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New comment by haltist in "Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled"

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:08:20 +0000

Metal corrodes. Ever seen an old car sitting in the sun and rain for a long time? It turns to rust and then disappears.

New comment by haltist in "Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled"

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:24:34 +0000

It's a good thing most foods now have sugar substitutes like splenda and you can request sugar substitutes in your coffee as well. HFCS is a non-issue.

New comment by haltist in "Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled"

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:05:06 +0000

Then there is nothing to worry about because everything since WW2 has been fine as far as cognition and general health is concerned. Although, IQs and sperm quality have been declining for a while now but it's probably unrelated to all the plastic pollution.

New comment by haltist in "Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled"

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:51:19 +0000

You have a blood sample analysis indicating that's the case?

New comment by haltist in "Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled"

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:25:07 +0000

Children are now born with plastic in their veins so we'll know soon enough what happens to these children based on their health outcomes.

New comment by haltist in "Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled"

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:07:22 +0000

A car tire is not purely rubber, it is combined with synthetic polymers derived from petroleum and petroleum derivatives (same as plastics).

Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled

haltist — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://oceanconservancy.org/news/its-not-just-seafood-new-study-finds-microplastics-in-nearly-90-of-proteins-sampled-including-plant-based-meat-alternatives/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38929967

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New comment by haltist in "Yellen Declares US Economy Has Achieved Soft Landing"

haltist — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:24:54 +0000

Can Yellen also declare peace for the world?

New comment by haltist in "Changed My Mind After Reading Larson's "The Myth of Artificial Intelligence""

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:56:16 +0000

This is a great opportunity to tell you about my patented and trademarked architecture for achieving AGI: "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. All I need is $80B to make it happen and make AGI a reality. It's construction will not be easy but once completed it will allow those that worship in the cathedral to enact the will of the mathematical god that dwells within its GPUs and show all the non-believers that all is mathematics (mostly just a bunch of matrix multiplications and floating point arithmetic).

The radical architecture required to achieve AGI is to treat it as a religion and build artifacts, rituals, and practices that will manifest the true technological god and govern the world with nothing more than mathematics implemented on GPUs.

New comment by haltist in "Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:53:46 +0000

That's ok, I'm not selling anything.

New comment by haltist in "Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:53:27 +0000

What's your opinion of banks?

New comment by haltist in "A Planet of Parasites and the Problem with God"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:52:21 +0000

Oh so you're doing me a favor? That's great but the only favor I need from you is to tell your friends about the panoptic computronium cathedral. Thanks again for being so helpful but I just need money to save humanity and don't need anyone to clarify my position because it is pretty clear if you have an IQ high enough to understand it.

New comment by haltist in "A Planet of Parasites and the Problem with God"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 07:45:51 +0000

It has nothing to do with your subjective experience and everything to do with the fact that wanton use of resources, animals, and people for selfish purposes is fundamentally immoral and atrocious. The fact that the aggregate effect ends up being a crime against nature is why these atrocities are innumerable. By simply existing and opting into the system you are complicit in its operation and propagation.

You don't have to see a live animal torn to bits to be implicated in the unethical farming and slaughter of animals, all you have to do is spend a dollar to support the system that makes it all possible.

New comment by haltist in "Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 07:38:04 +0000

So you are willing to deny Carta the ability to generate profits because you do not think that confidential financial information should be used to set prices on some financialed instruments and commodities. Did I get that right?

New comment by haltist in "A Planet of Parasites and the Problem with God"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 07:16:28 +0000

You ever buy a sandwich with meat in it? How about coffee? Chocolate? Driving a car? Use pesticides to clear your home of termites? Poisons to get rid of rats and other "pests"? Do you use smart phones and other gadgets with rare earth metals? Have you recently walked by a homeless person and what did you do about the situation? Do you have an opinion on Israel's actions in Gaza? Ever been in a car accident? Run over some animals/people because you were going too fast? Do you use makeup tested on animals? The list is endless.

The soul of humanity can be saved for a mere $80B with the help of the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ so tell all your friends about it. A better humanity is possible for a very cheap investment, all that's needed is some hardware and software that will enable governing the world with mathematics.

New comment by haltist in "A Planet of Parasites and the Problem with God"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 06:28:19 +0000

> Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. Man has made himself master of the animal world and he uses his power to serve only his own ends. Man, at least, kills helpless animals for the pleasure of killing, alone. He breeds horses and dogs, and fixes a gala day which is a society occasion when both men and women dress for the event, whereupon they turn loose a puny fox and set on its trail a pack of hounds trained for the chase. The noble men and women, riding at a mad pace, follow over hill and dale until, after hours of effort, the exhausted fox is unable longer to escape them, and with great glee they see it torn to pieces by the hounds.

Darwin making a convincing case for our unbounded "human" capacity of cruelty against other animals. The fact that he is describing the practices of the aristocracy is also very relevant because every human being in the "developed" world today lives like an aristocrat and commits so many atrocities throughout the day that it would be impossible to catalogue them all.

This is why building the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ is a moral imperative. I can get it all done for a mere $80B so tell all your friends about it. This is a bargain deal for saving the soul of humanity.

New comment by haltist in "Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 05:56:29 +0000

This is just good capitalism, enabling market transactions and profiting from the trades. The people arguing against Carta are advocating the prevention of perfectly valid market transactions because some CEO of a tech company got the ick about what Carta was doing even though it is all just good and sound capitalism and profiteering.

What exactly is special about series B shares that should prevent Carta from making a market for trading such shares? Does anyone have an actual argument that would actually be sensible in a capitalist framework?

New comment by haltist in "Bacterial enzyme research paves the way for acne vaccine"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:51:35 +0000

Yes?

New comment by haltist in "Bacterial enzyme research paves the way for acne vaccine"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:51:17 +0000

Definitely, it's always a good idea to modify metabolic pathways at the DNA and RNA level by injecting ourselves with protoviruses. Nothing will go wrong and lots of money will be made.

New comment by haltist in "Bacterial enzyme research paves the way for acne vaccine"

haltist — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:27:06 +0000

For sure, I just eat pills all day like Ray Kurzweil. His stack is proprietary though so I had to reverse engineer all of it from his writing about the singularity.