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New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

WorkerBee28474 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:12:47 +0000

Well, the Moon, Sun, and Earth are all flatter than most surfaces in my house, and I call those surfaces flat, so yeah...

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:27:27 +0000

1.8kg of common food is 5000 Calories-ish. I can only imagine that dried food is more calories per weight. So yeah, a lot.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:37:27 +0000

> So all of a sudden the nice town clinic has $2,500,000 in debt, raise prices accordingly...

From a financial engineering perspective this is wrong.

Both equity and debt have costs of capital. Debtholders expect interest, capital holders expect RoE. The money going to debt interest is money that would previously have gone to equity, but now does not because the equity is replaced with debt.

Crucially, the costs of debt is lower than the cost of equity because of the interest tax shield. Therefore, the vet clinic now requires less revenue to maintain or even increase its return to equity.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:56:13 +0000

The Kemmerer Unit 1 project... would be used to demonstrate the TerraPower and General Electric-Hitachi Natrium sodium fast reactor technology. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor

[0] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "We Will Not Be Divided"

WorkerBee28474 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:59:08 +0000

> Imagine if a gun manufacturer sold a gun that you couldn't use against X or Y country

That kind of happens with F35s that the US sells to its allies.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:44:09 +0000

> they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist.

Their old bassist did not make for good PR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Smith

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +0000

Delaying votes may be one of HN's anti-manipulation tactics.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:21:29 +0000

IIRC there was a pre-edit version with snark.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:37:55 +0000

So...crowdfunding via a platform like Kickstarter?

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:46:27 +0000

It makes sense that something is obsessive was written by JHS.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:52:55 +0000

The student is charged with a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

WorkerBee28474 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:13:23 +0000

> Can US administration claim a domestic election (like the upcoming 2026 mid-terms) was stolen and… do stuff?

With enough guns, anything is possible.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:29:19 +0000

Berkshire had a pivot where, decades back, Munger convinced Buffett to switch from investing in bad companies at a great price to good companies at a good price. Their new strategy is still active.

That said, the turnaround 'mission' you mention about still happens, but is more associated with private equity than Berkshire.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:30:43 +0000

Yes, "LRAD"s.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:09:19 +0000

~100K USD

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:27:39 +0000

I heard about aerogel as a kid and only recently learned how extremely hard it is to make [0], so this seems like a cool and more accessible material in the same vein.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0HfmYBlF8g

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "The gift card accountability sink"

WorkerBee28474 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:09:09 +0000

Who do you think the article's readers are? Random people? No, it's explicitly for people who are interested in both tech and finance.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "The gift card accountability sink"

WorkerBee28474 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:57:16 +0000

The author is an expert in the field of payments. What you call "being contrarian" is better called "speaking the truth".

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:34:12 +0000

mo·nop·so·ny /məˈnäpsənē/ a market situation in which there is only one buyer.

It seems like the issue we're having is that we are buyers who are competing against OpenAI, who is another buyer. There isn't only 1 buyer or 1 seller of RAM.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Socialist ends by market means: A history"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:58:40 +0000

I find it interesting, perhaps ironic, how much the cause of social ownership of businesses/'means of production' will be advanced by ... Trump, via the 530A a.k.a. Trump Account.

$1000 at a 10% return for 65 years is $490,371