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Maybe, while I can relate to this feeling when it comes to some sweeteners commonly used in baked goods, I genuinely habe a hard tile distinguishing between sugar and sweetener containing beverages at this lokng.

For root beer, I can't tell the difference. For colas, the difference is staggering to me.

Where does the confidence that it is due to sweeteners come from? This isn‘t about your comment in particular, more of a general observation.

Many people instinctively attribute this rise in colon cancer to diet products, almost pretending as if it is the only thing that has meaningfully changed over the past 40 years or so. Others like to point to changing consumption habits in people drinking more sugary beverages.

It is almost as if everyone is projecting their personal believes into this. But the truth seems frustratingly simple: we really just do not know yet


> Where does the confidence that it is due to sweeteners come from?

Probably from your inability to read what I actually wrote. The word "suspicion" does not connote confidence.


> And Hetzner gives you almost all of that economic upside while taking away much of the physical hassle! Why are they not kings of the hosting world, rather than turning over a modest €367M (2021).

Hetzner is an oldschool German company, it is not surprising to see them act this way. They are very profitable (165M Euro in 2024) and have very little debt. They also seem to be mostly bootstrapped and are not VC funded

https://www.northdata.com/Hetzner%20Online%20GmbH,%20Gunzenh...


Customization often turns out to be a long term liability. Funnily enough, my employer learned this 20 years ago with our ERP and we are still paying the price.

> People use Kubernetes for way too small things, and it sounds like you don't have the scale for actually running Kubernetes.

This is a problem I've run into enterprise deployments. K8s is often the lowest common denominator semi small platform engineering teams arrive on. At my current employer, a platform managed K8s namespace is the only thing we got in terms of PaaS offering, so it is what we use. Is it overpowered? Yes. Is it overly complex for our usecase? Definitely. Could we basically get by hosting our services on a few cheap mini computers with no performance penalty? Also yes.


I can 100% imagine prompts that would even feel natural that would never hint at any medical background of the data being processed. Could be as simple as using customer instead of patient.


> 1. They could export the surplus. No?

Yes, and that is in fact done. However, there it is still a bad deal with negative electricity prices.

> Isn't cheaper electeicity a good thing for the manufacuring industry?

It technically is, but its not as simple as that. Industrial manufacturing is a relatively steady load, which means the consumption is constant. The lowest prices do not matter all that much, the average price does. And that average price is relatively high here, even for industrial consumers.


But isn‘t colon cancer in young people primarily an example of rates actually increasing, because young people specifically often get easily dismissed based on their age.


It absolutely isn‘t


Look up "performative male starter pack".


Yes, i know the memes. But these are the reasons why people around me go back to wired:

- lost many airpods - wired tends to be cheaper than wireless equivalents

It can be very simple


Just because there are defensible reasons around a fashion trend doesn't mean it's not a fashion trend.


> make video calls reliable. As in, you provide a guarantee and pay the customer if the call didn't work.

Microsoft would be ruined, haha. Over the past week, I had about a 30% chance of the call not working and a a 80% chance of the screenshare not working


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