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Signed up from an Asian country and during signup they asked me to upload a passport copy page.

I thought that was weird (I mean no other cloud provider asked for it but okay). I uploaded anyway because I thought it’s in EU so they at least have better privacy laws so they may end up deleting it later from their systems but I immediately got rejected. Not sure why no reason specified. So now they have my passport copy page without me having an account.

Oh well, seems like either they have an overly aggressive spam filter that gets false positives or they don’t really like accepting signups from Asia

It happened over many months. I was a student at that time and had a poor diet. Mostly ate vegan food with lots of fruit.

I have had numerous tests done and everything came back as normal. Following fodmap diet currently but it’s very restrictive. Almost everything triggers my ibs symptoms

Exactly have the same experience as you. After I got diagnosed with IBS, I started having pretty huge personality changes lasting to this day.

No idea the path to recovery is

To balance my critique, I would add that I found that tabulator had support for most number of features out of the box of all that I tested and was the easiest to customize

I was recently evaluating a few of these to display large number of items (tabulator, aggrid, custom solution using react-virtualized etc)

Unfortunately if you are planning to use tabulator (in an enterprise environment for example), I would advice against it for a few reasons:

- No tests (atleast I did not find them when I looked into it)

- I dont normally critique the codebase but I found it to be a bit unorganized and that did not inspire confidence. Basically I found it be non DRY. However I found it easy to understand and make changes

- Being developed by one person and I found little support and response when I raised issues and PR

got it, I misunderstood GPs comment

makes sense, thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood GPs comment

Not sure why you are being sarcastic. Being poor doesn’t mean people don’t deserve privacy. In fact it can enable for more business opportunities.

Government doesn’t operate in series on an issue one by one. This is why you have so many ministries in the govt. Just because roads don’t exist doesn’t mean govt should stop building railways and only think of roads.

There is no such thing as unlisting a number, atleast last time we tried multiple times but it still keeps showing up

Indias privacy laws are truly lacking. I am surprised that the government hasn’t enacted any laws for this yet.

I have a number of stories for this. Indians are so used to this that sometimes people are shocked when I say no to sharing information that they request.

For example in a startup, the HR reached out on WhatsApp to all employees in a group and asked for certain documents and information etc.

About Truecaller: - It’s default opt in (with almost no way to opt out*)

- It requires access to your entire contact list - to mitigate this, I request Apple and Google to implement folders for contacts or something similar to how you can limit access to all photos on iOS per app. That way you can create an empty folder and share it with Truecaller

- It’s also impossible to change the wrong data that Truecaller somehow gets from some other contact list

My sibling recently got a new number and Truecaller assumed some other name and identity. Fellow Indians believe Truecaller more than they believe the person they are talking to (shows how much spam gets passed around)

This is NOT just TrueCaller. The same thing happens with Paytm and other payment apps.

Paytm for example assumed another identity and they requested us to submit multiple docs to prove our identity even though we never used the platform before. Even after multiple attempts and submitting multiple ids they refuse to change the data

I recommend you check out the app from Monash [1]. It’s a paid app but really worth it and its been incredibly helpful for me (I say this as a user, not affiliated with them). AFAIK it contains the largest number of tested foods and they keep adding new foods and retesting and updating older food quantities and list out the specific fodmap associated with each food. From what I have found online, every other source is either outdated or mostly copies the data from here.

ICYDK (From the studies I have read online) Researchers from Monash were the first ones to identify low fodmaps and they continually release research studies in this area.

To answer your question about chickpeas - right now I see 2 different tested versions in the app - one is Canned chickpeas - this says quarter cup (42g) should mostly be fine but half cup (84g) contains moderate amounts of Oligos-GOS (one of the fodmpas).

Green bell peppers - 52g should be ok but 75 to 80g contains high amount of sorbitol.

The app uses a traffic system (red, blue, green lights) to indicate the quantities

[1] https://www.monashfodmap.com/ibs-central/i-have-ibs/get-the-...

> Very much a 'seems like IBS, try low FODMAP, see what works and doesn't via experience,' which was pretty amazing/alarming how little is understood about our guts.

Yes exactly this.

> Especially since I think it'll be interesting to find out if something has been added to our diets that's causing an increase in intolerance over the last decade+.

One thing I read is that western diets severely lack in fiber which usually leads to loss of microbiome diversity [1]. But studies like this are still early stages, we need targeted results based on all this to really have any effect.

[1] https://nautil.us/how-the-western-diet-has-derailed-our-evol...

Yes of course. I did low-fodmap for many months few years ago and continue to do it (when I go to an unknown place for example or travel).

In studies Low-fodmap is typically only recommended for ~6 weeks. I now try to eat any kind food though, I eat everything in smaller quantities and this also helps.

I personally found that a combination of diet, stress, sleep control are the most effective for managing IBS symptoms. Any one of those can flare up the symptoms at any time and managing all of them is key

Thank you, appreciate the breakdown. With so much focus on the gut research recently I feel like we are on the cusp of bringing together lots of things and new understandings and that hopefully happens soon

Personally kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha - all give me lots of bloating even after trying out for weeks. Maybe thats just how its supposed to be? Not sure but I stopped after a while after it affected my daily life

At the current pace of research and studies, when do you think we could expect to see something come to 'market' that could be used - first as a diagnosis and then as a treatment/medication/technique.

As someone with IBS - right now I feel like there is no clear 'problem' defined for it. You are just categorized by the doctor (Rome 3 or whatever) and people go through various tests, medications, non-fda approved stuff to see what works.

I am eagerly looking forward to some progress in this area to hopefully fully understand whats going on and get a proper diagnosis

As a fellow comment says - its all over the place and kind of hard to say, see [1] saying they are useless but lots of studies saying they are useful .

Personally as someone with IBS, I have tried many probiotics over the years and have mixed results - most of them were useless but for some time I found one or 2 that worked but I couldnt say for sure if they worked due to other factors (for e.g generally healthier food, lifestyle, mindset etc). You would have to try it out for weeks to see their effect (according to studies that say it work).

The doctors I spoke to though gave me strong probiotics (>100 billion CFU, for e.g something like [2]). I found anything that had 1 or 10 billion CFU to be pretty much useless.

I think you should work on your diet before taking probiotics. I dont think I am lactose intolerant, milk gives me bad bloating but yogurt doesnt. Yogurt worked for me over the course of weeks, kefir and sauerkrat gave me mega-bloating.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45434753 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Visbiome-Potency-Probiotic-Shipped-Sh...

Thank you, those look really nice, appreciate the links :). I have used processing before so atleast some of it should be familiar.

Do you happen to have any open source code for this that I could look at. I am looking to do some interactive graph viz and would love to see if there is something I could reference

Really appreciate the response, I have not used UMAP before, thanks for giving some of the background and context. Looked at graphistry and it looks awesome, I think I do have some use cases where it will be useful :)

> If you have extra information about vertices you can use it to generate coordinates

Could you expand on this with an example. Or is there a reference or algo that I could look at. What do you mean by having extra info to generate coordinates. I am currently looking into graph drawing algorithms for a network viz problem and part of it involves placing nodes in certain places and I am interested to see if what you are saying is something I could use