2022-08-22

Worthy

• On Car Seats as Contraception | Don't Worry About the Vase

  For every fatality prevented, we prevent at least ~140 births.

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• New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature

• the long answer to "why is a 2x4 board actually 1.5 inch by 3.5inch" (PDF, 1964) U.S. Forest Service - History of Yard Lumber Size Standards

• Everyone Should Watch Real Genius at Least Once a Year

• Early Lessons in Self-Control Bring Lifelong Benefits

• Understanding Longtermism

• Pasta one-liner wins best joke award at Edinburgh festival fringe

• Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success

  • HN comments

• Macleod Sawyer: Color has been disappearing from the world.

  • HN comments

  Conservatism that started with Reagan did it.

• Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes – James Webb Space Telescope

• It Now Costs $300k to Raise a Child

• Mexico City becomes 'work from home' haven for US expats

• Tonga volcano eruption released more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb

  • Wave created by Tonga volcano eruption reached 90 metres

Horseshit

• Gen Z poses a problem for the luxury industry

• 'Nuclear winter' from a US-Russia war would kill 63% of the world's population

• Same people keep winning Maryland lottery, audit finds

• Meet John Fenley, Digital Folk Hero - by Joe Wilkins

  • HN comments

• Cory Doctorow: The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee

  • HN comments

• Tesla owner will never lose his keys again – after he implants them in his hand

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Bringing lessons from cybersecurity to the fight against disinformation

• Fake News and Democracy

  • HN comments

• Google search is quietly damaging democracy.

  Yes, you read that right: She claims that conservatives are twisting Google's search results with the aim of "humanizing the people whose worldviews and media practices conservatism embodies" - using trickery learned in Bible studies class.

• Encrypting Messenger could be a ‘grotesque betrayal,’ says top UK politician

  • Priti Patel urges Meta to give up on end-to-end encryption plans

Abortion

• Websites selling unapproved abortion pills are booming.

Musk

• Tesla is raising price of FSD feature to $15,000

• YouTube isn’t cool with videos of Tesla FSD beta testing on kids

  • YouTube removes video that tests Tesla Full Self-Driving beta against real kids

• Musk approaches brain chip startup Synchron about deal amid Neuralink delays

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: AP’s Hit Piece on ‘2000 Mules’ is Full of Holes.

• The Black Box of Peter Thiel’s Beliefs

• Mike Pence Owes the Country an Explanation

• All Republicans are now terrorists: Democrats and the mainstream media have gone full Orwellian.

• WSJ: The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis: A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.

• Judge Reinhart formally rejects DOJ argument to keep Trump affidavit sealed, calls raid 'unprecedented' | Fox News

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Ivermectin failed to help Covid-19 patients avoid hospitalization, study finds

• Houston, We Have a Problem (Part 1 of 3) | The Ethical Skeptic

  Seven of the major eleven International Classification of Diseases codes tracked by the US National Center for Health Statistics exhibit stark increase trends beginning in the first week of April 2021

• Metformin Found Effective at Reducing Odds of Serious Outcomes for Covid-19

• Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

• Fauci Says He Will Step Down in December to Pursue His ‘Next Chapter’

• How Well Does the Monkeypox Vax Work? No One Knows for Sure: Health officials hang hopes on Jynneos, but vaccine not yet proven to protect against infection.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Is There an HN for Women?

• The Invisible White Empire — indi.ca

• Sanas Silicon Valley startup wants to make the world sound whiter

• Edgewater bans open carry of firearms; effort to cite ‘white supremacy’ in ordinance fails.

• Minnesota teachers unions defend “fire whites first” policy.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• USC breakaway Fraternities make own rules, defy campus ban

• What kids in San Francisco have to walk through to get home from school

• (Sep 2020) Randomized controlled trials: when the gold standard leaves you with fool’s gold - Peter Attia

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• HBO Max pulls dozens of titles from streaming platform

• The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool

  • HN comments

• Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

TechSuck

• Lucid Emacs released 30 years ago

• 10BASE-T using Raspberry Pi Pico with 2 GPIO pins

  • HN comments

• Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

• Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change

• This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions | Hacker News

• Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor | mod%log

  • HN comments

• Apple Expands Self Service Repair to Mac Notebooks

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• FTX grew revenue 1k% during the crypto craze

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Where have the unicorns gone? The IPO window has slammed shut

• Lloyd’s Exclude Catastrophic Nation-Backed Cyberattacks from Insurance Coverage

• Why Amazon Paid $1.7B for a Roomba

• Investors are optimistic about equities. They have no alternative

• Why gas is cheap in America

• "A Perfect Storm": Sharp Rise In Abandoned Pets As Cost-Of-Living Skyrockets In UK

• UK inflation forecast to hit 18.6% next year, energy bills may rise to £6000

• Euro falls below parity with the dollar

• Shrinking Deficits Cushion Fed’s Retreat from Markets

• In two centuries, the labor to produce a kilogram of grain was reduced by 99.7%

• Ending a 4-Year Partnership, Doordash Will Stop Delivering Walmart Groceries Next Month.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Wasn't this the "Inflation Reduction Act?" Climate bill’s unlikely beneficiary: US oil and gas industry

• Ron Wyden’s Wife Raked in PPP Loans While Laying Off Hundreds.

• 59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make inflation worse

  • HN comments

• Can computer simulations help fix democracy?

• The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China’s drills to change US military assumptions

• Biden Has Quietly Ramped Up Drone Strikes In Somalia, Killing At Least 20

World

• German economy minister rules out keeping nuclear plants running to save gas

• Nord Stream 1 pipeline to shut for three days in latest fuel blow to Europe

• Criminal barristers in England and Wales vote to go on all-out strike

• Singapore to Repeal Ban on Sex Between Consenting Men

  • Singapore will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law

• 2.5T cubic feet of natural gas found offshore south cyprus

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right

• What Russians See in the News: A War over Western Plans to Subjugate Them

• A Russian soldier's Ukraine journal: 'I will not participate in this madness'

• Russia rules out peace deal to end Ukraine war

• The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare

• Russia’s spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• China plans to use chemicals to generate rain to protect its grain harvest

• Kuwait has the biggest tire dump in the world, now it's on fire

• Upon reflection, scientists evaluate Earth-cooling strategies

• Surprise Discovery: Sleeping Giant Could End Deep Ocean Life

• In search of the credible carbon credit

• Alaska’s snow crabs have disappeared. Where they went is a mystery