jhart99 · HackerTrans

This is 'used car salesman' levels of fraud on that scale. People rapidly acknowledge these antibodies work or they don't. There are websites with reviews of them. However in addition to getting ripped off for a few hundred bucks, these antibodies are generally produced by immunizing animals and by faking this data they are unnecessarily increasing the discomfort to these animals for a fraudulent reason. Look up the Santa Cruz antibody scandal for more of that.

jhart99

7 months agodiscuss

I didn't realize they finally added a way to sort of control this behavior. It's under Languages in the YouTube settings. Similarly there is a control for captions languages under Captions/Subtitles.

jhart99

7 months agodiscuss

I think this is likely a process problem. Having been a safety officer for a lab in the past, there are two types of injury reports. One for regular injuries, you have a week to report. Serious injuries need to be reported within 24 hours. These are death and amputation injuries (there might be more, it's been a few years).

Anyway I suspect they missed the deadline because it slipped through the cracks.

jhart99

7 months agodiscuss

NIST maintains several time standards. Gaithersburg MD is still up and I assume Hawaii is as well. Other than potential damage to equipment from loss of power (turbo molecular vacuum pumps and oil diffusion pumps might end up failing in interesting ways if not shut down properly) it will just take some time for the clocks to be recalibrated against the other NIST standards.

jhart99

7 months agodiscuss

Underlying paper is from 2022 and should be indicated in the title.

jhart99

3 years agodiscuss

Costco has incredible leverage over their suppliers. I worked for a supplier previously and they forced changes to our packaging including labels, cases, and pallets to make things easier for them. I have no doubt that Costco could give HP or Sony an ultimatum like this to dictate functionality or just not carry their brand.

jhart99

7 years agodiscuss

I bought a "lifetime" subscription to Feedly when they were starting out. Recently, they added a new feature and didn't give the lifetime subscribers access to it, but instead made a new subscription level called Pro+. Technically, our subscriptions continued with the same features as before(minus one or two things which moved up a tier level). It was just frustrating that the first any of us heard about the new level and features was a big blue "upgrade" button on every page. When I just checked, it looks like we are given the option of upgrading our lifetime subscriptions to the new level for an additional $99. Probably worth it, but I think they could have handled it better by giving us some heads up and communicating with people who are arguably the biggest fans if not the people who currently earn them the most money.

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