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fintechieon Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means

The folks at Google Cloud have been storing chain data for public access for a long time

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

fintechieon Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative

Congrats, the project looks solid. It's obviously targeted to JS devs who are familiar with firebase or want an easy/similar abstraction for realtime apps. It's great to have several great frameworks tackling the same problem with different flavours (Hasura, Phoenix, Supabase, etc), all with postgres as first class citizen.

I feel like the key is in the choice for the realtime backend (Phoenix/Elixir). I've built real-time firebase apps (JS) in the past and today my choice would probably be Phoenix. It also saves many LoC (80-90%?), and it's a joy to work with. Reduces the JS fatigue and opens up a new paradigm that makes programming fun again.

fintechieon New video of Intelsat 29e satellite reveals dramatic “anomaly”

Orbital debris from India's anti-satellite test?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/02/a-terrible-t...

fintechieon Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

I guess there was also hatred for the English and the Spaniards the first time they put their feet on american soil...

fintechieon Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

If you lose allicin you lose some nice properties (antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, etc):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10594976

fintechieon Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

> "if you put some berries in a blender and drink it, you're getting entirely different nutrition from eating the berries raw!" That second one is a bit of a strawman, but it shows how absurd claims that crushing or grinding foods ruins the nutrition sound.

Well, for many foods this is 100% true. For instance, it's not the same eating raw garlic, than freshly smashed garlic (<10mins), than garlic smashed 20 minutes ago... because allicin (main active compound of garlic) is unstable and quickly degrades into another compounds...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allicin

fintechieon How to Build Muscle

I've been on bodybuilding.com for many years... yes, there are thousands of bro-science meatheads there, but also valid people, with valid advice. For instance Jim Stopanni is a research fellow at Yale University School of Medicine... (although lately he's been overusing his credentials for selling his line of supplements)

http://www.bodybuilding.com/author/jim-stoppani-phd

fintechieon Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

> Correct my if I'm wrong...

You are very wrong, plus you are talking to jerguismi (localbitcoin's founder), who I'd presume has made quite a bit from arbitrage in the space...

fintechieon The WTF-8 encoding

I wonder what will be next? Calling a sports association "WTF"?

http://www.worldtaekwondofederation.net/