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huijzer
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- huijzerI'm also particularly skeptical of Amazon because our Kindle Direct Publishing account was banned also for no reason. They said something about me having had a previous account before, but I'm not sure that was true and I think it was a very extreme measure. We were actually selling books at the time until we got banned. They obviously also "forgot" to pay out the most recent month.
- I've spent many hours researching this topic, and the paper is incorrect for multiple reasons and one of which being that it is using a straw man argument.
> This hypothesis posits that foods associated with an increased urinary acid excretion are deleterious for the skeleton, leading to osteoporosis and enhanced fragility fracture risk.
That the second part of this hypothesis could be true is actually super easy to prove from a purely chemical perspective. When the pH of the blood drops, cells such as bones and muscle cells will release buffering ions such as phosphate from bone and proteins from muscle cells. As long as the minerals from the bones are not replaced, the bones will weaken.
The straw man in this claim is that the pH discussion usually talks about what foods change the body's overall pH balance in what direction; not just the urine.
- You type "pH" as "Ph" so are you sure you know what you are talking about or are you just repeating some evidence you found after a few seconds of searching?
- We have over the years raised billions (maybe trillions) for cancer treatments and we seem to have made negligible progress in actually curing cancer. Will it ever succeed? So maybe there is a root cause for your root cause?
- Source? There are many sources that show that pH in urine and saliva increases when people drink alkaline water.
- The big question is why do we need 5g? My phone doesn’t support it and my internet is fast enough as long as I have good coverage. Coverage problems are only exaggerated by 5G since the range for short waves is shorter
- Hence why I wrote a post on 18th of Nov (previous Cloudflare outage): https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cl....
That blog post made it to the front page of HN and my site did not go down. Nor did any DDoS network take the site out even though I also challenged them last time by commenting that I would be okay with a DDoS. I would figure out a way around it.
In general, marketing often works via fear, that's why Cloudflare has those blog posts talking about "largest botnet ever". Advertisement for medicine for example also works often via fear. "Take this or you die", essentially.
- It’s funny how it’s completely appropriate to talk about how the elites are getting more and more power, but if you then start looking deeper into it you’re suddenly a conspiracy theorist and hence bad. Who came up with the term conspiracy theorist anyway and that we should be afraid of it?
- > but I do admit Forgejo looks very interesting to self-host.
I've been self-hosting it for a few years now and can definitely recommend. It has been very reliable. I even have a runner running. Full tutorial at https://huijzer.xyz/posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separ....
- > Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Because a lot of money was transferred from Cloudflare's bank account to the bank accounts of the stockholders of Replicate?
- I think I found this article via HN about 10 years ago. Have been using baking soda as deodorant since then and am still very happy with it. Hopefully posting this link again will help someone else too! It's very cheap, easy-to-use, and effective so what more do you want.
- 3 points
- Thanks for the tip. I personally also find Yandex nice because it will often recommend the smaller blogs like in the old days.
- Germany used to sell their cars worldwide but is having a hard time competing against Chinese electric cars
- I've seen this scientific fact go around for a while now, but to me it just doesn't pass the smell test. Intuitively, it makes no sense at all. Forests are large areas that literally live on processing CO2. That's the main process that is required for growth to occur. So you have all these trees that process CO2 and you are telling me that humans have managed to negate all these processes? I suspect they messed up the math or are it is simply grifting by some NGO that got paid to say something about CO2 so we can invest more in some renewable energy business.
- 10 points
- > bureaucracy to fight at European level so we still don't have a real unified market, neither in physical goods (our economy's backbone) nor services which doesn't allow national startups to scale at European level
I guess you have been part of software startups and you severely underestimate the bureaucracy that is involved in physical companies nowadays. Farmers, fishermen, factory-owners, and other small to medium size companies all have severe difficulties with ever increasing regulations. By itself the regulations are not always bad, but usually it takes way too long to get through the system which makes it hard to compete with, for example, China.
- > They failed on so many levels here.
That's often the case with human error as especially aviation safety experts know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model