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It doesn't help that coconut oil legitimately has anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties that probably make it a benefit to foods that its added to, despite its possibly harmful…

It's very possible that coconut oil could have simultaneously good and bad effects on the body. E.g. it has known antibacterial and antifungal properties. Meanwhile, it's a saturat…

But wait... isn't HDL supposed to be the good form of cholesterol? As if it wasn't already hard to know what to believe... sigh

It's what scientists have to say to get into the headlines these days. That doesn't mean his underlying point lacks merit. But it is absolutely frustrating how inconclusive and fre…

SkipTheDishes provides an objectively better user experience than UberEats, especially with the Apple Pay integration.

> And perhaps a warning about shouting at the Universe. Although it's probably too late to fret too much about that. Any civilization sufficiently advanced to threaten us already h…

Very interesting. My only criticism? Perhaps too much of a focus on procedural justice. Peter Thiel has a great talk on how one of the biggest problems in western societies is that…

The reasoning in that RAND article is pretty effing bad. North Korea could successfully invade South Korea?! Yeah right. That's not a credible scenario whatsoever, even if the U.S.…

The scandal led to the election of a different party in South Korea, replacing the conservative militant party with one that's more conciliatory to North Korea. So yes the recent P…

Germany is now an economic powerhouse. The unification paid off big long term.

This statistic is mentioned a lot, but it would be interesting to see a breakdown by amount of traffic on those sites. In these metrics thanks to the big web companies, the reach o…

The thing is, features like Postgres' native UUID column types, JSONB and HStore are killer features that give developers data flexibility they didn't use to have before, meaning w…

>MySQL got reliable enough MySQL still doesn't support nested DDL's, and this has caused me extreme amounts of pain in old projects where consistency was expected and we did not re…

But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for G…

Open Media is pretty good at social media and pressure campaigns. The BCCLA is top notch if you actually need to win a court case. When they take on a case they don't fuck around, …

"Computer" should be the wake word, and everyone would be happy with that thanks to global, english interoperability in all places and contexts. But thanks to the hubris of corpora…

The "Hey" gets extremely grating after the fifth time in a row. Amazon has it right on this with Alexa.

It's utterly astonishing that Google still has the hubris not to give it a personal name. People want to believe they're talking to a personal assistant, even if that isn't true, a…

They all do. I have Canadian friends I know from all the parties working on campaigns. They're basically Americans, just looking for career opportunities. They are not foreign agen…

Chris lived in BC, so this would be what his driver's license looked like: http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2013/02/15/new-b-c-id... It's an 8 digit number. The keyspace for …

Dude Obama's team was the first to spearhead true micro targeting. Their Voter Activation Network (VAN) was even bought by the Liberal Party of Canada, and forms the core of their …

Why would HN penalize tweet links!? Hacker news is a perfect place for stories that intersect technical and journalistic expertise to be explored more in depth with a focus on trut…

Where can we download the codebase. Seriously interested in seeing it.