eikaterine

>I also find that forcing yourself to adhere to a sleep schedule that doesn't feel natural can result in more fatigue, and I wonder if other people have the same experience.

I'm usually go to sleep at 1 at the earliest, and I generally sleep like a rock. After coming back from a trip to India last year, I decided to not fight my jetlag and try this "waking up early" thing everyone's always on about.

The waking up early was actually kind of nice (I got to meditate in the mornings; have some time to myself, etc), but I have literally never slept worse in my life. I would wake up almost every night, toss and turn for hours. It was miserable. I wasn't sure what to attribute it to for a long time, but as soon as I drifted back to my 1-2am bedtime, lo and behold, I started sleeping like a rock again.

Correlation does not necessarily imply causation, but seeing how I don't have a job that requires me to be up early, I'm fine with my circadian cycle. Even if it does mean I'm up till 5 occasionally.

I can code on a whiteboard, but it's certainly not something I enjoy. So when interviewing, I often ask for pen and paper. Just like a whiteboard, I have to write code without a computer and IDE, but unlike a whiteboard, I don't have to stand and write code in a position I'm not used to, with a tool I'm not used to (and let's be honest, whiteboard markers are kind of a pain to write with).

If I'm going to be disqualified based on my choice of writing medium, well, I probably wouldn't be that keen on working there anyway.

The article really doesn't make this situation sound like an unavoidable consequence of regulation. What part of " he strictly follows the rule insisting that every mobile-food employee has Health Department certification... And stationary restaurants, by the way, require that only a single employee on duty have a Health Department certification." sounds like an inevitable consequence of having regulations?

You're off by a factor of 10.

That being said, it still seems dubious--given China's online population of 538 million people, that's $5.7 average per person spent, which is a little higher than the average per person expenditure for last year's entire Cyber Monday ($1.2 billion according to the article, and around 210 million people online in the US as of February 2011 according to an online source makes about $5.6). In a country whose average urban per capita disposable income is around 10x lower than the average per capita disposable income in the US overall, I'm taking this with a grain of salt.

Although I still wasn't sure what "singles day" is (some sort of reverse of Valentine's Day?), it's a little clearer by itself than "double sticks day" (a phrase which yields all of 3 results on Google).

Googling "singles day" explained everything.

May have something to do with the climatic requirements of different varieties of the plant, similar to how Gewürztraminer performs best in a cooler climate but Grenache needs a hot one.

Yeah, that would have been pretty interesting. I don't know that most of the people on that jury had a strong opinion on the problems with our software patent laws though.

It sounds like your problem is with the laws we have, not the judge.

I assume when he says "Western," he means people who had no idea who Psy was before this video, much less which album of his this was, and don't know "Spela Mig På Radio" from Adam. While I'm sure you're fairly Western, it sounds like you have much more background in the Korean culture than the average person who can barely find it on a map.

I have my reservations about the paleo diet that mostly have to do with the amounts of meat that its adherents consume, but out of curiosity, how can a food group that we are undoubtedly evolved to eat, even if it's probably as part of a diet rich in other food groups, be "terrible" for us?

>Most of the startups who've encountered specific regulations (Uber, AirBnB, Square, among them) tend to be much more skeptical of their wisdom than the public at large.

What a surprise, the people whom the regulations prevent from making more money are less convinced about their wisdom than the people whom those regulations are ostensibly designed to protect.

>you want to force them to comply with certain cultural mores that you consider the basics of civilized society.

I would imagine that there are certain cultural mores you consider to be the basics of civilized society that you're okay with forcing people to comply with. Like, say, the illegality of stealing.

>I don't want to live in a place where other people aren't content with making their own places wheelchair-accessible, but want to impose their own ethical code on me as well, via fines and DOJ sweeps, among other mechanisms.

What if I were to say, "I don't want to live in a place where other people aren't content with allowing black people in their restaurant, but want to impose their own ethical code on me as well." It's certainly a bit of an exaggeration, since it doesn't cost you anything to allow black people in your restaurant whereas a wheelchair accessible bathroom does, but quite obviously this isn't as black and white (no pun intended) as you make it out to be.

I'm sure that's a valley that will be crossed in relatively short order. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is up for debate.

If you never reread something, I'd argue the best route for you is a library, as opposed to buying. Especially now that some of them even lend e-books.

Do you really think that spending $28 on a book is prohibitively expensive or are you playing devil's advocate? I've certainly bought computer games for $50, I definitely spend more than $28 per month on coffee and other incidentals. I wouldn't necessarily buy a book that I know nothing about for $28, sure, but a book that I know and love, or one that's a classic? I'm not made of money, but I can certainly afford $28 for that, especially since I also know it'll look great on my bookshelves for years to come and won't fall apart after 3 readings like a mass market paperback.

Funny, I would never have guessed that the book world had been rocked by such a revolution so relatively recently. Had I been asked about this yesterday I'd have guessed that the book industry had been relatively undisrupted between the invention of the Gutenberg printing press and the invention of the e-book.

That being said, it warms this bibliophile's heart that a previous revolution did not obsolete hardcover books. Perhaps they'll stick around through this one as well.

He did say "roughly."

Well, not if you interpret "stealing" as "misappropriating," but I don't think the quote is quite that literal. My interpretation of it is that good artists "borrow," that is, they take elements from others but they still belong to others. Great artists, however, "steal," meaning that they take elements from others and make them their own to the point where we start identify those elements with the "thief" instead of the originator. Someone who succeeds in doing that is probably a pretty damn good artist.

If your whole goal is to use Android as the platform to build your MVP, you can probably live with limiting your app to, say, only ICS and up to begin with. This cuts down drastically on the fragmentation issues. Even though Gingerbread is still dominant, 1K "guinea pigs" is not an unreasonable goal on ICS.

Someone is always defining your freedom though, in any situation where you come in contact with other people. If you don't have a government, your freedom is defined by people who are stronger than you, financially, physically, militarily, whatever.