eagletusk | 6 years ago | on: Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations
Are thumbnails called illustrations industry wide?
This is my first time seeing this use.
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eagletusk | 6 years ago | on: The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection
More isometric than 3D ...
eagletusk | 6 years ago | on: Varanasi: India's city where people come to die
Terry Pratchett navigated this space in Choosing to Die a 2011 film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett:_Choosing_to_D...
eagletusk | 7 years ago | on: Renewables predicted to beat coal for the first time in US later this year
Ramez Naam likes to make predictions like this:
http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-ene...
eagletusk | 7 years ago | on: How much should I think of saving every month as a 29 year old?
supporting those less fortunate, that's admirable.
eagletusk | 7 years ago | on: Further Reflections on Amanita Muscaria as an Edible Species (2012)
Most of the nutrients in mushrooms are behind a cell wall of chitin, which is a fibrous substance consisting of polysaccharides and forming the major constituent in the exoskeleton of arthropods and the cell walls of fungi.
because of this chitin, eating a mushroom raw is not very nutritious and you miss out on most of the health benefits.
eagletusk | 7 years ago | on: Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry
Next up USA will bandwagon and put Frida on the 500 note like they did in Mexico in 2010.
eagletusk | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?
"At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are."
-John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
And another
"we sometimes lose sight of the fact that the mind, brain, and body all influence one another. In addition to feeling good when you exercise, you feel good about yourself"
Reading this book opened a door out of depression for me using the prescribed medicine, which is exercise and definitely wasn't easy.
eagletusk | 7 years ago | on: A Stampede of Meatless Products Overrun Grocery Store Meat Cases
How can one know the intention of a plant?
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Schools Struggle with Vaping Explosion
Nicotine is considered a nootropic that increases cognitive ability. Perhaps the kids are using it to up regulate their brains?
Studies here: https://www.selfhacked.com/blog/28-proven-health-benefits-ni...
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Amazon HQ2 Winner May Be Boston, Says Wells Fargo AI Program
I imagine it's possible without AI to solve this type of problem, but I think Wells Fargo needs all the help they can get.
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand
But government and self censorship is a real problem. Interesting juxtaposition.
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom
As an Electrical Engineering student at North Dakota State University I curled. Our team won the North Dakota State Championship. One of my friends was training for the Korean Olympics. It appears that I overlooked the market for brooms...
It's great to see technology being used to make athletes better even if it means changing technique.
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
Could it be Ralph Nader on Small Claims Court?
I successfully, based on this video took Verizon to court over an overcharge of just $12 and I won.
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: New Remote-First Formula and Updated Salary Calculator
Whoa $121k in Spain that's a superstar salary for a programmer there.
Average for programmer according to glassdoor is 35,000 euro = ~42,000 usd.
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Saudi Arabia arrests one of tech's biggest investors
Modernizing Saudi Arabia is more about religion than tech.
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
Miki Meek a radio producer who I meet on a 4 day trek through Guatemala has a This American Life about a phone booth in the middle of nowhere in Japan with no connections to power, people go there to talk to deceased loved ones. It's a beautiful piece of radio journalism. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/597/...
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
The should just call it by it's price tag.
iPhone $1k iPhone $1.2k iPhone $2k ...
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus miles
In Colorado this has been mapped
https://coloradogravelroads.com/
eagletusk | 8 years ago | on: The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
I have worked professionally in this space.
IMHO I can't imagine a technology that is closer to production that the Arduino, it gets you 90% and more importantly instills the limits of the technology before it goes to a electronic prototype house.
Prototypes are easy. Production is hard. This is the current issue with the Tesla Model 3, a few is easy, a full production line with all it's perils that's a massively harder proposition.
and there is always the Pit of Despair: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/909
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