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stephengillieon Labor Supply and the Attention Tax

I stopped reading when they started blaming video games. It's such a tired excuse. Sure, a few would rather play games than work, but most play games to escape their lack of real-world opportunities.

stephengillieon The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations

How would you apply this advice to a drug addict or a person who just got evicted?

stephengillieon Who Are My Investors?

No, it's nationalist. Racism would be assuming all Arabic money is corrupt.

stephengillieon Who Are My Investors?

Just because they have other options doesn't mean the fight is lost before it's begun. We can make this more and more work for them, and keep sending the message. And yes, we can also work to place sanctions on investment from nations that ignore human rights.

If we make better and best into enemies, there's no end to what we can't accomplish.

stephengillieon America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants

Chobani is mentioned so many times that this must be paid for by that company. The article is a dress that barely covers an advertisement's bare bottom.

stephengillieon America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants

A supply side solution to a weakening demand? That's just logical enough to work.

stephengillieon America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants

Is this why Costco stores have so much cheap Jarlsberg Swiss?

stephengillieon America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants

I've been saying this for years. Fries with gravy and cheese is delicious, and cheese fries are already popular in America. Big chains like McD and BK sell poutine in Canada, so why haven't they experimented in an American city with many Canadian tourists, like Bellingham?

stephengillieon Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money

From the article:

> Torture. Assassination of political dissidents. Financing terrorism. Civilian airstrikes. Oppression of women and religious minorities. Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights ranks among the world’s worst.

Not unlike CIA and military actions in South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East (e.g. Iran Contra), and Guantanamo & Thailand, over the past 150 years.

stephengillieon The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40

> Wikipedia article on FSK

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying

> The demodulation of a binary FSK signal can be done using the Goertzel algorithm very efficiently, even on low-power microcontrollers.

The source links to the TI page for the MSP430, named because it originally sold for $4.30. While the original link is dead, an internet search reveals many side and college projects using this technique.

stephengillieon The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40

Corrupt cops do sometimes plant evidence. This isn't much different.

stephengillieon Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s

Previously on HN:.

- Alzheimer's caused by dirty air. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230932

- Alzheimer's caused by lack of sleep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228627

There's mounting evidence that "health news" is neither healthy nor news.

stephengillieon The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40

Have you used the OneBusAway app? It's accurate for the buses I take. Is it inaccurate for your routes?

stephengillieon 67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months

If a salaried worker doesn't get overtime, then every hour they work past 40 reduces their effective pay by 2.5%.

stephengillieon Tensions with the West are putting the future of China’s Skynet at stake

Do you have a source?

stephengillieon [dead]

> The top determinants of average lifespan are so-called “lifestyle” diseases, according to AFP. These include high blood pressure, obesity, high blood sugar and alcohol and tobacco use.

Oddly, another article[∆] states that exercise is the top determinant in life expectancy.

"Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis, as far as death, than being hypertensive, being diabetic or being a current smoker," Jaber told CNN. "We've never seen something as pronounced as this and as objective as this."

Should Americans revert to the highly aerobic work of manual farming?

[∆]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264436

stephengillieon Researchers Prove Quantum Computers Are More Powerful Than Classical Computers

This isn't even a real-world example. It's yet another circuit on paper.

stephengillieon Tensions with the West are putting the future of China’s Skynet at stake

> There are other components, such as graphic processing chips used in the security cameras, that are not yet banned for sale to China, but soon may be. Most of the chips are imported from the US, which still allows them to be exported to China.

And here I thought all these components were manufactured and assembled entirely in China already. What's stopping a Chinese company from developing a better chip than Ryzen or Tegra? Not enough R&D funding?

stephengillieon Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls on hard times

They could have used cargo containers instead of buildings. This is definitely a cart-before-horse situation.

stephengillieon Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs

This whole thread is a dumpster fire. Between this and the recent drug threads[∆][¶], this community has revealed its toxic nature. It's unhealthy to be part of this community, and from this point forward, I will recommend against Ycombinator and related investment and incubation, purely on moral grounds.

[∆]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205005

[¶]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193884

stephengillieon Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs

One person's diverse group is another's monoculture.

stephengillieon Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data

I didn't see any mention of the rap crew in the article... That blurb mentioning the rap crew was really an advertising blurb for another article. It just happens to be strategically placed between paragraphs of this article.

stephengillieon Paul Allen has died

How is this any less glib than saying "Rip Paul Allen"?

stephengillieon Paul Allen has died

Press "f" to pay respect.

stephengillieon How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database

The Aurora handbook strongly recommends using these techniques, or using a connection proxy if connection pools won't work for your situation. Having too many connections can cause your Aurora instances to scale up as well, limiting database performance, and leaving you with hundreds more instances than you want to pay for.

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/RDS/amazon-aurora-conne...

stephengillieon Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest

This must be reflected in insurance rates. How much more does it cost to insure a Model 3 than a Camry?

stephengillieon Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest

A CEO selling off a large share of stock in the company (s)he's running is a de facto red flag. Often it's headline/breaking news.

stephengillieon Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest

Toyota sells 1/2 million Camrys a year. For Model 3 to reach that level, Tesla will have to produce 10,000 a week.

stephengillieon Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest

Supposedly, Tesla's cars themselves sell for more than their production cost. The loss comes in supporting Tesla-as-a-fuel-reseller* - aka the Supercharger network.

It would be like if Toyota started opening gas stations, and Camrys and RAV4s and Siennas and Tundras got almost-free gasoline. While these businesses are complementary, they're very different operations, and should at least be in separate business units, if not a subsidiary or partnership with an existing fuel supplier.

*Electricity of a specific voltage and amperage is now a motor vehicle fuel.