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Right now you have a sample size of one. You can't start claiming yoga is the cure to depression because it helped you, to make such a claim large trials would have to take place o…

> One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic vie…

If you're interested in the modern risks of coronal mass injections, there's a report called "Solar Storm Risk to The North American Electrical Grid" [0] (2008) that summarizes the…

Ironically this webpage's certificate is verified by "COMODO CA Limited". I suppose it takes time to inform browsers that "SECTIGO" certificates are safe.

Then the dislikes were probably registered as bots by YouTube and removed for being fake even if they were actually legitimate. Botting dislikes on your competitors game announceme…

They can take down the video and reupload it resetting the views, likes etc.

> Video games weren’t simply an alternate form of media, but the most bankable form of entertainment. 20 years later, and video game sales surpassing movie box office profits is no…

HN isn't the place for self-reflection but if someone else or an article raises a topic that you have a discussion provoking opinion of, feel free to comment.

Soft skills matter in more than just the workplace as everything we do requires communication. In short, people love talking. The more you talk, the less they talk and so the less …

The EFF improved on Reinhold's original Diceware wordlist which included unmemorable and short words such as "wq", "ll" and "zf" by replacing them with longer, actual words. The sa…

I fully understand that a single experience doesn't equate to a full study, but I've been using melatonin (as an adult) for 4 years without issue. What is an issue is when I forget…

Privacy is the right to chose who knows what about you, or in the modern world, who has your data and what they use it for. When large companies say they support user privacy, they…

The series 1, 4, 6, 8, ? might be better applicable to general jobs as an assessment of a persons mathematical knowledge.

Does the issue not stem from the human obsession to measure, record and categorize things? We aim to preserve the species that already exist because we can observe them, so when a …

Brooks' Law: "nine women can't make a baby in one month."

Partially inspired by FairPhone (mentioned in the article), Luke Leighton designed the EOMA68 standard to create modular open-source computers. The project was fully funded on crow…

The author understates the issue by quoting a 2.5% average annual increase in rent since 1980. Far more relevant is the 10.9% average annual increase in property price [1] over the…

Yes. My instinct is that it was a result of running Linux as it is likely the majority of spam requests come from Linux servers whereas the majority of legitimate requests come fro…

It would be possible to handle the quantity of ad campaigns, but not without false positives or missed fraudulent ads. If you paid a person or a team of people to remove adverts pr…

I've looked into purchasing a face mask to filter pollution whilst commuting to and from work but I feel as though it's not social acceptable to obscure your face in public. Has an…