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New comment by ipqk in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"

ipqk — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:28:35 +0000

I called a bank to increase my ATM limit. The agent sent me an SMS code to verify my identity and wanted me to read it back to him. The message said not to give the code to any human. Sigh.

New comment by ipqk in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

ipqk — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:37:45 +0000

It's also tax-payer subsidized (i.e. regressive, because it's mostly higher-income people that get dental insurance) because it's money from your employer that you or your employer don't have to pay taxes on.

New comment by ipqk in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

ipqk — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:35:04 +0000

I've been self-employed for years now (USA), and never buy dental insurance, because it's not really insurance, it's basically a non-taxable way for companies to give their employees extra money. Buying it as self-employed persons is basically just giving the "insurance" companies your own money.

New comment by ipqk in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

ipqk — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:33:05 +0000

There just wasn't evidence-based studies for a lot of common dental practices. Not unlike when the FDA was created, a lot of old medicines were just given a pass, even though they aren't useful (like how Acetaminophen is barely better than placebo — it'd never be approved today).

Just because there's no actual studies for flossing, that doesn't mean that flossing is bad or not-needed per se, but there does need to be more basic-level studies for it. I had bad gum-disease in my 20s, but once I actually started flossing daily, it stopped progressing. So it clearly helped me, but a better study on whether everyone needs to floss and how often should be done.

New comment by ipqk in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

ipqk — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:01:56 +0000

Certainly most particulate matter, and it's not even close. Comparing particulates to gas emissions is difficult, so there's no way to say what's "most".

Either way, my greater point still stands: switching to EVs isn't a cure-all to breathing around cars.

New comment by ipqk in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

ipqk — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:59:46 +0000

"Hundreds of other ingredients, including steel, fillers, and heavy metals — including copper, cadmium, lead, and zinc — make up the rest, many of them added to enhance performance, improve durability, and reduce the possibility of fires."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

New comment by ipqk in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

ipqk — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:02:24 +0000

Tires are only about 25% natural rubber; the rest is synthetic rubber, heavy metals, plastics, and additives. These get emitted as fine particulates that stick around in the air. They may not technically be a gas, but we breathe it in just the same.

New comment by ipqk in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

ipqk — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:00:23 +0000

The tire & brake particulates go into the air. Sure, technically not gas, but we breathe it in just the same.

New comment by ipqk in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

ipqk — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:22:52 +0000

Sorry, but most car pollution is from the tires/tyres, not the exhaust. Electric cars don't solve that, and may even make it worse because they're heavier.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...

New comment by ipqk in "Donald Sutherland has died"

ipqk — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:38:13 +0000

I guess Elliot Gould is hotter now.

New comment by ipqk in "Show HN: We made a small and cheap network switch"

ipqk — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:27:15 +0000

This team is at the second best high school in the USA. they have the resources and the money.

New comment by ipqk in "OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)"

ipqk — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:36:13 +0000

Yes, I know, I was tracking the stock while watching WWDC. But there was a very sudden precipitous fall right when this was announced.

New comment by ipqk in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

ipqk — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:31:16 +0000

I've been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I'm getting more and more annoyed. It's increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven't migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can't close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here's hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.

New comment by ipqk in "OpenAI Welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)"

ipqk — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:05:02 +0000

Is this what caused AAPL stock to drop ~$3 rapidly? (mostly recovered since then)

New comment by ipqk in "Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland"

ipqk — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 01:44:34 +0000

So implicit, not explicit.

New comment by ipqk in "In one of the US's hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar"

ipqk — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:16:24 +0000

10-1 odds they’ll still vote for Trump and republicans in November.

New comment by ipqk in "Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange"

ipqk — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:18:17 +0000

But you may want to walk across the highway which is almost always allowed.

New comment by ipqk in "Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange"

ipqk — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:17:46 +0000

But each conflict point is crossing only one direction of traffic, and there are no cars turning left or right into the crosswalks (which is huge cause of pedestrian impacts). So even though there are 4 crosswalks, maybe the aggregate danger is less?

New comment by ipqk in "Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero"

ipqk — Tue, 28 May 2024 01:17:06 +0000

If you watch the linked video, the kpop concerts basically do that. You bring your own light, pair it via bluetooth, and specify your seat.

New comment by ipqk in "DuckDuckGo was down"

ipqk — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:08:06 +0000

Cause Brave CEO, Brendan Eich, is such a swell guy.