<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Pragmata</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Pragmata</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:55:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Pragmata" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pragmata in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>calling the EU a free market that makes problems go away to draft macro economic conclusions from sunscreens is a particularly shallow analysis<p>I didn't say it was a free market. i said it was a freer market in this particular instance, as shown by this article.</p>
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<p>Except you can check the differences easily.<p>China doesn't have the same strict regulations, and yet when we compare life expectancy the difference isn't particularly big.<p>Thought terminating cliches like "Better safe than sorry" simply don't stand up to scrutiny once you actually check the numbers.<p>No, eating brasilian beef isn't going to kill you, and stopping imports from there is going to do a whole lot more to make you poorer than it will help your health. Take a walk, that will help you a whole lot more, and won't make you poorer.</p>
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<p>Seems like the free market does make this problem go away. This is simply one of the (few) instances where there is a freer market in the EU that in the US<p>>In the European Union, sunscreens are regulated as cosmetics, which means greater flexibility in approving active ingredients. In the U.S., sunscreens are regulated as drugs, which means getting new ingredients approved is an expensive and time-consuming process. Because they’re treated as cosmetics, European-made sunscreens can draw on a wider variety of ingredients that protect better and are also less oily, less chalky and last longer.<p>You should take this as an opportunity to reflect on the amount of lives lost as a result of the regulations in place for drugs, in both the EU and US.<p>If the negative effect is this obvious in sunscreen, just imagine how much more impactful removing regulation on cancer drugs would be.</p>
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<p>>I think the censorship framing is quite manipulative. It is removal of unlawful content.<p>Yeah, that's called censorship. It's exactly the same thing everyone you accuse of censorship does. There is exactly zero difference beyond your support of the views/people being censored (and sometimes not even that).<p>>Is removing CSAM censorship? What about snuff?<p>Yes. Yes.<p>>If no, then where do you draw the line? Why can't our democratically elected governments decide what is and isn't lawful? Why should foreign Big Capital be allowed to decide instead?<p>Well in my country that line has been drawn. It's just recurring and persistently ignored by the state, the justice system, and private entities.<p>When a constitution says explicitly "no type or form of censorship is permitted", that's pretty clear what it means. You ignoring it doesn't make that line less clear.</p>
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<p>> The goods were still there, still on display and being sold.<p>This appears to be in dispute.<p>As per bricks and minifigs:<p>>It was clear the full list of inventory in his documentation was not located in the store. What items could be reasonably identified as allegedly belonging to the consignor was offered back to the consignor, but that offer was refused.<p>>A deeper dive into the sales receipts uncovered that a significantly higher volume of the listed sets had sold over the course of the consignment deal prior to the store transition.<p>It appears they are alleging that the prior operator had sold a larger portion of the consigned goods than they had claimed to the family.</p>
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