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jcranberry··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
The tweet says blackstone. Thats a separate firm from blackrock. And the tweets misleading in the first place, it's looking at the bottom of a candle which wasn't even the current price at the time of the photograph? And the stock closed at about 154.

Besides all this says is that it matters for blackstone...not for the housing market at large.

jcranberry··on Ask HN: I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?
There are parts of the tech industry culture I dislike, but its definitely not endless meetings, micromanagement, and coworkers who work extra hours. Especially with regards to meetings and micromanagement, which I see the tech industry as having a very low amount of either compared to other industries.
jcranberry··on Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent
I think there was also similar reports with Apple recently. There was some kind of emergency hotline contact or something like that where authorities could request information where it was extremely time sensitive (I think the example given was human trafficking? although my memory was hazy), and they would be provided information without a warrant.
jcranberry··on When Carl Sagan sued Apple twice (2014)
Terrible behavior from Apple. Like petulant children.
jcranberry··on In defence of garlic in a jar
Thank you for the article, although I don't tend to be too disparaging about these types of ingredients (I think) it's always a good reminder to be open minded and aware that you don't know others situations. And on top of that there's absolutely nothing wrong with making tradeoffs for convenience...and its also not necessarily good to take what people claim are tradeoffs as absolute truth.
jcranberry··on Xbox Series X|S Has Outsold PS5 in Japan Again
You are correct, thank you.

If you click the link about the other week this year, that's where the 8 year figure is mentioned.

jcranberry··on Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought
You just need to them explain how sweat works. Sweat evaporate -> cool skin -> cools internal temp. Humidity high -> sweat no evaporate -> internal temp increases.
jcranberry··on Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought
Temperatures are already unbearable in South Asia when there are heatwaves. It's estimated ~1500 people per 3 days of heat wave in Bangladesh. An increase in the average by 1 or 2 C could have very serious effects.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1603322

jcranberry··on Xbox Series X|S Has Outsold PS5 in Japan Again
This is the second week in 8 years in which the xbox outsold the PS5 in Japan. So this isn't overall sales - the title is somewhat misleading.

E: outsold a playstation, not the PS5

jcranberry··on WHO declines to label monkeypox a global emergency
So you're saying all their comments are automatically dead until someone vouches for them? Or just he was downvoted on reputation?
jcranberry··on EY to pay $100 mln to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams
If you read the article EY have been ordered to retain two independent consultants in response to this.

>The SEC has ordered EY to retain two independent consultants to help remediate its deficiencies. One will review the firm’s policies and procedures relating to ethics and integrity. The other will review EY's conduct regarding its disclosure failures, including whether any EY employees contributed to the firm’s failure to correct its misleading submission, the SEC said.

jcranberry··on WHO declines to label monkeypox a global emergency
Its pretty disappointing that your comment was dead and I had to vouch for it.
jcranberry··on Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
That was a proposed background but Tolkien never decided what their true background was.
jcranberry··on Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
I was interested in the topic but the snide tone was very difficult to get through.

If I had read it when I was much younger I might have enjoyed it, but I've read so much writing with a similar tone that at this point I consider comes off as cliched. Especially in combination with the verbal sparring with strawmen device.

I was able to get through it mostly, but my motivation decreased as I increasingly got the feeling that the author was researching in service of a pre-determined point rather than doing an "investigation" as claimed in the beginning.

jcranberry··on Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
The Numenorians actually also had a technological revolution, although I don't know whether it was industrial. They unfortunately faced the setback of being almost entirely wiped out when their continent was sunk by Illuvatar.
jcranberry··on “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless
My first guess is that giving phishers/scammers the list of all malicious domains/pages might allow them to circumvent it.
jcranberry··on Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
Samsung by default has their own chromium based browser as the default.
jcranberry··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
That line is simply fallacious in the modern context. A well regulated militia is "not necessary to the security of a free state".
jcranberry··on Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
The first two studies don't seem like they lead to this conclusion at all. Someone choosing luxury branded clothes on a virtual avatar is completely different from actually wearing luxury branded clothes.

The third study regarding social media would be interesting if I had access to it. But I'm still wondering if this translates to in person communication.

jcranberry··on FDA Denies Authorization to Market JUUL Products
So as I'm reading this, there are apparently other approved "electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)"[1], but Juul in particular failed to provide data proving the safety of their products. Which is kind of interesting.

1. https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/premarket-tobacco-produ...

jcranberry··on New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
I guess everyone's descended from Aeneas nowadays.
jcranberry··on FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
It's consistent with the FDAs current stance to also ban menthol cigarettes.
jcranberry··on Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care
Contextually the person is obviously trying to use the french borrow word voilà.
jcranberry··on Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care
All statistics are dehumanizing. I'm no data scientist but I'd imagine including the whole human when doing statistics would produce a pretty low signal to noise ratio.
jcranberry··on The computers are fast, but you don't know it
I didn't see anyone complaining about games in the parent comments.
jcranberry··on The computers are fast, but you don't know it
If the data is contiguous in memory and frequently accessed it will almost certainly make its way into L1 cache and be there for the life of the program.

If the data is not contiguous it could make the CPU's life much harder.

There's also the matter of program size (the amount of instructions in the actual program) and whether the program does anything which forces it to go lower cache levels or RAM.

There are intrinsics for software prefetching such as __mm_prefetch, but those are difficult to use such that they actually increase you're performance.

jcranberry··on The bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement
Is this website reliable?
jcranberry··on Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls
Ad-driven churnalist/click-bait journalism, here we come.
jcranberry··on Does monitoring your phone affect the essence of privacy?
>At least one in five children falls victim to sexual violence during childhood 3 . A 2021 global study found that more than one in three respondents had been asked to do something sexually explicit online during their childhood, and over half had experienced a form of child sexual abuse online 4 . Children with disabilities face an even higher risk of experiencing sexual violence: up to 68% of girls and 30% of boys with intellectual or developmental disabilities will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday 5 .

That is absolutely shocking.

jcranberry··on The true cost of linked lists
It seemed like this person was talking about an intrusive linked list with an arena allocator of some sort, which isn't ideal but still fairly cache friendly.
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