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New comment by throwaway2037 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

throwaway2037 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:42:02 +0000

I thought exactly the same! My question: How/Why were they able to speak to a human (or maybe chat/email)?

New comment by throwaway2037 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

throwaway2037 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:40:31 +0000

I agree. The answer is regulation that outlines rules of engagement for "free" (you are the product) online services.

Australia is famous for having very strong consumer protection laws for purchased products (physical goods). It has been discussed many times here. How does this work in the digital universe?

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

throwaway2037 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:38:58 +0000

The real problem with veganism is that you are a social outcast around normies. That was the biggest problem that I had. Also, veganism is essentially a "fundamentalist" way of thinking -- all or nothing. Now, I advocate for people to experiment with eating less meat and animal products, not zero. Even if people cut the amount of meat they ate by 20%, it would have a huge environmental impact. Also, the type of meat you eat also has a large environmental impact: Consider beef vs chicken.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

throwaway2037 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:13:31 +0000

    > You buy a new phone every two years, it comes with a camera, a cpu, a gpu, a host of sensors. Same as phones did two years ago, and ten years before that.

I am confused by this comment. I said that each time I buy a new low-end mobile phone, there are large improvements in the quality of screen, camera, cpu/gpu, and other sensors. Sure, I have had a 4k camera on a low-end mobile for about 10 years now, but the quality (light/colour) of photos and videos has improved dramatically.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

throwaway2037 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:10:05 +0000

As I understand the philosophy of Qt, it does not (for the most part) use native widgets. They seek to draw widgets that match native widgets on a pixel-by-pixel basis. You can also change the look-and-feel (similar to Java Swing widgets) by using what Qt calls "styles". Ref: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/style-reference.html

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:03:35 +0000

I am curious. Is dentistry considered poor in Germany? Or when compared to other similarly wealthy, highly-developed nations?

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:59:28 +0000

Hat tip. Good point about trans-fatty acids. That was all the rage to label and remove them about ten years ago.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:26 +0000

    > Nutrition is run on fads - see whole fitness and healthy food bullshit.

You raise an interesting point. I watched a YouTube video recently of someone walking around a large US supermarket pointing out all of the processed foods that now claimed to be high protein. It is nuts!

I wonder what will come after the protein boom? My guess: Fiber is back because you need to "fibermaxx" when taking GLP-1 antagonists. I can remember some of the funny adverts in the 1980s of old people taking fiber supplements to "stay regular". (See SNL comedy skit "Colon Blow" for a good laugh.)

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:14:03 +0000

Naive question: What is wrong with this? Lots of gov't agencies in highly developed countries operate similarly. User fees account for a non-trivial portion of department budgets. A more simple example: Should the Dept of Motor Vehicles (DMV) charge zero, low, medium, high, or infinity money to get a driver's license?

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:09:36 +0000

Most green vegetables you can eat unlimited amount and stay healthy. They are absolutely "good" food. (Please don't reply with something trite like "oh, but what about the pesticide residues?") The same can be said for high fiber (soluable and insoluable) fruits like apples, oranges, and bananas. As long as eaten whole (minus skin for oranges and bananas), it is almost impossible to overeat these and they are absolutely "good" foods.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:06:36 +0000

I agree 100% with your follow-up. In the last 30 years of medical research, I do not recall anything but negative health results from eating red meat (beef). The real culprit is saturated fat. It is the cigarettes of food. There is almost no healthy level to consume, so keep it to 20g per day or less.

Reading this chain of responses from the original is making my internal bullshit alarm (Brandolini's law) go "wee woo wee woo".

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:55:19 +0000

This is untrue. There are 100s of YouTube videos of amateur body builders preparing for a show. They are able to maintain their muscle mass while in a calorie deficit. Yes, it is insanely hard, but it can be done.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:52:21 +0000

This is crazy. You lost 28 lbs (15% of your body weight) in 10 weeks. Why did your doctor to allow you to continue? By any common sense, that is an unhealthy pace to lose body weight.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:47:26 +0000

What would be enough? 400 patients, 4000, 40k, 400k, 4M?

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:44:04 +0000

Here is the exact quote:

    > You’re not going to be taking these things orally... These mail-order peptides are injectable items.

Every single YouTube video and blog post I have read about peptites is exclusively about injectable supplements.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

throwaway2037 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:39:00 +0000

    > some without a ton of continuing education.

Where did you get this idea? I did a simple, five second Google search and learned that on average, US doctors are required to complete about 50 hours of continuing education for each one- to two-year recert cycle. (On HN, I also hear similar complaints about public school teachers. It isn't true. Public school teachers are required to do similar continuing education.)

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

throwaway2037 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:12:59 +0000

I use AdBlock on Chrome. It is excellent. Do you not like it?

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

throwaway2037 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:11:35 +0000

What about Qt? It is the gold standard for cross-platform desktop UI frameworks.

It is (1) performant (C++-based), (2) does not look outdated, and (3) not bug-ridden.

New comment by throwaway2037 in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

throwaway2037 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:24:04 +0000

    > We need to do a better job of preserving it.

I reject this sentiment. Ask anyone that you know who lived through the 1960s in a rich country. Their experience is nearly all the same: The air quality and environmental pollution was appalling. When my mother lived in Manhattan (New York City) in the 1960s, she would return home from work, and wipe her face with a cloth. The cloth had black streaks from all the pollution. Today, it is a different world in rich countries. They have cleaned up.

Finally: Yes, global warming is real, but the threat is different. I predict that we will far exceed the average increase in global average temperature, but we will survive. Yes, we will survive, but with some "scars".

New comment by throwaway2037 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

throwaway2037 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:46:54 +0000

    > Helium is almost all captured from gas wells by cryogenically liquefying the nitrogen out of it.

This is wild. I never thought about how they separated gases from natural gas fields. The carbon footprint of each kg of that helium must be astonishingly large.