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maxerickson

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maxerickson··on Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
That's isn't what I am arguing. I'm arguing that a very large holder of bonds can potentially set the market price. If they move the market for the older bonds, they will move the market for new issues.
maxerickson··on Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
China doesn't hold all that much debt, so this doesn't apply

But anyway, a large debt holder can bind up the borrower by announcing they think the debt they hold is worthless. The impact would depend on how much debt it was, with a large amount being dumped almost certainly increasing the cost of borrowing.

maxerickson··on The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
It's a bit of a stretch to describe These claims were investigated by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control, which found no connection between the vaccine and the autoimmune complaints. as "written off as a health panic".

Of course you can just say they didn't investigate it enough or whatever, you aren't trying to make a reasoned argument and thus don't need to exercise reason.

maxerickson··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
Yes, it's treatable with antibiotics and people that are treated get less sick. As stated in the article, prophylactic treatment with Doxycycline is the standard of care. Testing the tick is an alternative to that rather than something that should be expected to increase treatment...

The article also mentions that symptoms sometimes persist after treatment with antibiotics.

maxerickson··on 388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist
I guess if there were resources that were much more available to these agile tall people that might happen.
maxerickson··on 388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist
How big is big?

The practical limit for bipeds is probably ability to survive a fall to the ground. It's not super common, but enough people die simply from falling from standing.

maxerickson··on The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses
So what is your point? They are wrong.
maxerickson··on The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses
It's borders that aren't supposed to be there, not people.
maxerickson··on Toxic underground fires spreading at California landfills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant
maxerickson··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Fructose mixed with glucose, not sucrose (the same typo is in several comments here). Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose linked together.

When corn starch is processed, the produced syrup is nearly 100% glucose. Because fructose tastes sweeter, lots of corn syrup is further processed, converting much of the glucose into fructose, hence the name high fructose corn syrup.

maxerickson··on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
The immunoglobulin is administered proportional to body weight, ideally with most of it injected near the site of the bite.

So one administration, but not necessarily one shot.

maxerickson··on New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
Given the political will, that problem is straightforward to address with the permitting.
maxerickson··on OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record
You are arguing about accounting jargon. The card has to be tracked, the entries that track it fall under the label "liability".
maxerickson··on Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
It's not really considered an import if a person is looking at all of the changes. They would just need a clear license from their users.

(an import is when there isn't complete review...)

maxerickson··on Western men are going abroad to find traditional wives
Pathetic is probably a better term. It is less dismissive of it.
maxerickson··on Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
You know water is kind of big right?
maxerickson··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
With logarithmic perception, it's about a 50% reduction in sound energy.

My battery mower is quiet enough that I don't feel terribly rude mowing at twilight.

maxerickson··on We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros
My buddy's teenager has a collection of old systems, sort of does it as a hobby. I am not informed, but I guess they don't pay high for stuff.
maxerickson··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
Probably the better way to look at it is that the finance charges are built into the price.
maxerickson··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
I thought the current panic was that young people (not necessarily teens) weren't having enough kids?
maxerickson··on Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights
You mean government and society are an engineering exercise. You can't strip people of power and then say it's a democracy, at least not if words mean things.
maxerickson··on US DOT deleting bike lane references
Do you think there is any way to convince you to value a broader community of people?
maxerickson··on US DOT deleting bike lane references
It's not just a sit and ignore thing, this will hit design guidelines that factor into future project funding.

For example, a few years ago they replaced the bridge over a river just outside of town, adding a bike/pedestrian bridge on the side. This connects a county campground to town without requiring riding on the narrow bridge shoulder. Angry people oppose it because they think it's a waste.

maxerickson··on I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
Did you look at memory clocks?
maxerickson··on Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
It's making crude predictions.
maxerickson··on For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
I have an Ego pushmower. It takes like 2/3 of a charge to mow my lawn, with a 4 year old 5 amp hour battery.

I'm not saving money over gas, but I'm not spending a whole lot more and the lack of hassle is fantastic.

If I had a bigger yard I would hesitate to have lots of batteries or whatever.

maxerickson··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
Here, in a small US town, the most frequent public music is one or two people ~destroying the speaker on their phone.

Second is probably motorcycles blasting it over the engine noise.

maxerickson··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
I'm perfectly happy to acknowledge that tomatoes are a vegetable in the kitchen.

If you want to understand their reproductive biology, you are stuck understanding them as fruit.

It's maybe telling that you bring up a confusion that is harmful instead of explaining why grouping massively parallel processors under the term "gpu" is harmful.

maxerickson··on The Growing Compute Shortage
For the companies doing massive build outs, there's already significant pressure to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
maxerickson··on My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry
You are probably misusing disingenuous. It implies dishonesty (so intention).
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