hgomersall

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by hgomersall 5d ago
Here's another paper from 2010 which i remember appearing. I guess this is just more evidence: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2773211/
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by hgomersall 7d ago
No, the alternatives are any number of other solutions that are not given a look-in to the very lucrative duopoly. The network effects are prohibitive for upstarts.
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by hgomersall 7d ago
It's also a story, and quite an enjoyable and well written one at that. My 8 year old son enjoyed being read it.
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by hgomersall 10d ago
TBF, the original post used the precise phrasing "plant based meat replacement", which IMO covers this like tofu as well as impossible burgers.
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by hgomersall 11d ago
No, none of pasta, noodles or home made sausages are UPFs by the Nova classification.
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by hgomersall 11d ago
This is kind of the point. We simply don't have a sufficiently good understanding of food and nutrition to be able to say "smoosh these nutrients ands other food derivatives together and you get a healthy food". UPFs is exact
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by hgomersall 11d ago
Tofu is often used as a meat replacement and is Nova classification 3 at most.
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by hgomersall 11d ago
The Nova classification is generally how people interpret this stuff. Generally speaking ultra processing isn't something you do in your own kitchen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification
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by hgomersall 22d ago
Yes, develop an economy that is not run for rent seekers. Provide a job guarantee so everyone can work at a wage floor. Build housing stock that is actually affordable and desirable for anyone on a normal wage. Make sure healthcare is affor
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by hgomersall 22d ago
Even benefits etc are too late. The money should be spent on providing hope for people. It's 45 years of neoliberalism that we are reaping.
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by hgomersall 28d ago
That's the point. Most financial investment is really putting money into something higher risk to get a (hopefully) higher return. Most "investing conservatively" is just being a bit more wary as to what risks are acceptable.
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by hgomersall 28d ago
Sure, so should we, as society, reward it further by also providing more free money?
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by hgomersall 28d ago
Fair point re seeking the best return given the same risk profile. Allow me to refine my point: It's gambling when you seek to increase your risk profile in the hope of gaining higher returns, without actually doing anything else other
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by hgomersall 28d ago
Why should having money ever give you a return on that? I ask that question in the context of moral philosophy, not a capitalist society. Surely there are better ways to determine how an individual should live that doesn't typically am
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by hgomersall 28d ago
Why don't you think they are gambling?
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by hgomersall 29d ago
The point is largely around expectation. Sure, the base case of putting money in a bank is very safe, but the interest on that is not. Factor in inflation and its pretty easy to get negative returns on bank deposits. If you fiddle with &quo
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by hgomersall 29d ago
Not really. The question is are you working for your money or are you hoping the money will provide free rent for you. If the latter, you're gambling. The only reason it's relatively risk free is because the system has been thorou
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by hgomersall 29d ago
It's all gambling. You can dress it to as having a social purpose, but that's not why most people do it - they want the numbers to go up. The stock market is exactly the same - middle class gambling.
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
What's deep research compared to more normal research?
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
It also picks up and obsesses about weird details. You're in the middle of a deep technical discussion and it will divert to point out that it made a mistake in some example code it's just found.
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
Or you could just use Firefox.
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
I know this is the standard response, but it doesn't make sense. If you're going to steal something, why would you expose it at the checkout? Wouldn't you just not bring it out at that point? It's the same for the really
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
I was curious about this so looked into it (chatted to Claude). It seems like the issue is around high volume production of an ice-cream on a stick coated in thick chocolate like stuff. That's where the invention comes into it.
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
A magnum is basically a choc ice on a stick. Choc ices go back to the 1920s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choc_ice
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179973
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
Fruit yogurts are immediately group 3 even for one you'd make at home - a fruit compote is group 3. Since cornflour is group 2, it can form a component of a group 3 product. That is, cornflour is an acceptable additive in group 3 produ
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
Which Yeo Valley products have UPFs? Genuinely interested since that's not my experience. They do put cornflour in their fruit yogurts, but that seems less egregious than most. Their frozen kefir does contain stabilisers. You shouldn&#
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
It isn't, you just have to look. Most of the organic ice creams are fairly clean - Yeo Valley, Duchy. Similarly the organic vegan ice creams from Booja Booja. Some small producers are good - Alder Tree in Suffolk typically have 3 ingre
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
There's been a real rennaisance of quality produce in the UK, including ice cream. There's some really good stuff to be bought, even in mainstream supermarkets.
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by hgomersall 1mo ago
I've been pondering this recently. There have been loads of trivial automation targets throughout the economy for years but they haven't really been fixed, despite being a small Python script (things like converting one csv file t

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