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simik··on SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time
What would you call a politician's maximum job performance?
simik··on AMD’s Zen Summit Ridge 8-core CPUs on Par with Intel I7 5960X Extreme
What's the point of ECC RAM in consumer PCs?
simik··on Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
There are a quite a few "no more diabetes" stories in /r/keto, ketogenic diet subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/437lyj/nsv_take_that_... https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/1dws7z/nsv_defeated_d... https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/3v1nq3/nsv_im_officia... https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/41cu92/sv_nsv_pics_lo...

simik··on Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors
Some sort of subscription (a daily digest?) for new tasks in a category would be nice.
simik··on Typing with pleasure
I found that in such cases it's actually more productive to close my eyes while typing.
simik··on Moon Parka: Outerwear Made from Synthetic Spider Silk
If the fabric is made of proteins, can you eat it?
simik··on SpaceX issue still unknown after several thousand engineering-hours of review
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555
simik··on Should i be worried?
Same principle of SSL hijacking, yes. Probably used to scan your traffic for XSS attacks, JS and Flash-related vulnerabilities, and stuff like that.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889692/some-bitdefender-prod...

simik··on The Hacker's Diet
> your fat cells will only release fat when your blood sugar level is low

Nope, it's low insulin that unlocks fat cells, not low blood sugar.

simik··on MiniLock – File encryption software that does more with less
Small UX nitpick. You can't select the miniLock ID by double-clicking it. I think it was one of the reasons bitcoin used Base58 encoding.
simik··on Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go"
Deface different websites with chapters of the book? Each chapter being about a defect in crypto implementation that allowed you to deface that particular website.
simik··on Raspberry Pi Compute Module
Patiently waiting in a trash field for a future entrepreneur genius who would devise a way to extract on the cheap anything and everything useful from it.
simik··on How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
They should make a movie out of it.
simik··on Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)
Have you tried to control your diabetes with a ketogenic diet? Dr. Bernstein, a type 1 diabetic since 1946, is successfully managing his condition with it, and wrote a book about it.

http://www.diabetes-book.com/book/mylife.shtml

simik··on Avoiding Heart Disease
And, for good measure, a recent ABCTV documentary on the bad science of cholesterol-heart hypothesis and statins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTkyS5yV82Q
simik··on Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone models from Apple
Knowledge is not binary. Knowing more about what your phone is doing is better than knowing less.
simik··on Tesla Model X
Indeed, gull wings doors are dorky, that's why Tesla X has FALCON wings doors!
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