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chordalkeyboard

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These aren’t my boards but this is originally why I came here: https://www.gboards.ca/ .
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chordalkeyboard··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
> overdosing on protein long term will mess up your body in number of ways

1g protein per pound of lean bodyweight is not an 'overdose' and has no ill effects, long term or otherwise.

the rest of your comment is good advice.

chordalkeyboard··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
> What physician is saying no to preventative medicine paid for by the consumer?

its more common than you think; and many professionals resent the idea that its anything resembling a 'free market' where a 'consumer' (patient) can 'order services' without their provider's approval.

as you might imagine there are reasonable-sounding prima facie arguments for both sides of this discussion.

chordalkeyboard··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
> We have enough uranium to last for millions of years at current consumption levels

this is because we don't use very much nuclear power. There is currently enough known uranium reserves to provide 2 years of global energy production at current rates.

chordalkeyboard··on Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
they claim to have controlled for that. you may share my skepticism of the accuracy of such a claim.
chordalkeyboard··on Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
do you have a link or reference to the paper or talk, please?
chordalkeyboard··on Paper map sales are booming
AAA will also print them themselves and mail them to members upon request.
chordalkeyboard··on Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)
> El Salvador switched from wire transfers to BTC because the president wanted to.

The country switched to using BTC as legal tender because it was already being used as local currency because the people were using it for payments due to the lower fees.

> That person is usually going to charge more commission than Western Union for the privilege of doing so, because they can.

It seems like you're assuming this to be the case without having any real knowledge of the situation. BTC was adopted by El Salvadorans exactly because they were able to spend less on fees over the competition.

chordalkeyboard··on US Supreme Court releases leak investigation report
Perhaps the leak was not by a justice and they could hold a member of the staff to account.
chordalkeyboard··on Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)
not really, El Salvador switched from wire transfers to BTC exactly because the fees were lower.
chordalkeyboard··on Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)
Western Union being free is the outlier here.
chordalkeyboard··on Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)
what you're missing is that Bitcoin is still a prototype. The intent was for it to be decentralized but people are still trying to achieve that, and once it became popular, it became overrun with scams and get-rich-quick schemes.
chordalkeyboard··on US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F
> A modern heat pump can give 3-5 kWh of heat using 1 kWh of electricity.

At lower temperatures the modern heat pumps cannot attain this COP, which is why they are working on heat pumps that work at lower temperatures.

chordalkeyboard··on A Christmas Tautology (2020)
cosmic ray induced mutation
chordalkeyboard··on Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees?
while literacy is an advantage, its hardly unfair.
chordalkeyboard··on Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees?
you need a farm manager with experience managing operations of this size, in this region, with this crop. good luck finding one who is trustworthy.

aforesaid manager is also a person who would be essential if and when you choose to sell this farm.

chordalkeyboard··on On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties
> The whole concept of using poisonous chemicals to alter your brain state was and still is very alien to me. I just don't get it. Willingly disrupt your body's functions on a cellular level hoping for something good, while all the scientific evidence points only to the bad? Still don't get it.

So in the ancestral environment they fermented grain (first by accident, then on purpose) which became a means of preserving the calories from competitor organisms. This phenomenon probably co-evolved with agriculture and predates written records.

Note that in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh (agricultural) and Enkidu (a 'wild man' which would imply he came from a pre-agricultural, foraging people) were to fight but they gave Enkidu beer and a woman. This probably indicates that beer was something the agriculturalists had and the 'wild men' did not.

chordalkeyboard··on Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
well the gp's point is that it literally is not 'just as easy' because the space of possible passwords increases greatly with each character, such that 'dog' is much, much easier to bruteforce than 'doggie12'.
chordalkeyboard··on Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
short passwords are still a security weakness even when properly stored because the time necessary to brute force them is relatively low.
chordalkeyboard··on Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
there is also a disconnect between password requirements and automatically generated passwords, where often the auto-generated password contains prohibited characters.
chordalkeyboard··on On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties
I gave up drinking in my early twenties, not because I chose to, but because I was forced to. I replaced it with drinking in my mid-20s.
chordalkeyboard··on Cormac McCarthy loves a good diner
see also The Philosophy and Physics of Cormac McCarthy with Patrick O'Connor

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hermitix/id1437997652?...

chordalkeyboard··on What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?
> The people storing popsicles don't necessarily need to have anything to do with the people who dream of someday unthawing them.

Generally speaking the thing they have in common is the funding required to do the cryonic enterprise.

> If some rich person wants to pay to keep an expensive freezer running for a specified amount of time after they die, that creates a sound business opportunity for someone who is willing and capable of running a freezer.

The question is "why would some rich person want to pay to keep a freezer running after they die?" in the case of cryonics the answer is usually because they have some expectation that they could be unfrozen and revived in the future.

chordalkeyboard··on What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?
> My understanding is that no one has been (intentionally, carefully) thawed after being vitrified using "modern" techniques, so we really don't know what condition a body would be in after unthawing using current technology.

why haven't they tested this on animals or non-paying cadavers? It would seem unwise to pay to keep vitrified bodies frozen if one had no understanding of how the bodies would be when they were unfrozen.

chordalkeyboard··on Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022?
Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1

https://youtu.be/vxkg_klE5Xw

chordalkeyboard··on Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?
amortize that cost over the population that is covered; perhaps discount the services utilized by residents who pre-pay and charge a premium for those who pay on the spot.
chordalkeyboard··on [dead]
> Despite the multi-century head start that banks had, the percentage of people in the world with a smartphone has already exceeded the percentage of people with a bank account, and is rising at a faster rate. There’s no reason why everyone with a smart phone shouldn’t be able to access basic financial services including good money.

oh there is a reason.

chordalkeyboard··on The Uninhabitable Earth (2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

There are more than enough apocalypses to go around even if the optimists are right about this one.

chordalkeyboard··on Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)
if they weren't different then why would the bond need to be converted from one to the other?
chordalkeyboard··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
face value is 3000 Australian Dollars.
chordalkeyboard··on Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)
conceptually they are different. stocks are equity and bonds are debt.
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