simonvc

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by simonvc 5y ago
Probably the NIH study that Nmn or NAD+ does improve glucose regulation in humans. (From memory, details might be wrong) David Sinclair's lifespan book goes into a lot of details. Ancedata, I'm taking 300mg of niagen daily just in
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by simonvc 6y ago
Sonic PI on the web, with repl.it like forking/remix would be really something.
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by simonvc 6y ago
Came to hacker news hoping there'd be someone to explain why this is snake oil.
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by simonvc 6y ago
We launched fronted using .xyz but a few suppliers (equifax and others) couldn't send or receive email to us, or view our website. Be warned.
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by simonvc 7y ago
Beatlejuice is 642 ly away. So it might have popped off already.
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by simonvc 7y ago
Don't know if it's still true, but i heard once the the UK phone number portability system was run on a yahoo group. (a quick google shows the rumors were true.. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf
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by simonvc 7y ago
Probably half the startups here are working from WeWork offices or have done at some stage..
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by simonvc 7y ago
Dont drink and drone.
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by simonvc 7y ago
Alternate + 45 minutes is a rule designed for airplanes that need a runway to land. Helicopters typically have 10m fuel reserve rules because they can land just about anywhere. I'd expect VTOL electric rules to be similar.
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by simonvc 7y ago
https://www.byeaerospace.com/bye-aerospace-announces-first-f...
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by simonvc 7y ago
Another project the "BYE" electric trainer is getting FAA certification right now, with 260Wh/kg Li-Ion
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by simonvc 7y ago
You know how that story ends right?
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by simonvc 8y ago
ICAO Air law rules date from 1949. Airlines are super aware of these treaties/rules whenever ownership changes hands. It's not like they thought about brexit as a particular scenario, it's more like, lets make sure the airlin
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by simonvc 8y ago
Came here to say this.. Had a great idea for using this to help train pilots to do the RT (i'm doing my PPL now, and this would be perfect..) The lack of JS optimizer means i can't really hack on what, could have become a nice pas
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by simonvc 8y ago
Have you opensourced that code? i'd be interested.. (i'm half the team that built IFTTT at Monzo)
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Monzo engineer tweeted ticketmaster breach hash as proof, months ago(tech.newstatesman.com)
5 points by simonvc 8y ago|0 comments
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by simonvc 8y ago
There are no Thylacines left. If there were, one would have been road killed by now. Source. Australian. Have had near misses with every kind of non-extinct Australian wildlife while riding motorbikes around tassie.
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by simonvc 8y ago
The Diamond Age - Neil Stephenson, touched on this.
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by simonvc 8y ago
No-one's said it yet so i will (but not my idea..) This is going to be super useful for a future Oculus AR headset. Basically, imagine the current oculus go headset, but with cameras on the front, and instead of showing you the actual
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Monzo now supports IFTTT(monzo.com)
9 points by simonvc 8y ago|1 comments
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by simonvc 8y ago
It was useful for sailors to be able to divide the day into shifts, so our day is the most divisible number of hours long. 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 That way you could have half days, quarter days, or third of days. An hour is divided into 60 minutes:
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by simonvc 8y ago
Have an upvote :)
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by simonvc 8y ago
The UK regulators have done amazing work making it possible to start new "challenger" banks. We started 3 and a half years ago, so this kind of guide would have been super useful for us at the beginning. It was a bit more opaque
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by simonvc 9y ago
These are MEO sats, not Geo stationary at 30,000km. The round trip for these will be about London to Edinburgh and back and we video conference that distance all the time.
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Monzo (UK) Opening Up API for Open Banking Access(monzo.com)
1 points by simonvc 9y ago|0 comments
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by simonvc 9y ago
More importantly, they acquired Russel Brown ( http://basho.com/posts/author/russell-brown/ )
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by simonvc 9y ago
I worked a Maersk for a couple of years. This happened once before, we came in and all Maersk's machines were randomly shutting down. I heard later a rumour that the reason the AV didn't pick it up was it was a 0-day (stuxnet deri
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by simonvc 9y ago
It only shows CC and Paypal for me :thinkingface:
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by simonvc 9y ago
Great that there's more options out there. Will there be an option to signup over TOR, and pay with ETH or BTC? I run free privacy/security classes for journalists, and some of them have said that their sources can't use paid
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by simonvc 9y ago
How much of it is inspired by Ethereum? /r/ethereum is assuming loads

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