Therefore what to do? I have seen these Hacker News vitamin D ads appear every few months for the past 15 years, or so. I always seem to have a vitamin D deficiency, so it reminds me to take supplements. I take them for a few months, hoping to see a change, but I don't feel any benefit. Then, I forget to take the supplements until the next time I see an ad. How to know if they're actually doing something useful?
Remember when HN had an entire year of articles about how we should all be on microdoses of various hallucinogenic and psychoactive substances for "peak performance"?
Good times.
HN is as bad at medicine as it is at everything else.
No, I was here just for the year in which they ended COVID with vitamin D. With the weekly (n=5) articles garnered with blog posts from randos swearing by it...
I accidently worked for a shady government black-ops contractor once, and they somehow would routinely get dubious references to their 'data analysis' in NYT and Washington Post articles. Their executives knew a lot of executives. It was around that time that I started to really scrutinize 'the news'.
In the 90s, I remember explaining to my college econ professor that the cost of developing software would decrease to zero within 30 years. He kind of got it but then kept encouraging kids to study computer science for the money.
I saw the writing on the wall the first day in the office. Microsoft was already dumping loads of R&D money into software development automation. They were very motivated. Everyone hated software developers because we made too much money relative to people with important positions. And, we were too weird. To them, we were 'blue collar'. I figured with exponential progress it wouldn't take long. Pretty much my strategy after college was bank and invest and get out as early as possible then go hack on my own projects until my end of days.
How would you feel if some weird random strangers set up a free cookie hut outside the elementary school? Any kid can get as much free candy and cookies as they want as long as they go inside and don’t tell any adults.
I became entralled and hypnotised by 90s liberalism. Convinced that their ‘change’ would actually happen, I backed their candidates and media for 30 years waiting for a solution to even the lowest hanging fruit. Instead of getting any solution at all, I watched them rope in more rubes for ‘bigger and better issues’. The self-righteous, like the younger me, are so easily redirected.
Or explode in your ear
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