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vkdeltaon Exercise, eat right, get good sleep: The top ways to prevent so many diseases

A lot of it common knowledge/common sense, yet so hard to implement. Why?

vkdeltaon Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?

https://www.perell.com/newsletter

Good essays and interesting Friday finds section.

vkdeltaon Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?

Because simply US (upstream) frequencies are limited to 42 MHz or 85 MHz. They start at 5 MHz.

While in most cases downstream frequencies start from 54 MHz to 1 GHz

vkdeltaon Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool

Can I replace teamviewer with this? Their pricing is too expensive.

vkdeltaon exFAT in the Linux kernel

Does this mean it is royalty free now?

vkdeltaon Arrived – a new model of home ownership

https://www.ameenhousing.com/products/home-financing/buying-...

An example but not exactly similar

vkdeltaon Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

yes, Probably an apple bug. Will check with few folks. I typed the link manually. using it now! Great product. Have sent you few questions.

vkdeltaon Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

1. How would you compare your service with paid service "Circle" https://meetcircle.com/

2. How effective is it at blocking apps?

3. Will you OpenSource it?

4. Can you add some kind of Bash/scripts to configure profiles/settings on OpenSource routers such as OpenWRT, etc?

5. Will there be an API to control settings?

vkdeltaon Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

Is anyone having problem with redeeming this testflight code "AFDFPLP3" It does not accept "A" at the beginning.

vkdeltaon Spectrum is joining GitHub

same here, by title I wondered how can spectrum, the ISP can give anything at all for free.

vkdeltaon Show HN: Test Your Culture – What's your (English-speaking) cultural knowledge?

Site is dead

Internal error Sorry, but something went wrong with our code. Retrying may or may not fix it. (19284)

vkdeltaon Jobs at Google (1999)

What position? If you want to disclose.

vkdeltaon IRS reminds taxpayers to report virtual currency transactions

good read on 1031 Like-Kind exchange for those who are thinking about it.

https://www.mdmfinancialservices.com/cryptocurrency-and-like...

vkdeltaon Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC

what is the business model here? Sorry, I am confused here and website is not explaining it correctly.

I dont see what kind of "premium numbers" are available. Why would someone pay to talk to me?

would the caller have to register and provide CC number?

Is this call-back model which was used few years back on some website where some voice companies would offer call-back option from website (I think it used java that time) and it would cost per minute.

vkdeltaon Show HN: Cipher – Mobile Ethereum Web3 DApp Browser

Why? They would be separate transactions on Blockchain

vkdeltaon So Close

Yes, I edited it but got changed either by bots or mods.

vkdeltaon Show HN: Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents

link is dead. Please check if your server is dead. any alternate links?

vkdeltaon What makes a good crypto exchange? What do you look for in a crypto exchange?

Decentralized; low and transparent fees

vkdeltaon Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware

Comcast supplies any new customer with a D3.0 modem from one of their suppliers (Arris, Cisco (now Technicolor) or Technicolor). Some of these models are known to have horrendous wifi. If you get one of the old models, Please please turn to "BRIDGED" mode and buy a decent dual-band 802.11ac router.

go ahead and purchase one of the retail modems and a seperate. If you want option of upgrading the Firmware and controlling your Router, buy a separate modem and separate Router. A customer CANNOT upgrade any Firmware on the modem or if is a Combo device. If one of the Favourite vendor has a bug with Portforwarding or something, your modem is pretty much paperweight unless Vendor is willing to fix it quickly and Comcast can push the FW to you quickly. All this can easily take 3+ months for Urgent bugs.

If you are buying new modems and are on service tier > 100 Mbps, Please buy 16x4 Bonding Modems as minimum

If you are on extreme 250 or 300 Mbps package, Please buy atleast 24x8 or 32x8 modem. 32x8 modems based off INTEL puma6 had a critical latency bug but I have heard it is fixed in the field now.

If you are on Gigabit, you kind of stuck with Comcast modem for now until they let people active DOCSIS 3.1 modems. They can activate for other tiers but NOT gigabit.

edit: grammar

vkdeltaon Ask HN: Cheap Physical servers?

Try Great Lakes Computers. they sell HP/Dell Blades and Rackmount. I have bought from them couple of times for 20-40% of the price of the new Server.

http://www.glcomp.com/products/servers/dell-poweredge/blade-...

vkdeltaon DRM in HTML5

DRM in HTML5

vkdeltaon Show HN: hacking our set-top box

Do you have your email address here?

vkdeltaon Show HN: hacking our set-top box

Excellent! Thx for response. Just curious how many STBs you have. Why can't pull EPG data and use that as a source? But yes, won't get screenshots that way.

vkdeltaon Show HN: hacking our set-top box

Would you please explain STB component of the app? I don't see any.

vkdeltaon Watch Me Make Mistakes

Yes, for me too

vkdeltaon Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

Can you pls pm me? I have some questions reg. twc connection.

vkdeltaon Meet DOCSIS: the unsung hero of high-speed cable Internet access

In the world of netflix and Youtube, We dont see those unused slots. Almost every other slot has user data (except DOCSIS maintenance messages). Only other option is SCDMA which is not widely supported on the CMTS platforms (cable routers) and has many other issues attached to it. So, right now A-TDMA is our best bet.

vkdeltaon Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments

bought. read. Worth every penny 256 times.

vkdeltaon Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away

They multiplied it then. Now we have multiple trashbins.

vkdeltaon IBM looks back on 100 years of history, finds plenty to be proud of (video)

"We built and shipped it to 'Microsoft'" Hard to imagine something like that today.