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Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on - Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn from My Mistakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5v61YtDYo4

A list of sugar alcohols including their classification numbers in Europe is:

Sorbitol (E 420)

Mannitol (E 421)

Isomalt (E 954)

Maltitol and Maltitol Sirup (E 965)

Lactitol (E 966)

Maltitol and Maltitol Sirup (E 965)

Xylitol (E 967)

Erythritol (E 967)

Some HP printers had USB port covered by a sticker with warning not to use it, but it works just fine.

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/04/hp-printer-usb-port-covere...

Re:Holodomor on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:26PM (#33756926)
I recently listened to Behind the Bastards podcast episode 31/32 about this guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

This guy basically fooled his ways of agriculture and biology, rejecting genetics for decades resulting in Holodomor and many more deaths.

Abstract: The highly robust and consistent outcomes of embryogenesis and regeneration in standard model systems obscure an important property of life: plasticity under novel circumstances. In this talk we will briefly review some examples of morphogenesis adjusting to perturbations of environment and internal composition, which highlights novel aspects of emergent morphogenetic control and the evolution thereof. We will show how AI-driven reconfiguration of embryonically liberated biological tissue can lead to new organisms that exhibit collective behaviors previously unseen in nature, such as kinematic self-replication. We will conclude by showing how these behaviors do not respect the human-created distinctions between genotype and phenotype, brain and body, and tape and machine.
I would stay sceptical, way to many things can go wrong and british plumbing is an art of it self.

I think this the sewer is more suitable approach. One company in Czech republic manage to pull it off after more then decade of research.

Article in czech, but there is a lot of pictures to get the idea.

https://www.lupa.cz/galerie/pilotni-projekt-unikatni-instala...

Re:The Future of War, and How It Affects You (2019) [video] on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#26171780)
Interesting part starts at 11:22 where GEN Robert Brown explains how armed forces around globe use modern tech to plan operations and execute / prevent the future fight utilizing modern society

Submitted previously in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302190

Re:Q2 2020 Update on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:16PM (#23922202)
They can go on energy market where you can create local decentralized energy hubs running as franchise where they rent the infrastructure and you can throw internet package to the offer.
Re:Tour of Rust on Sunday July 12, 2020 @07:17AM (#23810539)
I recommend https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6paRBbLgNw

Jon Gjengset series Crust of Rust is amazing.

Re:Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:38PM (#21640552)
In UK there was just recently published Guidelines for [1] Safe prescribing of fluoroquinolones.

'Do not use fluoroquinolones in patients with known aortic aneurysm, aortic dissection or history of serious side effects related to quinolone treatment (including tendon disease/disorder) unless there are no other treatment options available'

'Patients should be counselled to discontinue fluoroquinolone treatment and seek urgent medical attention at the first sign of:

- Tendon pain or inflammation (particularly in shoulder or ankle)

- Symptoms of neuropathy such as pain, burning, pins & needles, tingling, numbness or weakness

- Sudden-onset of severe and constant abdominal, chest or back pain

1. https://www.ncl-mon.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/Guidelines/5_F...

I will guess even more. And add some drug money lets say about ~$1.3B

Two years ago:

The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/asia/north-korea-ha...

If you like to get better in Excel learn some nifty tricks with tables then watch

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

Replace vlookup() with index() + match() combination.

https://chandoo.org/wp/vlookup-match-and-offset-explained-in...

Re:UK’s Dixons Carphone admits huge data breach on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @07:50AM (#17302194)
Funny thing last year this time I was picking up a camera and the till next to me was some guy buying SIM with some ID or proof of address requirements.

He was like "Sorry I don't have ID with me ...bla bla bla..., I have it on my e-mail, can I use your computer?"

And staff was like OK here you go, and they let him behind the counter to use their PC.

I was there good 5 minutes and the guy was still using the staff computer when I was leaving.

And I was in my head like "WTF?"

Xi is smart guy and must be sad seeing this every day https://www.windy.com/overlays?cosc,33.358,107.644,5
Re:Ask HN: Are you a programmer with Parkinson's? on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:15PM (#11787417)
Well there is like 30 seconds from House TV series, so I guess they can claim the whole video (9:57:33) be blocked in US.
Re:Ask HN: Are you a programmer with Parkinson's? on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:40PM (#11787147)
I suggest you to watch this talk on this years ng-conf.

https://youtu.be/mAjjI35RcUE?t=11949