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hexbinencodedon Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

It makes sense if they don't want to cannibalize their own profits for expanding a category of their own products.

I don't really have a horse in this race because I don't care what accessories Apple sells or doesn't, don't buy retail, and rarely buy electronics or durable goods new. I still have a 3 year old pair of QC35 (I) that has had ~10 ear pads, the top band, and battery replaced by me.

hexbinencodedon John McAfee Arrested in Spain on US Criminal Charges

The very rich cheat the poor for decades and transfer trillions to themselves outright recently, but the cudgel government tools feel the need to imprison this little fish for not paying taxes on some ICOs. I can already hear the backup excuse along the lines of Those rascally, non-state currencies are terrorist threats to national securitah! if the undisclosed promotion charges don't stick.

1. Perhaps he should've renounced his citizenship and put any US-held assets to trusts?

2. If he whipped out the mustard, sauerkraut, and relish, would that have helped?

I look forward to the legal analysis on LegalEagle and LawfulMasses.

hexbinencodedon Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?

So I'm in Paradise, CA right now packing to move.

--- Inside ---

PM1.0: 4 µg/㎥

PM2.5: 5 µg/㎥

PM10.0: 5 µg/㎥

^-- Dual MPR "2900" / MERV "14" filters 25x356x610mm (1x14x24") with fan on @ 50% duty cycle

--- Outside (as of writing) ---

Looks gray like "fog" during the day, but it's UFPs.

PM1.0: 31 µg/㎥

PM2.5: 57 µg/㎥

PM10.0: 75 µg/㎥

--- Outside (recorded on 28 Sep 2020, sky completely obscured dark as night and the sun red like blood) ---

PM1.0: 815 µg/㎥

PM2.5: 893 µg/㎥

PM10.0: 920 µg/㎥

Data collection method: 15 minute sliding-window avg

Data collection sensor: Plantower PMS5003 (same as on the PurpleAir PA-II)

hexbinencodedon Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?

What is that in the standard raw metric of air quality in micrograms / cubic meter?

hexbinencodedon Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? (2008)

I notice milk frozen immediately after purchase and then weeks later thawed doesn't last very long, a few days a most, before it curdles (US Costco organic 1%).

We also get organic UHT chocolate milk in small boxes which lasts a few months. UHT organic heavy cream in small boxes last some months as well.

hexbinencodedon Bay Area co-living startup HubHaus implodes, stranding renters and homeowners

Yup. AirBnB. Craiglist. VRBO/HomeAway. Signs at the laundromat.

I guess the presumption is there needs to be enough clickbait via outrage/victimhood to portray the startup as an evildoer by presenting that average people are so completely helpless and inconvenienced by this since they can't even tell which door leads outside. Are thinking, Gargling/DackDackGoething, and/or calling a friend to crash on a couch really so difficult?

Perhaps OTOH and in reality though, it was marketed to SV carpet-bagging gold rush-types who have little in the way of business acumen, domain skills, and/or inherent relentless resourcefulness as some sort of "quick fix shortcut" housing-meets-social intros to the right crowds? With the exception of badass folks from completely different countries, RR folks would never need such a service because they already know people. It seems like more of a magical service trying to allow people to "buy-in" to the illusion of a social standing rather than earning/demonstrating their way in; this is the same as a lot of golf clubs, which doesn't confer a sense of community, but who really wants the bar to be so low that anyone is allowed in just because they have money?

I'm conflicted on it at as service, but if it makes some people happy even though they're actual stuck at the ITT Technical Institute-Junior Varsity league, whatevs. The story title was a bit clickbait-ish.

hexbinencodedon Bay Area co-living startup HubHaus implodes, stranding renters and homeowners

"Let's monetize hacker houses!"

"Yeah!"

"Do we need to know how to run a business?"

"Nawh, we'll fake it."

"Okay, cool! Let's find some renters and rent out this house that's already occupied."

"Awe$ome! $-)"

hexbinencodedon Ask HN: Why Paul Graham’s Website Isn’t Using HTTPS?

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11173010/verizon-supercook...

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/07/25/155200/tool-detects...

https://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000337.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/01/cox-commun...

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/confirmed-isp-modifies-google...

hexbinencodedon Sharpest knife made by cooking sand in a microwave oven

Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would nuke beach sand when coffee can carbon foam furnaces are trivial to make.

And in about 2 seconds, I can get a really damn sharp "knife" by dropping a wine glass on the floor to induce conchoidal chipping. My foot and hand can attest to them being as sharp or sharper than any surgical instrument or Japanese-angle ground knife.

hexbinencodedon Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store

You're confused. India has a populist, nationalist authoritarian who will stop at nothing to remodel the country somewhere between China and Nazi Germany.

The Indian government can block all other app stores, require app developers and mobile OSes install spyware SDKs and turn over data about their users, and ban encryption. Then, the "subversives," academics, and journalists can be rounded-up.

hexbinencodedon Logging Everyone Out

Battery ran out? Left one behind? Throw them all away and visit the quartermasters' Idiocracy/MIC version of Costco to pull another 100 pack off the shelf at a cost to the taxpayers of mere millions. Oh and F-35B's and Blackhawk turbines? just chuck those like Kleenex. My mom worked in civil service for the Navy and $20k parts in the '70's went "missing" and "lost" all of the time. Then there's a USAF Major I know who became unpopular for suggesting proper maintenance rather than ruining/replacing turbines might be a better approach (likely some sort of maintenance/HQ personnel-vendor kickbacks, MIC FTW).

One of the few stories VICE didn't botch entirely: https://youtu.be/_CvWJVtEkUE

hexbinencodedon Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water with the feds

The "loss of data" is the company's choice not to safeguard their data with proper backups and their systems with proper security. It's a false situation because it's giving-in to external locus-of-control logic that somehow it's an uncontrollable "accident" that happened to them with no blame of their own when the company failed to take their duties seriously.

hexbinencodedon Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water with the feds

Tested, offsite, cold backups

Fully-automated deployment

Never pay

... ransomware becomes moot

hexbinencodedon Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest

Fusion has always been "just around the corner." These stories aren't helpful until there is demonstrable evidence it delivers on the so-far vaporware promises of many other projects before it.

hexbinencodedon Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?

SRE or manager thereof.

Consulting.

hexbinencodedon Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons

There are no one, but two, problems with "rods from God:" plasma blindness and non-kinetic components' survival.

hexbinencodedon McAfee S-1

An unhappy choice of words considering what he promised to do if BTC doesn't reach $1M by the end of the year. Somehow, I don't think he will bust out the jalapeño ketchup, relish, and spicy mustard, but will make some excuses. He's a media whore who always talks but never follows-through on anything.

hexbinencodedon The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and the public

Appears to be a libertarian ideologue and ignorant of the Tragedy of the Commons. I bet he would've said there were plenty of trees to chop down at the last stand of them on Easter Island. It's nauseatingly-dishonest and cognitively dissonant in the name of instant satisfaction without self-control or long-term consequences.

hexbinencodedon The campaign against plastic is harming the planet and the public

There are a number of "biodegradable" plastics that are scams.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/10/ftc-c...

hexbinencodedon The $47T Heist

The rich bought tax chicanery with some billions to rake in trillions. Besides that, they're killing us all and the planet by preventing net negative carbon emissions, capture, and sequestration. No luxury prepper bunker can save them, us, or anything from this man-made catastrophe apart from spending tens of trillions on CCS. Money won't matter if you're and everything is dead.

hexbinencodedon Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply

N. fowleri is difficult to contract but it's often fatal when it happens.

This is the least of their problems. LJ is between Houston and Corpus, which is a weather events, floods, and industrial petrochem disaster area. Honestly, it would be better long-term to relocate residents who are in the paths of increasingly-powerful and numerous hurricanes to the northwest rather than taxpayers subsidizing time-and-time again the stupidity of allowing people to build and rebuild neighborhoods in flood plains and right next to oil refineries. Climate change.

hexbinencodedon Fix a UPS repeatedly tripping a bonded-neutral generator's GFI-GFCI outlets

Note: doing this removes the limited GFI protection for anything related to the UPS and attached devices.

hexbinencodedon Ask HN: How to learn sales?

You can't get real sales or business experience from a book. I would say start from the basics in terms of 1-on-1 sales. First, develop a tolerance to rejection; sell something people almost never want like chocolate bars or magazines door-to-door thousands of times. Then, learn to qualify and overcome objections. Without the interpersonal skills of selling, data is worthless and analysis is procrastination. If someone can't hustle, it doesn't matter how great their good or service is because no one will know about it.

Another consideration is to find an equal cofounder who is a superb hustler. Hack + hustle = win.

hexbinencodedon I Just Bought a Bank – Yotta YC S20

It's not unusual. An acquaintance from a hackerspace bought a bank charter from a closing regional bank to reduce the costs to complete an international transaction.

hexbinencodedon Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas

Btw, there's a 737 MAX update Sept 24 from blancolirio about Boeing and the FAA hammering out modifications to training and systems that will eventually put the idle birds back in the air.

https://youtu.be/zpQUTa-8j9c

FAA Administrator Steve Dixon & Deputy Administrator Daniel Elswell will personally crew a 737 MAX next week:

https://youtu.be/ObSLEiefHcE

The EASA is aiming for November recert. FAA was last aiming for a no earlier than October for a final published AD to bring it back.

hexbinencodedon Ruby 3.0 Preview 1

I left Ruby because the performance and security weren't improving and the community was slowly dying. I delved into Go before that got flooded with newbs, then looked at Crystal and Pony, before settling on Rust and Haskell for most things.

hexbinencodedon Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed

There ought to be a non-profit, user & creator funded podcast/video/publishing platform that allows anything not terrorism, kiddie porn, unsafe medical panaceas, universally criminal, spam, or obviously inciting violence/genocide. Corporate inverted totalitarianism (Youtube cancelling channels by AI) and illiberal, PC bikeshedding employees picking-and-choosing creators are the death of free expression and debate. Furthermore, corporations are replacing public commons with walled-gardens governed by arbitrary, sometimes secret, rules.

hexbinencodedon It could be possible to transfer data through gravitational waves (2018)

In the case of no line-of-sight, yes, but lasers would be more effective.

hexbinencodedon It could be possible to transfer data through gravitational waves (2018)

Event horizon surfing is probably a thing somewhere too.

hexbinencodedon Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

I seriously doubt it. "Diuretic" means peeing, not pooping. Watermelon is a diuretic. Dates are high in fiber, potassium, sugar, and might cause a bowel obstruction.