Lately I am reading into the cause of the diabetic pandemic. It's kind of shocking to read that our food is to blame and food companies are blocking change.
Somehow this 'fat is bad' lie came into the world. We have been eating fat for thousands of years. Fat is full of all kinds of stuff the body needs. The brain can tell us when we ate enough fat so we feel full. The body can handle fat very well so it doesn't get stored and we won't grow fat.
But no, fat became wrong and was removed from our food making it tasteless. So sugars are added. This is good news for the food industry because the brain doesn't register when we have enough sugars. So we keep eating.
And this item on HN continues the trend. There is no solution but it's about companies making huge profits over insulin.
For some people (Type I diabetics) changing food is not a solution. They don't have the β-cells that make insulin, so they're reliant on synthetic insulin. Even replacing the pancreas is only a stopgap measure, and their immune system enforces that. Yes, they're 5% to 10% of all diabetics but don't simply dismiss this as continuing the trend.
The appeal to naturalism is kind of iffy, though. The kinds and amount of fat we eat might be substantially different than many of our ancestors. I'm not making an argument either way, just that I doubt modern food resembles ancient diets.
I asked some groupmates if they worked on their laptops all day, since they were complaining about having sore necks and backs. They looked at ME like I was stupid and said “uhh… of course, what do you mean?”
I am not against vaccinations but I don't like your comment at all.
You also just have an opinion like everyone else.
When you listen to scientists you will understand it's much more complicated than you are saying.
Take a scientist like Geert Vanden Bossche. He really is a very big name in the world of vaccinations. But he has been warning us that vaccinating everyone during an pandemic of a fast mutating virus is a really bad decision.
> The best solution to track down child abusers fast is to track down their communications.
Right. Then as bad actors find out that WhatsApp is backdoored, they move on to some other network, the police agents go on to think "oh, cool, no more abusers on WhatsApp, good job!", leaving the backdoor only for the good people and a bunch of police agents thinking "Now that CP is no longer a threat, what else are we going to use as a reason to keep these powers we have"?
Meanwhile Grapperhaus didn't want to appoint an independent team of researchers to investigate child sex abuse in connection with members of his own justice department.
I have been building websites for over 20 years and this has always been a problem. 99% of the designers also design texts that perfectly fit the design.
The end result is a bad experience for both the developer, the customer and the end user.
Today everything is focused on making money. The focus on money makes the experience good for the ones that make the money, but for the end user it means everything turns into one giant ad.
That's why Spotify uses tiles instead of tables. The tiles are important for the content producer, not for the Spotify user. A tile can scream at you 'Listen to me!', a row in a table cannot do this.
It shows that Spotify is making more money from content creators than content consumers.
Yep. I wonder, if the balance has gone too far without any checks or balances? A/B testing our way into oblivion. May be, we should do a massive A/B test between 15 year old UI and today's UI. They'd probably have to modify old UIs to add some more images because visuals dominate.
I realize these things probably have commercial implications, but goddamn it feels good to rant.
The problem is: a frustrated user is not a leaving user. So as long the users stay at the platform and more money can be made the user experience will be crap.
Spotify has 2 types of users, the creator and consumer. As long as there is more money to be made from the creator user they will also A/B test for that user.
Somehow this 'fat is bad' lie came into the world. We have been eating fat for thousands of years. Fat is full of all kinds of stuff the body needs. The brain can tell us when we ate enough fat so we feel full. The body can handle fat very well so it doesn't get stored and we won't grow fat.
But no, fat became wrong and was removed from our food making it tasteless. So sugars are added. This is good news for the food industry because the brain doesn't register when we have enough sugars. So we keep eating.
And this item on HN continues the trend. There is no solution but it's about companies making huge profits over insulin.