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fhdkweigon The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

I answer with silence. I wait for them to speak first. Not even once has a scammer ever spoken first. I say nothing, they say nothing for a full minute before they hang up.

fhdkweigon The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

> (I'd worry less about crypto though as it's pretty hard for grandma to reliably setup).

Difficulty in setting up a money transfer is not a hindrance. I have heard stories of scammers walking someone through the entire process to getting a mortgage on a house on the A&E Intervention episode of Greg. If they think you have money and they think you are gullible, they will devote time and effort to getting it.

fhdkweigon S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-

I don't know, but they aren't really in the same category either. The pandemic didn't shut down everything. It didn't really shut down much, people worked from home and got deliveries instead of doing things in person. There were sectors that were hit bad, but certainly not everything.

The AI crash is about stock market indicator ratios matching those that preceded other major crashes. That's what got me spooked. I don't want to be heavily invested in those companies when/if something bad happens.

fhdkweigon S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-

2045. When they hit their target date, they are still exposed about 50% to stocks, which is more than I want right now.

https://workplace.vanguard.com/investments/product-details/f...

You want to search for the chart at "Allocation to underlying funds (actual)"

fhdkweigon S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-

I feel that even if that happens, at least I wasn't fully exposed to the first drop.

fhdkweigon S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-

I moved 80% of my money out of Vanguard's Target Date Retirement funds and into a money market on June 1st. In the 1.5 months since, the remaining Target Date Retirement fund has fluctuated up and down by about 0.1%. It has basically plateaued. I don't think I am losing out on potential short term gains. I like the idea that I have cash available to buy in on the day of the crash.

fhdkweigon Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

I only opened this page to see if this quote was here. I know the line from Star Trek TNG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night

fhdkweigon Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays

cleaner than Singapore or Thailand would really be something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_sales_ban_in_Singa...

fhdkweigon Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays

It really bothers me when they spit on days where it is below freezing. It becomes a slip hazard on sidewalks.

fhdkweigon Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

That's the whole reason I refuse to install Google Drive or Dropbox's desktop applications. I only use the web interface so I know exactly what gets uploaded and when. I assume that anything running on my computer gets access to everything.

fhdkweigon How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

> Nobody, at the time or since, said that Schiavo "wasn't really alive" but rather, some people wanted her dead

I'm saying it. She was in "an irreversible permanent vegetative state". That is as close to dead as you can get. Even a coma is better. You can wake up from a coma, but this is an amount of brain damage where the part of the brain responsible for consciousness is dead and never coming back.

fhdkweigon How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

> But it is disingenuous to invoke "rightwing government", when a Franciscan friar was sneaking into the hospital trying to feed a starving woman [Terri], who was so hated by her husband that he would take extreme measures to get rid of her.

I don't think he hated her, he just didn't want to be under the crushing medical debt to keep someone alive who wasn't really alive.

And absolutely there was Rightwing government involved. Here is an entire wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_involvement_in_the_...

fhdkweigon How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

> The well meaning, naive proponents of legalisation of euthanasia have actually made things a lot harder for those who want it.

That sounds like the actions of a politician who wants to claim they are for something while secretly trying to destroy it. It doesn't seem "well meaning" to me.

That's what the US Republicans did to the ObamaCare act.

fhdkweigon Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

https://www.space.com/25579-cosmos-recap-earth-age-lead-pois...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clean_Room

fhdkweigon Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker

I am not a lawyer, but if they don't appeal and win, it will set a precedent that they'd (and other companies) have to pay out on any other employees fired for this reason. That will cost them more in the long run.

fhdkweigon New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

If you want to claim "we have the lowest prices in town" in advertising, you can't increase the "price".

fhdkweigon Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

Better than having to do it with human hands. They had to do that when the bees died in Biosphere 2.

fhdkweigon Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model

The original link did not work for me. It displayed the article for a couple of seconds and then popup said "register for free to continue reading this article." When I clicked on the popup's 'x', it redirected me to the front page.

fhdkweigon Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

Yes, you are basically just buying the land underneath.

fhdkweigon California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste

Thanks for providing it, but Sectors chart seems wrong. "The Information sector includes some of the nation's largest technology and entertainment companies like Apple, Meta, Disney, and HP." Putting Disney in the Information sector rather than the Arts and Entertainment sector seems like a really bad categorization. I have to wonder if that severely under-counts the Arts and Entertainment sector.

fhdkweigon California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste

I know nothing about nothing, but I always assumed that all the money was from Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Outside of those two highly localized industries, is there really much more money than other states have?

fhdkweigon The bottleneck might be the air in the room

From what I learned from Apollo 13, even with O2 in the air, CO2 can still be poisonous.

fhdkweigon Africans Are Turning to Starlink

Typos can happen.

fhdkweigon Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

I've been following the Russia/Ukraine war and satellite internet has been pretty important there. For first world countries not currently being bombed to death, you're probably right. But for everywhere else it is better than waiting for new ISPs to start up and get fiber rolled out. It is the global market outside the US that they are probably going for.

fhdkweigon The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

Now the government has an extra incentive to get rid of unions entirely so that the company (and the government shareholder) makes more money. So yes, option B.

They also have an incentive to use legal pressure to suppress competitors. But I am sure this (and other administrations) would never throw their weight around for fun and profit. /s

fhdkweigon Healthy but Sedentary People Show Early Decline in Cellular Energy Production

They make stationary bikes that fit under a desk. I've never used or seen one, but they exist. I considered getting one during 2020, but they seemed impossible to source.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=desk+stationary+bike

fhdkweigon I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

This is what Stephen Colbert called "truthiness". People want to believe what they feel is true even if it is directly contradicted by evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

fhdkweigon 5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920

dupe (kinda), Yesterday, 9 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674244

fhdkweigon IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

Or they don't even know the camera is there. I've heard of landlords doing that in tenant's private spaces, including bathrooms. When caught, they like to claim they are just keeping an eye on the property, but everyone knows they are just perverts.