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New comment by joshuahaglund in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joshuahaglund — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:33:50 +0000

Air BNB guests are a net drain on my neighborhood. You do not add anything to the community. I can't ask you for a cup of sugar. You're a party of strangers who I'll never see again. I'm not on vacation trying to introduce myself to the locals, I'm catching up with my neighbors. Your tourist dollars would flow to my city just fine if you stayed in a hotel.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

joshuahaglund — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:22:48 +0000

It's not a law, it's a financial contract between a borrower and a lender.

I agree it's stupid, but that's what you get when you let the invisible hand bind human hands

New comment by joshuahaglund in "How to earn a billion dollars"

joshuahaglund — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:56:53 +0000

No, we just want to get to know our neighbors. Not live next door to a rotating party house

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"

joshuahaglund — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:18:02 +0000

https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S23692...

It was enough of a concern before the most contagious virus resurfaced (measles) that researchers have been looking at sporting events as mass vector events for years.

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) via DHS provided $625 million in grant funding to the 11 U.S. cities in hosting states to enhance security and preparedness efforts for the “safe execution” of tournament events"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewar...

New comment by joshuahaglund in "I want to live like Costco people"

joshuahaglund — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:06:53 +0000

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e...

Lack of thiamine will get you first but you can switch to Brown rice which has both

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:44:47 +0000

IDK, jesters are running the world and I think Canterbury tales was written before "generous tit for tat" was determined to be the superior game strategy.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:56:57 +0000

I think most of the US has 240 to the home. Look at your power feed, if there are two insulated conductors on an uninsulated line, those are two 120V lines of opposite phase/polarity. I have a friend who temporarily ran a 240 volt welder by plugging into a custom outlet box, wired with two plugs that went to two outlets on different legs of the breaker box. Electric ovens, ACs, hot tubs, dryers, etc. are all commonly 240 and work with the right house breaker and wiring setup.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

joshuahaglund — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:27:22 +0000

No beer has nothing to do with Roseburia genus bacteria

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:39:08 +0000

> hack at stone with a chisel

Update your mental model, except for the grand works, they used sticks on clay tablets similar to writing

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

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:40:27 +0000

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

Among others

New comment by joshuahaglund in "You can use newline characters in URLs"

joshuahaglund — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:50:27 +0000

Yeah "You can use newline or tab characters in the HREF attribute and the browser will throw a validation error, remove the offending character, try again, then succeed" would be a more accurate title.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

joshuahaglund — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:52:33 +0000

That looked like a leading question to me, asking for confirmation but not an outright assumption. Seems like a fair question

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

joshuahaglund — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:32:07 +0000

https://time.com/5846321/nixon-trump-law-and-order-history/

(They said law and order, because they couldn't say anti black)

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Help My c64 caught on fire"

joshuahaglund — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:41:59 +0000

I like the aesthetic choice

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

joshuahaglund — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:00:50 +0000

Just what we need, more powerful automobiles.

I would appreciate a 1 oz motor that can put out 1 hp on an ebike.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)"

joshuahaglund — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:30:36 +0000

You're assuming so much that is wrong. Thieves don't know how to use technology?

They can't use a charger? (I imagine they'd wire one to an also stolen generator)

Then you assume they're gonna be in a car chase? That's not how most stolen vehicles end up.

Afaik most stolen vehicles either get quickly parted out at a chop shop, or are sent across a border (driven across borders or container shipped to another country), or used for other crimes, or they're joy rided around then abandoned. Basically all things you could easily do on a partial charge with a modern car mechanics skills.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

joshuahaglund — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:11:00 +0000

> The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately

Off the top of my head, two programs I watch that get CPB funding include: Frontline https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/our-funders/ NOVA https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/funders/

This is one place some sorta "trickle down" economics worked. CPB contributed to developing the content on PBS. Now PBS either has to cut costs by either canceling programs or ordering cheaper content that corporate sponsors like, run more pledge drives, or seek more corporate sponsors. None of those are appealing to me.

Also CPB helps keep rural stations open means all the niche local productions about state history or geology or whatever can happen.

It's a cut to the already strained budget of a wonderful resource. I'd be surprised if there weren't lost jobs and less quality as a result.

Edit to add: Just sentimental but I'll miss hearing "this program was made possible by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by contributions from viewers like you!"

New comment by joshuahaglund in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:46:16 +0000

Well 40% admit to it but those are just the honest dishonest people

https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than...

New comment by joshuahaglund in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:46:21 +0000

Or maybe they're low sales-volume items in a low profit margin store and it's cheaper to put some things behind glass than post up a security guard to deal with the fact that almost everyone, even nice old ladies at the grocery store, steal things sometimes?

New comment by joshuahaglund in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:36:45 +0000

Your own link points out that $950 is just taking into account inflation. When the law was created in 1982 the amount was $400, which was about $981 in 2014.

Inflation would eventually make stealing a candy bar a felony. Or we could updated the numbers periodically