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wrigglingwormon How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works

"On August 8, 2007, a Suffolk County Grand Jury indicted epoxy company Powers Fasteners, Inc., on one charge of involuntary manslaughter, with the maximum penalty in Massachusetts being a fine of $1,000."

Dude..

wrigglingwormon How the US Is Destroying Young People's Future – Scott Galloway – Ted [video]

>I guess the real question is how to increase voter turnout.

Better candidates.

wrigglingwormon As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet' advice

If you want to lose weight then consume less calories than your body burns. It really is that simple. Yeah, you probably won't be comfortable, but that's the trick to losing weight. You could do it eating nothing but Twinkies, you won't be healthy, but your weight will drop.

Surprised to see that this article mentioned "portion" or "serving" a total of zero times. That's the trick with cereal. Taking cocoa puffs as an example, 50g of them is 200 calories. 50g is probably 4 spoonful's (no source just my opinion).. very little, if you just pour an amount that looks good to you into your bowl, yeah it's going to easily add up to an 800 calorie meal when you add milk.

I would agree that it's deceptive, but you can't blame them for making you fat. All the information you need is right there on the label. This is just for managing weight, getting proper micro and macro nutrients takes a little more research.

wrigglingwormon Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses

I wouldn't even mind ads if most sites weren't malicious with how they serve them. Do not make a new window pop up, do not try to download anything to my computer without my explicit instruction, do not make me click an x to view the content, do not interrupt the content to serve an ad. Why can't they just have a nice little ad on the left and/or right side of the page that doesn't interrupt my intake of their content? Heck, even on the top is fine.

wrigglingwormon Retired Army officer charged with sharing classified Ukraine info on dating site

I wonder how he was caught. Was he actually corresponding with a woman, was it an undercover agent, or romance scam? Did the person he was communicating with tip of an intelligence agency or did the dating platform flag his messages?

wrigglingwormon "Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"

https://github.blog/2022-09-20-if-you-dont-make-it-beautiful...

"This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years."

wrigglingwormon "Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"

I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years. Will the knowledge, ability, and devices capable of reading tape last 1000 years?

wrigglingwormon NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Unclassified Letter Says

>N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says

I haven't seen a cent, where do I collect my check?

wrigglingwormon "Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"

That's really cool, but wouldn't it be worthwhile to also include in the vault a device which can read all that data? Or perhaps engrave on the interior of the vault the instructions for making such a device?

Even in the past few decades storage mediums have changed pretty rapidly and what was the standard back then may be totally unusable for a layperson today. I can't imagine what changes can occur over 1000 years.

wrigglingwormon Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting

I'm surprised no one has brought up the power cost point yet. I have a couple services I'd like to be up 24/7 and paying for hosting on them is actually cheaper than I'd be able to do from home just due to the cost of electricity where I live. Plus I've had quite a few ISP outages, but my provider, as far as I can tell, has been up 24/7/365 in the few years I've been paying them.

wrigglingwormon Obesity may be caused by ancestors' exposure to toxic chemicals

Very interesting. It makes me wonder if the people affected by this sort of thing will ever find justice. What kind of punishment would even be fitting for a company that has irreversibly altered someone's genetics so severely that even their grandchildren are suffering? It reminds me of the recent 3M scandal with the water pollution, paying 10 billion USD after causing permanent water pollution doesn't seem like justice to me. Can they just buy their way out of anything? Can a company cut corners and not do suitable testing to increase profits, causing severe damage to a person or the environment, and just pay a fine once their caught(if they're caught)?

wrigglingwormon Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

what's figma?

wrigglingwormon The US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teeth

>The US basically has a barrier of military bases along the entire Chinese coast

Yes, that's right! It's called the "Island chain strategy".

wrigglingwormon Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek

The median price of a home in the United States is currently $412,020.

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 122.1 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,118 in the third quarter of 2023 (1118x52=58136)

412,020/58136=7.09 years wages to pay off a home

Median house price 1980: $64,600

The 1980 median family income was $21,020

64600/21020=3.07 years wages to pay off a home

https://www.redfin.com/us-housing-market

https://www.gobankingrates.com/investing/real-estate/how-muc...

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1982/demo/p60-13...

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more detail

2023:

412020 30 year loan at 6.5% =

Total principal paid $412,020

Total interest paid $525,508.80

Monthly payments $2,604.25

58136/12=monthly salary of 4844.6

53.7% of monthly pay going to home loan (at 0 down)

1980:

64600 30 year loan at 14% =

Total principal paid $64,600

Total interest paid $210,953.77

Monthly payments $765.43

21020/12=monthly salary of 1751.6

43% of monthly pay going to home loan (at 0 down)

wrigglingwormon LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment

I'm no lawyer but wouldn't it be really easy to claim libel here?

The name of the site is anti-israel-employees.com lol

Does praying for the safety of innocent Palestinians make me Anti-Israel?

wrigglingwormon 'Mind-blowing' IBM chip speeds up AI

I thought the article was mixing up MB and GB at first. Is that the size of the LLM with no training data? Is there any value in that?

wrigglingwormon 'Mind-blowing' IBM chip speeds up AI

>But even NorthPole’s 224 megabytes of RAM are not enough for large language models, such as those used by the chatbot ChatGPT, which take up several thousand megabytes of data even in their most stripped-down versions.

Is that right?

wrigglingwormon Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos

I got blocked with an adblocker a while ago. There's a little trick I've been using to "bypass" the ads though. Click the video you want to see, ad starts, click any recommended video, then use the back button, no ad. Not ideal but saves some time.