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eosophoson Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Mine does

Yes. I've wondered about this for a while. Because although the microwave is supposed to be fully shielded, when I take EMF readings on it with my TriField TF2 EMF meter, it's spitting out >100mW/m^2 when it's turned on. And I've seen this happen with just about every microwave I've tried this on. The only ones that haven't seem to be those expensive integrated under-counter ones where the tray slides out rather than opens like a door. Also my phone still works/receives calls when I put it in there, so it can't be as good of a faraday cage as it's supposed to be...

eosophoson Borges’s Mirror

Is anyone aware of an attempt to make an infinite hexagonal library of code in the same vain?

eosophoson Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety

Check out the Mindfold.

eosophoson A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

Crypto is not a zero sum game, because money is being printed in the Forex markets all the time, which bleeds into the crypto markets. There is a lag time, called the Cantillon effect, between when money enters circulation, and the arrival of downstream purchasing power inflation.

eosophoson Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earnings for investment

Just went to apply, but seems they shut down the stipend applications for now because of overwhelming interest.

eosophoson Why I turned down my Y Combinator interview

Why won't banks provide loans?

eosophoson Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals

seconded. I would definitely use this, but only if I knew none of the text content was being shuttled to another server

eosophoson Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

Wow, thanks for your input. How much different was it 10 years ago?

eosophoson The Forgotten Home of Tennis’s Open Era

How does this belong on Hacker News?

eosophoson Instagram deprecates majority of their API

Why would this be happening? This seems to make their platform even more useless.

eosophoson First Detection of the 21cm Cosmic Dawn Signal

Apparently the particles need to be relativistic, maybe the Sun doesn't generate enough acceleration compared to the central galactic supermassive black hole?

eosophoson The Decentralized Future

How is trustless digital programmable peer-to-peer monetary transaction not a great solution to the antiquated, corrupt status quo?

eosophoson Coinbase Wants Wall Street to Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues

Just 1 Billion so far.

eosophoson Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments

What are the limits to how big the blocks can grow?

eosophoson This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies

off chain how? wouldn't that compromise decentralization and censorship resistance?

eosophoson Ethereum Adoption of Zk-SNARK Technology

Will this make ZEC obsolete once it's established on Eth's network?

eosophoson iPhone X

If you're already in handcuffs, can't they just as easily get your fingerprint?

eosophoson Cryptocurrency chaos as China cracks down on ICOs

> It's lost work though, and the amount of work is governed only by the level of competition with other miners, rather than the amount of effort involved insome external task

It's the cost of securing the network. It's not lost. Fees and rewards pay the miners for the cost of their computing cycles, to provide a secure, very difficult (near impossible) to attack network.

eosophoson The Cryptocurrency Singularity

This is a really good point. Why would anyone spend their crypto on amazon if it could be worth 30% more in a week?

eosophoson The Cryptocurrency Singularity

Once Bitcoin gets linked up with Litecoin, lightning network, and atomic swaps, seems like it will become more viable as a payment channel. It still beats me, however, as to why anyone would by anything with it if it might be worth twice as much in 6 months. Of course, it could also be worth half as much.

eosophoson Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper

like what else?

eosophoson Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper

What about all the oil it takes to produce the turbines?

eosophoson Instagram daily use surpasses Snapchat

I do not understand the hype about Snapchat... Doesn't IG do everything and more?

eosophoson The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined

Szabo sure seems like Satoshi. Interesting that they bash Litecoin though.

eosophoson The $100B per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax

One legged good mornings. Jefferson Curls. Ido Portal. Get good bodywork, thai massage/get a friend to grab handfulls of skin along your bones and pull and wiggle it. Make room for your tissues.

eosophoson Ask HN: What's your working day like?

Profession: "Web Engineer"

[6:10] first alarm. snooze twice.

[6:45] makes morning tonic, does some yoga

[7:15] gathers stuff and joins dad for ride downtown

[8] arrives at office. sets up workplace, browses reddit + HN

[8:30] gets a quick workout in. nobody else gets here til 9. feels good to be paid by the hour to get pump on.

[9] coworkers arrive, pretends to be doing techy stuff. wordpress yadda yadda...

[1030] go sit in the sun for a while on rooftop

[1] gets some whole foods

[430] leaves work

[5] yoga class

[630] metro

[730] home, piano, cryptocurrency research, instagram, keep up with friends...

[1030] bed

eosophoson Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute

So algorithms, thermometers, and neural nets are all conscious?

eosophoson Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute

Glad to see Ayahuasca get at least a passing mention here.

Let anyone who thinks they understand consciousness inhale >18mg of N,N DMT and return humbled.