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TrueSlacker0··on I’m consuming 5500 hours of Joe Rogan with the help of AI
There is no reason to start at episode 1. His show is not a story nor does it build much on the past. Just search through the backlog for guests you are interested in.

For example I skip most episodes with comedians, entertainers etc and mostly listen to creators, doers and experts in a field, as I find those the most interesting.

TrueSlacker0··on NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles
>Buy a car because it’s required in order to literally feed yourself

One doesn't eat a car, nor need a car. It sure is nice to have but other options exists for most trips. An electric bicycle makes it easy to go anywhere needed. Even a non electric bicycle can go a great distance.

On the other hand I just looked up the average commute to work distance and it is way higher than I would have though, 27.6miles [1] Still a long distance but not too long for an ebike.

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...

TrueSlacker0··on NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles
If you had to do continuing education to renew your license every X years then it may add to safety. But as it exists today it seems to be more of a form of ID than anything to do with a vehicle. When someone gets hired at a new job (USA) a drivers license can be used as a part to show citizenship, which has nothing to do with driving.
TrueSlacker0··on Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election
It IS a sad world that this is the normal. No respect.
TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?
I highly recommend it. My kids loved it (until the learned that they were learning on it and it wasn't just a game). They learned a lot from it.
TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
The car manufacturer states that the oil should be changed every 10k miles based on 100 years of research. The vaccine hasn't been through a long term study yet.
TrueSlacker0··on Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)
"This means 1) they have these kangaroo courts and 2) they’re moving more and more control to these kangaroo courts."

This seems to sum up a lot of issues with the "internet"

TrueSlacker0··on Google Chrome is getting an RSS feed reader on desktop
It reminds me of the days using the Opera browser in the early 2000's. It had a wonderfully quick and easy to use feed reader. I still miss the ease of it.
TrueSlacker0··on Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)
"If my father croaks and leaves me $1m it should count as an additional $1m of income to me that year. "

If it is $1m in property value, do you count that as still $1m of income? If so unless the child is in great financial situation with a lot of already liquid cash, they would be forced to sell part/all of the property to pay the taxes.

If a parent croaks and has a small business, mom and pop style. How would that be handled? If they had a small corner store making 100k/profit but has no assets vs a shop that sells very expensive equipment making 100k/yr in profit. But has hundreds of thousand in assets that would pass down.

TrueSlacker0··on .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
I am in the process of moving a .Net web forms to .Net core razor pages and the performance difference is insanely noticeable.
TrueSlacker0··on 400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast
This article... It's a article...

The oldest beer in the area HAS to be older than 400 years... But I haven't checked, but beer is old, real old, old everywhere.

Breweries isolate and propagate yeast all the time. Could be a 400yo yeast or a 4mil yo old yeast strain, it's yeast after all. It's old. Just because it was used 400 years ago doesn't matter. It's probably older. It happens all the time, at large breweries and small breweries.

Also Chicha is the wonderful spit based corn beer. The yeast probably won't be missed.

Side note.. I left my orange juice on my counter and it fermented with a yeast strain that's probably millions of years old... Did I resurrect it? Nope. If I plate it and grow a clean culture? Meh it still went down great though.

I don't mean to diss the work of the brewery but everyone does this. The article is just reaching for an article.

TrueSlacker0··on How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?
My guess would be music licencing is why it's gone. Too risky.

It's one of the only places I've ever had to deal with, where if you play ANY music the big 3 consider it stolen (1 rift is enough according to them) and your legally guilty (USA), with no one ever winning a case against them. It's just pay to play, even with originals.

TrueSlacker0··on Vantem builds modular homes out of energy-efficient panels
The labor is low because it's minimum wage based for hard work (where I am at in Texas, it's basically all foreign labor, legal and not). Paid a respectable wage, this labor would be expensive. But it's exploited.
TrueSlacker0··on Italy, Intel close to $5B deal for chip factory
Will we really be though?

Chips are getting put into everything now and will only continue to expand as they get cheaper. Amazon and others putting Alexa or equivalent into everything. Necessary or not. Coffee is done, pings a phone. Dishwasher, etc. Not to mention vehicles.

I wonder how long until my drill needlessly records how many holes it has drilled over it's lifetime. Or so that I can rent it and pay per hole drilled.

Make more and they will be used. As much as I will personally miss dumb equipment that just worked.

TrueSlacker0··on Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany
Sounds like trying to convert a truck to work like a train. Why not just more trains?
TrueSlacker0··on Archive of Visualized Concepts
You set out to change a light bulb and end up working in the garden. Leaving so many tasks unfinished on the journey.
TrueSlacker0··on Allocating resources where they solve the most important problems
Or they are not web experts and put just the amount of time needed to get the information across. So they could get back to value adding work.
TrueSlacker0··on Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but not without costs
From Wikipedia

"In the past, vinasse was a problem in production of ethanol, but vinasse is also a good fertilizer (at least for some time) and a source of methane that can be used to generate heat or electricity. Moreover, other uses of vinasse involving also the formulation of nutritive solutions for hydroponics, formulation of culture media for plant tissue culture and culture media for algal growth."

Seems like it's only a problem because it's being dumped and not being purchased for reuse.

TrueSlacker0··on Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
Why not offer both? Paying $10/m for as long as you like and get all new and old courses. A basic streaming subscription essentially.

But for $100 get lifetime access to only that one purchased course?

Then if the consumer wants more they have the option to spend another $100 for a different course or add the $10/m subscription for other/new content.

I personally would benefit from this immensely in course style learning. I tend to browse lots of content until I find the right info. Then deeply consume the single topic slowly as I teach it to my team. I'm usually stuck paying monthly for something I use for a month then don't use until I begin the training a few months later then dormant again until the next training x months later.

An example.. pay for a Spotify/Netflix/etc monthly subscription but have the ability to purchase a cd/series/movie/book so that if you end your subscription you still have access to the purchased items. Essentially paying a monthly rate to peruse through material then purchasing to deeper dive/repeatedly use an item. The service might even make more money this way.

TrueSlacker0··on Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
But you now own the product at the end of the term.
TrueSlacker0··on Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid
I'm on the Texas grid and we have been getting the same emails from our electric provider the last few weeks.
TrueSlacker0··on Tesla cashes out $936M in Bitcoin
Cashflow is king.
TrueSlacker0··on Potato diet community trial
Signed Up: 220 [CLOSED] Past the 4-Week Mark: 46
TrueSlacker0··on Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
I wouldn't say a ton of money. This article [1] says it averages 150k/yr profit but it costs between 1-2mil to start.

[1] https://www.mashed.com/178309/how-much-mcdonalds-franchise-o...

TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
I was thinking this same game. I quit playing starcraft/warcraft etc, because it is so important how quickly you can play and most of your focus is on the micro of your army, rather than how strategic you plan you base. While northgaurd is a very strategic city builder/resource management type with just enough fighting to keep everything interesting. Very small armys (12 is a very large army) so micro during battle is slower, less important at most for a few minutes. Putting the priority on how you have planned your base/resources. A much welcomed change in rts games.
TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
Before we leave is somewhat similar.

Build up a civ on 1 planet, scale to multiple planets, survive space whales...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1073910/Before_We_Leave/

TrueSlacker0··on Unofficial firmware upgrade for Dyson V6/V7 vacuum battery management system
The battery on both of mine went out quickly after purchase and Dyson sent replacements at their cost.
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