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0 pointsstefan_2y ago0 comments

That's a nice idea, as if these nutrition facts are super specialized to your precise McDonalds location, and don't actually ya know come down to how much the kid in the back of the kitchen is using the salt shaker.

People don't actually believe these are anything more than averages with huge error bars right?

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asu_thomas2y ago· 2 in thread

HN is full of propagandized technologists who have yet to realize how few of the world's problems are technical, and how approximately all of them are political.

I'm sure there are better essays with similar value, but the one that comes to mind is Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology: https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Quest...

phpisthebest2y ago

I disagree, I think most people here understand the problems are political they just not understand that the problem was CREATED by the politics, and instead believe the solution to the problem is political.

They refuse to believe that government thus politics is the problem, not the solution

skidd02y ago

I have seen your comments elsewhere on HN. It's refreshing to see some like-minded opinions. Do you have any other online presence or some way I might contact you? My email is in my profile here, if you're open to that.

mlyle2y ago

Just because the numbers may be approximate, doesn't necessarily mean that you don't need to measure again somewhere where you're doing something different. It's far more defensible for regulators to require a measurement or new calculation than to accept "eh, it's about the same, I promise."

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