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Both Wealthfront or Betterment are not banks but offer high-interest cash accounts that are FDIC insured. I've been curious what would happen if your money disappears from one of these high-interest cash accounts since they are technically not banks.

Thank you, interesting talk! I'm curious if the technologies used for streaming video games (e.g. something like moonlight) can be used for low-latency and high-fidelity streaming of applications or desktops within containers.

That's excellent! I'm looking forward to seeing that. I'm curious how the "pixel-streaming" works in terms of what protocol is used and what technologies are used on the browser-side.

This looks great; Congrats, Paul!

I'm curious if this can be used to stream an entire X11 Linux desktop to the browser?

Hi Peter,

Thanks for doing these AMAs!

If a Canadian living in US is on a TN status and is on disability for a serious illness when employment is terminated, what options are there to stay in the USA for the duration of the disability?

I'm genuinely appreciating the nuance and complexity in your reply. Thank you!

Can anyone shed some light on if and how this might be used together with xstate (https://xstate.js.org/) which is based on the SCXML spec?

A few comments here have mentioned that MacBook touchpad development is tied to iPhone touchscreen R&D. This might be stating the obvious, but could a similar effort be made by leveraging Android touchscreen R&D and code for Linux? [1]

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/input/touch-devices

Virtual Retinal Displays (VRD) have been around for a while (1). More recently entering the consumer market. I didn't see the article mention the Avegant Glyph (2)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display

2. https://avegant.com/video-headset

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"sshuttle assembles the TCP stream locally, multiplexes it statefully over an ssh session, and disassembles it back into packets at the other end."

Source:

https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/how-it-works.html

Gave this a try and it looks very promising. It would be great if GraalVM was integrated to extend the polyglot support to JavaScript, Ruby, R, in addition to Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and Clojure.

Thanks, couldn't have said it better myself.

I was initially pretty concerned about the safety of water-only fasting. It appeared so extreme. After spending two weeks fasting with others who are either ill with different conditions or very healthy, I realized that it's relatively safe given good medical supervision.

When fasting on my own, I haven't fasted longer than 5 days, and I know what to watch out for now:

- I check my blood pressure and heart rate every morning

- I get up very slowly (as you can get light headed and fall if you're not careful)

- I bathe without taking a hot shower or submerge my body in hot water as this can lead to low blood pressure as well.

I actually drink distilled or deionized water during my fasts. This is what was available on my first long fast and I've done it since.

Thanks for the transcripts! I'm extending my fasts to a minimum of 5 days from now on as, from what I've understood, the immune cell turnover appears to really start kicking in on day 4 and 5.

I had a recent flare up of my condition and sauna helps to alleviate the symptoms and shorten the duration. Water fasting also helps and this is the first time I have tried sauna before fasting. Perhaps coincidentally, this is the water-fast I've felt the best on. I don't fully understand the underlying mechanisms but there's some amazing research on how hyperthermic conditioning initiates a whole cascade of physiological adaptations which are partially mediated by heat-shock proteins, increase of growth hormone, and improving insulin sensitivity. For more information on benefits of hyperthermic conditioning, see:

1. https://tim.blog/2014/04/10/saunas-hyperthermic-conditioning...

From the article above:

Just a few of the physiological adaptations that occur are:

Improved cardiovascular mechanisms and lower heart rate.

Lower core body temperature during workload (surprise!)

Higher sweat rate and sweat sensitivity as a function of increased thermoregulatory control.

Increased blood flow to skeletal muscle (known as muscle perfusion) and other tissues.

Reduced rate of glycogen depletion due to improved muscle perfusion.

Increased red blood cell count (likely via erythropoietin).

Increased efficiency of oxygen transport to muscles.

Here are some related videos:

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWKBsh7YTXQ

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOlM-wlNjM

As for duration, 3 to 5 days, though from now on I'm likely to do minimum 5 days fasts as after reviewing Dr Longo's research the immune benefits and increased autophagy appear to really kick in on the 4th and 5th days. Frequency, I would say I average 3 to 4 times a year. This frequency just happens to coincide with Dr Longo's recommendation as I only more recently came across his research.

Thanks for sharing that you also noticed that the hunger doesn't go away on Prolon.

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I've completed a few water fasts before I came across Dr. Longo work. The main reason he created the FMD is because they couldn't get people to volunteer for a water-only fast and then compliance was an issue. I'm now used to water-only fasting and hunger goes away completely by second or third day. I've heard anecdotally that hunger doesn't subside as well for everyone on the FMD as you're still eating, but haven't tried it myself.

This is the first time I'm working intensively during the fast (I worked through the weekend) and I've been incredibly productive. I also prepared really well: I was eating more than a pound of dark leafy green a day for the last month (in two high micronutrient smoothies for breakfast and lunch) and I used a sauna everyday for the week before the fast. I feel better today than I have in a long time, my energy is excellent.

That's not to say there aren't any side effects, I had some pretty bad lower back pain which made getting to sleep last night difficult, but I've come to expect it and it comes and goes throughout the day usually starting on the third day. I occasionally have some heart burn as well, but it hasn't been as bad this time. My first fast was the most difficult, but it was medically supervised at the True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. They supervise in-patient water-only fasts up to 40 days.

I'm on a day 4 of a water-only fast and have completed a two-week medically supervised fast as well as many other shorter fast.

As an anecdote, I can say water-only fasting in combination with a high nutrient density plant-based diet has helped me overcome some serious allergies and other health conditions. As an added bonus, I've lost 65 pounds from my peak weight over the last few years and my weight has been stable. It's not a panacea, but I've found it to be a net benefit.

For those interested in a deeper dive on the benefits of water-only fasting and diets that try to mimic its benefits, as well as time-restricted feeding, see:

Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis [1]

Dr. Valter Longo on Resetting Autoimmunity and Rejuvenating Systems with Prolonged Fasting & the FMD [2]

Dr. Satchin Panda on Time-Restricted Feeding and Its Effects on Obesity, Muscle Mass & Heart Health [3]

Dr. Satchin Panda on Practical Implementation of Time-Restricted Eating & Shift Work Strategies [4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PyyatqJSE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGFWRXEzz8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-eqJDQ2nU

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywhaz5z0qs

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I ate a couple of the Impossible Sliders from White Castle a couple of months ago. They definitely smell and taste more beef-like than any other plant-based burger.

I had read about their effort to produce heme in the lab. This article [1] is interesting as it identifies that Impossible Foods has engineered the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia Pastoris [2], to produce Soy Leghemoglobin Protein.

1. http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/3FNzWrRdPanXheUdTigx/full

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pichia_pastoris

More discussion on Hackintosh VMs at https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/, just search for KVM, ESX, or Proxmox.

For any one interested in using the Ryzen Threadripper for a Hackintosh VM, see https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/8knz91/threadri...

Exactly! The black pepper has a bioavaibility enhancer called piperine which ensure that you absorb more of the curcumin as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9619120

I've packed it inside empty capsules before to make it more palatable.

I've found a quarter teaspoon of powdered ginger surprisingly effective for migraines. Don't take my word for it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657930

Yes! This still gives me goosebumps.

I couldn't stand the 1989 [X-Men:_Pryde_of_the_X-Men] theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1qrbAGsEOw&feature=youtu.be...

facepalm

"social kindness is rooted in just giving enough of a damn to have a discipline for it" -binarypaean

Well said! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing! I've installed this locally and I'm really impressed by how easy to use and powerful this is! I must have missed the previous mentions on HN [0],[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8528460 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600790

Resistant starch is awesome for your good bacteria as it helps them produce butyrate and other short chain fatty acids that are really good for your gut cells. Excellent video on the subject here: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/getting-starch-to-take-the-...

For those interested in evidence-based nutrition, I highly recommend https://nutritionfacts.org/

P.S. Dr. Greger's book is a great resource as well. He does a really good job of checking and referencing quality articles from peer-reviewed journals while looking at the balance of the evidence: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/