If you want to look at hidden GDP women and access to power tools is probably a big one.
Lighter batteries and brushless and mass production allowing for a quick jump in and companies like Ryobi's making tools look good (but not cliched pink) and how-to's on TikTok have changed the landscape.
We have gone from upkeep at home to asset building.
Some of this will go to careers, but it's not that simple.
HN isn't mature enough to discuss this but men die in dirty jobs, no one really cares. For every one who dies many are hurt and for the many injuries there are many many near misses.
A near miss is often about reaction times and strength. These 1% issues are the problem. You are 3 hours from anywhere and stuck in mud by yourself and the tool kit is missing. So you can get the 5.3% up, but it can't be 50%
I've been in similar architecture to the story and have never been in anything like it again. This wasn't a simple, old person lost in a normal place.
I have a recurring dream about it, it was so different. Although I urban explore I was just looking for a exit, and I guess because I urban explore I didn't notice the signs so I suddenly went from bright shops to a dark deserted maze.
I must confess I couldn't make it beyond maybe the first two minutes. I know there's a difference between "telling the news" and "telling a story", but then there's also "get to the point" which this video (IMO) doesn't.
For those with less patience the story of Bernard Gore is told in many articles including this one:
> I must confess I couldn't make it beyond maybe the first two minutes
About 30 seconds for me because I can't watch talking heads (especially that close to camera) which have jump cuts between sentences. If you can't read it all smoothly in one go, don't appear on camera!
Even before hearing this story, I used to religiously check that any door I entered while straying from the beaten path (urbex, or simply exploring infrastructure not meant for the public) wouldn't lock behind me. I've stopped myself from entering a stairwell a few times because I wasn't sure if there'd be another exit I could take. Occasionally, if I'm feeling daring, I'll pull out one of the blank plastic cards from my wallet and jam the door latch with it, then keep going.
You are not alone with that precaution. Ages ago, before plastic gift cards were ubiquitous, I used to quest/urbex with shims of thin aluminum trimmed to door jamb size (making them harder to detect).
The buddy system also was used - "You stay on this side, I'll go through and test it can get opened from the other side."
Extremely useful when entering campus/city steam tunnels that may not have another good door for hundreds of meters (the tunnels were secured to prevent access to the structures they connected).
Please note that these stories are recreational and may contain parts that aren’t exactly real. Also real-based stories get mixed a lot with just horrors without explicit notice. Not saying that he’s intentionally tricky with it, but reality and fact-checking is not the selling point of this channel either.
> if you were a big celebrity, you could get an "unlisted" number
Or like a teacher? There was nothing uncommon about being unlisted.
The phonebook was your only one way searchable link to the outside world. It was LinkedIn and Facebook all in that one line in a physical book. So most people had it.
There was no way with a phonebook to reverse search using an address to know what the phone number and persons name was.
Data could not flow. It was the dark ages.
So people had to talk to people. It was an awful place pre-internet, just like early internet and mid internet society, but it'd be nice to get some of the good parts back.
As for this "doxxing" (Which the article uses jokingly), there was no way for this info to spread anymore than Douglas Adams friends telling you his address. You couldn't even rewatch the program unless you got lucky and recorded it.
Unfortunately, the flow cells themselves make the cost of running these regularly much higher. This is still an amazing improvement from the past few years and decades! I am clarifying that we're not "at spend $2k and you're good."
I believe Illumina is still more cost effective for whole genome sequencing, but Oxford Nanopore is perfect for batched plasmid sequencing. For example, Plasmidsaurus will sequence your plasmid DNA for $15 each, and email you the results overnight!
Technically it's been possible for a decade. Back then, it was kind of big news when people were using an earlier version of the device for sequencing in the field during the Ebola epidemic. Of course you still need some training to do it properly, and the field kits have a short shelf life.
"This can be used as a strategy for reduction of iron deficiency anemia. However, more research is required to understand the efficacy of this approach." -
Beer, wine or champagne you'd assume it kept fermenting. Whisky rye is distilled and the alcohol is too high so not this.
The temperature differences will cause the pressure in the bottle to have changed each season, maybe the air was absorbed into the liquid, like you carbonate beer.
Then with water ingress and a weaken cork it popped, then it bubbled out at the surface.
I don't think there is any point engaging with the part of the population who are anti-washing machines.
Saying you are pro-washing machines is like saying you are anti-child abuse, there is no "In defense" needed. It's a manufactured in your head conversation with Arkham residents who are unfixable.
It's also just a lazy article to write: find someone being crazy on the internet, then load up with words like "but some people" and "a growing number of..." and then vaguely gesture at a government body and say they might be thinking about it.
I could plant this story for about $150 on Fiverr but I've personally better things to do with my time.
> Only the clinically insane are anti-washing machines.... so HN I guess.
- The article is called "In defense of the washing machine". It is not anti-washing machine.
- I haven't read a single comment that opposes washing machines. The closest comment I've seen is one that says that maybe we wash our clothes more than they need to be washed.
- All the top rated comments at the time I'm writing this comment are asserting the value of washing machines or ridiculing the twitter user who argued for replacing washing machines with communal hand washing.
How are you taking in this information and coming to the conclusion that HN is anti-washing machine?
> I wish this was solvable by GenAI, but the whole thing of garbage in garbage out really applies here. You don’t know what the structure is of that bridge looks like underneath
Putting a few bridges into Google images similar to the thread I quickly find photos of the underneath.
GenAI isn't a magic wand that solves cancer except a lack of data.
GenAI is garbage, although ironically this is something it might be ok at. Compared to a blob it might be able to fake it until we move onto better AI's not LLMs.
Lighter batteries and brushless and mass production allowing for a quick jump in and companies like Ryobi's making tools look good (but not cliched pink) and how-to's on TikTok have changed the landscape.
We have gone from upkeep at home to asset building.
Some of this will go to careers, but it's not that simple.
HN isn't mature enough to discuss this but men die in dirty jobs, no one really cares. For every one who dies many are hurt and for the many injuries there are many many near misses.
A near miss is often about reaction times and strength. These 1% issues are the problem. You are 3 hours from anywhere and stuck in mud by yourself and the tool kit is missing. So you can get the 5.3% up, but it can't be 50%
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