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Beaver117··on ‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: first US town to demand a rent decrease
Investments have risks. I don't see why we should make landlords' lives any easier.
Beaver117··on All the streaming boxes suck now
it was called popcorn time
Beaver117··on New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic
I was just reading the subreddit r/Semaglutide. It seems very common for people to start at a low dose and increase it as needed and when they feel like hunger is coming back. But some posters say they are at the max dose and are starting to feel hungry again.
Beaver117··on Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says
>The FDA was particularly concerned about the safety of the rechargeable lithium batteries Neuralink proposed for its device. The regulator said the company needed to do animal testing to show the battery was very unlikely to malfunction, which could damage brain tissue.

>Another reportedly serious concern from the FDA was that the implant's tiny wires—which are thinner than individual human hairs—could migrate into the brain, potentially causing inflammation, rupturing blood vessels, and impairing brain function. The FDA was also concerned about the device overheating and questioned whether it could be removed from people's brains without causing damage.

I wish the best to anyone putting this in their brain

Beaver117··on New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic
No, they probably won't. While these drugs are an amazing breakthrough, you still develop tolerance to them and have to keep raising the dose. Also, if you decide to stop, good luck maintaining that low weight without any of the fit lifestyle habits people spend years developing.
Beaver117··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Funny. iirc some of the big tech (I think it was Google?) use torrents internally to deploy very large images to servers. Piracy is not the only use case!
Beaver117··on Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
I mean we collectively decided in 2020 to trade young people's livelyhoods for old peoples lives
Beaver117··on Pregnancy is killing 800 women a day
It's DOA for so many reasons
Beaver117··on Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepens
Tell me how women's rights could possibly not effect birth rates? It's a major factor.

Also, Japan is nowhere near as expensive as other countries but they are declining the same rate or faster.

Beaver117··on Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
Personally that would delete a lot of niche music videos where it's been like 10 years since they last uploaded to that channel.
Beaver117··on Report: U.S. pedestrian death rate increased during COVID
Does anyone have data on car accidents the past couple years? Anecdotally everyone I talk to notices driving is much more dangerous now.
Beaver117··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
They could also be used to harm pedestrians
Beaver117··on Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
I admit I haven't read the article but lately it's been popular to link mental illness to pretty common things. Poor sleep? The logic kinda makes sense. Not sleeping at all will 100% drive you insane, so it could make sense that sleeping only half what you should will have some effect.

But its much more likely that some people genetically and family-wisw are just more suceptible than others. Trying to find an external cause is probably futile.

Beaver117··on James Bond books rewritten to remove ‘offensive’ references
If you want more people to buy your book, rather. I doubt the publisher cares beyond that.
Beaver117··on Trove of LA students’ mental health records posted to dark web after cyber hack
Despicable but that's one way to draw attention to cybersecurity for sure
Beaver117··on Why the rate of single men in the US looking for dates has declined
In terms of legality, well drugs are illegal too and they're still widely used and somewhat frowned upon in the US.

Morally, it's up to you but the human trafficking numbers are larely exaggerated and most participants are willing.

Beaver117··on Why the rate of single men in the US looking for dates has declined
You think Tinder and OnlyFans had no effect on marriage? I assume you also think Uber had no effect on car ownership and Airbnb had no effect on rents?

I urge you to do more research

Beaver117··on Why the rate of single men in the US looking for dates has declined
Another controversial comment but I know more and more young men deciding not to waste time pursuing dates and instead going to prostitutes.
Beaver117··on ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube
Maybe you need to finetune/train it on existing "literature"
Beaver117··on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
Yeah you could repair this, but after two years you won't want to
Beaver117··on High-skilled visa holders at risk of deportation amid tech layoffs
Most European countries just have very strict immigration rules. The US is actually on the easier side. That's what I've heard.
Beaver117··on Ask HN: How to make extra money with Kubernetes knowledge?
Get another job in secret
Beaver117··on High-skilled visa holders at risk of deportation amid tech layoffs
FWIW it's even harder to immigrate to Europe than the US
Beaver117··on Is there a market failure in child care?
But if everyone has access to housing how will the poor landlords get their passive income?
Beaver117··on Ask HN: Why is hiring so dehumanized, and what can be done?
What do you mean by the vast majority jobs go unposted? Are you really so good leadership will get additional headcount just to hire you for a nonexistent position?
Beaver117··on Show HN: We’re open-sourcing our session replay tool
How the hell did you get the GitHub username highlight?
Beaver117··on US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008
Instead of making eathquake proof houses they tear down and rebuild? Doesn't sound right. I thought the rapid depreciation is because of some government policy.
Beaver117··on US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008
Not many people talk about Japan when it comes to housing. They seem to have evaded all the unaffordable housing problems that the rest of the world deals with.

House prices are low, rents are low, population density is high.

How do they do it? Can we do that in the US or the rest of the western world?

Beaver117··on Ask HN: How do I get back into the tech industry after 4 years of unemployment?
My thoughts: your timing is bad. I also took the last year off to recover from burnout and this is the worst I've ever seen the market. But since you have experience it's still doable.

Since the market is bad you'll have a harder time getting responses even if you were currently employed. Try to tailor your resume for the job (I know, really common advice but right now its not optional).

Then the first question you'll get is what were you doing the last 4 years. Nobodys really wants to know, just brainstorm a good sounding reason. Health concerns, relatives, you started a startup or something, whatever.

And then interviews. Slight positive note, Leetcode problems were starting to slowly decline and being replaced with more practical programming interviews so you may get lucky there. I'd say only study leetcode once you have an interview setup. Failed interviews are practice too.

Beaver117··on South Korea's world lowest fertility rate drops again
Yeah that's a big part of the cause. What do you think of this phenomenon? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaenam
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