Alex3917

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by Alex3917 3y ago
> There isn’t much innovation happening since email is stable There are probably more Show HN launches involving email than any other product category.
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> I don't understand why there is no AR or VR killer app for this thing. Because if you go outside wearing this you're going to get instantly mugged. If they were to release something like Pokemon Go before the price comes down
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Given that the article couldn't even get his name correct, how accurately do you think they're going to be representing his ideas?
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by Alex3917 3y ago
There are only 8 billion people on earth, so even if every single account were fake that's still a huge improvement over the status quo where someone can spin up 8 billion fake accounts in an hour.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Most lawn weeds were brought here as food. One obvious exception is buttercups, which are poisonous.
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Given the fact that the Warhol Foundation has been accused of not authenticating legitimate pieces owned by the "wrong kind" of people in order to drive up the perceived value of the collection, it's still kind of poetic just
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Given that drinking coffee lowers your risk of getting Parkinson's by up to 80%, the lack of caffeine is probably doing more for your Parkinson's risk than whatever chemicals were used to decaffeinate it.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
The form of atypical Parkinson's caused by mitochondrial complex 1 inhibitors (progresessive supranuclear palsy) is not treatable, at least with normal Parkinson's drugs. My wild speculative guess is that many of the soldiers in t
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Which I agree with. I'm definitely not advocating that people take this stuff. Only pointing out that it's not completely obvious that it's harmful.
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These kind of Mitochondrial Complex 1 inhibitor induced Parkinson's are like 1% of cases. Granted these cases are probably highly underdiagnosed, but even if they really make up 10% of cases that probably doesn't change your overa
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> Remember all the talk about how we should all eat lots of anti-oxidants to prevent cancer? It turns out it's more complicated than that, and an anti-oxidant rich diet can actually increase cancer risk. Which is probably because Mi
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Go on Google Scholar and read through the research on Metformin. Metformin has a complex mechanism of action, acting is as a Mitochondrial Complex 1 inhibitor in some cases but not others. But the consensus seems to be that it reduces cance
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> It inhibits complex 1, the leading enzyme in a chain of reactions that convert food to energy in cellular organelles called mitochondria. So they upside is that it probably significantly reduces your risk of both cancer and type 2 diab
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> the hippopotamus is the world's deadliest large land mammal, killing an estimated 500 people per year I'm pretty sure that excessive consumption of beef and pork kills a lot more than 500 people per year.
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Isn't the feature freeze in a couple days though, or does that not apply to CPython?
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How does that reconcile with the benchmarks here, which say that Python 2.12 is currently somewhere between 5% slower to 5% faster? https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public
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If you do the 8 things the CDC says to do, you're already in the top 1% of the US population for cardiovascular health. Just doing those things is going to be a lot more effective than taking any supplements.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> The only upsides of Angular are its "batteries included" approach This basically trumps everything else though. Angular is likely going to have by far the lowest TCO for any projects with a 10+ year lifespan. Like, sure, you
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Angular v16(blog.angular.io)
165 points by Alex3917 3y ago|253 comments
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A Security Camera for the Planet(newyorker.com)
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by Alex3917 3y ago
At your level, OGS and KGS are great Go servers. I've never been to a Go club or even played the game IRL, but I'm currently a solid 3k, which is ~1750.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
This. Koyaanisqatsi might be more important in cinematic history, but Baraka is actually enjoyable to watch. IMHO the best use for Koyaanisqatsi is as an answer when playing charades.
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Cows are usually started outdoors and then finished indoors. There's no reason why farming couldn't follow a similar hybrid approach. That way you could e.g. grow tropical crops in New England, but still not have to pay for the ma
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This reminds me a lot of a different Armstrong repeatedly saying that he couldn’t be doping because he was the most drug-tested athlete in history. In reality, the law is perfectly clear and hasn’t changed in decades, so what would giving c
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> So, while readability isn't quite as important as correctness, it's more important than anything else. In most cases, readability is more important than correctness. If you have readable code, you can always make it work corr
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Fish fertilizer and manure-based fertilizer only smell for a day or two, so it very much is implied.
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> Between copious amounts of manure and liquified fish as fertilizer, you could always tell by the smell which farmers were looking to cash in on organic produce. Why would anyone fertilize their crops right before harvesting them for sa
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by Alex3917 3y ago
Content loaded via Embedly is cached after the first load. By default I think it's cached for a few hours. FWIW Mastodon isn't the only decentralized social network where you can embed published content into Medium; you can do it
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by Alex3917 3y ago
> The creamy mouthfeel is one of the reasons ice cream is so much better than "frozen dairy desert" or lots of frozen yogurts. The reason those have a weird mouthfeel isn't because they don't have fat, but because the
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by Alex3917 4y ago
Do it. After buying one, you’ll realize that saturated fat and sugar don’t actually contribute anything to the taste of ice cream, they’re just the cheapest way to ensure it stays the correct consistency when not made fresh. A pint of fat f

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