chrisbolt

> For the sake of simplicity I’m not accounting for the contribution limit increasing each year, but I’m also not accounting for inflation, meaning you can think of the 875k in 35 years as though it were today.

You're also not accounting for any income from the principal, which even invested in bonds would mostly keep up with inflation.

chrisbolt··on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675831

chrisbolt··on Target Closing 3 Bay Area Stores Due to Retail Theft

Pretty much a dupe/subset of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667011

chrisbolt··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611191

chrisbolt··on The WebP 0day

There's a follow-up fix, according to Debian[0]: https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/95ea5226c87044...

[0]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4863

chrisbolt··on Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576633

chrisbolt··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform

Spotify has a free plan.

chrisbolt··on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421241

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37434293

chrisbolt··on Oslo district court rules Meta is violating the right to privacy (Norwegian)

chrisbolt··on I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’

> With their consent, I had entered the rider’s credit card information—data that is often easy to buy from criminal marketplaces

chrisbolt··on Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids

Even so, who in the HOA wants higher prices?

chrisbolt··on If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch

Relevant West Wing: https://youtu.be/4eP2epXYW9M

chrisbolt··on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

From the Washington Post article:

> After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs.

chrisbolt··on The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server

> since AWS doesn't have a remote serial console thing

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/introduci...

chrisbolt··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis

The first line of redis.io:

> The open source, in-memory data store

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