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wolfv··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
The phone market is stuck at 1080p bc the screens are small. When the wearable market is large enough, someone will develop glasses with higher resolution.
wolfv··on News Minimalist – Only significant news
Great idea, the “here’s what different outlets are saying” feature. Stories that aren’t narrative-friendly to main stream media. Media blackouts to highlight propaganda and bias. Make it easy for reader to see the "manufactured consent"!

Subscribed to newsletter.newsminimalist.

wolfv··on Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci [video]
Evidence that social media companies were instructed to quell scientific views which opposed government lockdown measures. According to the legal case, the conspiracy extends to the highest levels of power in Washington, and primarily at fault is the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci.
wolfv··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
The 6*6*10 calendar is regular as possible. It has 6 months per year, 6 weeks per month, 10 days per week.

One month:

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59

60

Every month ends with a blank day (60), with the exception of the last month in non-leap years.

wolfv··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
From this 2019 study:

Serum concentrations of PFASs and exposure-related behaviors in African American and non-Hispanic white women

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-018-0109-y

Flossing with Oral-B Glide was associated with 24.9% (95% CI: 0.2–55.7) higher levels of PFHxS

Exposure to these chemicals and draws attention to coated cardboard prepared food containers and dental floss as modifiable sources. Fast food packaging show that fluorinated chemicals are detected more frequently in paper wrappers than in paperboard containers.

Eating food prepared with nonstick cookware had no significant association with PFAS levels.

wolfv··on Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
A channel from the other side of nutrition science: https://www.youtube.com/c/PlantChompers/videos
wolfv··on Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?
Nutrition Certificate program is interesting and personally useful: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/certificates/nutrition/plant-ba...
wolfv··on Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
Consumer Reports 5-Year Index does not contain the word "moving": https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...
wolfv··on Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
exhibit A: The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Diplomacy_failure_... In January 1964, President Johnson attempted to convince United Auto Workers' president Walter Reuther not to initiate a strike just before the 1964 election and to support the president's civil-rights platform. Reuther, in turn, wanted Johnson to respond to Volkswagen's increased shipments to the United States.[15] The Chicken Tax directly curtailed importation of German-built Volkswagen Type 2s in configurations that qualified them as light trucks.

wolfv··on The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
Check out the whole-food, plant based diet: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-and-atherosclero...

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-alzheimers-gene-control...

Credentials of research scientist behind the whole-food, plant based diet: https://wfpb-wolf.netlify.app/maturity.html

wolfv··on Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
I should have said, "The consensus is that healthy diets contain mostly whole foods from plants."
wolfv··on Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
There is now enough evidence that there is a good amount of consensus among nutrition researchers:

https://wfpb-wolf.netlify.com/consensus.html

https://wfpb-wolf.netlify.com/scientific_studies.html

wolfv··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
There is no RDA for meat consumption.
wolfv··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The Chukudu is more practical and simpler than the penny-farthing. And the roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo are rough.

Leonardo da Vinci could have built a Chukudu in 1490.

wolfv··on Open source Molten salt nuclear reactor design
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatomic_Power

In 2018 the company announced that it would be winding down and open source its intellectual property.[5] The company discovered that in 2016 it had made errors in its early analysis and realised that the design couldn't consume nuclear waste. [6]

wolfv··on Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
Dr. Greger has a different take on the data. From https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-risks-and-benefits-of-s... (transcript and sources cited are below the video)

Concerning the Swedish study: Why would those that run around outside enough to get skin cancer live longer? Maybe it’s because they’re running around outside. More exercise may explain why they live longer. And here in the U.S., more UV exposure was associated with a shorter, not longer, lifespan.

Estimates about vitamin D preventing internal cancers are from intervention studies involving giving people vitamin D supplements (not exposing people to UV rays).

wolfv··on Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment
A 3-minute video of Dr. Gregor on diabetes: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabete...

For more information, search the nutritionfacts.org site for "diabetes".

The whole-food plant-based diet is the healthiest diet for humans.

wolfv··on Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations
It will never happen. The US can't even get on the metric system. The UN couldn't even reform the calendar to have uniform quarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar http://strangeside.com/time-sabbath-on-tuesday-364-day-year/
wolfv··on Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations
I invented this very regular calendar while I was writing recurring-scheduling software for a scheduling tool:

https://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/6*6*10_regular_calendar

It was my fantasy escape from the crazy irregularities of the Gregorian calendar.

wolfv··on A new film captures North Korea’s ‘bold and audacious’ millennials
A 52-minute documentary on how entrepreneurs operate in North Korea. And you thought Silicon Valley was tough!
wolfv··on Is nuclear fusion poised to deliver?
Damage from high-speed neutrons is deal killer. Periodically replacing neutron-damage magnets is too expensive.
wolfv··on Is nuclear fusion poised to deliver?
The article fails to mention the elephant in the room: damage from high-speed neutrons. From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-small-fusion-... Deuterium-tritium fusion releases most of its energy as high-speed neutrons, which damage steel parts and gradually turn them radioactive.

In contrast, much simpler Molten-salt-fueled reactors can burn current stock piles of spent fuel rods. Safely generating electricity while reducing nuclear waste. References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_Salt_Reactor#Molten-salt...

http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf

The molten salt reactor (MSR) in generation IV: Overview and perspectives http://www.daretothink.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/serp14...

wolfv··on Bret Victor: Seeing Spaces [video]
I agree. The big-screen control-center examples he gave are for monitoring a mission in real time. The Hadron Collider scientists analyze the data later on ordinary-size monitors. Its the systematic data collection that is important.
wolfv··on The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
Thanks for the post Bruce.

Have you considered applying aluminum foil to the outer shell with contact cement, to eliminate solar gain and plastic breakdown?

wolfv··on Tell HN: An Observation
Did this decline start when Hacker News Daily opened? The Hacker News Daily lists the 10 highest-rated articles from Hacker News at http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

Maybe some readers are less engaged because they skip the http://news.ycombinator.com and go straight to Hacker News Daily.

wolfv··on Ask HN: Non-programming part time jobs?
You sound like an "idea person" like myself. Realize that the supply of ideas far exceeds the skills needed to implement those ideas. Spend a few years learning to implement solutions at employer expense (a programming job is good). When you have sufficient skills and experience, you can start your own business. A programming job is not so depressing if you think of it as a means to acquire skills needed to fulfill your dream. Maybe you are depressed because it takes so long to learn those skills. If you already have the skills, quit your job and start working on your own ideas.