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visavaon Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

I am trying prospanish (prospanish.co.uk) free lessons on youtube. I think this approach of pyramid/Lego learning is fastest and easiest way to quickly learn how to converse.

visavaon Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity

The solution to obesity is simple. People want tasty food . It is possible to make it with healthy ingredients. But market is flooded with white flour,sugar,wheat and milk products. It takes effort to prepare it yourself.

visavaon India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures

While california and Florida are going against green energy

https://engage.tesla.com/articles/1105-california-stop-solar...

https://www.ecowatch.com/rooftop-solar-florida-2656084105.ht...

visavaon A Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men (2007)

https://www.healthline.com/health/pine-pollen#:~:text=Testos....

visavaon Delta does not appear to make children sicker

https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

visavaon How does the coronavirus kill?

A statistic that needs to be gathered is correlation between levels of Vitamin D,C,A B12 and deaths

visavaon Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says

Time to look at out of the box solutions https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

visavaon New pill can deliver insulin

It is not just about carbohydrates.It is the healing by natural minerals vitamins from fruits and vegetables which cannot be replaced by supplements. There is a long science with research papers which cannot be explained here.

visavaon New pill can deliver insulin

This diet with stopping milk products can. Milk protein with 17 rings similar to beta cells. Body in an attempt to kill milk protein which escapes into blood without breaking down the ring structure also kills beta cells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edofibXOiM watch at 48 mins

visavaon New pill can deliver insulin

Plant based diet can reverse diabetes ( I and II ). For type I milk products need to be stopped. Take 1% of your bodyweight as fruits. Take 1 % of your body weight as Raw ( uncooked ) vegetables. Take 10% of that vegetable quota as green leafy vegetables. Based on China Study by Colin Campbell.

e.g. weight 150 pounds 1.5 pounds fruits before 1 pm 1.5 pounds raw vegetables for the day If you are still hungry you can eat cooked food after completing daily raw fruits vegetable quota. Avoid all animal,milk,processed packaged products and heated oils. Will reverse diabetes in 3 days for newly detected patients. Add 1 day for each year you have diabetes

https://biswaroop.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgxvGu4fuGo&t=561s lookup his youtube videos

visavaon Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet

So far anybody found out the root cause of cancer. Without knowing the root cause difficult to find a good bug fix.

visavaon India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win

How many Iraq civilians were killed in Gulf war compared to 2000 in Gujrat riots. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/iraq-death-toll_n_4... There have been many communal riots in India since 2002 but Gujrat has been peaceful place since 2002.

visavaon Ask HN: How to save my career at 35

I am 41 and immediately get calls for Programming jobs and also as architect etc. Work with a resume writer.They know how to best present a resume.

visavaon Ask HN: Alternative Cancer Cures

http://www.dilipkumargoswami.com/success-story-no-7/

Look at this success story and some others on this site using cures from the site I mentioned

visavaon Ask HN: What do you think of the new mobile Ubuntu OS?

We have a Java Swing application on Desktop. Our clients who are field agents are asking for a tablet version.Being a small company (2 people) we do not have resources to build an Android version. Java command does no even run on android os command line after installing java. For us dual boot linux and Android is the only way out on tablets.

visavaon U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse

Who Rules America http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...

visavaon A Dust Over India

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/kmu/kmu03.htm

visavaon Bill Gates: We need crazy energy entrepreneurs

With all the wind in bay area a wind mill in every house can solve major part of energy problem. But HOA rules are the roadblock in their widespread installation

visavaon Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM [video]

try grails http://www.grails.org. Java/groovy version of ROR. It also has a clojure plugin

visavaon Why I won't be using Groupon again.. A consumer perspective.

Maybe we need a site ( or a yelp feature ) where Groupon experiences are reviewed

visavaon Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform

A good social network needs to build real life grouping like school friends, office colleagues, relatives, family etc. Sharing of photos, updates and read permissions by group needs to be built in. But the big question is can they compete at this time with FB. How many people will switch just for this reason.

visavaon Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses?

http://patrick.net/housing/crash3.html Analysis to help you decide whether to buy or rent.

visavaon Rent the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb

collect 700 people using groupon like site and then it is just $100/night.This is an idea for a site if there are more deals like this

visavaon Fighting to Shut Out the Real India

I was once told that if Hell is here then Heaven is also here. The Heaven is hidden from material eyes.300 - 1000 years back it was present even in the material form.But it attracted lot of crusaders. So now the heaven is hidden by poverty and slums.The heaven is in the form of spiritual knowledge which can lead you to self relaization.Only people actively on the spiritual path can relate to this.

visavaon What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago

I stopped reading techcrunch a year back. I will stop reading HN for the next 60 days

visavaon Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

Linode guys contacted me that my server was being used to carry out ssh brute force attacks. I saw that somebody had created a user named test on my Linode. I think it might be related to postfix or dovecot. After I stopped those services so far there have been no problems. The other services I have running are Apache, Tomcat and ssh.

visavaon Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

I am currently using 2 Linode 512 MB servers for a simple free application. One of my Linode got hacked recently. But for another paid app I am exploring other options like PEER1 for managed Security such as IDS and Managed Firewall / Load balancer. It would cost significantly more than ($600 - $1200) Still not sure whether I should be managing my own security using tools such as OSSEC/Snort or outsource it.

What are the solutions everybody is using for Load Balancing and Security.

visavaon Ask HN: Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?

One of my friend created a Desktop software for small business.He was giving free trial license and download for 30 days. Adwords gave him 50 daily propsects.It took him 6 months to get his first customer and 2 years to reach 200 total sales. But in the process he learnt a lot about that specific industry ,added lot of features to his product and also added an online offering. Now he is selling 60 a month.

visavaon My [husband] works for Electronic Arts, I'm ... a disgruntled spouse. (2004)

Even in 2004 why work $40/hr if you are a good programmer. If you like game programming make one for yourself while relaxing in a boring Big Corporation.

visavaon Why Everyone is Afraid of Apple

After using the Mac for the first time ( bought it just for iPhone development ) I was impressed . Forget iPhone and iPad , what if Mac becomes the standard. Read 'Mac is back' by Paul Graham. Many of my friends who do not do any programming bought Mac recently. Windows PC now feels like a waste of time to me. Maybe the masses will catch up later.