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New comment by zthrowaway in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

zthrowaway — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:00:41 +0000

Microsoft shops. Lots of C# devs gravitate to it naturally. I’m glad I abandoned the MS stack over a decade ago.

New comment by zthrowaway in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

zthrowaway — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:17:02 +0000

This. Please please make this loop!

New comment by zthrowaway in "School uses AI to remove 200 books, including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight"

zthrowaway — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:06:02 +0000

UK doing UK things per usual.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zthrowaway — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:37:58 +0000

Gut cleanses is really just a herbal medicine protocol you do for a few weeks. Herbal medicine is not stupid, it has been used for thousands of years. Hell even some pharmaceutical drugs use herbs.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zthrowaway — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:27:31 +0000

I mean a program (series of herbal supplements) that can cure gut inflammation and help with digestion, and in some circumstances get rid of parasites. Herbal medicine, things that other cultures have been doing for thousands of years. Do I have to prove that turmeric lowers inflammation in the body? What is going on in this thread lol.

“gut cleanse” obviously is a trigger phrase on HN it seems.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zthrowaway — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:22:41 +0000

Bangladesh actually had one of the highest parasite rates among children until the last decade.

Parasites are quite a global problem: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbio.... I don’t even know why we’re arguing this.

Now we don’t know what toxins are? Really?

New comment by zthrowaway in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zthrowaway — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:17:26 +0000

I was thinking of the 60% global statistic. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbio...

I had gut dysbiosis for the past couple of years. Went to an alternative/func doctor and she helped me do a program such as this, in a safe manner: https://www.gutprotocols.com/products/full-moon-kit-parasite...

While yes this isn’t scientifically backed, because there’s just no clinical trials yet, doesn’t mean it is bunk. I did a program myself and it fixed all of my problems. My stool inflammatory markers went down drastically, as did my myriad of symptoms that caused me issues every day.

Perhaps I was wrong in strongly recommending people just go do this randomly without any doctor oversight. Whatever. I just wanted to offer my experience because it helped me and can help others. Take it or leave it.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zthrowaway — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:42:46 +0000

Well for me it killed the parasites I had plaguing me and cured a lot of sickness I was experiencing. To each his own.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zthrowaway — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:17:23 +0000

I think part of this can be attributed to prolonged gut inflammation caused by toxins and parasites. There’s something like 60% of the population has some form of parasite and have no idea, which causes a lot of inflammation and problems. Problems that don’t necessarily point to the gut being the culprit on the surface. So it’s misdiagnosed a lot.

I recommend everyone do a gut cleanse once a year.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents"

zthrowaway — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:51:00 +0000

This should surprise no one. A CIA-backed VC was one of the first investors of Google. Big tech will always serve the powers that be. Employees that think their letters of appeal will do anything live in a fantasy land. That’s not how the real world works.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

zthrowaway — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:02:54 +0000

Stores his production TF state on his local computer…

I don’t think AI is to blame here.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

zthrowaway — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:47:00 +0000

Yup. Amazon doubled their workforce through the pandemic. I think a lot of tech companies are still cutting fat from those days.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

zthrowaway — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:02:21 +0000

My day to day is even busier now with agents all over the place making code changes. The Security landscape is even more complex now overnight. The only negative impact I see is that there’s not much need for junior devs right now. The agent fills that role in a way. But we’ll have to backfill some way or another.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

zthrowaway — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:33:10 +0000

Mark Levin is that you?

New comment by zthrowaway in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

zthrowaway — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:48:55 +0000

Making users less safe from… letting us snoop on all your communications for “national security”.

New comment by zthrowaway in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

zthrowaway — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:33:20 +0000

Microslop ruins everything it touches.

New comment by zthrowaway in "India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders"

zthrowaway — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:04:50 +0000

Do we see this a lot in the US? This seems to be more unique to India.

New comment by zthrowaway in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

zthrowaway — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:44:00 +0000

We already live in an oligarchy. The difference between us and Russia is that their government controls the oligarchy. Here the oligarchy controls the government.

Also please stop throwing around the fascist word for everything, good lord it’s tiring and cringe.

New comment by zthrowaway in "10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?"

zthrowaway — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:49:35 +0000

Getting really sick and tired of the AI doomerism.

New comment by zthrowaway in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

zthrowaway — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:15:09 +0000

Historically speaking, you don’t get kicked out of the communist club, they just kill you.