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Yes. I've wondered about this for a while. Because although the microwave is supposed to be fully shielded, when I take EMF readings on it with my TriField TF2 EMF meter, it's spitting out >100mW/m^2 when it's turned on. And I've seen this happen with just about every microwave I've tried this on. The only ones that haven't seem to be those expensive integrated under-counter ones where the tray slides out rather than opens like a door. Also my phone still works/receives calls when I put it in there, so it can't be as good of a faraday cage as it's supposed to be...


"Microwaves are supposed to be perfectly shielded" is one of those myths that just won't die. Microwaves are allowed to leak a lot, with exactly "how much" dependent on whatever agency writes the rules where you live of course =)

In the US, for instance, it's the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), part of the FDA, that sets the rules for microwaves, with the performance standard set forth by CDRH allowing leakage (measured at five centimeters from the oven surface) of 1 mW/cm² at the time of manufacture, and a maximum level of 5 mW/cm² during the lifetime of the oven.[1]

A strong wifi router or bluetooth transmitter may be transmitting at one or two orders of magnitude greater than the microwave's allowed to leak, but if you're closer to the microwave than the wifi/bluetooth transmitter, or the microwave is simply between you and the wifi/blueooth transmitter, or especially if you have a low power transmitter, that microwave's going to wreak havoc.

[1] https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Do...


Is anyone aware of an attempt to make an infinite hexagonal library of code in the same vain?


That would be a subset of The Library of Babel. I tried searching some of my favorite lines of code here: https://libraryofbabel.info/ -- It is an interesting experience :D


Hmm, allow me to correct myself here, Borges' library may not include all the characters required for representing code in some of the programming languages we love


Check out the Mindfold.


Crypto is not a zero sum game, because money is being printed in the Forex markets all the time, which bleeds into the crypto markets. There is a lag time, called the Cantillon effect, between when money enters circulation, and the arrival of downstream purchasing power inflation.


Just went to apply, but seems they shut down the stipend applications for now because of overwhelming interest.


Why won't banks provide loans?


Most early stage companies have no assets, so there's too much risk. Banks want real assets as collateral (inventory, buildings, etc.)


seconded. I would definitely use this, but only if I knew none of the text content was being shuttled to another server


Wow, thanks for your input. How much different was it 10 years ago?


Ten years ago it was like a reef. You could find fish 5 ft/1.5m from the shore. The kelp beds were literal forests underwater. Now it's like a bomb went off. Plains of empty shells. Just death all around.


How does this belong on Hacker News?


Human org dynamics are always interesting, because they can be applied to many other fields. Consider, "Xerox, the forgotten home of OS's GUI era".

How an org can pioneer a multi-billion business such as modern tennis and still become forgotten, unknown and semi-dilapidated is an insightful lesson IMHO.


why not?


Why would this be happening? This seems to make their platform even more useless.


> Why would this be happening?

Facebook owns Instagram.

Have you heard about Facebook's issues in the national news recently?


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