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New comment by fhdkweig in "California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste"

fhdkweig — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:25:35 +0000

Thanks for providing it, but Sectors chart seems wrong. "The Information sector includes some of the nation's largest technology and entertainment companies like Apple, Meta, Disney, and HP." Putting Disney in the Information sector rather than the Arts and Entertainment sector seems like a really bad categorization. I have to wonder if that severely under-counts the Arts and Entertainment sector.

New comment by fhdkweig in "California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste"

fhdkweig — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:02:06 +0000

I know nothing about nothing, but I always assumed that all the money was from Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Outside of those two highly localized industries, is there really much more money than other states have?

New comment by fhdkweig in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

fhdkweig — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:48:45 +0000

From what I learned from Apollo 13, even with O2 in the air, CO2 can still be poisonous.

New comment by fhdkweig in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

fhdkweig — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:33:08 +0000

Typos can happen.

New comment by fhdkweig in "Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor"

fhdkweig — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:04:13 +0000

I've been following the Russia/Ukraine war and satellite internet has been pretty important there. For first world countries not currently being bombed to death, you're probably right. But for everywhere else it is better than waiting for new ISPs to start up and get fiber rolled out. It is the global market outside the US that they are probably going for.

New comment by fhdkweig in "The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies"

fhdkweig — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:43:45 +0000

Now the government has an extra incentive to get rid of unions entirely so that the company (and the government shareholder) makes more money. So yes, option B.

They also have an incentive to use legal pressure to suppress competitors. But I am sure this (and other administrations) would never throw their weight around for fun and profit. /s

New comment by fhdkweig in "Healthy but Sedentary People Show Early Decline in Cellular Energy Production"

fhdkweig — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:44:47 +0000

They make stationary bikes that fit under a desk. I've never used or seen one, but they exist. I considered getting one during 2020, but they seemed impossible to source.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=desk+stationary+bike

New comment by fhdkweig in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

fhdkweig — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:16:22 +0000

This is what Stephen Colbert called "truthiness". People want to believe what they feel is true even if it is directly contradicted by evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

New comment by fhdkweig in "5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920"

fhdkweig — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:33:49 +0000

dupe (kinda), Yesterday, 9 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674244

New comment by fhdkweig in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

fhdkweig — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:49:08 +0000

Or they don't even know the camera is there. I've heard of landlords doing that in tenant's private spaces, including bathrooms. When caught, they like to claim they are just keeping an eye on the property, but everyone knows they are just perverts.

New comment by fhdkweig in "The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II"

fhdkweig — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:19:43 +0000

It is actually a Nazi thing. (Not kidding.)

https://duckduckgo.com/q=recorder+instrument+nazi

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/true-or-not/2025/02/19/quick...

New comment by fhdkweig in "Aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest skyscraper, triggering evacuations"

fhdkweig — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:41:15 +0000

The celebrity news items to the right of the article are mostly just gossip. That is enough of a reason to consider it a trash tabloid.

New comment by fhdkweig in "Aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest skyscraper, triggering evacuations"

fhdkweig — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:50:55 +0000

The building's name is China Zun Tower, aka Citic Tower

A link to AP News for those who don't trust dailymail.

https://apnews.com/article/china-citic-tower-beijing-damage-...

New comment by fhdkweig in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

fhdkweig — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:30:47 +0000

I think this is a good example of Kafkaesque.

New comment by fhdkweig in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

fhdkweig — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:27:03 +0000

Even emptiness can be plagiarized. See Cage's 4'33"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#Plagiari...

New comment by fhdkweig in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

fhdkweig — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:56:20 +0000

Specifically, there is a reason the US military still vaccinates for smallpox, a virus that was eradicated world-wide 50 years ago. As a civilian, you can't get it even if you wanted it, but as a soldier, you have to take it even if you don't want it.

There is also the legend of sieging cities by catapulting diseased cows over the city walls. And if anyone knows the citation for that story, I'd love to see it.

New comment by fhdkweig in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

fhdkweig — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:31:47 +0000

> Compare to: "Well, the car I was driving is wrecked, and it's all your fault! You should have known that I don't like being told what do to, so by telling me to slow down you forced me to accelerate into that barrier to prove that you aren't the boss of me. We could have avoided this whole mess if you'd simply babied my special needs and irrationalities like an adult."

This is also known as "Look what you made me do."

New comment by fhdkweig in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

fhdkweig — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:19:32 +0000

Guy who sells trips to space says we need to put more stuff in space. AI is hot now, so he has to connect his business to AI. Remember when he put a car in orbit? This is more of the same.

New comment by fhdkweig in "German Rail Service Suspended Due to Radio Interference"

fhdkweig — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:59:12 +0000

and submitted by the same user sva_

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sva_

New comment by fhdkweig in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

fhdkweig — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:55:45 +0000

I don't think they are meant to be parodies. Parodies poke comedic fun at the originals. These are meant to confuse someone into buying the wrong version of a popular film. That's why they make sure the names and even the covers look as identical as they can without getting sued.