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yeeeloit··on Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
As someone who comes from an area with clean fresh water, that does not contain added fluoride, this is not a complex issue. It's simply not a question that comes up. People have good dental hygiene here.

To my mind, yes sure you can over complicate the entire debate, but all of that is irrelevant in the face of these basic points:

- Is there a chance that fluoride ingestion could be detrimental to human health? - Can tooth decay be prevented by diet and brush/floss with good quality toothpaste?

Presumed safety of chemicals (at the behest of organizations) to human/environment until proven otherwise is shocking to me.

They irony of all this is that if you want to buy good quality toothpaste you are forced to import it from overseas, due to the FDA limiting ingredients in toothpaste.

yeeeloit··on Apple’s new headset meets reality
Interesting take.

I kind of hope it's not a false leak, just to see the battery with cord, lmao.

yeeeloit··on Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug
Seems to be one of those topics... but anyway this study from 2009 found that creatine did in fact increased DHT.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/

To be clear, no one is arguing that Creatine causes hairloss, simply that it exacerbates hairloss in people with so called androgenetic alopecia.

I recall a study that was set to try and replicate these results, but I worry that it was impacted by COVID. If anyone else can find it, I'd be very interested to see it.

yeeeloit··on Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
> the phone will still have the private key and can still do the login

One of the main gripes people have is about whether or not the user actually has access to the key or not.

ie. Can I save my passkey somewhere that I control, can I login on another device, etc. etc. Or do I need google's sync/account to do that for me.

yeeeloit··on ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
Do you have a source for that bit about the woke "reinforced harmful stereotypes"?

Curious, as I've seen a few statements along the same lines, but nothing concrete yet. Very keen to know more.

yeeeloit··on Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11
What fork are you using?

repeat_penalty is not an option.

yeeeloit··on I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended
It's not necessarily about the item in question, that's just one of several red flags, and missing pieces of information.

In any sort of 'case' like this, it's very important to have all the facts, and refrain from jumping to conclusions.

yeeeloit··on I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended
Thank you... had to scroll a little too far to find this type of comment.

People are very quick to jump on the outrage bandwagon.

yeeeloit··on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
> And what do you propose we do when ChatGPT (or something like it) can create better content than most humans?

I tend to agree... I've been growing more and more tired with the content in familiar places. eg. reddit. (As an aside I think a lot of it is driven by advertising/marketing, but not all of it...)

Anyway, your comment reminded me of the recent footage of baggage handlers at an airport, and how that dovetails nicely with the recent move by tesla to build a humanoid robot.

Looking for a ray of light in the approaching storm: Maybe these AI can be used to filter the content more effectively for us.

yeeeloit··on Lastpass Security Incident
No idea what they are talking about, or why they feel the need to withhold information, but a quick search turned up this interesting comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/lkfg5p/what_happ...

yeeeloit··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
I've not heard of GreenPan before, so I took a look at their website [1]

There is not a whole lot of information available on their site.

From the Thermolon™ page[2]:

> ...contains zero harmful chemicals. > PFAS, Lead, Cadmium, etc., are not put into it.

> Thermolon is based on a derivative of sand that is transformed into a sprayable solution through a sol-gel process. Zero harmful PFAS chemicals are involved in that process.

Great, but what chemicals are used in their products? What do they ACTUALLY put in the coating?

Why trust a company like this? If you're worried, then just learn to cook and use cast-iron, copper, stainless steel.

1. https://greenpan.com.au/ 2. https://greenpan.com.au/pages/thermolon

yeeeloit··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
Are literally talking about steaming food?
yeeeloit··on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
This is a plugin for FF, right?

Is it this one?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

yeeeloit··on Bonsai Browser is now open source
I had to look it up, but I guess this is what you are referring to:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-...

yeeeloit··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
What are you talking about exactly? Is this an extension for FF?
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