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throwaway_4ever··on U.S. Ship Sunk by Germans in 1917 Is Found Off English Coast
You realize Germany is the one who invaded Belgium and France, leading to 4 million Allied civilians dead?
throwaway_4ever··on NMN: A Stable, Reliable NAD+Activator and Anti-Aging Molecule (2020)
This Dr. Stanfield? /s

"Molecules I Used To Take But Have Now Stopped

NMN:

I focus on stopping my NAD from declining by using Apigenin, Quercetin, Fisetin, Niacin, regular exercise, a great diet, periods of safe fasting, and restful sleep.

Since I’m 30, there’s not a reason for me to take NMN in addition to the above strategies at the moment.

As I enter my mid-30s, if my NAD levels are going down I will start taking NR.

At this stage, there is far more published human data on NR compared with NMN. NR also has its Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) certification from the FDA. For those reasons, I would start NR, and not NMN."

https://drstanfield.com/my-supplements/

throwaway_4ever··on NMN: A Stable, Reliable NAD+Activator and Anti-Aging Molecule (2020)
Before taking this, please read https://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics/nicotinamide-mononucle... and the possible link between NMN and increased cancer prevalence. I believe the research is still too early and there is a risk with this compound.
throwaway_4ever··on The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
It's not so much mental illness (edit: NVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kKDRbk97Ec and https://youtu.be/eGEISS89Vec?t=26 ) as it is delusions of grandeur and a mid-life crisis (sorry pontifier).

He's proposed 10 entirely different uses for the warehouse (go karts, makerspace, fusion reactor, corporate office, science museum, etc.). He's not paying professionals to get up to code so he can get permits. He doesn't have the money to pay for security (that size would need 6 people, $50k/year, $300k/year). He's still buying more property and imagining huge parties and living in it like a penthouse suite.

He mistakenly thought the purchase price was all you need, and you're in business. But you need way more capital to attempt fusion (what?). You need to invest a huge amount into building codes, security, and focus on one project at a time.

throwaway_4ever··on Supabase-JS v2
Anyone running projects with just Next.js + Supabase and no traditional backend?
throwaway_4ever··on Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
> Also, my people will sometimes act nice to you even if they hate you. If you're here a while you will learn to recognize it.

"Bless your heart"

throwaway_4ever··on Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer
Brave, Brendan Eich's (previous Mozilla CEO) new company and browser, has raised $42m and has probably ~220 employees. He said even then, they had to fork Chromium because they didn't have the resources to actually do all the work involved in a feature complete browser engine. So I'm guessing $500m funding, because even Microsoft didn't invest in an outside-Chromium engine for Edge.
throwaway_4ever··on Investing in Flow
And if you want a TL;DR:

Andreesen, who this article is written by, was himself trying and succeeding to get his own city council to axe housing development in his own neighborhood, causing the very problems he's writing about.

throwaway_4ever··on Ask HN: How do you decide which language/tech stack to learn?
Shopify also uses React Native: https://shopify.engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopi...
throwaway_4ever··on Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial
Not mountain lions? https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/j9w5k2/cougar_stalks_m...
throwaway_4ever··on Will that college degree pay off? You can see the numbers
It's both. I had a variety of things I wanted to study: philosophy, economics, history, and computers. I took electives where I could and majored in CS so I could pursue the rest in my leisure time. The alternative had worse odds of letting me study the others in my leisure time.

You're OK with post secondary being paid for by tax, but not PhD's, why? Why not two PhD's?

I am ok with the basic critical thinking skills useful in navigating life being taught. I believe public school is designed that way and accomplishes that much better than post secondary. I've seen the general psychology, business admin, arts, sociology, and criminology cohort that public universities pump out in the last 5 years. They aren't swimming in unique insights and most worthy of the substantial financial investments we could make elsewhere.

I would have 0 respect for someone that wants a free 4 year ride to study sociology in a pampered university setting, while opposing critical financial aid to the impoverished Ukrainians dying to defend their country.

throwaway_4ever··on Ask HN: What are examples of activities/bets with asymmetric upside?
Counting blackjack at casinos actually has asymmetric upside as OP words it. Most of the time, you're placing minimum bets slowly losing at -0.5% EV a hand, gaining information on the count. But when the count is high, you're making 8-10x bets at 1 - 2.5% EV and raking in so much, on average, that you come out ahead at like EV 1%.
throwaway_4ever··on Will that college degree pay off? You can see the numbers
For example, in the most populous US state, California, there's a CSU within commuting distance of probably 95% of the population, had for $6k/year, such that student loans at 4% mean a cost of $960/year interest. If you were truly financially savvy (and not having the rest of your countrymen paying for your dorm fraternity experience), the first two years would be community college, at a cost of $2k/year and an interest cost of $640/year.

But maybe I'm biased since I paid for my 3 years community college and 2 years of UC by choosing Computer Science and paying for the $30k with my first year's salary. All of my peers had that option.

throwaway_4ever··on Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?
Many of us were born with with significant talents useful for one of the history of the world's most lucrative professions. I believe we have a bit of duty to do good for most of the rest of the people who never had the same chance, to live high quality of lives for all of us.
throwaway_4ever··on Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense
> The US invaded Iraq later on because of their oil

Tell me you don’t know geopolitics, without telling me…

I mean, why write so much and get such a biggie wrong.

throwaway_4ever··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
Except that 99% of chicken is factory farmed living a dreadful non-moving existence in boiler rooms.
throwaway_4ever··on A shortage of Dijon mustard in France
> between the US narrative back then and the Russian one today, there is no big difference.

The US war in Iraq can be unjustified, while the US' intention against an actually terrible Saddam regime being benevolent, while Russia's is actually selfish territorial control and Donbas resources. Equating the Saddam regime to Zelenskyy's Ukraine is egregious.

throwaway_4ever··on A shortage of Dijon mustard in France
> living him alive in 1991

what?

1991 was the same decision to make as 2003, except they chose restraint. When they flipped in 2003, almost everyone universally agrees, including you

> the US war in Iraq was unjustified

it was a bad decision, thus 1991 was the right move.

throwaway_4ever··on Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising
The one who's less guilty of humanitarian violations in that scenario? Don't support America, Russia, or China when they act to make peoples' lives worse. It's like having two really good friends (husband and wife) and the husband starts beating the wife. You're not going to support him just because he's the closer friend. With that said, it's important to remember that many people will do just this and immigrants in a country can wrongly support their origin country. cough supporting Russia right now cough
throwaway_4ever··on France experiencing worst drought on record
US Democrats have just passed a huge bill involving climate change mitigation. Republicans are using it as a whipping stick to tell Americans that Democrats don't care about them, climate change is hogwash, and we should instead be focusing on cost of living involving inflation (which Democrats are already doing in tandem).
throwaway_4ever··on France experiencing worst drought on record
I'd say 'Don't Look Up', but on second thought, the venn diagram of climate change denialists and people who don't realize the movie's a satire about climate change is almost a circle.
throwaway_4ever··on Ask HN: Is ease in getting started the key for Python's success?
No, Python is not the easiest to get started with due to the configuration in the beginning involving virtual environments and different Python versions from system (venv, pyenv, conda, and all the differing tools and tutorials one comes across).

No, the key to Python's success is that it's the most English-like language. It's succinct and reads very well. While most langs use &&, ||, and !, Python uses 'and', 'or', 'not', 'in', 'with', etc. This is a huge boon for novices that aren't comfortable by the sudden influx of symbols compared to natural language. Thus, it's adopted by most intro to programming university curriculum and leads to popularity by virtue of a lang many people have experience with.

throwaway_4ever··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
No because "smart" genes don't sustain. Like 50% is volatile noise. So that would actually line up. I.e. Two 150 IQ don't have a 150 IQ on avg. They have a 125 IQ, and then the two 125 IQ have a 112, and the two 112 IQ have a 106 and voila.
throwaway_4ever··on Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan
This is hilarious. All the money in the word and rich peoples’ best parties are worse than practically every 20 year old’s in their parents suburban house.
throwaway_4ever··on Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling
Apple has repeatedly said that it’s not China’s cheaper labor. They don’t have as cheap labor anymore, especially compared to India, Vietnam, Philippines, etc. they say it’s because of the complex specialized knowledge of suppliers around Shenzhen and I’m inclined to believe them. You can choose to not trust them.
throwaway_4ever··on Django 4.1
Are they using DRF? Because obviously mobile app can't use templates and Django doesn't default support REST endpoints, does it?
throwaway_4ever··on I still love PHP and JavaScript
"No reason", at all? Have you seen how much standardized legwork is done with a backend framework like Rails and Django? How much easier that is to work with other developers because everyone is following known conventions? With Django, there's also the huge benefit of millions of data libraries an import away. When I search for client libraries to do something, anything under the sun has a Python client. Much much less so with Go, C#, and Java.
throwaway_4ever··on I still love PHP and JavaScript
React gets an equivalent amount of disdain as PHP. Like 60% negative, 40% positive. (lots of preferences for server-side templating, htmx, Vue, Svelte, and Phoenix LiveView)
throwaway_4ever··on Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
It's still going on.

Nikola, a vaporware company with absolutely 0 revenues burning $600m / year, is still "worth" $3b.

HKD, a vaporware company, is being pump and dumped and is now "worth" $150b+, the size of Bank of America, despite being 50 employees with nothing of value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/wegalp/hkd_...

throwaway_4ever··on In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions
Thus it's the downfall of their academic strength, weakening the collective intellect of their student body in two different ways (50% even?). Now, for new fields like Computer Science, 5 out of the 10 top US Comp-Sci universities are public and 8 out of 10 non-Ivy. It's even worse when you account for the fact that Ivy's like Columbia are egregious offenders of attempting to fraudulently boost their US News rankings and are soon going to be absent consequently.

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

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