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Sure, that's a fair point. You're right that I don't have those numbers, and I would be willing to be that at the moment, no one does. > I'm betting they aren't that actually egreg…

If "this" was a single new Ford plant, I would imagine that the local population around it would be having a similar conversation. If Ford announced that they were opening 10 new p…

The person you're responding to is incorrect, fruit fermentation produces methanol: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8125215/ The primary mechanism of methanol production d…

It's illegal to ship queen ants across state lines (let alone from out of the country) without a USDA permit, so you'll be hard pressed to find many sites willing to admit to it. T…

There are, just not lowercase characters that are valid hex.

The irony of this comment is that deportations were higher under Biden than during Trump's first term, which makes it seem exactly like it was "written by teenagers, based on emoti…

It depends on the AA battery, but you'd need 6 - 8 to get equivalent performance. The Google Pixel 9 has a 4700 mAh battery at 3.9 volts. The total energy is around 18.3 watt hours…

I don't use it at all for a variety of reasons, but I rarely bother to get into discussions on HackerNews. Looking at how new it is, and how quickly things are changing, it seems l…

They actually asked for quantitative evidence.

People who heavily utilize any of those _do_ have the associated skills atrophied. It's just that in all of the listed cases, the actual associated skill may not have actually been…

This tracks with a report[1] that nearly half of consumer spending now comes from the top 10%. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp50...

The point of dog whistles is that most people can't hear them.

To head off typical response to that passage - the idea that "the eye of a needle" was referencing a literal gate in Jerusalem (changing the meaning of the passage from "impossible…

I recently learned from my vet that fleas are a very common form of tapeworm transmission, and animal to animal transmission is comparatively rare. https://www.cdc.gov/dipylidium/a…

A cursory search would show you how much frustration there is around broken autofill attributes. Such a dismissive attitude helps no one. Would you like me to paste the contents of…

From what I've observed, "woke" is just the latest pejorative used by the American political right. Before woke, there was "PC", "SJW", and I'm sure others that were before my time…

By summing up the top 60 entries for UK billionares from The Times Rich List for 2024 (which is data from 2023), I get almost exactly 500 billion pounds in net worth (£499.55bn). A…

According to copper.orgs fact page, the "average" single family home (whatever that means) has 151 pounds of copper pipe. The current scrap price for #1 copper where I live is $2.8…

I'm using #4 as an example of the opposite end of the spectrum from day trading in Robinhood - traditionally safe investments with little long term risk as a form of building wealt…

I have anecdata #3 and #4. Both of these people are in their early 30s. #3 - A friend who recently (within the last year) drained his savings to $0 paying for a trip to Europe. All…

I'm reading their comment as the opposite - there are mechanisms for a high trust society in place (which is good), but if you go out of your way to opt out of it then you're on yo…

My Indiana mortgage payment is $500, thank you very much.

I've also found that, at least with Comcast, swearing at the bots will usually put you through to an operator.

I used to work for a Moodle host that also did custom plugin development. The Moodle code base dates back to somewhere around 2000 ish, and comes with the baggage of the early days…

If you're serious about it, the way that I (accidentally) found that works is to keep some spiders and roaches as pets. I used to be the same way, involuntarily flinching whenever …