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Consider co-supplementation with quercetin, which increases the bioavailability of green tea catechins.

https://examine.com/supplements/green-tea-catechins/?PageSpe...

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:19PM (#12251240)
I use Protonmail and I like it.

Their web client is open source and MIT licensed. For more security it might be worth running it locally:

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient

Ask HN: How do you organize scientific literature?

I look for research papers frequently and it's becoming difficult to manage them all.My current system is a local directory synced between computers. There are subdirectories for fields of study, and each field has further subdirectories for topics of interest. Right now this is adequate. Problems it has: 1. Difficult to browse through topic directories 2. Need to manually rename papers to a...

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Re:The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @01:08AM (#7295971)
Ryan is the guy who originally shared the slide deck. He blogs/tweets under the pseudonym @twobitidiot:

http://www.slideshare.net/selkisr/bitcoin-market-opportunity...

(see slide 2)

original tweet sharing the slide deck:

https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/438131088607965184

Re:Jamaican bobsleigh team raises $25k in Dogecoin on Monday January 20, 2014 @12:40PM (#7090692)
full disclosure: I own a small amount of dogecoin.

Original spec for Dogecoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.0

We're on block 65K. The first halving is scheduled for block 100K or Feb 14.

Dogecoin trade volume is around #2 #3 in cryptocoin markets, so actually it's very liquid. In practical terms, there's been $7M USD in trading volume in the last 24h. Converting 10s of M Doge into BTC into USD would be very easy.

Re:Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @08:12PM (#6997656)
I get most of my tea from Monterey Bay Spice Company. Nice selection and very fair prices. I recommend their organic black tea (11 USD/lb).

http://www.herbco.com/

Re:Soylent Campaign on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:12PM (#5747295)
Rob has been conducting trials with people for a few months now, and reports there's "appropriate evidence that Soylent is safe, effective, healthy, and delicious." He's been pretty careful about bringing this to market, too; for a long time he hasn't suggested anyone try this and hasn't shared the recipe publicly because he doesn't want anyone without a chemistry/biology background to ingest a bunch of chemicals and hurt themselves.
Re:JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz on Saturday January 12, 2013 @09:38PM (#5049761)
PLOS is a journal that's trying to improve the publishing space. Every article they publish is open access.

http://www.plos.org/

To give some light background, League of Legends is a popular game where two teams of 5 players are matching against each other. DAUs are in the millions, making moderation and banning difficult. Instead, players voluntarily participate in the "Tribunal", which is a jury-like system where players vote on abuse cases.

More details here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/tribunal/

Re:Yahoo Front Page, 2000 on Sunday July 08, 2012 @03:17AM (#4213980)
Remember when 1024x768 was considered a big screen resolution?
Re:Zynga shares plummet as Facebook game craze wanes on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @05:56PM (#4103143)
Last quarter they made a profit, but it was a net loss after adjusting for stock-related expenses. [1]

Also, bookings were up. I think it's important to note that after FB's updated S1 everyone had worried since Zynga comprised less of Facebook's Q1 revenue. What all news outlets failed to note is that FB credit associated purchases didn't go down but actually ad impressions on Facebook's part. It's possible Zynga is trying to drive pageviews of their own network rather than Facebook. (Check the S1) [2]

[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/26/zynga-beats-q1-earnings-es...

[2]: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/00011931251217567...

Re:Tell HN: YC Application Responses Are Out on Monday April 16, 2012 @07:51PM (#3850133)
We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Team

Re:New fighter jet camouflage schemes on Sunday April 08, 2012 @08:38AM (#3813697)
Except they used it to deter bloodsucking insects. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/120209-zebra-st...
The need for this came about because I've started to distrust bit.ly links on Twitter. What if you could see one and instantly know the original owner, so you wouldn't be afraid of hitting malware? Tiny.cat still lets you shorten anonymously, however the real benefit is after you register your tiny.cat/username.

Anonymous links: http://tiny.cat/to/anonymous_link

Registered links: http://tiny.cat/ayumi/link_text_here

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