I remember writing soy is basically poison and definitely not a health food here on HN not long ago. People would be smart to wise up to this sooner rather than later. It is still an extremely unpopular stance because many are lead to believe that this dirt cheap source of protein is "okay".
There seems to be a lot of info that it's both great for you and terrible for you. This is probably a good case for when "all things in moderation" is a reasonable approach.
>>I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this.
I read this as: I am currently a happy apple customer. I do not buy apps on other app stores because they do not exist.
>>What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.
Apple's practices as a company are things that, historically, have more or less gotten other companies into a lot of legal trouble. The whole world is watching and waiting for a legal system somewhere to step in and say, "Ok, enough is enough."
Like it or not, the civillian bombings of Japan were absolutely necessary.
Japan was a very sick and diseased nation and culture at the time. They had made a national, media broadcasted sport of beheading children. They had turned deadly human experimentation into science. They had waged wars of aggression on all of their neighbors, no matter how distant.
They brought their cultural disease to American shores and attacked my family. All of their civillian science and industry and culture brought about the war machine that came to American shores to murder us in a time of peace, on a continent far away from their own.
The bombings of Japan should stand as a warning to all nations and cultures for all generations. If your culture gets sick with that totalitarian ideology, it is a lot better if you fix it at home on your own terms than if you bring it to our shores and make us fix it for you.
You can all enjoy the peaceful world that resulted from American sacrifice, and posturing after WW2. Criticize us however you like, you have that right and luxury regardless of where you live.
Regardless, you would be wise to learn this one lesson from history: Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
Germany and Japan learned that lesson the hard way and they deserved every thing they got in response.
I am not on HN to confront warcrimes denialism from foreign extremists, so this is about the extent that I am going to go.
>>At the time periods in question, de-facto segregation was still the norm across the entire U.S. and yet you're implying we were some sort of beacon of morality and human rights. Hell, the U.S. was performing horrific human experimentation before and _after_ the war.
No where near comparable to the horrors of what Japan was doing and not even close to relevant to this thread. This is pure whataboutism from a denialist.
The axis powers were not the same as the allies in some "weird and wacky" grey morality.
>>This part is just straight up racism.
No. Describing fascist cultures engaged in genocidal wars of extermination against the whole world as "diseased" during that time period is being polite and succinct. Maybe your view is that such a culture was healthy at the time? Tell us.
>>You're either a troll or you truly have bought into the entire breadth of American Propaganda.
I have seen the horrors of fascist Japan first hand. I have seen the devices and torture chambers they built. I have lived in Nanjing and heard the air raid sirens with my own ears.
I, for one, am not an ignorant denialist that wants to pretend none of this ever happened. Fascist Japan had a problem back home that needed fixing. America fixed it.
A theory proposed by a professor at my school was:
The black death killed a lot of the people who grouped in churches and ignored the common sense precautions of staying away from people. This could be seen as a culling of what was largely the weak and foolish third of society.
Coincidentally, with fewer people to do the labor around and a generally smarter stock of people remaining, the upper classes were forced to pay more for services that keep the world running. There was a huge impact on labor markets, claimed the professor.
Thirdly, and likely related to all of this, the renaissance began.
> The black death killed a lot of the people who grouped in churches and ignored the common sense precautions of staying away from people.
Was that really considered common sense before we knew about germ theory? I'm not asking rhetorically; I'm legitimately curious about whether the average medieval peasant had any intuition about the fact that disease was communicable.
I don't know about the Medieval period, but reading a book about Galileo, I noted that his communications with the officials in Rome was hampered by the fact that the cities along the mail route would close their gates and impose a quarantine whenever a plague went through the region. So at least they had a hunch that the disease could be carried from A to B, even if they didn't know by what.
> plague doctors who made efforts to protect themselves.
Indeed - the figure of Il Dottore from the Commedia Del Arte wears a mask with a long "beak". The beak was stuffed with sweet-smelling herbs; in those days, they thought that it was bad smells that spread disease.
Perhaps people gathered in churches because they burned sweet-smelling incence in churches?
That theory presumes a correlation between the behaviors that lead to contracting the plague, and a general foolishness/uselessness to society overall. Sounds like a stretch to me, but I'm no expert.
Social media addiction can lead to severe mental health issues, eating disorders, depression, and even suicide.
Video game addiction often leads to children and adults completely destroying their professional or academic lives. In many cases, a child grows up to find a balance between working just enough to afford their videogame habbit.
I have read stories of an adult who was so addicted to a simple cellphone game that they were compulsively telling lies to create more game time and ultimately destroyed all of their social relationships and lost their job. All of that dysfunction stems from their brain's addiction to the rush of progress bars, levelling up, victory screens, and success chimes.
Not all people are wired the same. A lot of brains are hopelessly addicted to these two categories of stimuli and I feel you dismiss them a bit too carelessly.
I remember a time where I was playing a phone game to get some sleep (the mindless stimulation works for my brain, which has hyperactivity issues). There were time-limited events that gave bonuses for completion. One of the things I distinctly remember was that there were teams you could join, followed by team vs team competition for rewards at the end of the week. Competitive teams then had minimum floors of activity... It became like a job to keep track of your own contribution for... for... some bonuses at the end of the week? I remember becoming disappointed/unhappy that the game was asking more from me than I wanted to give (10-30 min of playing before being calm enough to sleep) and quitting. Now I only play phone games without a team/online component, like the stupid merge games or bubble games.
I grow concerned with the increase in addiction research among technology companies. The language is disguised as user retention, engagement, social, gamification, etc.
I do not have a solution to this problem and it is a problem that I myself would contribute to if I was trying to design an app that people would use. Greater addiction mechanisms trend toward wider market adoption which leads to a higher value for shareholders. The current system of incentives to a company makes this focus inevitable.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. If the game has a timer anywhere, it's a deliberate habit-forming design. They're spaced reward schedules intended to make you come back.
The job-like feeling is real. Before they even realize it, people start organizing their own schedules around some stupid phone game. Setting alarms to wake up at 3 AM because that's when the timer resets and they can play again.
I don't dispute any of that. I once fell into the mobile game trap myself, it's really bad. I've posted many times here on HN about how these games are deliberately designed to form habits in players and I think they should be illegal.
The thing is I've personally seen opioid addicts do literally anything for a drug. Not for pleasure, just to avoid the pain of abstinence. One guy killed his own mother because she tried to cut off his access to the drugs, he ended up homeless and reduced to crime and was eventually arrested and forced to undergo treatment. The power of these substances cannot be underestimated. As bad as predatory video games are, I'm convinced opioids are worse.
Indeed. I have experience at a neurology practice, I suppose it has skewed what "severe" addiction means to me.
Benzodiazepines addiction is severe as well. Not as bad as opioids but still pretty bad. I've seen patients get violent because a doctor didn't want to renew their prescription for their own good.
Twitters design makes it kind of a weird one way communication tool.
Elon Musk can tweet something and a million people will reply. What percentage if those replies are bots, shills, or people trying to get money out of some offer of employment? Likely an absurdly high %.
Then there are the hacker groups and their influence campaigns... All over twitter.
I feel like twitter might be useful on a self hosted intranet with your close family and friends -- but as a global product it is grotesque.
I’ve always thought of it as that. More generally, idea could be applied to YouTube, podcasting, etc. One person has ability to broadcast to millions, while the millions can’t broadcast back equally.
If Reddit.com/r/worldnews can have Ghislaine Maxwell (of the epstein case) as a moderator (u/maxwellhill) -- then Ycombinator gets its own billionaire criminal.
Give Affinity products a try. They cover a variety of very serious use cases and they offer some of the highest production quality tutorials on their website to quickly train someone.
