<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: deif</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=deif</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:10:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=deif" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by deif in "Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very interesting reply.<p>The summaries of all these studies can effectively be summarised as: if you are raising children on a vegan diet, ensure you supplement and have adequate calory intake. Taking datapoints from figures and graphs without understanding the underlying causes and effects is how we spread misinformation. It's great that studies are measuring this so that we understand better how humans can develop successfully.<p>An example of this is in study 6 where you stated that vegan children were shorter and weighed less. Whilst true the study also stated "The energy intake of the vegan children was consistently lower than the recommended daily amounts". It then concluded that with a sensibly planned diet vegan children should have no intellectual or physical problems in their development.<p>So whilst I agree that all the studies did find differences, I disagree that they are somehow proving against my points that a vegan diet in children can be healthy if correctly planned. Due to how the animal agriculture industry creates meat (such as supplementing and fortifying the meat) it is extremely easy to get away with not planning meals with an omnivorous diet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676326</link><dc:creator>deif</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by deif in "Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what your evidence is. Here's my list of studies of vegetarian and vegan children that disprove your claims:<p>* <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/4/832/htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/4/832/htm</a><p>* <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-021-02753-3" rel="nofollow">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-021-02753-3</a><p>* <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/5/1707/htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/5/1707/htm</a><p>* <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/113/6/1565/6178918" rel="nofollow">https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/113/6/1565/6178918</a><p>* <a href="https://anthropogoniquescom.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/growth-of-vegetarian-children.-farm-study-oconnel-1989.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://anthropogoniquescom.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/grow...</a><p>* <a href="https://anthropogoniquescom.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/growth-of-british-vegan-children-sanders-1988.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://anthropogoniquescom.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/grow...</a><p>* <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-277X.1992.tb00129.x" rel="nofollow">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-277X....</a><p>* <a href="https://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/minerva-pediatrics/article.php?cod=R15Y9999N00A21041604" rel="nofollow">https://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/minerva-pediatrics/...</a><p>* <a href="https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202013492" rel="nofollow">https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202013492</a><p>All concluded that vegan diets were healthy for children as long as the parents knew the common deficiencies (B12) and fed their children enough calories. The study you cited is on my list because it seems you didn't read the results where it stated that most children were not eating fortified or supplemented food like Vitamin D, which could easily explain why they have a lower bone density.</p>
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<p>I was going to write the exact same thing but framed in the opposite sense - we should apparently lower the bar for humans and class certain ones as non-sentient.</p>
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<p>Why don't you submit a PR with a more up to date list? Or fork it? Lists don't get solved magically and a single person cannot keep up with all projects although your Privacy Guide seems to do a good job.</p>
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<p>I find it quite amusing that the package author refuses to act reasonably and states he wishes to spend no time on the project, whilst being pulled further into the project. If he simply willingly engaged with the project owners to resolve the situation he could avoided:<p>1. Spending so much time trying to get the project to stop what they were doing.<p>2. Peacefully come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.<p>3. Front page HN where I will most certainly be avoiding using any project the author is part of.</p>
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<p>Because it's a global currency not reliant on the US dollar? Not everything is about perfect decentralisation too, third parties can run decentralised infrastructure so it's verifiable by users of the network.</p>
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<p>That's fine, you don't have to use it. A lot of people do prefer to use it for payments and receive payments in it though. They don't want a middle-man bank and would rather their transactions were trustlessly sent and received.<p>At it's core cryptocurrency is a way to bypass banks if one was so inclined. Specifically currencies like Monero allow a person to send and receive payments completely anonymously, hence its increased usage on darknet markets.</p>
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<p>Well that is completely wrong and you clearly haven't read any documentation on the network upgrade.</p>
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<p>The never ending cycle of monopoly vs convenience. Let us forget the fact that exclusives make the game devs more money than they would've got otherwise and the games are eventually released on steam anyway.</p>
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<p>Can you come to my meetings and tell my CTO how to make decisions faster?</p>
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<p>My thoughts exactly. A site dedicated to a craft that is then filled with hundreds of poorly rushed articles rather than a few good quality ones without being invasive is contributing to the shitshow. I wish that there was an alternative index that valued quality rather than gamification of the crawlers.</p>
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<p>It's comparable to Google's charge and only slightly more expensive than other merchant providers.<p>I still consider it quite extortionate however considering app devs are adding to the ecosystem and potentially driving sales.</p>
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<p>I think that these gripes are insignificant compared to the main claim that the platform is dying. I'd advise to not make bold statements such as 'a token in the URL path is unconventional and prone to errors'. Is it prone to errors? As prone as putting it in a header or query param? I'd say that they're exactly the same.<p>'This is confusing, non-standard, and creates additional complexity'. Is it confusing and adding complexity? All you have to do is look down the list for what you want, it's hardly complex. It's not as if they're naming methods 'obtainChat', 'getUser', 'retrieveLogs', etc.<p>Which leaves the documentation on the website, which I find quite easy to follow. But let's say it is confusing and it's not as good as it should be. Does that mean the platform is dying? I didn't realise that designing an API to not use all HTTP verbs was such a big deal.</p>
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<p>Ah I see, yeah the Plus plan lets you choose the storage. Professional works differently for some reason. I bet if you contacted their support they'd consider changing it though as it doesn't quite make sense as-is.</p>
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<p>Both those things you mention as wanting exist already.<p>For data storage independent billing, go to Settings -> Dashboard. On Professional tier and above the data storage is a dropdown where you can increase the amount required.<p>For email filtering go to Settings -> Filters and create as many conditions as you want on a filter.</p>
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<p>The answer is no to which question? I'd appreciate some benefit of the doubt since you don't know anything about the service and you don't seem to have read any of the associated documentation.</p>
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<p>That's correct, they found me by searching for dead man switches.</p>
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<p>I wanted to release a completely separate app, appropriately named for victims of domestic abuse using a simple 2048 game with hidden dead man switch functionality. For 3 months going back and forth with Apple they told me the app was spam because it mimiced partial functionality of the existing app on the app store that is appropriately named for a completely different target audience (ones where dead man switch is completely relevant).<p>Apple would only approve the app if I integrated it into the existing app but not with the 2048 game because the name wouldn't match the functionality and a dead man switch app called 2048 doesn't make sense for the majority of users. You seem to be missing the fact that this app already exists with a current set of users already. Calling it Glorp Zonker Pro is not exactly relevant to them.</p>
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<p>Sorry but this was not the original target audience, this is merely a requested feature direct from a domestic abuse charity that wanted to use the app for their victims.<p>Thank you for your concern though.</p>
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<p>The privacy policy can be found fixed to the bottom of the website on every page (next to the copyright notice).<p>As with any service you should assume that nothing is encrypted (even though it is) and follow other articles that I've written about how to securely maintain private information when using third party services.</p>
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