verulito (u/verulito)

verulito commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains

RHSeeger · a year ago

> Were the pagers military grade

I don't mean to be "that guy", but "military grade" means nothing nowadays. It can mean anything from "made to exactly standards" to "made by the lowest bidder, and likely to fail the minute it's used".

verulito · a year ago

Been a while since I did fmeca work but it used to mean different tolerances for the parts.

verulito commented on Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

cycomanic · a year ago

> 5. doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)

Preventatively using antibiotics is a horrible idea, for one it increases the risk of creating resisitant strains, and we are already running out of antibiotics (especially broadband ones). Moreover, antibiotics in general are known to mess with you gut biome whose importance we are just beginning to understand (we know it plays a role in many physical and mental illnesses for example). Then there are the side effects which for doxycyline include diarrhea, increased risk of bowel cancer, higher sensitivity to the sun (and associated risk of skin cancer).

verulito · a year ago

antibiotics are toxic in general, likely affecting way more than bowels. many are ototoxic for example.

verulito commented on The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed apps.npr.org/plant-hardin... · Posted by u/geox

jkestner · a year ago

Also in Austin. We have almost all native species, so no maintenance in theory but it's getting harder. We're focusing on drought resistance. I can do my best to cover the ones in danger of freezing on those few days, but harder to water everything constantly.

verulito · a year ago

Also in Austin. We should have a HN meetup or something.

verulito commented on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial independent.co.uk/news/he... · Posted by u/belter

verulito · a year ago

That's awesome. So happy for her and all the others like her who now have hope.

Anyone who understands the treatment, do you know if the reverse is possible too? I have hyperacusis and could benefit from deafening, esp if it's easily reversible.

The best we have now is disrupting the ossicular chain. Other than surgical risks, it's not fully reversible.

verulito commented on Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/cratermoon

faeriechangling · 2 years ago

I have no problem taking down "From the river to the sea" type content so long as we also take down Greater Israel type content.

verulito · 2 years ago

Having (Jewish) Israeli, pre-Israeli, and pre-pre-Israli heritage, I don't personally find "From the River to the Sea" offensive but I do find it non-constructive and insensitive. Globalize the intifada otoh is awful.

I follow this topic daily, on twitter, in telegram (both Israeli and Arab groups), and among the thousands of Jews I know across the world on FB (from anti-Zionist Jews to Orthodox). This is the first time I've ever seen the phrase "Greater Israel" mentioned. I'll go research it now but it strikes me as a manufactured obscurity, while "From the River to the Sea" is prevasive.

verulito commented on The pro-Israel information war jackpoulson.substack.com/... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

rayiner · 2 years ago

The war started the day after the UN resolution, in November 20 1947. The war wasn’t caused by the expulsion of Arabs. The Arab states refusing to recognize the creation of a Jewish state caused the war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_war

> The war had two main phases, the first being the 1947–1948 civil war, which began on 30 November 1947,[19] a day after the United Nations voted to adopt the Partition Plan for Palestine, which divided the territory into Jewish and Arab sovereign states, and an international Jerusalem (UN Resolution 181). Partition was accepted by the Jewish leadership, but rejected by Palestinian Arab leaders and the Arab states.

verulito · 2 years ago

My aunt lives in Tel Aviv from 1933 to 1952. She told me they actually started shelling the city that night, not the next day.

As well, there was fighting in the streets. They had to turn off the lights at night and hide in the basement to avoid raids. There was a sniper who was shooting at their apt from a nearby mosque and they would find shells on their balcony. They lived on Ben Yahuda St.

Just thought readers might appreciate a first hand account of what it was like to be a Jewish Israeli at the time.

verulito commented on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss 404media.co/bored-ape-yac... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

rainsford · 2 years ago

> At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR.

That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story, because assessing trust in the folks putting on a conference is the way for attendees to figure out if they're likely to be blinded by the lighting or face other issues. And the type of people the whole cryptocurrency and especially NFT scene attract seem at least in my opinion to be way more likely to put on a conference with hazardous lighting than more reputable organizers. Everything about that whole space gives off a Fyre Festival vibe, which seems like pretty fair warning about going to an actual event organized by cryptobros.

verulito · 2 years ago

Can confirm. A crypto bro / lawyer invited me to learn to shoot. I hate guns but figured it was a way to spend time with him. The result is I now have noxacusis, a repetitive stress injury of the ear.

At times I've been unable to tolerate everyday noises like talking or faucets. An unstudied condition that's hugely disabling. The other person in my city with this condition lives in a closet 24/7 with earmuffs.

What's his excuse? "I'm a libertarian and I don't like when gun ranges bother me. I just want to get out there and shoot". Dumbfounding.

verulito commented on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted nytimes.com/live/2023/11/... · Posted by u/donohoe

helsinkiandrew · 2 years ago

> They were company expenditures to build a business, not for personal gains

I’d guess that the defence team knew they’d loose and this was in some way the start of their sentencing reduction plan: “the money was stolen to cover mostly business losses and to keep FTX going rather than for personal gain”.

verulito · 2 years ago

So he never planned on gaining if the company was successful? What a dumb argument

verulito commented on Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars nltimes.nl/2023/08/11/ams... · Posted by u/cactusplant7374

verulito · 2 years ago

I have a rare disorder called hyperacusis from a noise trauma, which causes pain from everyday sounds. While I'm thankfully not sensitive to these kinds of sounds, most are and it's quite dangerous to us.

This disease is repetitive stress injury, in that every time you experience pain it lasts for weeks or years even and your sound tolerance goes down. So it is imperative that we never have accidents like those that cars like these can produce.

It can get so bad that you can't tolerate even simple things like the sound of sheets. The other patient in my city is confined to a closet 24/7 with earplugs and earmuffs because his tolerance is so low. He continues to worsen because sounds like these penetrate buildings well.

It is nearly unstudied so there's little hope of getting out of this hole. The least society can do for us is protect us from these assholes so we can hide in closets in peace.