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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.

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.

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.

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.

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)?

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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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)

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?

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.