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lfuller

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lfuller··on The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada
Protecting your own country's production capacity and industry doesn't come without cost. It likely would absolutely be cheaper if we allowed our core industries to fail and be replaced wholesale with American exporters, but that's not what the majority want for the country.

As we're seeing with this trade war as a whole, tightening economic integration with an asymmetric partner puts your sovereignty at risk as well. If we have no industries of our own, and are utterly dependent on a single unreliable superpower, then we lose the freedom to decide on our own future as the rug could be pulled out from under us at any time. The only way to mitigate that risk is to diversify trade and ensure self-sufficiency in our own industries.

lfuller··on Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
In Canada at least it’s not legal to charge for unlocking a carrier-locked phone as it’s considered anti-competitive.
lfuller··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
> And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome.

This is claimed by users of Reddit regularly as well and I think most people here would consider Reddit to be a typical example of social media.

lfuller··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
While I completely agree with you on [1] and it's tiring to have to re-litigate this issue every few years, [2] was from 2021 and doesn't reflect Canada's current policies.
lfuller··on Sauna effect on heart rate
This feels like a false dichotomy. Even if sauna doesn't impact long term health in a way that can replace exercise, that doesn't mean that it doesn't improve health.
lfuller··on Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
I found that strange as well. Who were they quoting, given that the Department of War hasn’t existed since 1947 and as far as I know Jimmy Carter didn’t pretend that it still did.
lfuller··on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
From my perspective it would make a lot more sense to only allow index fund purchases as an elected official. If the economy does well you still do well, but there would clearly be no insider trading going on.

Or at least there would be less - you could only trade on the knowledge of full-market swings rather than per-company swings.

lfuller··on I Work Best Under Stress (and My Family Pays for It)
I was thinking the exact same thing. This is textbook untreated ADHD.
lfuller··on Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC
For further context, he said that the right was doing everything in their power to portray him as anything but one of them. I.e. in the absence of evidence they were attempting to pin the blame on the left.
lfuller··on Nova Scotia bans hiking and use of vehicles in woods due to wildfire fears
As a local to the area, a lot of the pushback is coming from the fact that this is not a closure of public parkland, but a restriction from entering any wooded area in the province - public or private.
lfuller··on Nova Scotia bans hiking and use of vehicles in woods due to wildfire fears
It’s not only crown land in this case - it’s all land, public or private.
lfuller··on Don't Get Distracted (2017)
The quote was "ultimately some responsibility lies with us to think through how those tools will be used". It's saying that we as builders have a responsibility to consider and be mindful of the impacts of what we're building. It's not saying that the maintainer of wget is directly responsible for a system used to exfiltrate data from a database of political asylees.

To take your same point to its logical conclusion, no one is responsible for evil aside from the one who pulls the trigger.

lfuller··on A scientific run-down of coffee blooming
> the more acidity flavors are extracted later

The first compounds to be extracted with coffee tend to taste sharply sour, shifting to sweet and then to bitter as the brew progresses - you can actually taste this directly by sampling a bit of the coffee that drips out at the start, middle, and end phases of your brew.

I found this guide to be helpful when I was first getting started: https://www.homegrounds.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Coffee...

lfuller··on Welcome to the AI Gadget Era
In a world where AirPods are ubiquitous, what value does such a niche product provide? Apple could easily add the same feature to something a huge number of people already own.
lfuller··on Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming
That was tried in Ontario (cap and trade), but there was enough misinformation going around that the general populace thought it was just a standard tax on individuals.
lfuller··on Apple Has Sold Approximately 200k Vision Pro Headsets
I remember these kinds of comments when the first iPad came out. “It’s just a big iPod Touch”.
lfuller··on The 37signals Employee Handbook
I would love to know what prompted that.
lfuller··on Why do EVs crash more than gas powered vehicles
From my own experience seeing people switch from ICE vehicles to EVs, I would guess this comes down to people not being used to one-pedal driving / regenerative braking.
lfuller··on Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results
I consult for a specialty coffee shop, and in my experience the electrical ground of the machine has no impact on static generation - I doubt the burrs themselves are grounded. The amount of static you get very much depends on the specific grinder you use. Our large-batch shop grinder creates massive amounts of static and requires water to be added to not end up with a mess, while our espresso grinders tend to generate less.

To your second point, one of the fascinating things about this study is that the static charge during the grinding process causes the coffee to clump - that means that by the time the water hits the coffee puck it is too late to avoid the static-induced clumping.

lfuller··on Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results
As I've seen several comments on this here - people have used spritzes of water to reduce static when grinding coffee for years, but the interesting part of this study was the finding that beyond reducing static, adding enough water prior to grinding actually reduces flow rate and increases extraction by preventing the creation of coffee clumps / aggregates.

So it confirms the anti-static properties that everyone already knew, but has interesting implications for increasing extraction without changing any other variables.

lfuller··on Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution
G100UL, the current unleaded alternative to 100LL, has been tested to act as a drop-in replacement for any and all aircraft engines that run on 100LL.

If you can run, 100LL, you can run G100UL. The main issue is with mogas (standard car gas) - many aviation engines can't run it.

lfuller··on Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution
They did, finally, but it shouldn't have taken this long. There was a breakdown on the regulatory side for decades.
lfuller··on Greg Rutkowski was removed from Stable Diffusion; AI artists brought him back
Greg Rutkowski is most well known for his work on D&D and Magic the Gathering. You recognize his style as he was one of its pioneers.
lfuller··on A case for toe socks
I’m Canadian and have lived in the Atlantic provinces as well as Ontario. I have never seen anyone wear shoes inside aside from workers who are required to have steel toed boots on.
lfuller··on Introducing react.dev
What happened to Mobx? It was my understanding that it’s still going strong.
lfuller··on Tesla puts a ‘dummy’ camera in its new vehicles
That was a highlighted top comment speculating on why it's there.
lfuller··on Room-temperature superconductor discovery meets with resistance
Two of my favourite subreddits as well. Aerospace subreddits in general seem to attract a higher standard of post.
lfuller··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
Nearly all studies regarding suburban vs. urban streets have shown that suburban streets have significantly higher rates of child deaths and injuries than urban streets.
lfuller··on Thunder Bay police set up 911 email as Canada-wide cellular outage continues
The Interac network uses Rogers for its backbone apparently.
lfuller··on USDA ignoring the science on low-carb diets
In my experience that’s the primary positive point of carb-restrictive diets.

In general I find it extremely hard to restrict calories under a standard North American diet due to craving carb-heavy foods and feeling a constant base level of hunger. When on keto I tend to only feel hunger around dinner time and have no issues at all with portion control throughout the rest of the day.

I think the real advantage of low carb diets is regulating hunger and making it easier to properly manage carb intake - at least in my case.

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