed that women were wanting a tablet-size device that could fit into a small purse?

If this were a story about the Kardashians, it might not matter, but journalists have a responsibility to do better than this when lives are on the line. This article does not meet basic standards for ethical journalism:

https://www.spj.org/pdf/spj-code-of-ethics.pdf

I share your concern about journalists inserting their own bias. A good journalist would investigate the factuality of claims by all parties in a story, not just the ones they agree with. Of course, bias does happen even with the best intentions, and that is why it is a good idea to read multiple news sources with good journalistic ethics (https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp).

Lazy “he said, she said” journalism, sometimes called “bothesidesism”, is dangerous to a free society because it enables propaganda and disinformation. Lay public do not have time or resources to debunk lies and find out which side in a public debate is telling the truth (if any). That is the sacred duty of a free press.

I agree that it’s not the job of news media to herd their audience into thinking the right things. However, it is their duty to uncover and report the truth.

“If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the [expletive] window and find out which is true” -Jonathan Foster

Not to mention that less wealthy people often rely on extended family for support such as childcare. For many people, leaving family behind is a risk not worth taking.

Provenance is a frequently cited use case for blockchain. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon is working on some kind of “Amazon verified authentic” blockchain service that will lead to widespread adoption across retail manufacturers.

Yes, but only if evidence is provided to justify calling the doctor a quack.

I’m also wary of accepting controversial opinions at face value, and fully support your skepticism here. She’s not my favorite messenger, either. I don’t think ad-hominem attacks are fair, though.

The article is full of references to evidence outlining her position. Do you have any critique of her arguments you can share?

“Rather than some embarrassingly reductionist, one-deficiency-one-illness-one-pill model of mental illness, contemporary exploration of human behavior has demonstrated that we may know less than we ever thought we did. And that what we do know about root causes of mental illness seems to have more to do with the concept of evolutionary mismatch than with genes and chemical deficiencies.”

http://kellybroganmd.com/depression-serotonin/

Any plans to support Apple Music?

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein.

I almost passed on this one due to the corny sounding title, but I’m so glad I didn’t. It renewed my optimism about the future of humanity at a time when my faith was deeply challenged and I was bringing a new person into the world.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17345270-the-more-beauti...

There is also the holochain-based Twitter alternative, Clutter:

https://github.com/holochain/clutter

Holochain is a blockchain alternative designed to avoid blockchain’s scalability and energy consumption issues.

Or “Homogenization”

“We must stop glorifying intelligence and treating our society as a playground for the smart minority. We should instead begin shaping our economy, our schools, even our culture with an eye to the abilities and needs of the majority, and to the full range of human capacity.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/485618/

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” -Socrates

No tax breaks for Ruby.

I use Apple Maps when walking because of the nice turn by turn integration with the Apple Watch.

You may not be working at a place where remote work is part of the culture. When everyone is remote, the tools and processes are built around it and it no longer feels like a “pain in the ass”.

How did you determine that speed was what gave the site its first toehold? Did you collect some kind of data that supported your internal push to make that a priority?

This is awesome. Source? :)

I agree with your point that objectivity does not exist. Any scientific observation is ultimately a subjective experience. It is only replication of an experiment by others that leads the scientific community to (temporarily) accept it as fact. My point is that there is no reason why we can't apply the scientific method to the subjective experience of our own minds as well.

First person evidence is relevant when many people replicate the experiment and get the same result, no?

This book makes a compelling argument that scientific progress is currently blocked on major questions by the "Taboo of Subjectivity":

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1144208.The_Taboo_of_Subj...

Sadly, anything that requires taxpayer funding toward the common good is a political non-starter in the US (socialism!). The best hope we have in the US for decent bus network is probably Uber/Lyft:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-15/uber-and-...

California's urban planning has long been guided by the assumption that everyone owns an automobile:

http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Environment/E_Casestudy/E_...

As vigorously promoted by the automobile industry:

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

I think this is good advice in the context of the OP's current situation. However, the concept of "core hours" is a somewhat outdated legacy of industrialization, and is of questionable value in the knowledge economy, with all of the innovations in communication available to us now. For example, many companies employ foreign workers who are not around during "core hours", and while it presents challenges for communication, companies that are motivated find ways to make it work. I suspect that companies able to be flexible about where, when and how much employees work will have a competitive advantage in the next decade.

I wish your version of libertarian was more outspoken.

I see what you did there

I hear you. I find Kresser is generally pretty careful and evidence-based, but there is definitely a subset of the Paleo community that is uncritical and dogmatic.

For the record, soy sauce is fermented, which makes it relatively safe to eat. As Kresser points out in the article, fermentation significantly reduces soy's antinutrients.