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BillTthree commented on Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
phatfish · 8 months ago
Most teabags I use now don't split (some imported brands you have to be careful with), these are just regular looking ones not the fine mesh ones used by premium brands. I can jam them against the side of the cup to squeeze out liquid before removing the bag and they almost never split.

I'd say these extra strong bags have become common in the last 15 years in the UK. How they are strengthened I'm not sure, but my parents compost most of their food waste and they reckon worms now push teabags to the top of the compost bin, when previously they would just disappear with everything else and never be seen again.

BillTthree · 8 months ago
LOL. Worms come up to eat food, go down and poop. Poop forces remaining food and wormpoop (compost) up to the top.

They aren't pushing the teabags to the top, they're digging to defecate.

BillTthree commented on IMG_0416   ben-mini.github.io/2024/i... · Posted by u/bewal416
BillTthree · 10 months ago
Gunshots at 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s Maybe a slamming door, why so many slams? Obvious barking dog, then the wicked desperate woman's scream
BillTthree commented on Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?    · Posted by u/bschmidt1
BillTthree · a year ago
How are they compensating you for the expected work? If you can earn 50-75% of that compensation while working 40 hours a week, why would you go YC?

Why are you focused on YC/startups? Are you interested in the stock options, as a get rich quick scheme? Or are you interested in working during your life and being employed.

Working 60-80 hours a week is above normal and should be compensated as such. Startup stock is a huge risk.

Are you curious why the founders of a company spend 24/7 working it, and why they expect you to do the same? Well there you go, its the only thing the founder thinks about, and they want people to support them in that.

HOW ARE THEY COMPENSATING YOU. Thats the only thing that matters. If you make $1mil/year plus bonus, 80 hrs a week seems more reasonable.

BillTthree commented on Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers   thesun.my/local-news/mcmc... · Posted by u/uzyn
profmonocle · a year ago
I'm honestly surprised that the US doesn't have a legal framework to force ISPs to block IPs / DNS hostnames. I've been expecting that for 10+ years now, but it hasn't happened.
BillTthree · a year ago
The same government that divested DNS after owning it? For years, ALL DNS was run by the US government. They decided to hand it over to a handful of organizations so no one could control it. Now, it looks like we will all have different versions, the same activity can have hugely different outcomes.
BillTthree commented on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers   viewfromthewing.com/airli... · Posted by u/jshprentz
vel0city · a year ago
IP addresses (especially IPv4) are not even supposed to be globally unique.

How many 192.168.1.1 devices are out there? How many different distinct physical boxes respond to traffic going to 1.1.1.1?

BillTthree · a year ago
there are a handful of ranges in IPv4 that are NOT globally unique. You're describing a much smaller set of IP ranges that are designed to be used+reused but not routable.

if you take someone elses public IPv4 address and they're using it, neither one of you will be functional, and they will come knocking on your door.

BillTthree commented on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers   viewfromthewing.com/airli... · Posted by u/jshprentz
kqr · a year ago
Wait, how are they doing that? My mental idea of NAT is that it dyanmically links (address × port) pairs to local addresses. What would be the "port" in the case of flight numbers?
BillTthree · a year ago
UTC Date + Time of flightplan takeoff
BillTthree commented on South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware   tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/PROgrammerTHREE
poikroequ · a year ago
The title is very clickbaity. These are not users downloading torrents in the normal sense. It's users that are using a specific piece of software that happens to utilize the BitTorrent protocol.
BillTthree · a year ago
There is an enormous issue here. A service provider committed crimes against customers and their justification is the customers were using a protocol to exchange something. The service provider has no idea what the something exchanged was.

It's similar to arresting someone because they are speaking French. I don't speak French and I don't like people who speak French because sometimes French people say stuff I don't agree with. I don't know what they're saying but I hate it.

BillTthree commented on South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware   tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/PROgrammerTHREE
shiroiushi · a year ago
>Police officials acted on the information and discovered it came from KT’s own data center south of Seoul. ... They’ve since identified and charged 13 individuals, including KT employees and subcontractors directly connected to the malware attack last November,...

I'm actually very impressed. If this happened in the US, the police wouldn't care about it at all, and would just tell everyone affected that "it's a civil matter" and they'll have to file a lawsuit if they don't like it.

BillTthree · a year ago
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/chinese-hackers-charged-in-...

It took 3 years but the FBI published the names of the fellows they believe are responsible for breaching equifax and stealing private data about half of americans

Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei

BillTthree commented on How a Car Salesman Became a Community Banking Pioneer   xiva.com/blog/dave-fishwi... · Posted by u/decafquest
BillTthree · a year ago
Agreed this is a shill.

What are the financials of bank of dave? How many of his loans have defaulted? How does he analyze the risk he is undertaking?

What happens to Dave if 10% of his friends cannot or decide not to pay him back?

Why does Dave, an individual, have so many resources that he can support thousands of his friends schemes they couldn't afford? Maybe we look at the top down redistribution of wealth. There are so few people controlling so much money and influence.

BillTthree commented on Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi   nytimes.com/2024/06/11/sc... · Posted by u/Hooke
autoexec · a year ago
This is what kills me about the destruction of the rainforests and old growth forests. We're constantly finding new things in our own backyards. There's no telling what we've lost/are losing or how it could have been used to benefit us.
BillTthree · a year ago
I think its equally likely something would be toxic to humans

u/BillTthree

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