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I think it does work. I think most people who don't think it works actually never try.

Case in point: this headline. Pointed out in the top voted comment as being misleading. I read the article before looking at the comments and it left me with a good impression of Bill Gates, but if I had just skipped straight to the comments I'd have immediately learned the headline was misleading.

The real problems are the huge volume of people who don't engage with "misinformation" as they see it, because they prefer authoritarian control. They think it's easier and more efficient, and don't really consider the possibility of the authorities making mistakes. It's sad to see that Gates is one of these.

Take this exchange:

The irony is that it’s digital social media that allows this kind of titillating, oversimplistic explanation of, “OK, there’s just an evil person, and that explains all of this.”

That is indeed deeply ironic, because "there's just an evil person and that explains all of this" pretty sums up everyone who complains about misinformation on the internet. There's just, for inexplicable reasons, people who spread lies and misinformation claiming scientists and authorities aren't trustworthy, and they just need to be banned from everything to fix it. No deeper analysis of what they're saying is needed. They're just opaquely evil. The lack of understanding is identical on both sides.

There are plenty of more credible explanations available, one of the most obvious being that messages get corrupted in transit. People hear things third or fourth hand and the message got garbled along the way. Then instead of targets of these theories standing up and saying, no, these claims are wrong, let's go through them, they just dismiss it all with an eyeroll and demand for surveillance and speech control. In other cases, sometimes those people spreading "misinformation" may actually be straw men, and the real people expressing concern have rather more nuanced views, but it's easier to pick one crazy person and pretend everyone is like that than engage with the actual underlying concerns the larger population has.

Interviews like this actually make the problem worse, because a large component of these 'conspiracy theories' is that people like Gates really really like tracking and control. Tech=tracking is after all, a meme pushed very heavily by journalists. So when he rails against encrypted messengers because he believes tech firms should track and control people's speech, he's throwing fuel on the fire by supporting their point, apparently without realising it.
But if the window is up, nobody can listen to my music. Which is necessary for me to self-medicate my ADD ... :(
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Difference is big corps sometimes get reorganized or their cash cow falls on hard times and they need to optimise or perish. They don't succeed often but the incentives are usually profit driven - politics are a luxury that big corps can afford to absorb because they are usually entrenched in some position and can afford to accumulate inefficiency.

Government on the other hand is always political as their output isn't valued in market terms but in political points.

So yeah - from my experience - big corps (especially those working with government) can be political, bureaucratic, etc. But it's standard operating procedure in government work.
I suspect that Facebook is powerful enough to choose election winners whose policies will favour them. Much moreso, and with much less visibility, than regular media companies.
Exactly what I had in mind.

The article does not mention cow milk's health implications, and only focuses on debunking Oatly's alleged health benefits. This creates the same "Obscure the Truth" effect the article opens with, giving the impression that there's nothing wrong with cow milk.

If both options are equally unhealthy (which is at the minimum the biased impression the article gives by not discussing cow milk), at the minimum the moral one should be chosen.
This project shows a lot of promise.

> TRYING TO BUILD THE ULTIMATE RASPBERRY PI COMPUTER (ZERO TERMINAL V3)

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It's mostly owned by a Belgian company, Verlinvest (40%). Which is a venture capital company run by the families behind Inbev (the beer company). After that it's 30% owned by a Chinese company. At least according to Wikipedia. On their own website they list some more owners but without any percentages.
Except, Facebook is nothing like the world.

I'm legitimately concerned Americans don't realize how incredibly perfect Facebook is for hijacking the democratic process. It's actually frightening to watch how it's being used.

Yes it's affecting all countries and democracies but looking at where America was pre 2016 to now, it's really quite tragic.
This is ridiculous. Of course free speech exists as a right in the the EU. (I don't know what you want to express with the qualifier "practical". Rights are not practical, they are legal.)

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the freedom of expression.
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I don't know about Ruby, but it's nothing like Gopath or node_modules, nor Yarn PnP for what it's worth. Virtualenv still need to be created per project and must be "activated".

The fact that they're a somewhat hidden stateful context is still complicated and confusing.

The fact is when I retrieve a Python project, I still have no idea what command I should run to install the dependencies and setup everything. With Go modules it's just `go get`, and with JS projects it's just `npm install` or `yarn install`
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Perhaps even including from the point of view of people who notice that what the fact checkers declare to be true depends on which partisan side it supports. For example, it's amazing how fast the official unemployment figure switched from being the One True Measure of unemployment and any claim that differed from it a lie when Trump was running against a Democrat incumbent, to suddenly not being so once Trump was the incumbent. There also seems to be a noticable bias in the overall rating given on a lot of sites, with conservative claims shifted a step or two towards "false" compared to liberal or left-wing claims with an equivalent level of actual accuracy as described in the text.

The thing is, on some level I think a lot of the cheerleaders of fact checking as a weapon against right-wing information must know this and want it. There's been quite a bit of outrage over organisations fact-checking left-wing claims as false, especially when it's a fact checker affiliated with a decidedly non-left wing and non-Democrat supporting site that does it, including claims that it's destroying democracy, dubious arguments about false equivalence, and using the possibility of Facebook penalties to imply it's suppressing left-wing speech.

(There was also a really revealing incident where, after a state Democrat party got caught really blatently violating Facebook's rules against voter suppression ads in a tight election, nearly all publications just didn't cover it despite thorougly covering the announcement of those rules. I don't think they got penalized beyond having the offending ads pulled, so the victim narrative would probably have been hard to pull off.)
Every time I read about products like this I can't help but think back to Michael Pollen's simple phrase on the cover of The NY Times Magazine:

Eat Food. Mostly Plants. Not Too Much.

The relevant paragraph:

"Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat."

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...
The article mentioned Merchants of Doubt. I recommend following it up with Industrial Strength Denial https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Strength-Denial-Corporatio..., which documents similar practices supporting industries like leaded gas, radium (promoted for health including injecting it and using it in suppositories), and slavery.

As an alternative to Oatly, I bought a soy milk making machine (used from Craig's List for $15). Like a rice cooker, it's not necessary but it does the job easily. It can work with rice, oats, cashews, etc. I make new soy milk every few days. Ingredients: soy beans and water.

The article doesn't mention the packaging, another similarity with Coke, but food packaging creates a lot of waste. Buying soy beans in bulk in reusable bags reduces a lot of that pollution.

Another great alternative to Oatly is water -- for hundreds of thousands of years the only beverage humans drank after weaning.
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I'm not the OP but do you understand that the American companies also operate in other countries right?

WhatsApp, IG, FB, YouTube is used globally and after Snowden revelations I'm pretty sure they can be used to look out for your interested as a US citizen, not that this is aligned with my interests as a non American citizen.
> anyone who's tried a latte with oat milk can attest it is by far the best tasting, most milk-like alternative

That's quite a bold & generalising statement. Personally I think cashew nut milk is the most milk-like alternative in terms of flavour and mouthfeel.
And lots of us do. I see Oatly more of a mainstream brand than a vegan brand tbh
I have similar feelings. The organic soymilk I buy has two ingredients: water and sugar. Reading the ingredient list on oat milks always makes me a bit uneasy in comparison.
I do sometimes buy oat milk though since it does go better with tea.
I still have a zaurus 860C in the box never used, and I can’t find anything to do with it.

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Looks useless to me; dropping R to below (but not much below l) 1 means a super-slow decline; you might need years with such a regime to eliminate the virus. And it doesn’t actually provide herd immunity, just a slow die-off.

Which leaves most of the population vulnerable, and re-introduction a possibility.

You have to get R significantly below 1 and the whole ecosystem (for the US: the whole world) to do it.

Or, you need herd immunity compatible with the R that you can maintain indefinitely - which la likely >2 so immunity needs to be >60%.

Any other way leaves you with the possibility of reintroduction as far as I understand.
Or almond milk, which actually tastes good compared to soy milk and oatly.

If you look at men who are vegan, they are almost always weak and feminine. Maybe that's just the kind of individuals that get drawn into a vegan diet, but I think there might be something else in play.
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I don't drink dairy due to intolerance and I find it disgusting possibly for the same reason. I also don't like any milk substitute so I'm out of any target demographic anyway.
However, as far as I know according to traditional Chinese medicine milk is considered a big no no.
Not sure why this post is getting scathing criticism, but this would be a nice project to fork for a metasearch engine.
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> The article doesn't mention the packaging

Every time I go to the grocery store I wonder why we haven't come up with standardized food boxes that you can just refill. Probably has to do with hygiene, but god I hate buying so much packaging...
It's more annoying because when you type a non-noun there is a higher chance that it gets mistakenly autocorrected to something capitalised (as every noun in German is capitalised versus only proper nouns in most other languages). I hate this flaw of iOS as well.
> What use is oversight when the agency can destroy all the evidence?

What use is {x} when someone can {attempt to avoid x}?

Because we live in the real world, and no authority is omniscient and absolute.
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Yes, I only speak one language fluently but I'll still arbitrarily code switch sometimes.

Human language is actually just one vast system, it isn't best understood as a bunch of nicely compartmentalized independent languages. So in a way it would actually be more wrong for an AI model to insist that "Beacoup money" isn't a reasonable thing for the user to want to write, just because those two vocabulary words don't co-exist in a single defined language. The user may or may not know that, but they certainly don't care.
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a) The context is specifically in relation to communicability

b) Further, it was about New York City!

Extremely few sports are taking place in NYC, and even if we discount that, from the overarching context those sports having a tiny, tiny fraction of the communicability potential.
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What actual proven health implications does cows milk have?
The Unit is an old TV-series, but they got this quote exactly right:

>Best way to get yourself out of a jam: confess to something illegal, immoral, or embarrassing.

Once you do that, basically nobody prods further.
Do you rely on traditional Chinese medicine? Why would you do that?
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I was looking for a second opinion, and found the comment by Glenn in that article was a good counterpoint. I won't repeat it here, but another point that comes to mind is that one may use a very small amount of milk-substitute in your hot drink, compared to drinking a much larger amount of coke. So it's not perfectly comparable, even if they were equally bad.
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About making soymilk:
I do like the idea of making the soymilk I consume myself. I have not yet though found a way to utilize the okara (soy pulp) that is produced in the process. Do you have any tips what to do with it?
The worst thing for me is that I frequently miss the space character and type a period instead, and Gboard can't understand that it's a mistake AND won't autocorrect and suggest words for what I'm typing after that period.
Any recommendations for a different good-tasting, ‘healthy’ milk alternative, then? Porridge or cereal with water is inedible...
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Rust's .len() on string does not give you the length in characters, it gives you the length in bytes. If you want the length in unicode codepoints, you need to do .chars().count(), but given things like combining characters, that might not be quite what you want either.
Most people have some level of lactose malabsorption.

Also cows milk has pretty grave health implications for the cows
Ah, yes, the well known "soy milk turns the frogs gay" analysis, pioneered by that universally respected paragon of factual accuracy, Alex Jones.
So much effort wasted based on trying to derive fundamental meaning from coincident attributes of our brains' neurological implementation of abstract concepts.

"The transition is wherever your 'pile' classifier neuron fires."
Still doesn't seem as "bad" nutritionally as regular milk. Oat milk is quite popular here in Finland, it's my understanding people choose it because of the environmental, moral and taste aspects, which the article doesn't mention at all.
How do you activate the top system menu bar, to navigate through it via keyboard only?

I always thought Mac designers were retarded for not making this critical feature obvious.

Another peeve is the lack of dedicated keyboard keys. Like the printscreen key. On Mac you have to press something like Command-shift-4.

Often times I notice, the Mac designers try to simplify things for the sake of design, but they end up making the damn thing harder to use.
Ok, but it's not "swedish" anymore at least. Even if the chinese ownership is 30%, it's still the state of china that owns a large part of it which is enough for me to never buy that product again.

Also, they have sponsored a festival outside Gothenburg in Sweden several times where they banned regular milk in the area, citing that it's bad for you.
I'm open to constructive criticism and comments.
What would you change to improve it? What made it bad?
It seems like the team wanted it torpedoed as well. Every higher up was aware but tied in bureaucracy. The team basically washed their hands and tried to deliver in order to pass the buck. Messing with things codified in federal law seems like a very poor career choice.
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Careful. Oatly's ingredient listing is potentially deceptive. The ingredients are listed as:

> Oat base (water, oats 10%), rapeseed oil, ...

That is, the oats make up 10% of the oat base, which is the most prominent ingredient, not of the entire product.

The other ingredients which I've elided are things like stabilizers, preservatives, and so on, so they likely don't account for more than 1% of the total product.

Now let's assume the worst case: that Oatly is 50% "oat base", and 49% canola oil, and 1% additives. This would be consistent with their ingredient labeling.

Then, Oatly would actually only contain 5% of oats.
Great story. thanks for sharing!
Are you concerned about weight loss? Why not just switch to espresso?
I think "the new coke" just refers to the misleading marketing, no? But you're right of course.
What people who weren't there don't understand is this was the 80's, long before any alternatives were even a vague thought, before the web existed, when programmers had only a few choices and none of them were something ordinary people could use (other than Basic which had no real UI). I used Hypercard to design UI (back before UI was a specialist thing) and it was magical. It's easy to criticize it today but that's like complaining about how terrible computers were in the 1940's. It's not just the language, it's the whole package that was amazing for its time. Ever use a website builder today? Most of them suck terribly for anything complex, yet follow almost the same paradigm as Hypercard did 3 decades ago when there was Hypercard and basically nothing else to base its concepts on.
Mm I find oat milk has a really weird aftertaste that I don't find pleasant.
What are you talking about? I am talking about the vegan diet in general. There is a lot of stuff you're excluding in that, not only milk.

There is evidence that doing "manly stuff" for men, like hunting, increases testosterone production. Also a lot of food like red meat, eggs etc increases testosterone production. Something vegans don't eat.
If and only if there is an effective vaccine within a year or two.

Sweden didn’t make this bet. Finland, Norway, and New Zealand did.

Sustained lockdown and lack of travel will be very costly if it has to be maintained for two years; and the fatigue from maintaining it will undo all of the supposed success.

This is not decidable at this point in time, and likely not within the next 5 years.
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Oat Milk, even the very best, is syrupy and thick. I think most people looking for a latte without dairy are better off seeing the Milk Alternative’s flavors as their own thing rather than trying to replicate a dairy latte. There are a lot of upsides to be found if you stop chasing an impossible goal.

Notably, I found that a Soy London Fog is actually single-handedly a better drink than a milk London Fog...but it is different and if you are chasing a milk product you won’t find it.
The sugar content in the “Barista” edition is exactly the same as their ordinary version. Total calorie content is 59kcal/100mL versus the regular version which is 46kcal/100mL.

The difference is they add dipotassium phosphate to prevent separating when the milk hits the hot coffee.

By talking about “Low enough to stay in Ketosis” you are practicing the techniques discussed in TFA perfectly. Almost makes it sound like this special edition is lower in sugar, when it’s in fact the same sugar and higher calorie.
I use Loop Habit Tracker. It's very simple, not very customizable. But it allows you you see your progress and tick your progress easily.
Errors in the article.

Oatley is no longer Swedish, it's owned by China Resources Verlinvest Health Investment Ltd, which is a partnership between an Belgian investor (Verlinvest) and the government of China (China Resources).

Due to history Oatly do have considerable market in Sweden, but swedish social media are starting to question the company due to it's ties with China and the Uyghur situation.
A tangent on Canola and rapeseed oil:

I have recently watched a Chinese Cooking
Demystified video (I believe it was [1]) about the Chinese rapeseed oil and its
comparison in taste and erucic acid contents to Canola oil, which is its only
available variant in Western countries.

The video stated a thesis echoed on Wikipedia's page on Erucic acid [2]:

> Studies done on laboratory animals in the early 1970s show that
erucic acid appears to have toxic effects on the heart at high enough
doses. However, more recent research has cast doubt on the relevance of
rat studies to the human health of erucic acid. Rats are unusual in
their inability to process erucic acid, and the symptoms in rats caused
by a diet with high levels of erucic acid has not been observed in
pigs, primates, or any other animals.

From what I understand, all the references in the Oatly article focus on Canola
oil, which is supposed to be low on erucic acid. However, the few (~3)
research sources in the Oatly article that I clicked on all do rat/mouse studies.
Isn't that kind of strange, considering the erucic acid rat research controversy?

The Wikipedia page on Canola oil [3] does not mention the health risks aside
from the erucic acid controversy. Still, since Canola oil is such an important product,
I can imagine any negative studies or claims could be contested. (Disclaimer: I
have not checked the edit history of that page myself.)

To sum up, I currently have no idea if Canola oil or rapeseed oils in general are
risky, healthy in reasonable doses, or something else completely. If anyone with
any expertise comes around, please educate me.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDP9t65PVsY

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola_oil
Except one has an industrial polyunsaturated fat, the other actually suitable for a mammal saturated fat. That's a huge difference.
> I have never seen a mixed mouse and keyboard user do things faster or more efficiently than a pure keyboard user

You‘ve clearly never watched anyone use any kind of CAD or graphics application in that case!
I believe they tried to keep the C# version independently from the framework version, so people can use the new C# version on a old .net framework.

But things seem impossible for some new features, for example async steam just need new feature from core CLR.

So after .C#8, they decide only to support it on .NET core