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- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 day ago:
Older people tend to be richer because they’ve had more time to earn and save money. Compare a 20-year-old to a 40-year-old. Both spent about 20 years being a kid, growing up and going to school, but the 40-year-old had an extra 20 years after that to earn and save money. You can do the same comparison between a 40-year-old and a 60-year-old, but take all the money the 60-year-old earned in the first 20 years of working and invest it in the stock market for the next 20 years, while also continuing to work.
Wealth can build like crazy. If you invest at 7% average annual return, you’ll double your money in just over 10 years. At 10% the doubling period is just over 7 years. Now consider that the S&P 500 had an average annualized return over 10% between 1957 and 2023, and that 60-year-old’s 20 year investment would multiply by 6.7x.
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
Yes, I have a whole basket full of towels. I use them all once and hang them up. After the basket is empty I wash them all
- Comment on CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% 1 week ago:
It’s even worse than that. The Republican side is full of all the gun enthusiasts. In a civil war I don’t like the “north’s” chances this time around.
Not to mention all the fighter jets, bombers, tanks, and drones the military has.
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter! Could get that thing NASA clean room levels of clean and I’m still not going to towel off my butt before my face. That’s just weird!
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
I do, but I still wouldn’t do that!
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
So you dry off your butt first and then your face with the same towel?
- Comment on Why are there so many streaming services? 1 week ago:
And YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, BitTorrent…
People have a lot more choices now than they did in the bad old days of high cable bills. If streaming services charge too much people will just bail back to free stuff.
- Comment on brown recluse 2 weeks ago:
Travis has an excellent video about the brown recluse. It goes into rather excruciating detail! He even covers the story about all the false attributions, including a map which shows how it comports with the spider’s range. Interestingly enough, people who live inside its range are much better at correctly recognizing the spider!
- Comment on Induction cooking - but what about woks? 3 weeks ago:
I have carbon steel. It is well known that induction doesn’t perform well with carbon steel. The issue is carbon steel’s poor heat conductivity which makes it very difficult for heat to spread up the sides of the pan. Gas doesn’t have this issue because the flames and hot gases wrap around the sides of the pan and heat them directly. Having hot pan sides is critical to prevent the eggs from sticking when you tilt the pan to roll up a French omelette.
Another issue is when you’re searing meats, frying eggs, or sauteeing veggies and basting by spooning hot fat over them. To do this you need to tilt the pan at an angle so the fat pools on one side and then rapidly baste the food. Unfortunately, induction burners stop heating as you try to lift and tilt the pan. Plus the sides of the pan aren’t getting hot so the fat cools when it reaches the sides of the pan as you tilt. You can still do the technique but it’s much slower, clumsier, and less effective without gas (which continues heating no matter how you tilt the pan).
Here’s some videos on the technique:
- Comment on Induction cooking - but what about woks? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t exactly call it niche if you’re an Asian family who cooks with a wok every day. Yes, Technology Connections videos are heavily focused on the North American market because this is where Alec’s audience is largely from.
North Americans love gas stoves because of how simple and performant they are. North Americans also tend to have a fascination with wanting to cook with professional, restaurant-grade equipment (including ultra-expensive Sub Zero refrigerators and freezers, for some reason).
Having said all that, induction cooktops are still pretty niche in North America because large ones with large cooking surfaces that can handle large pans (without creating intense hot spots that literally warp and destroy your pans) are insanely expensive here ($4000++). Even the best Wolf professional induction ranges cannot do what a gas range does with carbon steel pans: heat the bottom and sides of the pan evenly. You always get intense heat where the bottom of the pan makes contact and then the sides are hundreds of degrees cooler, which means your French omelettes stick to the sides of the pan and get ruined.
This induction wok device from the video is cute but it only works with woks that are the exact same shape as the one included with the device. A carbon steel pan with a flat bottom and gently sloped sides won’t work at all with this thing.
See, the thing Alec complains about with gas stoves (the flames going around the pan and heating up the room) is actually a feature for people who know how to cook and want their pans to heat evenly and perform really well. There’s no electric stove on the market (radiant or induction) that can replicate this!
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 4 weeks ago:
I think we can state as a truth that they have less potential profit.
That’s true but it’s not because people aren’t playing single player games. The reason single player games are less profitable is because the non-subscription, non-microtransaction single player market is extremely saturated with indie games. That makes it very hard to sell AAA single player games. The standards are extremely high and the opportunities for extra monetization are not there.
I have been a single player gamer for most of my life, yet I haven’t bought a AAA single player game in decades. I have more indie single player games to play than I know what to do with, and frankly they appeal to me more than AAA titles. Expensive graphics and voice acting don’t have much draw for me these days. I am much more interested in roguelikes and retro games now.
- Comment on Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years 5 weeks ago:
To put this into better perspective we need to look at this relative to the number of employees. From the article:
Tesco warehouse in Rugeley, near Birmingham, recorded only eight ambulance callouts in three years versus the 115 logged at a nearby Amazon site. Both warehouses employed large numbers of workers at the time – 1,300 at Tesco’s site and around 1,800 at Amazon’s.
So 6.15 calls / 1000 employees for Tesco vs 63 calls / 1000 employees for Amazon, or just over 10 times the rate.
I wonder what the differences are. Do Amazon force them to work a lot longer hours? Do they not provide air conditioning whereas Tesco do? Those two factors could make a huge difference.
- Comment on Corn 🌽 1 month ago:
Not sure what this is trying to say, but this seems to conflate genetic modification with selective breeding!
- Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing 1 month ago:
You mean the drivers? Or server/support/IT?
I thought the whole point of this business model was that they could build the software once and then using the power of scale they could make billions in profit. You know, like Google, Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok…
- Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing 1 month ago:
What I don’t understand is why the apps themselves aren’t even profitable. They’re taking billions of revenue yet losing money. What is costing them so much? Developers? The apps really haven’t changed much in the last few years.
- Comment on My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence? 1 month ago:
It’s not just Nazis. The world is trending towards authoritarianism across the board, on the right and the left. Democratic and social institutions everywhere are failing. People don’t trust each other anymore.
The real problem: in the race to build massive civilizations we have destroyed all of our communities.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 1 month ago:
AI is weird. It may not have been given the information explicitly. Instead it could be an artifact in the scan itself due to the different equipment. Like if one scan was lower resolution than the others but you resized all of the scans to be the same size as the lowest one the AI might be picking up on the resizing artifacts which are not present in the lower resolution one.
- Comment on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow 1 month ago:
A pretty terrible one. Remasters are for games that are high on replay value and deeply nostalgic. Braid was cool and innovative and I enjoyed it when I played through it the first (and only) time, but I have no desire to play it again.
- Comment on Normal 1 month ago:
You ever heard about the South Bend shovel slayer? That’s him. Back in ‘58 he murdered his whole family and half the people on the block… with a snow shovel. Been hiding out in this neighbourhood ever since! Not enough evidence to convict. They never found the bodies. Now it’ll just be a matter of time before he does it again.
He walks up and down the streets every night, salting the sidewalks. You see that garbage can full of salt? That’s where he keeps his victims. The salt turns to bodies… Into mummies…
Look out!
- Comment on Boopable 1 month ago:
“Black on yellow, kill a fellow!”
- Comment on Anon is suspicious 2 months ago:
This is what I scrolled for!
- Comment on Passive infrared motion sensors: a two-bit camera powered by crystals | Technology Connections 2 months ago:
Yep, and I love his cozy Midwestern style. He had this very domestic, armchair sort of feel.
- Comment on Interview — Time, Space, Thought: Wil Wheaton Revives Wesley Crusher for Star Trek: Prodigy's Newest Adventure 2 months ago:
Oh, I thought this was a video game based on the screenshot (shows how long I’ve been out of the scene).
I think Wesley would’ve been an amazing character for exploring the downsides of being labeled a gifted child: disliked when young and disappointing when old.
- Comment on Ladt book that made you cry. 2 months ago:
Yeah I barely even looked at mine. I had to buy it in order to get access to the online site for assignments but otherwise I just used the lecture notes.
- Comment on Secondary Succession 2 months ago:
That’s a niche. GP was asking about a niché. I had the same question. Something to do with this guy?
- Comment on Ladt book that made you cry. 2 months ago:
Me too! What a brick that thing is!
- Comment on A compost Pile? We don’t call it that here. 2 months ago:
Upvoting because I’ve never seen a Hilary Hahn meme in my life! Bravo!
- Comment on a or b 2 months ago:
The kerning on Latex integrals has always bothered me. The f(x) could move a LOT further to the left!
- Comment on The Circle of Life 2 months ago:
Not sure why someone would downvote you for this. Spiders are territorial and will cannibalize each other if they’re unable to spread far enough apart. They’ll never reach the insane population densities of social insects like ants or termites.
- Comment on The Circle of Life 2 months ago:
Spiders will die off when their food supplies decrease. Spiders are also quite hostile to each other, so they’ll never get overpopulated.