This is backwards. He's still 50 cent, but to have the buying power he had in '94, he'd need to $1.09. But he's still 50 cent, so really, in today's money he's more like 23 cent.
Readit Newshenry_bone commented on The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation 50centadjustedforinflatio... · Posted by u/gaws
henry_bone commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam
The opening line:-
"The traditional wisdom says resting meat keeps it juicy. But when we put that idea to the test, we found a different reason to rest—one that has nothing to do with juice."
I don't rest meat to keep it juicy. I rest it to finish the cook. It's not quite ready when it comes off the heat.
Now I'll read the rest. :-)
henry_bone commented on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
I had this idea years ago when I was moving house and redirecting my post. I'm probably not alone in that. Kudos to Japan Post for implementing it.
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henry_bone commented on No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones popularfintech.com/p/no-o... · Posted by u/kazanins
That’s the thing I can’t ever come to understand about crypto. It’s purely about perception of value. At least with some precious metal, it has a floor value as a function of its practical uses and abundance.
Which leads me to believe that the only thing that could be honestly said is that a crypto is purely about winners and suckers and timing.
That's true of everything we use as money, including precious metals. You can't eat them, live in them, use them as weapons, walk down the street in them. They have value bacause we all agree that they do and we all agree to use them as a means to exchange that value. Also, and this is important and I should have said it first, they have value because their supply is restricted.
The same is true for crypto. It's fungible, private, and limited in supply. It's also independent of governments although they are doing their level best to correct that.
I wonder a lot about this argument of private health care vs state funded health care. I have libertarian leanings and so would prefer a truly free market, because I would like to believe it would lead to affordable levels of health care for everyone.
But I don't know that it's true. My questions regarding the US system and health insurance: Is it a truly free market or does the state regulate in ways that make it difficult for competition?
In Australia we have heavily subsidized healthcare, but it's not great. If you've got something life threatening then you'll be OK. If it's not life threatening, but just really difficult to live with then you'll wait. Sometimes years. No choice of specialist or hospital either. So many of us get private health insurance of one level or another, in order to have more choice and better, more prompt care.
So, how free is the US system?
Also, here's an X post from a guy called Devon Eriksen on the topic of socialized healthcare and free markets.
[https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1865932424376377833]
PS: Devon wrote a great debut Sci Fi novel called "Theft Of Fire" (Orbital Space #1). It's a great read, with endorsements from John Carmack, "Uncle" Bob Martin and ESR, among others.
I wonder if it's correct right down to the errata.
Was there undocumented instructions on the 6502? If so, I wonder if it supports those.
As a child I had Perthes disease (a rare, degenerative disease of the hip), and it has given me pain for 3 decades now. I've known that a joint replacement is in my future for essentially my entire life, and I was told as a kid to wait until the technology was better. There has long been talk about biological replacements, but nothing seems close to panning out, and the standard still seems to mean sawing off parts of your bones and replacing them with metal. The biggest change seems to be in the plastic parts and the addition of ceramics in places. My understanding is that both hip and knee replacements have benefited.
My father has had both hips replaced in the fast few years. Both surgeries were very successful and he has retained full hip joint function. He no longer has pain in his hips.
His surgeon used an approach that minimised damage to the muscles in the area. If I recall correctly, this meant he gain access to the hip joint via the posterior side of dad's upper leg, and went between muscle and tendon, rather than needing to cut muscle to get to the joint.
I don't know if I'm remembering correctly, but dad healed up pretty quickly.
henry_bone commented on The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023) kemendo.com/Myth.pdf... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
I don't understand how any species escapes logistic growth without strict population control or interstellar travel.
Malthusian nonsense. As societies develop and become richer, birth rates drop.
Also, over time, our ability to produce more food has always risen to the challenge.
henry_bone commented on Show HN: Dbeel – A distributed thread-per-core db github.com/tontinton/dbee... · Posted by u/tontinton
"dbeel" sounds like the Russian word for (approx.) moron.