nerfhammer

5,267 karma · joined February 21, 2010

nerfhammer··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

> chargers and cables are advertised with the wattage they support, but it's really the voltage and current that matters.

watts = volts * current

nerfhammer··on Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video]

it also must mean the sensor is indelibly attached to the screen now

nerfhammer··on Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?

The article mentions Punic (Carthage)

nerfhammer··on Scientists say they may have detected dark energy

I believe another piece of evidence is there is more gravitational lensing than expected in various places

nerfhammer··on Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

There's a very different record of homegrown dictators vs. foreign occupying powers in this regard.

nerfhammer··on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max

Those consumers would be right though, no?

nerfhammer··on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max

I also wonder if the global chip shortage was putting pressure against them doing anything too ambitious

nerfhammer··on iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication

I've wondered why they don't implement LoRA, if they want another type of radio network. You could message other iPhones even if none of you have a cell signal. Low power, doesn't need a big antenna.

nerfhammer··on The Story of Playdate

there's also the arduboy for something even simpler

nerfhammer··on Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional

the funny thing is that was a concession: normally legislators can't overturn California ballot propositions at all.

nerfhammer··on People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart

One thing I appreciate about home depot's web site: they'll tell you not only whether the item is in stock, but exactly where in a given store it's located

nerfhammer··on Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

should we presume this was strategically ordered by upper management and not just someone at the location just assumed outside material wasn't allowed?

nerfhammer··on Goodbye, Fleets

I've been thinking of it in terms of convergence, maybe they're all converging on the identical "optimal" social network.

nerfhammer··on Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

If it costs a billion dollars to develop a drug and pharma spends 6.5 billion on ads, that would mean an implausibly small number of drugs being developed, no?

I don't see any reason to believe that pharma spends more on ads than R&D. Do you?

nerfhammer··on Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

ok, so 65 drugs in development, with 6.5 drugs released per year? does that seem plausible for the entire pharma industry?

nerfhammer··on Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

According to one google search result total pharma ad spend was $6.58 billion in 2020.

According to the CBO pharma R&D was $83 billion in 2019.

References:

https://www.fiercepharma.com/special-report/top-10-ad-spende...

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57126

nerfhammer··on Robinhood S-1 IPO

My guess is all the media attention actually got them more signups

nerfhammer··on ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect

Yea I bet it's just everyone who would have changed jobs anyway over the previous 18 months feel safer doing it now

nerfhammer··on Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral

us good, them bad

nerfhammer··on Crazy Clock

get a watchy https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

nerfhammer··on Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

The key is knowing exactly which startup to put your $2000 in.

nerfhammer··on South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6B in Bitcoin Exit Scam

The US has had periods where banks or even corporations could print their own money.

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

It wasn't fiat money, they were deposit notes representing gold or silver. And while outright fraud wasn't much of an issue since physical banks can't just disappear and leave town overnight, if the bank collapsed the currency would probably not be redeemable anymore.

nerfhammer··on Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=saffron+capsules

I have no idea if saffron "extract" is effectively the same thing though

nerfhammer··on Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)

Go Go Curry in NYC has it

nerfhammer··on How to get yourself to do things (2015)

FWIW Seinfeld seems to deny that he ever had anything to do with this idea https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...

nerfhammer··on Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]

I bet it connects to wifi and/or bluetooth so you can control it with some smartphone app

nerfhammer··on Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech

for physical stores sellers fight over having products placed on eye-level shelves vs. not

nerfhammer··on Software maker Altium rejects $3.9B takeover bid from Autodesk

Keep in mind Altium is already publicly traded and at the moment has a market cap of $3.85B

nerfhammer··on LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month

New housing is always relatively "luxury" because newness is itself a luxury. Much of what is relatively affordable now was relatively "luxury" when it was built. But if you stop building anything new it would be like trying to keep the price of cars down by banning new cars – what will happen after a decade or two if you did that?

nerfhammer··on Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k

there's nothing stopping you from doing that

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