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New comment by sithadmin in "US tobacco firms applied tobacco strategies to globalize ultra-processed foods"

sithadmin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:45:02 +0000

>How should using processes not used at home make something harmful?

Well, for starters - the refined sugars, carbohydrates and oils that seem to be the main culprits behind the obesity epidemic are mostly things that wouldn't be efficient (or in some cases, even possible) to create in a home cooking environment.

Sure, you could order some grain milling or oil extraction equipment on Alibaba and DIY it, but 99.999% of households aren't going to do that.

New comment by sithadmin in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

sithadmin — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:59:33 +0000

That's not just AWS. That's Amazon generally. All Amazon orgs I've worked for have been like this, and due to the nature of my work, I (and my teams) have been treated like pariahs for daring to suggest that there ought to be even a minimal amount collaboration, shared standards, and cross-pollination on ideas between teams.

New comment by sithadmin in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

sithadmin — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:54:57 +0000

>Why must moving slowly be stigmatised?

Because some of us have jobs to get to, trains to catch, appointments to make, airplane gates to queue at, and just generally need to get-things-done!

All for slowness, but not amongst pedestrians.

New comment by sithadmin in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

sithadmin — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:02:30 +0000

The majority of airliners are on 'dry lease' to their respective airlines to begin with.

New comment by sithadmin in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

sithadmin — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:19:41 +0000

…which makes it no different practically every other form of periodical news media that’s ever existed.

New comment by sithadmin in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

sithadmin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:18:24 +0000

At first, the entire premise was facilitating group buying to meet manufacturer order minimums for unique or high-demand hardware, and discounts for meeting manufacturers' volume discount targets. Then it morphed into a general specialty/niche retailer for people with keyboard, headphone, "EDC" and began to also focus on "house brand" type merch.

New comment by sithadmin in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

sithadmin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:56:35 +0000

It’s been tried, with some success. Pretty sure I’ve seen a post here on HN from someone that DIy’d it end to end.

But it’s also something that’s not responsible to shortcut. Shifting teeth around too fast can result in permanent root damage and even loss of teeth. There was a whole cottage industry in the US for a while focused on under cutting Invisalign with a reverse-engineered product, but they often moved on accelerated treatment timelines that caused a not-insignificant amount of harm to patients, and cut corners on intake (DIY at home mold kits) that also contributed to problems. Pretty sure all of the companies doing this are basically dead now.

New comment by sithadmin in "Weight-loss jab could be made for $3 a month, study finds"

sithadmin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:38:08 +0000

Current 'self pay' pricing (as of March 2025) for those without insurance coverage for Ozempic is $199/month for two months, then anywhere from $349 to $499/month depending on dosage.

New comment by sithadmin in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

sithadmin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:09:41 +0000

As a long time Proton customer...I am fairly certain Proton has always been completely upfront that they will comply with lawful requests for information from the Swiss authorities, if response is obligated by Swiss law. Therefore this isn't especially surprising.

New comment by sithadmin in "The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops"

sithadmin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:09:19 +0000

This honestly looks like it was created by someone that’s never seen, let alone held a Tostitos Scoop in their life. The models don’t resemble the average Scoop at all.

New comment by sithadmin in "More Mac malware from Google search"

sithadmin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:50:38 +0000

The article specifically mentions that the methodology here is to trick users into running an obfuscated CLI command…that downloads and runs a binary

New comment by sithadmin in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

sithadmin — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:00:24 +0000

Are they consistent? As a North American, I find it difficult to take EU/European countries’ stances on addiction seriously when they seem to be decades behind on reducing the prevalence of smoking and drinking, which almost certainly cause more practical harm than TikTok ever could.

New comment by sithadmin in ""IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial"

sithadmin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:11:00 +0000

IRC and Newsgroups definitely had that level of addiction going on. Just smaller population size due by technical friction that kept the general population away.

New comment by sithadmin in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

sithadmin — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:26:44 +0000

300cpm is lower than what you’d be exposed to on a commercial airline flight (400-900ish cpm).

New comment by sithadmin in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

sithadmin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:34:45 +0000

That’s not unique to PayPal. Pretty much any payment processor that detects a proprietor paying themselves is going to throw up a red flag for circular cash flow fraud and close the account. Bank-operated payment processors are often slower to catch it, but they will also boot you for this.

New comment by sithadmin in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

sithadmin — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:13:59 +0000

Why on earth would I care if a potato sticks to my blade, and why would I need to atomize lemon juice with my knife?

New comment by sithadmin in "Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"

sithadmin — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:15:19 +0000

MRI and other radiology suites use lead glass windows, which are incredibly thick and tinted dark-yellowish-orange. Visibility through them is okay, but not great.

New comment by sithadmin in "Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media"

sithadmin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:48:53 +0000

Plex does operate a few services that 'free' (or any) streaming may rely on depending on circumstances. Aside from auth, Plex clients that aren't able to discover the server instance locally rely on a Plex-hosted webservice to enumerate available servers. Additionally, there is a client-side config option that allows low resolution streams (720p is the ceiling, I believe) to be proxied via Plex's infrastructure. This setting is referred to as 'indirect connection', if I recall correctly.

New comment by sithadmin in "Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function"

sithadmin — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:39:35 +0000

'Miswak' sticks are popular in the Middle East/Northern Africa.

Raw mastic gum seems to be gaining popularity in the US.

Neither is popular for the explicit purpose of cognitive enhancement, though.

New comment by sithadmin in ""Do you not like money?""

sithadmin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:21:35 +0000

Is poverty really 'designed into our society'? It seems to me that the underlying aspects of poverty - particularly resource scarcity and insecurity - are inherent aspects of the 'state of nature', which are only escapable via the cooperative mechanisms associated with the formation of society and governance. Sure, these things aren't 100% effective at eliminating poverty, but the proposition that poverty is somehow an intentionally baked-in objective seems hyperbolic.

Further, the notion that the USSR failed because "they tried to make a better man" is an absurd whitewashing of Soviet history.