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eagletuskon Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations

Are thumbnails called illustrations industry wide? This is my first time seeing this use.

eagletuskon The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection

More isometric than 3D ...

eagletuskon 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...

eagletuskon 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...

eagletuskon How much should I think of saving every month as a 29 year old?

supporting those less fortunate, that's admirable.

eagletuskon 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.

eagletuskon 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.

eagletuskon 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.

eagletuskon A Stampede of Meatless Products Overrun Grocery Store Meat Cases

How can one know the intention of a plant?

eagletuskon 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...

eagletuskon 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.

eagletuskon Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand

But government and self censorship is a real problem. Interesting juxtaposition.

eagletuskon 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.

eagletuskon 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjH4Us0n0QY

eagletuskon 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.

eagletuskon Saudi Arabia arrests one of tech's biggest investors

Modernizing Saudi Arabia is more about religion than tech.

eagletuskon 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/...

eagletuskon 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 ...

eagletuskon MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus miles

In Colorado this has been mapped https://coloradogravelroads.com/

eagletuskon 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

eagletuskon Ghost Pepper Rips Hole in SF Man's Esophagus, Collapses His Lung (2016)

It's noteworthy.

eagletuskon How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

I concur r/nofap is an amazing sub-reddit where random people are genuinely offering encouragement to each other. It's great.

eagletuskon As opioid overdoses exact a higher price, communities ponder who should be saved

Why hasn't the price come down. Can we expect the cartels to start to manufacture opioids and anti-opioids?

eagletuskon How HBO’s Silicon Valley Built “Not Hotdog” with TensorFlow, Keras and React Native

Will it block Canadian hotdogs shot on USA soil? How about Mexican hotdogs? Asking for a friend.

eagletuskon Teespring’s valuation plummets from $650M to about $11M

Where have people stopped wearing graphic tees? That has not been my experience.

eagletuskon Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016

Norway and Tesla sales: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/03/11/288611696/n...

Norway's fund has actually start to divest from fossil fuels in a large way : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/05/norways-...

eagletuskon Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

Maybe for like 0.5% of the climb they could do that, if Alex was close and he could somehow get a harness on, they could help him.

If he got injured it's not like he could step left and there is a magical video game ledge that appears, It's all or nothing.

eagletuskon Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

I believe you are referring to this Nautilus article

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...

eagletuskon Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

Or someone can drop gear.

10% of El Cap accidents are falling objects http://www.climbingyosemite.com/portfolio/danger-zones-nose/

eagletuskon How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?

Alan suffered a pretty major injury to his leg a few months ago, it's unclear if he will be able to climb mountains again, but we all are pretty sure he will find a way.

http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2017/05/05/broken-leg-update...