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Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by chitowneats »

kbenson wrote: post #407
chitowneats wrote: post #404

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This supposition that only book-length text blocks deserve appropriate spacing is fascinating to me. Do you write code this way?

lol, that's one of the easier things to check on the internet, actually, given who you're asking. ;)

My question was rhetorical ;)

Redis is an excellent codebase and an extremely useful piece of software. I am a very grateful user.

I'm just mystified by the idea that functions, modules, and paragraphs are not only useful, but expected, while newlines in HN comments are not.

The best answer I can come up with is that internet etiquette and formatting is constantly evolving. If that's the case, I don't see the issue with suggesting a formatting that might be more effective or accessible.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by antirez »

chitowneats wrote: post #404
antirez wrote: post #372

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Most books paragraphs are larger than an HN comment without spacing. Since the ability to read books is crucial, it is better to exercise the skill of reading text without spacing than asking commenters to add them.

This supposition that only book-length text blocks deserve appropriate spacing is fascinating to me. Do you write code this way?

What I mean is that book length content has paragraphs longer than single not spaced comments. Thus it is very odd that readers have issues with one but not with the other. Moreover making it too simple to parse comments and social network posts, creates users that struggle to read more complex content: as a society we don't want that.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by antirez »

Jatidude wrote: post #388
antirez wrote: post #373

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Following your reasoning we should all do efforts to translate all the documentation of all the software available in many languages, a major amount of work, instead of asking developers to learn English. And learning English is a major undertake compared to read comments without spacing.

I believe that improving accessibility of most knowledge through localization is a good thing.

How much a better thing it is that we Europeans learned English instead? Now most of us are bilingual.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by kbenson »

chitowneats wrote: post #411
kbenson wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol, that's one of the easier things to check on the internet, actually, given who you're asking. ;)

My question was rhetorical ;) Redis is an excellent codebase and an extremely useful piece of software. I am a very grateful user. I'm just mystified by the idea that functions, modules, and paragraphs are not only useful, but expected, while newlines in HN comments are not. The best answer I can come up with is that internet etiquette and formatting is constantly evolving. If that's the case, I don't see the issue w…

> I don't see the issue with suggesting a formatting that might be more effective or accessible.

Neither do I, as I'm up-thread with the same point. I just thought it was sort of funny. :)

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by zasdffaa »

antirez wrote: post #372
kbenson wrote: post #361

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Books have paragraphs, which are newlines and indentations, specifically to help people read in the face of what would otherwise be a wall of text. Being able to read large chunks of text with minimal or no formatting is useful, but so is knowing how to format the text you produce so it's easier for people to consume. We should all strive to be capable of both.

Most books paragraphs are larger than an HN comment without spacing. Since the ability to read books is crucial, it is better to exercise the skill of reading text without spacing than asking commenters to add them.

Paper & ink have a higher contrast than screen.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by chitowneats »

antirez wrote: post #412
chitowneats wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This supposition that only book-length text blocks deserve appropriate spacing is fascinating to me. Do you write code this way?

What I mean is that book length content has paragraphs longer than single not spaced comments. Thus it is very odd that readers have issues with one but not with the other. Moreover making it too simple to parse comments and social network posts, creates users that struggle to read more complex content: as a society we don't want that.

Do we ever purposely complicate UIs with the goal of increasing literacy? If not, why should we do that here?

Gatekeeping perhaps? Surely that's not the argument that you're making.

Literacy needs to be handled in primary and secondary school.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by shaburn »

eru wrote: post #21
shaburn wrote: post #17

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Extremely probable as well as extremely dangerous outcome. Analogous to the risk of ruin in finance, not simply an undesirable out probability. Should we not believe the research above to contain 1/3 insects tested carried pathogenic parasites? Does this not strike you as extreme. Potentially an order or orders of magnitude more dangerous?

Eating insects is about as dangerous as it was ten years ago or twenty years ago. If more people are eating insects than before that might increase risks. I don't really have any opinion on this, nor any horse in the race. But, what does any of this have to do with exponentials? > [...] the probability of catastrophic outcomes is exponential [...] Exponential in what input variable?

The act in isolation. Yes. But When a society eating societies of bugs both increase you get exponential increases in probability of transmission of terminal diseases. This is literally High School biology in the US.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

somenameforme wrote: post #401
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #197

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I checked out their site, their news section has this link at the moment: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-world-econom... > Own nothing, be happy. You may have heard the phrase. It started life as a screenshot, culled from the internet by an anonymous antisemitic account on the image board 4chan. “Own nothing, be happy – The Jew World Order 2030,″ said the post, which went viral among extremists. Well…

The issue which really started the discussion on this was not the article, which I suspect relatively few read, but the Tweet/Video that the World Economic Forum published. You can find an archive of it here: https://archive.org/details/world-economic-forum-presents-th... . It was universally poorly received, which led to them removing the video/Tweet, and it's now being censored on platforms like YouTube. Their pred…

Your link seems broken, but by googling I think I found the video on youtube.

Is this the same one that says "1 Billion people will be displaced by climate change"?

Because, that seems like a prediction of what might happen in the future, rather than a wishlist item of Bill Gates and the rest of the Pentaverat.

The video seems to be a very brief summary of this process:

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GFC_Annual_Report_2019_202...

I've already found their plans for another dystopia linked from there, they are so brazen:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/backcasting-from-a-fu...

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by zasdffaa »

antirez wrote: post #412
chitowneats wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This supposition that only book-length text blocks deserve appropriate spacing is fascinating to me. Do you write code this way?

What I mean is that book length content has paragraphs longer than single not spaced comments. Thus it is very odd that readers have issues with one but not with the other. Moreover making it too simple to parse comments and social network posts, creates users that struggle to read more complex content: as a society we don't want that.

> making it too simple to parse comments and social network posts, creates users that struggle to read more complex content

That's a very strange argument - would you apply it to coding too? Perhaps remove comments so people are forced to interpret the code alone.

Re: Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

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Post by jessaustin »

devX3 wrote: post #88
throwaway09223 wrote: post #70

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"I’ll pick the salad over the steak any day, though." In terms of food safety and risk of pathogens, salad is far, far more dangerous than steak.

I mean it's raw but still in a steak you probably have way more substances and end of foodchain accumulations.

Cattle are not apex predators.
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