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Re:Giving up reading news will make us happier by scottmsul on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:22AM (#16765130)
> Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life,

Yes, there was an article on HN a couple weeks ago. Pork treated with nitrates increases the chance of colon cancer as much as smoking increases the chance of lung cancer (but pork treated with salt is ok).

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Re:Giving up reading news will make us happier by rossdavidh on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:42AM (#16765320)
Hacker News definitely seems to work better than conventional news sources, as far as filtering to what is actually informative.
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Re:Giving up reading news will make us happier by gowan on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:40AM (#16765300)
interesting... can you provide a link?
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Re:Giving up reading news will make us happier by avtar on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:34AM (#16765826)
Possibly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499149
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