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I’m still surprised we haven’t seen these types of attacks on crypto exchanges, high value wallet owners, etc.

Where are the AI based ad blockers? Would happily pay a subscription that filtered all ads and captchas.

Moonlight does this if you are just looking for a solution.

Google already has the daily trip data on a huge percentage of people and could just create and recommend bus and transit routes and times based on people’s existing commutes. Sure privacy issues exist for allowing them to do this but people have given up more personal information for less benefit.

Pretty much all modern video/audio/image codecs are, look at HEIC for example.

This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s about money. JPEG XL is likely patent encumbered and this including it may require paying licensing fees. The companies involved can’t admit that because if they do, they’d be willfully infringing if they do end up including it at some point…

Another issue with this is that the part that fails often is poorly designed or not durable in the first place. So you spend money and time to replace it and then it will just fail again. Zero incentive to improve the part by the manufacturer. I think the solution is requiring manufacturers to sell warranties that cover full labor and materials or replacement. Then at least you could see if a manufacturer selling something cheaply has a very high “full warranty” price, it’s likely because it has a high failure rate. This would be the only way to incentivize fewer failures and repairs.

I think the best way to find repairable and long lived products is to buy commercial grade when possible or look at what gets used by contractors. The types of things that get used in commercial settings or pro use tend to be a lot more repairable and durable than the consumer equivalents. Definitely more expensive though.

A charging EV can draw 30-50 amps @220V, much more than a kettle…

I think at least the ultrasonic parking sensors that are on pretty much every other car are pretty cheap.

on that note, is anyone ever voluntarily, knowingly clicking the “accept all” other than to dismiss these? Like why not just legislate that you can’t do the kind of tracking they are asking because I’m pretty sure literally nobody wants it…

The USDA doesn’t have a recommendation for protein (yet does for added sugar is if some is “needed”), that’s a big part of the problem.

I have a pet theory that one reason people overeat is because they are unconsciously trying to get more protein. So eating tons of donuts or chips etc doesn’t satiate and they eat until they hit the requisite protein and end up consuming way more carbs and fat in the process.

Things are worse when you get to the details. The cars try to stay at 20-80% charge, so off the bat you somewhat “lose” 40% of the actual full stated range. And charging takes hours, not minutes, and charging stations don’t want you to leave the car there for a long time so you then have charge anxiety that forces you to unplug and move the car after exactly say 3 or 4 hours. The whole process is a bit anxiety producing.

What if Reddit took their site down as a counter protest?

It would be interesting if libraries could be used for this purpose. Most close early so they could be used in the evenings for social gatherings, etc.

It’s unlikely the SEC wants to totally nuke Coinbase, given they allowed them to list on the stock exchange. Or else Investors would sue the SEC for securities fraud… probably have to put in some strong disclaimers about some of these shitcoins and pay a small fine.

I was/am like this too. I’d say one of the most fun/challenging things to do was to take something broken and try to repair it. Requires you to understand how to disassemble carefully, understand how it works, understand what is going wrong, and then either replacing or coming up with a better solution, and finally reassembly. And of course if it doesn’t work then, try again—just like debugging. Taught me basically how to be a programmer because coding is exactly the same thing. Get an unknown code base, trace through, find and isolate the problem, then try to fix.

Same experience here, though it was just regular intense exercise, not a return to exercise. Of course the doctor sort of chuckled and laughed when I theorized this as the cause of the elevated liver enzymes and said “no, exercise is good for you”.

Wouldn’t it just be better for them to invest in more equities, like an investment bank?

The argument that the US stock market always goes up over relatively long periods of time seems somewhat flawed to me. If it were true that it was always best to invest in US stocks, everyone’s (longish term) money would flow to that asset class, thus undervaluing something else in return. So it just seems that it can’t be a dominant strategy or else everyone would be doing it. Wouldn’t that leave assets like bonds, real estate, foreign stocks, etc undervalued?

Do you ever watch political debates? The answers to many questions there are totally nonsensical. So probably the same reason is just “politics”.

Except Amazon is in a hiring freeze. Musk knows now is the time to make “unreasonable” demands.

Many other companies are laying off now, and FAANG is in a hiring freeze. Sellers market right now for employment.

I think you have it backwards. This is how you accomplish a 75% reduction while only having to lay off (and pay severance for) 50%! Musk again playing 4d chess.

It’s all relative though, big tech gets hit all at the same time.

Sure, and alcohol, soda, candy, processed foods negatively affect physical health. People “know” this but obviously think the satisfaction they get from it is worth the negative impacts.

Related, so many sellers are now “pro” sellers like what happened to eBay. Keyword stuffing, prices that are comparable to sale prices of new, constant automated reposting, etc.

Skyscrapers in Tokyo are similar to this. Subway stations connected to the basement, retail and restaurants in some floors and office or residential above.

Isn’t that effectively what a CMS is?