<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: maxerickson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxerickson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:26:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=maxerickson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxerickson in "Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's isn't what I am arguing. I'm arguing that a very large holder of bonds can potentially set the market price. If they move the market for the older bonds, they will move the market for new issues.</p>
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<p>China doesn't hold all that much debt, so this doesn't apply<p>But anyway, a large debt holder can bind up the borrower by announcing they think the debt they hold is worthless. The impact would depend on how much debt it was, with a large amount being dumped almost certainly increasing the cost of borrowing.</p>
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<p>It's a bit of a stretch to describe <i>These claims were investigated by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control, which found no connection between the vaccine and the autoimmune complaints.</i> as "written off as a health panic".<p>Of course you can just say they didn't investigate it enough or whatever, you aren't trying to make a reasoned argument and thus don't need to exercise reason.</p>
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<p>Yes, it's treatable with antibiotics and people that are treated get less sick. As stated in the article, prophylactic treatment with Doxycycline is the standard of care. Testing the tick is an alternative to that rather than something that should be expected to increase treatment...<p>The article also mentions that symptoms sometimes persist after treatment with antibiotics.</p>
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<p>I guess if there were resources that were much more available to these agile tall people that might happen.</p>
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<p>How big is big?<p>The practical limit for bipeds is probably ability to survive a fall to the ground. It's not super common, but enough people die simply from falling from standing.</p>
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<p>So what is your point? They are wrong.</p>
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<p>It's borders that aren't supposed to be there, not people.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant</a></p>
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<p>Fructose mixed with glucose, not sucrose (the same typo is in several comments here). Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose linked together.<p>When corn starch is processed, the produced syrup is nearly 100% glucose. Because fructose tastes sweeter, lots of corn syrup is further processed, converting much of the glucose into fructose, hence the name high fructose corn syrup.</p>
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<p>The immunoglobulin is administered proportional to body weight, ideally with most of it injected near the site of the bite.<p>So one administration, but not necessarily one shot.</p>
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<p>Given the political will, that problem is straightforward to address with the permitting.</p>
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<p>You are arguing about accounting jargon. The card has to be tracked, the entries that track it fall under the label "liability".</p>
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<p>It's not really considered an import if a person is looking at all of the changes. They would just need a clear license from their users.<p>(an import is when there isn't complete review...)</p>
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<p>Pathetic is probably a better term. It is less dismissive of it.</p>
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<p>You know water is kind of big right?</p>
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<p>With logarithmic perception, it's about a 50% reduction in sound energy.<p>My battery mower is quiet enough that I don't feel terribly rude mowing at twilight.</p>
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<p>My buddy's teenager has a collection of old systems, sort of does it as a hobby. I am not informed, but I guess they don't pay high for stuff.</p>
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<p>Probably the better way to look at it is that the finance charges are built into the price.</p>
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<p>I thought the current panic was that young people (not necessarily teens) weren't having enough kids?</p>
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