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I called a bank to increase my ATM limit. The agent sent me an SMS code to verify my identity and wanted me to read it back to him. The message said not to give the code to any human. Sigh.

It's also tax-payer subsidized (i.e. regressive, because it's mostly higher-income people that get dental insurance) because it's money from your employer that you or your employer don't have to pay taxes on.

I've been self-employed for years now (USA), and never buy dental insurance, because it's not really insurance, it's basically a non-taxable way for companies to give their employees extra money. Buying it as self-employed persons is basically just giving the "insurance" companies your own money.

There just wasn't evidence-based studies for a lot of common dental practices. Not unlike when the FDA was created, a lot of old medicines were just given a pass, even though they aren't useful (like how Acetaminophen is barely better than placebo — it'd never be approved today).

Just because there's no actual studies for flossing, that doesn't mean that flossing is bad or not-needed per se, but there does need to be more basic-level studies for it. I had bad gum-disease in my 20s, but once I actually started flossing daily, it stopped progressing. So it clearly helped me, but a better study on whether everyone needs to floss and how often should be done.

Certainly most particulate matter, and it's not even close. Comparing particulates to gas emissions is difficult, so there's no way to say what's "most".

Either way, my greater point still stands: switching to EVs isn't a cure-all to breathing around cars.

"Hundreds of other ingredients, including steel, fillers, and heavy metals — including copper, cadmium, lead, and zinc — make up the rest, many of them added to enhance performance, improve durability, and reduce the possibility of fires."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

Tires are only about 25% natural rubber; the rest is synthetic rubber, heavy metals, plastics, and additives. These get emitted as fine particulates that stick around in the air. They may not technically be a gas, but we breathe it in just the same.

The tire & brake particulates go into the air. Sure, technically not gas, but we breathe it in just the same.

Sorry, but most car pollution is from the tires/tyres, not the exhaust. Electric cars don't solve that, and may even make it worse because they're heavier.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...

I guess Elliot Gould is hotter now.

This team is at the second best high school in the USA. they have the resources and the money.

Yes, I know, I was tracking the stock while watching WWDC. But there was a very sudden precipitous fall right when this was announced.

I've been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I'm getting more and more annoyed. It's increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven't migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can't close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here's hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.

Is this what caused AAPL stock to drop ~$3 rapidly? (mostly recovered since then)

So implicit, not explicit.

10-1 odds they’ll still vote for Trump and republicans in November.

But you may want to walk across the highway which is almost always allowed.

But each conflict point is crossing only one direction of traffic, and there are no cars turning left or right into the crosswalks (which is huge cause of pedestrian impacts). So even though there are 4 crosswalks, maybe the aggregate danger is less?

If you watch the linked video, the kpop concerts basically do that. You bring your own light, pair it via bluetooth, and specify your seat.

Cause Brave CEO, Brendan Eich, is such a swell guy.

eBay just doesn’t care about fakes. I’ve reported many things over the years and they almost never get removed. I’ve pretty much given up.

Do you think Paul Graham or Garry Tan give a shit about accessibility?

Balancing a game is hard. You can hardly blame anyone for getting it wrong on their first attempt. But getting it wrong 30 years later…

Modern furniture (even those "fancy" new DTC brands you hear on podcasts) has taking a nosedive since it's been offshored: https://wapo.st/4bnkYl6

These days, if you want quality, you pretty much have to make sure it's made in America or Europe.

A lot of modern flatpack furniture isn't even particle board or plywood, it's structural cardboard. eg. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ka4jl6/t...

Modern solid-wood furniture makes use of lighter materials too. Sometimes the backboard will be thin particle board, or certain planks will be pretty thin. Or the drawers are made of much lighter wood, possibly veneered. Also, the designs are much less ornate.

So in general, your modern solid wood furniture AND cheap, flatpack stuff will be lighter that old well-built furniture.

Absolutely, especially healthcare. Nearly everything PE touches gets worse. The only ones that benefit are those that work for PE companies (and esp. the partners).

Don't discount the utility of reading, though maybe it's less useful these days with smartphone camera translation.

Back before widespread internet, I spent two weeks in Korea, and by the end I could basically read & pronounce it (without really understanding anything) because it was that critical to getting around.

English also doesn't have a (proper) future tense, but you would still need to learn how to talk about the future using the modal 'will'.

longer exposure times.

I've occasionally enjoyed working on an enterprise app, but it really depends on the team.