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lavezza commented on IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021   ikeamuseum.com/en/explore... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
lavezza · 5 months ago
I was interested in when computers started showing up. I flipped through some years quickly. I see a terminal on page 158 in 1984 ('84:158). What looks like an 8-bit computer at '85:103 and a Mac at '86:190. Anyone see something earlier?

This could be a game. When was the first flat screen TV? When was the first CD rack? When was the first microwave?

There is a record player at '20:156. Did record players go away and then come back?

There are at least two typewriters in 2020 ('20:56 and '20:61). I wouldn't have expected typewriters in a 2020 catalog. Maybe that's a Swedish thing? Are typewriters still common in Sweden?

lavezza commented on Netflix's'3 Body Problem' divides opinion and sparks nationalist anger in China   cnn.com/2024/03/22/style/... · Posted by u/priyankanath
meristohm · 2 years ago
The show (based on the book trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past, by Cixin Liu; the lasting effect is that the experience of witnessing the stars at night is even richer) is also on PBS, and here in WA anyway it came out a week earlier on PBS than on Netflix.
lavezza · 2 years ago
To be clear, PBS is showing the 30-episode show that was made in China. It's different from the Netflix series that just came out. I plan to watch both.
lavezza commented on     · Posted by u/Swizec
lavezza · 3 years ago
The whitepaper actually says that 28% of Japan is over 65.

Maybe 75% is a misunderstanding of the "Old-age dependency ratios 1950-2050 in the 19 countries of study" chart. That shows that in 2050 Japan will have 74.32 people over 65 for every 100 people between 15-64.

lavezza commented on Which companies would benefit from a shift to nuclear power?    · Posted by u/parisivy
pfdietz · 3 years ago
What exactly was the poll question used to conclude 76% of the US public favors nuclear energy?
lavezza · 3 years ago
"Overall, do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States?"

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Record-level-of-US-s...

lavezza commented on What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?   bigthink.com/the-future/c... · Posted by u/fbn79
jcampbell1 · 3 years ago
I thought the idea is the brain is going to be scanned and uploaded to the Matrix.
lavezza · 3 years ago
I think that’s the most likely successful outcome.

1) human mind can be simulated

2) human consciousness is totally dependent on physical connections of brain neurons

3) something like nanobots are able to determine the frozen brain connections despite the damage of being frozen

4) some organization is curious enough to do the work to bring you back

5) live your second life, hopefully in some type of humanoid android and not your great-great-great-grandkids PlayStation 25

The likelihood of all of that happening is probably pretty low. But you have 0% chance of coming back if you don’t get frozen.

lavezza commented on How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive   planetofthepaul.com/wikip... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
988747 · 3 years ago
BTW: what's the difference between 95.2 GB file and 45 GB one? There is no info on download page.
lavezza · 3 years ago
95.2 is the "maxi" file. 49.48 is the "nopic" file. 13.39 is the "mini".

From https://www.kiwix.org/en/documentation/

File size is always an issue when downloading such big content, so we always produce each Wikipedia file in three flavours:

Mini: only the introduction of each article, plus the infobox. Saves about 95% of space vs. the full version. nopic: full articles, but no images. About 75% smaller than the full version Maxi: the default full version.

lavezza commented on Why does Excel get 213,458,046,676,875 x 29 wrong?    · Posted by u/christudor
lavezza · 4 years ago
Excel only stores 15 significant digits. Once you get to the 16th digit you'll just get a zero.

Example: 6,190,283,353,629,370 + 1 will still be 6,190,283,353,629,370. 6,190,283,353,629,370 + 10 will be 6,190,283,353,629,380

lavezza commented on The Supreme Court just made a US-EU Privacy Shield agreement even harder   thehill.com/opinion/judic... · Posted by u/fermigier
lucasmullens · 4 years ago
You can open his bio on the site where it shows his picture and "OCCUPATION: Senator, 2011 - Present"
lavezza · 4 years ago
The Hill site is wrong.

The ACLU Pat Toomey is Patrick C. Toomey. Picture of him here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/

The Senator is Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr.

Maybe the Hill automates scanning the bylines and adds links to bios. Obviously it isn't perfect.

lavezza commented on Ford F-150 Lightning reservation holders face $30k dealer markup as demand high   notebookcheck.net/Ford-F-... · Posted by u/harambae
seastonATccs · 4 years ago
They know how to take the reservation, but the don't know how to hold the reservation. The holding part really is the important part.
lavezza · 4 years ago
Unexpected Seinfeld
lavezza commented on Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies   twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpi... · Posted by u/hncurious
maerF0x0 · 4 years ago
I'm actually in favor of this.

I've long held that there should be public liquidity in all companies over a certain valuation and the company should not be allowed to bar you from selling the stock (though it could retain right to beat any pending offers)

It's asinine that companies are allowed to treat equity pay as pay, and IRS can tax it as realized (AMT), but the worker does not in fact have any instrument with which to pay the bill.

Edit: Also this is a really smart tweet IMO

    Give yourself a salary that pays for your wealth tax obligations. You don't have to sell anything.
https://twitter.com/macrofacet/status/1453487461989076997

The valuation would grow slower due to burn rate, but the ownership % would not change.

lavezza · 4 years ago
Somehow I think Elon giving himself a multi-billion dollar salary to cover a jump in Tesla stock would upset a lot of people.

u/lavezza

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