I pay for NY Times and WSJ. If more people did that, we'd have less malicious "fake news."

If more people stopped blindly believing everything they read, there would be no such thing as malicious fake news, it would just be called "inaccurate information".

You know who did commit fraud and was never, ever prosecuted? The millions of homeowners who applied for mortgages they had no way of paying back.

I agree so long as you start at the top and work your way down.

Without any facts, I'm skeptical. He should either move on with his life, or make a formal complaint and/or a lawsuit.

Taking the middle road with a story with few details on Medium doesn't help anyone.

I didn't believe Bill Cosby's accusers. Neither did law enforcement. Seeing the cover of the magazine with so many accusers, yeah maybe I and law enforcement were both wrong and it needed a closer look. Didn't want to believe it.

It could be the same with all of these stories of law enforcement behaving very badly. It seems like a weird thing for so many disparate people to be fabricating. Maybe there is a problem and reporting it isn't getting toward a solution? If it happens to you, silence is almost certainly the wrong course of action. I don't want to believe there is an endemic problem with law enforcement either. What I want shouldn't matter at all.

Won't the bullies use this app to lure "losers" over and then make fun of them? I don't see how this will help.

This bad advice may have directly contributed to the deaths of millions of people.

I'm pretty sure AWildDHHAppears was being satirical, please don't downvote him/her.

It's speculated that cesarian births do not get exposure the the mother's vaginal flora and their microbiome does not get properly seeded.

I wonder if manually exposing the child to the mother's flora would be of any benefit.

A pilot study on this was published pretty recently with some success in terms of passing the mother's microbiome on to the infant, though that's still a long way off from determining the benefits.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v22/n3/full/nm.4039.html

Thanks for sharing this. Our firstborn was an unscheduled c-section and my wife is now pregnant with our second child. We will likely schedule a c-section this time and I want to do whatever I can to help create a healthy gut microbiome at birth.

Before my son was born, we tried to persuade our OB to allow us to do this, or at least to look at the research herself. She wouldn't budge.

As an aside, my son was born 12 lb 1 oz, he now weighs 31 lbs at 5 months. The same weight as my 3 1/2 year old daughter.

(31-12)3500/ (530) = 440 calories per day, or 18 oz of baby formula per day.

That's approximately 100% efficiency converting dietary calories into body mass, or massive water retention.

You could cure starvation across the world if you good identify the source of that.

How was it possible to forbid this procedure? Couldn't the mother (perhaps with some help from you?) just do it herself?

Given birth weight was already so high, I am skeptical flora has much to do with your son's case. How tall is he?

> Why would a person who had had a "Cesarean Birth" choose to eat more?

The described relation isn't between Cesarean Birth and choosing to eat more.

Definitely questionable, but maybe it's related to germs transferred during birth: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/post-cesarean-bacte...

That's why I keep them written down in my safe!

I do that too! I have the same "suffix" that's on all of them that I leave off the written version for a tiny bit of extra security. It's just a few characters that I've been using consistently for years on written-down passwords.

I'd be happy if all ads became served from the same domain, an integral part of the page (no popovers, popups, focus stealers, etc) and not-dynamic. That would remove 90% of my objections to them.

Third party ads with javascript can and have been used to introduce malware, through deception or zero-day/drive-by exploits, even on otherwise reputable sites. It is for that reason that I block ads.

I now whitelist javascript and use an adblocker after being hit by a drive-by javascript exploit that installed a bitcoin miner.

After taking these precautions, I haven't had an issue with malware since.

If everyone had to pay 20% down, house prices would be lower.

Probably, but from an economics perspective, i'm not sure who will push that position. There seems to be plenty of Lenders willing to take a chance with someone offering a lower down payments and in turn charge them a higher rate.

Because the mortgages are backed by the US government.

For conforming loans, yes. For jumbo loans, no.