[HN Gopher] Things I Learnt in 2021
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       Things I Learnt in 2021
        
       Author : valzevul
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2021-12-31 17:42 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | Havoc wrote:
       | Impressed by the variety
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       | The Manga one in particular makes perfect sense...in hindsight
        
       | mvind wrote:
       | After going through 1000's of articles this is what remained?
        
         | dang wrote:
         | " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, especially of other
         | people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something._"
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | valzevul wrote:
         | Nope, the result was 52 newsletters. I picked one thing out of
         | each of them, and ignored all articles, so it's less than 10%
         | :)
        
       | karmakaze wrote:
       | The title might lead you to expect deep discoveries, but it's
       | generally more entertaining than applicable or worldview
       | changing.
        
       | hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
       | The "Subway 'Tuna Sandwich'" one annoys me, because it's false.
       | But more importantly, why would anyone consider some rando
       | lawsuit (you can sue anyone for anything in the US with all kinds
       | of bullshit statements) as fact? The "their bread is not bread"
       | thing is also annoying. Fine, their bread has more sugar in it
       | than Ireland allows for their staple foods, but the Internet just
       | loves a good BS story.
       | 
       | https://www.subway.com/en-us/tunafacts
        
         | valzevul wrote:
         | Personally I find some of these lawsuits fascinating enough to
         | share (especially as someone who never lived in the States).
         | 
         | And the story about tuna sandwich is far from over [1], so
         | there is nothing wrong with a good BS story.
         | 
         | [1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/new-
         | lawsuit...
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | I'm waiting for the first robot AI chessboxing championship.
        
         | Enginerrrd wrote:
         | I'd watch that.
        
       | cableshaft wrote:
       | Peanuts are not nuts, but they are often processed using the same
       | factory lines as tree nuts, and thus there's a risk of cross-
       | contamination. So if you are allergic to peanuts (or vice versa),
       | it's usually better to just avoid both peanuts and tree nuts.
       | 
       | Like I just tell people I'm "allergic to nuts" even though it's
       | one specific tree nut I have an allergy to, and not the rest.
       | 
       | I do let myself eat Wonderful Pistachios (and only that brand),
       | specifically because they're supposed to be processed separately
       | from other nuts and tree nuts, at least according to some article
       | I found online a while back.
        
       | aksss wrote:
       | Most fascinating and new (to me) thing in the list:
       | 
       | "Starved men, but not women, significantly oriented toward the
       | ambient/modulated magnetic north or east, directions which had
       | been previously food-associated, without any other helpful cues,
       | including sight and sound. The orientation was reproduced under
       | blue light but was abolished under a blindfold or a longer
       | wavelength light (> 500 nm), indicating that blue light is
       | necessary for magnetic orientation."
       | 
       | So many questions..
        
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