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New comment by brahadeesh in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

brahadeesh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:49:04 +0000

Not OP and thanks for linking the patent. I'm a bit confused - how this is a new patent? Candy Crush etc have been doing this for decades.

New comment by brahadeesh in "Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority"

brahadeesh — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:00:50 +0000

Exactly. If this make European startups build their own ecosystem and provides me with an alternative for the services I use but don't track me, I'm going to switch - simple as. I see this as a win for the internet.

New comment by brahadeesh in "Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado"

brahadeesh — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:09:01 +0000

Unfortunately, things don't need to be one way or the other for conspiracy theorists to spin it the way they want to.

New comment by brahadeesh in "Is there such a thing as good taste?"

brahadeesh — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:48:32 +0000

"If there's no such thing as good taste, then there's no such thing as good art. Because if there is such a thing as good art, it's easy to tell which of two people has better taste. Show them a lot of works by artists they've never seen before and ask them to choose the best, and whoever chooses the better art has better taste."

Is anyone else finding this hard to accept? What if, for some mysterious reason, everyone chooses one particular artist? What if everyone knows good art from bad art, but there is no such thing as good taste precisely because everyone has the same taste?

New comment by brahadeesh in "Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)"

brahadeesh — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 21:20:56 +0000

Yes, you will want to look for "Shoyu" in a regular grocery store that will probably be made of fermented soy beans. You could also make the trip out to an Asian grocery store - a simple yet effective way to start an adventure :)

New comment by brahadeesh in "Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)"

brahadeesh — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 20:32:37 +0000

It's not unique to Persian cooking, but there is wisdom in most cultural foods. I have been cooking a lot during the pandemic and every month I discover a new fermented food that has "recently" been found to be a superfood - kombucha, kefir, kimchi, soy sauce, mole sauce, sourdough etc. That is not to talk about other ingredients like turmeric, chiles, lentils and other stuff that add nutritional value.

EDIT: I wanted to add something I just remembered from the Netflix docuseries "Cooked" - "If you were to eat grains and nothing but grains, you will die sooner rather than later from lack of one nutrient or another. But if you were to eat real fermented bread made from the same grains, you will live much longer". Something about fermentation is truly nourishing.

New comment by brahadeesh in "Mark Cuban-backed banking app Dave to go public in $4 bln SPAC merger"

brahadeesh — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:08:40 +0000

I like the rewards from my bank's credit card for the utilities I use and the purchases I make. I won't get those benefits with just any debit card.

New comment by brahadeesh in "More information on the plant disturbance at Olkiluoto 2"

brahadeesh — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:16:40 +0000

Would you mind explaining why?

New comment by brahadeesh in "Trump suspends H1B, H4 visas till year end"

brahadeesh — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:59:06 +0000

To you, maybe.

But for someone preparing their entire life to start a job, everything is up in the air now. They're not so privileged.

Inside the playlist factory (Spotify, Google and Apple music)

brahadeesh — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:10:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-unsung-heroes-of-the-music-streaming-boom?utm_term=.sgleNB7kQ#.bkvG4KpLD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123580

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by brahadeesh in "Waiting for Gödel"

brahadeesh — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:25:52 +0000

"His Incompleteness paper is not that impenetrable." May I ask what do you mean by that?

New comment by brahadeesh in "“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”"

brahadeesh — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:36:34 +0000

Like a couple of others pointed out, I don't think the piece is essentially about a health insurance screw up. I think it's about how bad the relationship between Amazon and its women is.

New comment by brahadeesh in "Bioluminescent trees as an alternative to electric lighting"

brahadeesh — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:28:27 +0000

I'm not working for that startup or any startup for that matter.

New comment by brahadeesh in "Bioluminescent trees as an alternative to electric lighting"

brahadeesh — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:25:34 +0000

They way I see it, it's not going to completely replace street lighting. It's going to supplement available light, thus reducing our energy consumption among other benefits like producing oxygen. I'm especially excited about the possibility of genetically modifying trees that produce edible stuff to have bio luminescence, that'd be pretty cool.

Bioluminescent trees as an alternative to electric lighting

brahadeesh — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:45:31 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.suny.edu/2014/03/future-cities-lit-by-beautiful-bioluminescent-trees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8763273

Points: 116

# Comments: 61

New comment by brahadeesh in "Parallel Universes Colliding Could Explain Quantum Weirdness"

brahadeesh — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:50:58 +0000

I'm just spitballing here, may be they are not fully parallel. May be it's one aspect of the universe that's parallel to its counterpart of the other universes. Other characteristics of a universe could still interact with each other, thus making their presence felt.