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frumperon New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore

You'd take a 40% pay cut, or more, going 20 miles east of the Bay Area.

frumperon EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

Sugar and alcohol are very clearly negatives for a lot of people, I vote them next.

frumperon EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

If your 14yo spends 90% of their waking life on any device it should be pretty obvious for a parent. If you let your kid spend that much time on a phone, then any government ban in place isn't going to do what you think it will.

frumperon EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

When my kids got to an age they started asking for YouTube videos, I found it entirely frustrating that Youtube Kids was just not feasible to setup like you describe. It was a choice between 3 things, everything, the "kids" section whatever that meant for YouTube, and just tell them sorry, not happening. Within the kids section there seemed to be some controls to help, but I found they did not work well at all and I could easily watch anything in the expanded kids section. I'd have been happy with a whitelist for channels.

frumperon EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

The poster seems to be asking to limit access to the platform, not change the platform to be non-addictive. I understand what you are saying is what the law is trying to accomplish, but I think they are clearly expressing the desire to limit all kids access to social media apps.

frumperon California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

This is about California. A place where an overwhelming majority of tires are all season, which are exempt from this.

frumperon California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

I'm not sure about your imagination. If people had worse tires then it would be even more difficult to go straight from the far left lane to the offramp 20 above the flow of traffic. /s

frumperon Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

Just wait until 1 of those 3 employees left has surgery and needs FMLA, or out on maternity leave. Then it'll be even more capable. /s

frumperon He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

That is a very tiny percentage of overall crashes, it is not a normal failure.

frumperon Excommunicated devs making games with AI

I'd accept punch cards.

frumperon Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

The Catholic Church is made up of people and people do all kinds of things and make all kinds of choices in life. As others have pointed out, it's very possible to talk about the struggles of your community without calling out Bob in the third row.

frumperon Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way

That explains why many tradesman here are always driving new trucks.

frumperon Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off

I agree, all kinds of grocery stores have failed over the years. Kroger's just isn't a good example of a failing store for a lot of reasons. They aren't a stellar investment, but they are also up from 1 year ago and 5 years, so investor's don't look like they agree with your summary of the business.

frumperon Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off

https://massmarketretailers.com/kroger-delivers-solid-quarte...

They didn't lose money because of their grocery operations. Those margins have increased slightly.

frumperon LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

Even off-brand ones now are lasting longer than the ones 10 years ago. It used to be a problem, now I rarely change any bulbs.

frumperon America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws

That is a self reported survey of households that doesn't lend itself to capturing all of the people. One, participants need to respond, which a busy and tired person isn't likely to do. Two, it doesn't define job, so if you don't think of your side hustle/gig work as a job, then you won't say it is. In the survey, if you did answer, and you do have 2 jobs, but you didn't work both in the exact week that you were surveyed, then you also aren't counted. IRS data, ADP private payroll estimates are much higher, but have their own issues.

frumperon We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

Stackoverflow was never about getting the best code and neither are LLMs. People ask questions to figure out how to do something. If an LLM provides an answer that doesn't work, then they will just ask it to do it another way and hope that one works. Experts will always be in high demand, but on the other side there are a lot of jobs that just want a working product, even if it's not well made.

frumperon Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games

Replacing voice actors is literally using ai instead of creative people.

frumperon Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

In California, at one point, you could get a few thousand rebate, if you were in the Central Valley, and additional few thousand rebate. Some local cities gave rebates on top of that, and the federal tax rebate on that. Buy a $45k Model 3 and get back $13k-$15k just for buying it. Rebates like that are going to play havoc with resale values. On top of that, new Tesla's went down in price over the past several years. I think as these incentives taper off we'll see more of a stable drop off.

frumperon Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024

If a child isn't covered by medicaid for income reasons, then CHIP is a program that kicks in to cover kids at higher income levels. These are all federally backed state run programs though so it's going to be hard to figure out exact details and surely someone is slipping through some cracks. Some states combine the programs, some have both. They can vary on the income levels. There is also some level of transition as the paperwork can be cumbersome, unclear and confusing, so kids may be kicked out of the programs while these processes play out, usually with retroactive statuses of eligibility.

frumperon Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

Trading in your new car at 4 years old sounds like bad math no matter what car you buy.

frumperon Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI

Also, FICA cap goes off gross and a 24% rate is based off AGI, just to muddle the numbers even more.

frumperon Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI

If you're at a 24% marginal rate then you're at least approaching the point you stop paying Social Security taxes. Sounds like you just need to work a little more to keep 12% more of your money. It's funny how making more money reduces your tax rate. You just don't make enough to benefit.

frumperon US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs

When do we start paying back the debt? The US is still borrowing to pay its expenses.

frumperon Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

Everyone defines normal differently and people are quite good at judging those that are not their normal.

frumperon Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

It's interesting about the leukemia one. They're also more likely to survive it than children without Down Syndrome and less likely to get a second cancer.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/11/408906/survivors-childhood...

Aside from that, it is actually hard to paint an accurate picture of today with historical data for people with Down Syndrome as the childhood Trisomy 21 strategies have improved and been implemented in the past 20-30 years. 60 years ago kids with Trisomy 21 were moved into institutions. Kids 30 years ago got some basic treatments to keep them alive. Now kids get all kinds of screenings for hearing, vision, thyroid, heart conditions before problems develop. Turns out it's very difficult to grow, learn and thrive when your thyroid doesn't work, or your cardiovascular system wasn't circulating enough oxygen.

There are more struggles for sure, including intellectual disabilities, but many more kids are doing significantly better than their past generations. It costs more, is more work, but like the parent poster said, my experience certainly isn't extreme. We go to more doctor's appointments, have IEP meetings, and she's in speech therapy. She's generally been pretty healthy, happy and very active.

It was scary when she was born. We were given a pamphlet with a list of things similar to your first link. The reality though is she's more likely to have those than the general population, but some of those things are very rare. 100x very rare is still rare. Having all of those issues would be even more rare. The greater point though is that any kid can have those issues too.

The epilepsy link seems to conflict with what I've seen. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31391451/ https://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/about-downs-syndrome/healt...

Both of those put it closer to 10% sometime in their life, with about half of those at birth.

frumperon Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

> if they're a first child, they're the only one due to this

Are you saying people don't have more kids after having a first kid with Trisomy 21?

frumperon Apple introduces AppleCare One

Many insurance policies also have deductibles as an added cost if you actually need to use it making it even less valuable for things you can afford to fix/replace.

frumperon Show HN: I made an app to create personalized stories for children in 5 minutes

Media for kids has been filled with soulless junk long before AI stepped in. You've always needed to find trustworthy sources to filter through it.

frumperon France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

Domino's doesn't have to ask twice. They're choosing to.