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ieeamo··on Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms
There are specific regulations that exist and are enforced in Germany (2009/48/EC) and the US (CPSC), that also exist in China (e.g. GB 6675) but enforcement is relatively weak, especially for cheap toys from small manufacturers that end up in the hands of children.
ieeamo··on NHS 'soup and shake' diet puts almost 1/3 of type 2 diabetes cases in remission
Interesting. I couldn't find it; Is there a resource anywhere which could help show how to replicate the diet / meals?
ieeamo··on It seems that ChatGPT can reference Reddit data ~30 seconds after it's posted
In this case it seems the search engine had indexed the thread/question, which was posted previously (making sense it was already ranking in search results), and ChatGPT followed that link and a found the answer.
ieeamo··on Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half
After 5 years, (i) Placebo: 22% mortality, (ii) Daily Pill: 12% mortality.

45% reduction in 5-year mortality. Quite close to “cutting by half”

ieeamo··on Everywhere basic income has been tried, in one map
Just imagine humanity had become so successful, that we managed to give everyone sufficient resources to live a life of their choosing.

How would it go?

ieeamo··on Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Why the downvote? Amazon has consistently been flagged for excessive use of Dark patterns, e.g. [1].

[1] https://www.uxukawards.com/best-dark-ux/

ieeamo··on Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Amazon is one of the scammy shopping sites this articles discusses - it’s listed in the dataset.

I’d wager that many of the dark patterns persist because Amazon use them, making their justification inside smaller companies easier.

ieeamo··on Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?
aldaily.com. The authority on essays and opinions of note.
ieeamo··on How a Diablo expansion led to behind-the-scenes trouble
Masters of Doom by David Kushner (despite him being a journo) is pretty good.