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sasoon··on Mercury vs. Salt [video]
That is different form of mercury, bonded with carbon, which is easily absorbed by body.
sasoon··on Japan starts release of Fukushima’s treated radioactive water
Your body now emits 5000 becquerels, which is around 70 becquerels per liter of your body. So that Fukushima radioactive water is only 2-3 times more radioactive than you. That is why 20 Bq/L limit proposed by the ODWAC does not make much sense.
sasoon··on Stripe’s real pricing: a primer
Apple is not just charging for payment processing, you get access to the App Store marketplace with more than billion devices. With Stripe you only get payment processing.
sasoon··on Open Insulin Foundation
Absolutely wrong
sasoon··on A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices
They will not, whole process from water to hydrogen to fuel cell to electricity is very inefficient. You only get 1/3 of input energy back (if you use 100kWh to make hydrogen, you get back from the fuel cell 35kWh)
sasoon··on Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
Why are they redirecting it to duckduckgo.com, why not just use duck.com? Short and simple.
sasoon··on Forget $9,000… Bitcoin falls below $7,000
Maybe GPU prices will finally start to go down, especially after used 1080TIs flood the market
sasoon··on Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (1986)
I would say your phone in your pocket is probably 100,000 times more powerfull than computer in Apollo 13.
sasoon··on Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags
Here is my take on it few years ago. I tried to make it more like magazine, and get article text and photo, and there is a section with only articles that reached top position. http://www.hnzine.com
sasoon··on Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise?
Few years ago I created http://www.newswebreader.com (still functioning) website which is the web frontend for USENET. It has NNTP server in the background connected to other NNTP servers, and it displays groups, headers and posts similar to three pane Thunderbird. You can create an account and susbscribe groups, it remembers what messages you read.

Idea was in the end to make frontend to USENET that would look like Stack Overflow, with voting, and your replies would propagate back to USENET.

sasoon··on The Alzheimer's Enigma
The human brain is particularly rich in cholesterol: around 25 percent of all body cholesterol is accounted for by the brain. Every cell and every structure in the brain and the rest of our nervous system needs cholesterol, not only to build itself but also to accomplish its many functions. The developing brain and eyes of the fetus and a newborn infant require large amounts of cholesterol. If the fetus doesn’t get enough cholesterol during development, the child may be born with a congenital abnormality called cyclopean eye.

Human breast milk provides a lot of cholesterol. Not only that, mother’s milk provides a specific enzyme to allow the baby’s digestive tract to absorb almost 100 percent of that cholesterol, because the developing brain and eyes of an infant require large amounts of it. Children deprived of cholesterol in infancy may end up with poor eyesight and brain function. Manufacturers of infant formulas are aware of this fact, but following the anti-cholesterol dogma, they produce formulas with virtually no cholesterol in them.

One of the most abundant materials in the brain and the rest of our nervous system is a fatty substance called myelin. Myelin coats every nerve cell and every nerve fiber like the insulating cover around electric wires. Apart from insulation, it provides nourishment and protection for every tiny structure in our brain and the rest of the nervous system. People who start losing their myelin develop a condition called multiple sclerosis. Well, 20 percent of myelin is cholesterol. If you start interfering with the body’s ability to produce cholesterol, you put the very structure of the brain and the rest of the nervous system under threat.

Now, think about statins

sasoon··on The Alzheimer's Enigma
This completly focuses on finding the cure, but not much effort is spend on finding the cause.

Crude example, should we focus on finding cures for consequences of lead poisoning, instead removing the cause: lead in paint, cosmetics, fuels...

sasoon··on Keurig competitors crack company's DRM code
I do not understand why is anyone buying machines with pods. Expensive machine, expensive coffee, and creating garbage for each cup.

Is it so hard to put teaspoon of coffee in cup and pour hot water?

sasoon··on Hidden obstacles for self driving cars
Mercedes-Benz S 500 Intelligent Drive Autonomous Car Self Driving Car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHqB47F12vI

http://www5.mercedes-benz.com/en/innovation/mercedes-benz-in...

http://www5.mercedes-benz.com/en/innovation/autonomous-long-...

sasoon··on Tesla Motors plans to debut cheaper car in early 2015 (2013)
Cheaper Tesla car might be announced in early 2015, but it will not be available until Gigafactory starts making batteries. Battery cost is the main obstacle.
sasoon··on 2013, the year of Usenet
As a fun project, I have created web interface to Usenet with standard 3 panes like Thunderbird. It is free and without ads, has around 15,000 newsgroups, can be used without creating an account.

http://www.newswebreader.com

sasoon··on Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicle Energy Storage
Mythbusters folded it 11 times, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE
sasoon··on High resolution global climate mapping
This does not make any sense. They compare real data with made up data 80 years in the future.

Why they did not show 1950<->2012 comparison?

sasoon··on Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
Yeah, if I want to call UK number from my home network it will cost me 0.85€, and if I call the same number while roaming, it will cost me 0.30€ :-)
sasoon··on The doctors give me 30 days to live, each post is potentially my last
After reading day 2 and day 3, it started to sound fake
sasoon··on Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick
3 people died in uranium mines in the last 10 years

So that is 3 vs. 60,000 deaths for mining

sasoon··on If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
Here is one in Zagreb, Croatia. Scale is 1:680,000,000. Sun is in the center of the town, and it is 2m in diameter.

http://www.spottedbylocals.com/zagreb/zagreb-solar-system/

sasoon··on 447 Days Ago, I Found Out I Had Cancer
Cancer patients should not be recommended juicing fruits. Cancer feeds on sugars and fructose can promote cancer growth for some types of cancer:

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/70/15/6368.abstrac...

sasoon··on Producers of Minecraft Documentary upload their new movie to The Pirate Bay
I am currently downloading it, and I will buy 8$ download version just to support the guys, because they have guts to do something like this.
sasoon··on Ask HN: How many servers did you have/need at your startup's launch?
If you are outside the EU, you are automatically charged price without VAT.
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Or he could have change exif data and spoof his location
sasoon··on Apple - Think Twice
I was just about to buy MacBook Pro Retina 15, 16GB, 512GB, when I found out about this ghosting problem. I could not take the risk of getting faulty screen (I would have buy it on trip to US). I am surprised that Apple is not doing anything about it. This problem is known for months
sasoon··on Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
Why not just use localStorage instead of cookies?
sasoon··on Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.
Thanks :-). I get images usually from the manufacturer website.
sasoon··on Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.
Check if correct monitor size is selected (in upper right corner).
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