Once the leaves are older, there are all sorts of oxalates, and you should really avoid them if you are sensitive to kidney stones.

These plants also absorb pollution very effectively, so keep in mind where you pick them from.

Anything else is a loose correlation at best, that will likely change over time.

Turned out that this "runway" factored in dumping all the American devs and replacing us with workers overseas who made ~35-40% of what they paid us.

My recent experience in the "data" world taught me that many companies in the US actually want contractors, but our employment laws make it make being "full-time" not that different than a contractor.

Another thing I learned was to never jump on R&D type projects unless you are in a very close communication loop with the leadership. If they are going to see you as a consultant on retainer, you have to always be delivering and improving on stuff that affects the business. I was put on some sort of "special projects" role in three fast-growing startups and those are always the first on the chopping block when things tighten up (and they almost always do at some point, especially in a startup).

Yeni dünya (loquat in English, which comes from Chinese) is a completely different thing.

At the very minimum, I ask people to always think of the distribution of whatever figure they are given.

Just that is far more than so many are willing to do.

https://community.amstat.org/sspa/communityblogs/blogviewer?...

http://www.the-psi.org/psi-in-the-news.html

Here is one that anyone interested can check out.

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=1680771775466497&lat=39....

Probably the closest thing to a Street View that we will get from there for a while.

It is a race to the bottom that Americans will never win.

Americans who want a normal wage and life are never going to be able to compete on price with someone in South America or Eastern Europe.

This is the kind of things that should result in massive tariffs and extremely onerous tax and paperwork for the companies that do it.

Otherwise, all of our expertise will just move outside of the world and to the desperate abroad. And for what benefit?

In Istanbul, there are a few things to watch out for but Uber is still a million times better than calling a random taxi. Part of it is because taxis in Istanbul are surprisingly cheap and it encourages bad behavior. During peak times in the most busy places, Uber drivers may cancel on you if the ride is short. Whatever happens, Uber support in Turkey has been very responsive to me. So I have to give them credit for that.

It is very much a bag holder problem.

In some countries, people (often families) have saved for a long time to accumulate some inventory of something that is now worth a lot less. The diamond industry varies a bit by country, but in places where individual dealers hold a lot of inventory, there is a lot of incentive to be against synthetics.

I saw this firsthand in Turkey. I gave my a fiancée a ring with a very nice moissanite stone about a year and a half ago. She showed it to some jewelers and most had to really make a show of things like, "Congratulations on your upcoming wedding, but I can only work with real stones. We are not supposed to even look at these."

And I don't blame them for at least having to act this way. A lot of these family stores have hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of natural diamond inventory that they took years to accumulate, and along comes something that is superior in every way for a fraction of the price.

Yes. In some other places around the world, the resistance to lab grown stuff has been violent. But the industry of natural diamonds is much more violent, and it is great to see that the way we mine diamonds will soon be a thing of the past.

I entered Saudi Arabia just this morning with a star of David necklace on my neck (yes it was under my shirt, but it wasn't hidden or anything). There was not even the slightest sign of discomfort nor disapproval. Just a friendly and helpful border officer who said, "Welcome to Kingdom. Have a wonderful time".

And this notion of separation into "undesirables" in Gulf countries is also just plain false. The UAE just granted visa-free access to Indian nationals.

I would check the information you are relying on if this is the kind of assumptions you are making.

I would absolutely trust a physicist (who has done actual empirical lab work) who has deeply studied a problem in the nutrition space over someone conventionally trained in nutrition.

You may be stunned to see how little numerical sense so many in the medical field have. And as someone who grows medicinal plants and follows that literature closely, I read tons of papers in that space. It is full of experimental design flaws and dubious correlations.

I have worked on a medical device that went through clinical trials.

Given how much PFAS has been found in remote corners of the world, I think it is safe to assume that most of the world has been touched by PFAS. Everywhere humans try to find PFAS, we find it. The reason we hear about it so often now is that we are checking for it everywhere. And like the article describes, there are new PFAS being discovered all the time.

This is a generational issue.