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>It is estimated that 70% of wealthy families will lose their wealth by the second generation and 90% will lose it by the third.[0]

[0] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...

Schools could buy these for students instead of parking buses outside to act as WiFi hotspots.
During initial setup, allowing product owners to choose what browser they want, whether its Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, with their respective browser engines, would be nice.
From what I found on teeth development:

>The first stage begins in the fetus at about 6 weeks of age. This is when the basic substance of the tooth forms.

>Next, the hard tissue that surrounds the teeth is formed, around 3 to 4 months of gestation.[0]

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

Re:John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016) on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:17PM (#36365298)
Reminds me of excess calories chess players burn when playing.

>Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day.[1]

[1] https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste...

Re:ChatGPT Is Down on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:31PM (#35238214)
“We have to push back the product launch date. The AI bot is down and that one employee that knows how computers work was laid off due to redundancy.”
This is reminiscent of the Panic of 1907:

>Morgan and his associates examined the books of the Knickerbocker Trust and decided it was insolvent, so they did not intervene to stop the run. Its failure, however, triggered runs on even healthy trusts, prompting Morgan to take charge of the rescue operation.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907#J._P._Morgan

Re:52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:07PM (#32100222)
YouTube is deleting pre-2010 videos, meanwhile anything is still possible at https://www.zombo.com
The FTC signaled this move and others earlier this month.[1]

>“During the pandemic reliance on these technologies really dramatically increased and Americans are now often dependent on these key digital tools and services to navigate their day to day lives,”

>“Children should not be required to sign up for surveillance in order to sign up to do their schoolwork,” Khan said Wednesday.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3516884-ftc-chair-khan...

Re:The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf] on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:02AM (#31824059)
Apollo was rejected by a mortal after giving her powers. As a god of prophecy, he should have seen that coming.
Word 2007 had an "AutoSummarize" feature which was later removed.[1] I wonder how well it would hold up today.

[1] https://youtu.be/o30nPCgdq0I?t=100

The packages increasing by $10 have an extra $10 DVR charge. The only static price to the left doesn’t mention a DVR fee.
LibreOffice Draw edits PDFs pretty well.
The lease agreement on those boxes usually states the customer assuming all risk. Sometimes boxes randomly go missing, and natural disasters can make them inaccessible.

"She sued the bank in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking $7.3 million. Bank of America sought to have the case dismissed, citing language in its lease agreement stating that the renter “assumes all risks” of leaving property in the box."[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:27AM (#29979583)
That failed merger's poison pill is the reason T-Mobile is the juggernaut it is today. The cash T-Mobile received allowed them to upgrade their network, and customers could roam free on AT&T's 1700MHz frequency.

AT&T's threat assessment of T-Mobile was correct at the time.

Re:I’m leaving London for NYC and taking my tech startup on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:17AM (#29317412)
There's EU draft regulation regarding AI utilization. Prohibited AI would be described as, "...systems or applications that manipulate human behaviour in order to circumvent the free will of the users."[0]

[0] https://www.ey.com/en_ch/ai/eu-draft-regulation-on-artificia...

Re:Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:42PM (#28790492)
Jobs still reached an audience through iTunes. It paved the way for the iPhone to be untouched by carriers. Verizon rejected the first iPhone, but Cingular agreed to Apple's terms.[0]

[0] https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-28-verizon...

Re:What is BGP? – BGP routing explained on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:53PM (#28752561)
Cloudflare has a useful tool for measuring if your ISP is using RPKI.[0] For Facebook, this is the latest I could find for their implementation of BGP.[1][2]

[0] https://isbgpsafeyet.com/

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2021/05/13/data-center-engineerin...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi21/presentation/abhash...

Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:23PM (#28586639)
Fast.com was originally a tool to measure if your line was throttling Netflix traffic.[0]

[0] https://qz.com/688033/netflix-launched-this-handy-speed-test...

Re:University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:15PM (#28586575)
A recent alumni gift from NVIDIA's cofounder will "Build Fastest AI Supercomputer in Academia" for UFL.[0] When I was researching colleges to attend, Florida seemed amazing for in-state tuition. Florida is still ranked one of the best states for higher education.[1]

[0] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/07/21/university-of-flori...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/h...

The treatment for toxoplasmosis is the focus in this article.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037196

Re:Fuck Domainparkers on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:51AM (#26422612)
How are domain parkers acquiring domains at a discount? Doesn't ICANN charge the same fee for everyone and registrars profit from the margin?

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