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by Alex3917 4y ago
> Do you know if you can get this beneficial UVA from an artificial lamp? I mean artificial tanning uses UVA lamps. But since you can get UVA even in winter, it's probably safer and more effective just to go outside.
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The reason covid is dangerous is because it binds overly tightly to your ACE2 receptors on the cells in your endothelium and damages them, and when enough of these receptors are damaged the cells die. This can cause all sorts of issues like
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> Equally we have many studies showing that vitamin D helps to reduce risk from covid (hint: it doesn't). But we know the reason for this; in order to get the circulatory and anti-viral benefits of vitamin D, you need to be exposed
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Amazon did the same thing to me recently. They shipped me the wrong socks, and are refusing the refund the money unless I send back the ones they sent me, despite the fact that it's blatantly illegal in the U.S. for a company to force
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> I thought the benefit of double-entry was that it make fraud and inconsistencies easier to catch, not detection of profit per se One of the key principles of double entry accounting is denominating profit and loss in a fungible currenc
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> mass production? Computers? The internet? None of these would have been possible without the invention of double entry accounting, because before double entry accounting you couldn't even really run anything larger than a family b
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> those that lost money in FTX weren’t consciously in on the con, but instead had (vastly) exaggerated expectations about the future of crypto? I've said multiple times on HN that I consider blockchain to be the most economically im
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> Never heard this definition, where did you read this? I mean literally the reason why everyone refers to crypto as "triple entry accounting" is because entries on the ledger are cryptographically signed, which makes ledgers l
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> The effort to paint over such blatant fraud and negligence and pretend it was all a mistake from a well-meaning kiddo is disgusting Let's not forget that the folks using FTX were only doing so in an attempt to steal money from oth
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You won’t, because the FDA will make it illegal for supermarkets to label their meat as being not lab grown, the same as they do for GMO foods.
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> Not that edible. The boiling point of cyanide is barely above room temperature, so it's very easily removed by heating. Same as with elderberry.
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> Your threat model now must include the GitHub account of every maintainer of every open source project you use. But GitHub is afaik the only site on the Internet that actually does account management correctly, so it least there is tha
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Espaliering fruit trees is popular even today. Obviously in this case people are just picking fruit off the water sprouts that shoot up each year rather than using the wood for other purposes, but the general idea is the same. The shoots ju
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> But above $50 or so, you're no longer paying for higher quality, per se. You can't walk into a grocery store and buy a tree-ripened banana no matter how much money you're willing to pay. This is sort of the proper way to
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> Anyone has any idea how to recover it other than.... find other number? The longer you've been locked out, the more confidence Google will have that it's really you trying to log in. That said, the system is really dumb. I ha
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Not that I don't think Elizabeth Holmes deserves this sentence, but when was the last time you heard about an investor get sentenced to a decade in prison for saying they'd make valuable introductions (or whatever) as part of the
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> It's a fun read, in a sort of True Crime sense. It sounds like it was purposely written to be the cold open of the inevitable Netflix miniseries.
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It's a new-ish Cornell cultivar that they are only licensing to growers within New York state. Probably the best commercial apple on the market today.
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Same here. I don't think I've been affected by a single deprecation since upgrading to Python3 in 2015, and even that upgrade wasn't that difficult -- mainly I was just forced to fix a few things I had been doing incorrectly,
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Not surprising, this is basically how Abraham Lincoln's mother died.
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The bigger threat to Garmin is probably just the new GPS. There are probably a lot of folks who will now put off buying their first bike computer for a couple years now that an iPhone with Strava is going to be almost as accurate as an Edge
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While atomic grouping can prevent this from happening again once you've already found the problem, the real solution is just making sure there is a timeout on your web process. That way even if you hit catastrophic backtracking, your s
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> It's reasonable to expect any car built in the last 50 years to operate as normal after hitting a pothole. The brakes on the Prius stopped working if you hit a bump or pothole, which is a pretty similar issue.
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Obviously. The only reason for them sending that tweet yesterday is if they were never seriously considering going through with the deal in the first place.
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> Firing based on LoC will definitely get rid of a few great engineers The average front end developer probably writes 10x the LOC of the best backend developers, so it may actually get rid of the majority of your best engineers.
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> I feel bad for the folks losing their job because that always sucks I'm not trying to minimize the fact that this sucks for those affected, but let's not also forget that prior to the acquisition, the employees were given mul
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Can't wait to see Magnus Carlsen deploy this against Hans Niemann.
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> Longtime Musk associates David Sacks and Jason Calacanis appeared in a company directory over the weekend, according to photos obtained by The Washington Post. Both had official company emails and their titles were "staff software
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No they won't. Twitter threads generate tens or hundreds of times more engagement than blog posts linked to from Twitter. Even getting 20 or 30k page views from making the front page of HN is nothing compared to the engagement that Twi

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