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New comment by elhudy in "Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?"

elhudy — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:32:43 +0000

Is it really that simple though? Aren’t there cases where if those same people would otherwise be unemployed, society might be better off having the perks of that business’ existance, and subsidizing those workers up to a living wage using tax $?

New comment by elhudy in "A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce"

elhudy — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:12:14 +0000

In the case of this style of korean soy sauce, it is actually fungal enzymes from molds that colonized the meju slowly breaking down the proteins and starches over time, whilst being protected from outside forces by high salinity water. I realize you said "et al." but I couldn't help myself. There's very little bacterial activity going on in there.

New comment by elhudy in "A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce"

elhudy — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:08:02 +0000

Eh, it depends what you mean by traditional. Ramen is "traditional" in japan, but it was invented in the early 1900s. Similarly, since wheat wasn't commonly imported into japan prior to the 1800s, most actually old tradition recipes didn't contain wheat either.

New comment by elhudy in "Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation"

elhudy — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:03:01 +0000

I didn’t read the entire article and i am not a physician.

That said, your point #2 sounds incorrect - aspartame doesn’t cause atherosclerosis, it aggravates atherosclerosis. The key difference there as it relates to type 2 diabetes patients is that presumably if they had atherosclerosis as an existing condition, they would qualify for a glp-1 with cvd benefits, and not be on sulfonylureas in the first place.

New comment by elhudy in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

elhudy — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:24:12 +0000

Maybe, but thats a different argument from “your reminder that economic sanctions does nothing but starve ordinary people…”

New comment by elhudy in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

elhudy — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:21:56 +0000

No, it isn’t, as described by the divergent strengths of the two.

New comment by elhudy in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

elhudy — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:43:36 +0000

I don’t get why you’re trying to characterize NKs military as strong when it is objectively not so. The goal for stability in the region is for SK to have a stronger military. If we want to look at whether sancions have progressed that goal, then we would need to evaluate the relative strength of the two since the time sanctions went into place. How large of a standing army they have is not your kpi

New comment by elhudy in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

elhudy — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:07:07 +0000

I thought the context of the previous response was that sanctions do nothing to the regime i.e. in terms of strengthening, weakening, or getting rid of. The North korean dictatorship remains in place so that is agreeable. However, North korean military presence (seen as distinct from the regime presence) has seemingly faltered dramatically.

New comment by elhudy in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

elhudy — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:44:54 +0000

Preventing the north korean regime from having the funds to grow its military presence seems like a fair use of economic sanctions to me - sadly, even if there is an economic cost to its people.

New comment by elhudy in "Ax falls on elite group of PhDs training to lead U.S. public health labs"

elhudy — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:18:41 +0000

The context of this discussion is that regardless of who is in office, there is an overspending problem. So it doesn’t exactly bear itself worth repeating here.

New comment by elhudy in "U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years"

elhudy — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:19:03 +0000

Pediatric patients likely make up the vast minority of the measure in question.

New comment by elhudy in "U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years"

elhudy — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:58:47 +0000

“ One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of doctor’s office visits driven by flu-like symptoms.”

Sounds like it could also be a measure of post-covid paranoia.

New comment by elhudy in "The Mafia of Pharma Pricing"

elhudy — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 01:05:46 +0000

GPOs are reasonably large and capable

New comment by elhudy in "Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights"

elhudy — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:07:58 +0000

They only offer to rebook you on a flight in their own fleet though. E.g. i have been canceled on united due to “bad weather” halfway through a segment and was made to wait 4 days until the next united flight (there was a huge backlog). Instead, since i was stranded and absolutely needed to get to my destination, i had to buy a delta flight leaving that same night for $700 more than market value. United refused to compensate me for this. It’s bullshit.

Edit: oh by the way, i didn’t get refunded for the segment that flew me across the nation just to stand me in denver. The refund was prorated And only counted for the second segment.

Anyone who doesn’t think airlines need more regulations on cancellations and refunds clearly hasn’t flown regularly.

New comment by elhudy in "Half of U.S. Homeowners and Renters Struggle to Afford Their Housing Payments"

elhudy — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:07:38 +0000

> In fact, life expectancy is lower in the US than it is in, even the UK, at every income level. So for some level of medical care you may actually do better outside.

This only makes sense if one assumes a society’s medical care is the main driver of its population’s life expectancy rating.

New comment by elhudy in "Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years"

elhudy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:54:32 +0000

The ease of making your way across the US into different jurisdictions is probably a contributing factor. I imagine the geographical equivalent of this story would be a person from portugal driving their way across europe and landing in poland where they live out the rest of their lives under a different identity. It’s a lot tougher to do that when you’re crossing into a new country, culture, language entirely. And portugal is small enough that it would be very difficult to pull off within the confines of the country.

New comment by elhudy in ""Let them eat cereal" How "greedflation" fueled consumer ire against Kellogg"

elhudy — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:53:00 +0000

There is nothing inherently wrong with highly-processed food. For one, the term "highly-processed" is often loosely used and subjectively defined. This is apparent in the fact you think canned foods are unhealthy, whereas the commenter responding to you sees nothing wrong with pasteurizing food in cans.

For two, highly-processed foods can contain nutritional value, the two aren't mutually exclusive. If the battle is against foods with little nutritional value then then just say that. "Highly-processed" is such a red herring in the nutrition industry.

New comment by elhudy in "US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting"

elhudy — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:12:26 +0000

They would use bovada, which was the solution before sports betting became legalized.

New comment by elhudy in "Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?"

elhudy — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:34:00 +0000

If youre so certain about your ability to find long term studies on the consumption of micro-pieces of toilet paper or gasoline, then surely you can find one on plastic ;).

Not many have their hair on fire. People just want to make a conscious effort to avoid what common sense says to avoid.

New comment by elhudy in "Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?"

elhudy — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:18:12 +0000

Even if there weren’t any studies on the harmful effects of plastic consumption (which I’m fairly certain there are at least theoretical mechanistic studies if you make the effort to look for them), it makes common sense to try to avoid that, no?

I don’t think there are any studies on the effects of regularly drinking gasoline or eating toilet paper either, but plastic, gasoline, and toilet paper consumption aren't exactly time-tested foods that propelled civilization forward.