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Physician Michael Klaper puts it succinctly[1]:

“We have no more need for the milk of a cow than we do the milk of a dog or a giraffe.”

[1] https://www.doctorklaper.com/dairy-free


The same Physician Michael Klaper who thinks that switching to a plant-based diet cures Crohn's disease?



This is one trite, simplistic and fundamentally mendacious way of phrasing what is in reality a complex adaptive nutritional question that isn't so easily dismissed. People have been consuming animal dairy for many thousands of years. These foods are profoundly useful, and have been since around the dawn of civilization for good reasons.


People have been consuming soy milk for thousands of years too, and almond milk for hundreds of years.



I don't want to enter a battle of reference, but let's agree it's not so "clear":

> The oldest evidence of the production of soy milk is a Chinese mural carved into a stone tablet. It shows a kitchen scene, proving that soya milk and tofu were produced in China in the period 25-220 AD.

https://www.soya.be/history-of-soy-milk.php

> it first appeared in A.D. 82

https://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/soymilk1.php

Soy milk is a byproduct of tofu, which is not fundamentally more difficult to produce than cheese and others animal milks products. It can even be made without tofu: grind some seed and let them soak in water. I'm not an expert on ancient technologies but it doesn't seem more complicated than taming a squeezing the nipples of a wild animal.


I mean, your own reference says in the very first line, "The earliest record of soybean milk is on a stone slab of the Eastern Han dynasty unearthed in China, on which is engraved the situation of making soy milk in ancient kitchens."

Following the link to the Eastern Han Dynasty shows its timeline to be between 25–220 AD, which supports the saying of "thousands of years" by the skin of its teeth, so you saying their statement is bullshit is disproved by the rest of your own statement.



> On a several occasions (most recently today), Thunderbird has "lost" my mail messages that are in my inbox when I move them to a local folder. Effectively it corrupts the messages - they appear in the local folder as 1 KB messages with no subject or sender info. They are empty messages.

Apple's Mail app has had a virtually identical bug since Catalina; Michael Tsai's article on the issue currently has 636 comments:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...

After witnessing the bug myself, migrated to Thunderbird with Maildir enabled[1] for long-term storage; have yet to experience the issue despite a large database (>300,000 emails) and daily IMAP import to local folders.

[1] https://tinyapps.org/blog/202207100700_thunderbird_mbox_to_m...


There is too much "helpful" title modification of late. The original title itself fits within HN limits:

"A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago"

The site's guidelines are clear[1] but increasingly ignored by some moderators:

"...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


After several hours, the HN title has been modified again to match the original much more closely, from "Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"[1] to "Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250706185220/https://news.ycom...


I was nodding in modest agreement with @behnamoh's comment on self-aggrandizement, but your reply brought a huge smile to my face. And visiting his linked website dialed the mirth up to 11.



Yet it’s missing from the recommendation list.

I don’t think you’re going to get many people switching from mail.google.com to something in a terminal emulator straight away.


The recommendations list is described thus:

> These clients all compose plain text emails by default, with correct quoting and text wrapping settings, requiring no additional configuration to use correctly.

Thunderbird is not in the list because it requires configuration.

The recommended list includes several GUIs and web clients.


I don't really understand how people are checking their email without configuring an email client, but then I realized I don't care and once again I should just never interact with anything from sr.ht


By using the default configuration, or by using a web interface.

I have no idea what "sr.ht" is.


No username, password, IMAP/POP server?

sr.ht is the software forge this plain text email website is set up to promote.


> I think the actual fight is about iyo's product

Rugolo tweeted in part yesterday[1]:

"i'm looking forward to competing with you fairly on product; you just can't use our name."

and today[2]:

"we welcome their competition in the market with real products, they just need to do it under a different name."

[1] https://x.com/jasonRugolo/status/1937644215921741988

[2] https://x.com/jasonRugolo/status/1937936649356546233


> i firmly believe that profit is the theft of unpaid labor

If I sell a cake for $3 that cost me $2 in ingredients/electricity/etc. to make, how is my $1 profit the theft of unpaid labor?


labor is entitled to an equal share of the profit. if you're the only one who made the cake, your equal share of the profit is $1.


> data here is from 2023

It's from February 2025[1]:

> Latest Release: February 20, 2025

> Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates by Major

> Art History Unemployment Rate: 3.0%

> Computer Engineering Unemployment Rate: 7.5%

> Computer Science Unemployment Rate: 6.1%

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...


> It's from February 2025

Unless you keep reading...[1]

> Notes: Figures are for 2023.

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...


Thank you for the correction - must admit to having missed the fine print at the bottom - mea culpa!



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