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New comment by BryanBigs in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

BryanBigs — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:43:30 +0000

Watch any random sampling of body cam footage and you won't think the majority of violence was the cops. I'm amazed at the restraint honestly.

Now when I was a kid...getting thrown into a paddywagon while hammered after mouthing off to a cop was a right of passage.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

BryanBigs — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:06:50 +0000

One of the main points of human existence is to influence people....in a good way.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol"

BryanBigs — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:07:25 +0000

I believe the JUPITER trial showed this. If I remember correctly you needed high inflammation for high ldl to matter in cardiovascular events.

New comment by BryanBigs in "EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections"

BryanBigs — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:22:21 +0000

Well pre COVID, Silicon Valley had one of the highest non-vaccination rates amount kids in day-care. So at least then it wasn't a red/blue thing at all.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Low-quality papers based on public health data are flood scientific literature"

BryanBigs — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:10:02 +0000

Is the poor grammar in this title ironic or just poor?

New comment by BryanBigs in "High-volume exercise tied to increased coronary artery calcification score"

BryanBigs — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:07:43 +0000

Tennis is a 5MET activity, jogging/running can be 10+

New comment by BryanBigs in "Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS"

BryanBigs — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:36:38 +0000

Yeah but that 15% food revenue growth might have gotten someone a bonus internally that year...

New comment by BryanBigs in "Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS"

BryanBigs — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:35:28 +0000

Exactly. Case in point: I worked on an investment team that had a product that at the time would close at $2b in assets. We were top 5% on 1/3yr performance, so we had incoming demand. The dept head was paid on sales per calendar year, so he forced us to accept the last $300m of assets in December at 0.60% fee. Our average fee on the existing $1.7b? 1.25%. If we had waited for the other pipeline biz to close in Jan-March, it would have been at least 1% fee. Many dumb buisness decisions are just logical decisions for a individual based on incentives that you can't see. They happen to be at odds with the goals of the firm as a whole.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)"

BryanBigs — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:41:06 +0000

I was in investment management for a us bank - here the requirement is all officers must take 5 consecutive days off to ensure at least one weekend is covered. Considering I never touched money, it was one of those fun perks of working for a bank, like taking 2 hours of elder abuse classes for regulations in a state I didn't live nor work in, and being tested yearly all about money laundering laws and regulations.

New comment by BryanBigs in "The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy"

BryanBigs — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:27:26 +0000

Weather is not rare.

This algorithm is going to have speed,acceleration, traction, steering vs direction as some of the inputs. A good rainstorm or snowstorm is going to tough to differentiate from drunk or high driving. Those aren't edge cases. And how long then will the car decide you need a time out? 5 mins? 1 hiur? 4 hours? There is no way this doesn't get pushed back from a 2026 implementation anyway. You can't just drop this in when those model year cars are almost fully designed by now

New comment by BryanBigs in "Yadea unveils 99 MPH electric motorcycle that charges in 10 minutes"

BryanBigs — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:29:34 +0000

The fat and/or elderly are "most people".

New comment by BryanBigs in "It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs"

BryanBigs — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:33:30 +0000

Cars have very low profit margins. Last time I checked a few years ago, the gross margin on an average American car was 10-15%. This doesn't count finacing.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt"

BryanBigs — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:45:37 +0000

Yeah I sure got to use the 75,000 seat football stadium a lot for pickup games when I was in school. It's not like you need 'athletes' on campus to build student rec facilities.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Yes, There Is a Cure for Bullshit"

BryanBigs — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:28:28 +0000

Does anyone have access to the questions/headlines they asked about COVID? Is it in the paper mentioned in the article (which is behind a paywall)?

New comment by BryanBigs in "Google no longer automatically indexes websites?"

BryanBigs — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:17:41 +0000

Did you build any links to the site? Links=Votes=Trust in Google's eyes....for better or worse. Even a tweet or Pinterest pin?

New comment by BryanBigs in "TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)"

BryanBigs — Sun, 28 May 2023 11:47:24 +0000

Wouldn't you just give everyone the pill in this scenario?

New comment by BryanBigs in "Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes"

BryanBigs — Tue, 18 May 2021 13:01:21 +0000

I do have to ask...why is it morally bankrupt? Do you go out of your way to pay more tax than is legally required? If not, are you morally bankrupt? Of course not. Tax laws are the rules of the game. If you don't like the rules, change them (democracy and all) and enjoy the positive and negative consequences as they unfold.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee"

BryanBigs — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:02:10 +0000

True. But any refill that doesn't state the fact upfront is also fraud. If a company is transparent that you will be automatically charged every year, and has an easy way to cancel before the date, well then that's on me. I've paid those obligations even if I'm not using the product. But if the rebill terms are hidden during the marketing process, and buried away in fine print....good luck collecting from Sammy Davis, Sr, Dirtbag Co.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee"

BryanBigs — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:53:07 +0000

Why would you use your real name/address for a cloud subscription trial? I know with my disposable card provider, pseudonyms are a-ok. Sir Donald Mallard IV may have a ding in his credit report, the old chap, but I still can sleep and night somehow.

New comment by BryanBigs in "Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it"

BryanBigs — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:44:05 +0000

Sorry, I didn't even think to look myself before asking.A quick look at the source seems ok, but you might want to run it through "view as google it" on GSC. My question was instinctive to ask because I've heard that incorrect canonical settings make you open to this sort of attack. Good luck either way - ranking is hard enough without dealing with these issues.