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regnull commented on Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition bbc.com/news/articles/ce8... · Posted by u/mhga

Chris2048 · 12 days ago

It provides context. The post was a bare claim without context or evidence, But a poster without any history.

I'd say if you post an accusative claim on a controversial topic as your first post with a new account, it should probably include far more information.

regnull · 12 days ago

I agree that the context is important. However, there is still a problem here:

- The user name already shows in green, which means a new account. Thus, your comment does not give any additional context. - If your goal is to provide context, I'm sure you do not fail to provide it when an account with a long history and a tons of karma makes a comment that goes contrary to what you want to believe, right?

regnull commented on Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition bbc.com/news/articles/ce8... · Posted by u/mhga

Chris2048 · 12 days ago

user: Fred27m

created: 6 minutes ago

karma: 0

regnull · 12 days ago

What does it have to do with the substance of the comment?

regnull commented on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated] cnn.com/2025/08/12/busine... · Posted by u/mastry

dtagames · 18 days ago

Kodak itself was the first to demonstrate a digital camera in 1975.[0] There is no one else to blame for any decisions.

[0] https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/kodak-engineer-ha...

regnull · 17 days ago

I always thought that this story is probably more nuanced, and indeed it is:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kodak-digital-camera-inven...

In particular:

"While this may have been a motivating factor to some at Kodak, such concerns did not stop Kodak — or even Sasson — from further developing digital cameras and making several technical developments that led to Kodak's first publicly available digital camera in 1991, the Digital Camera System."

regnull commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez

regnull · 19 days ago

I was also frustrated with the current app offerings, so I wrote my own. Feel free to try: https://checkoff.ai

regnull commented on The Dollar Is Dead mathmeetsmoney.substack.c... · Posted by u/nhp_fermi

mattwilsonn888 · a month ago

Why is 90% for each step such an insurmountable probability?

Maybe it's completely unreasonable for you to assume the causation for each step isn't on the order of 99%. Your argument is too abstract to be a relevant rebuttal.

regnull · a month ago

It’s a generic argument that can be applied to a whole class of claims. I see smart people falling into this trap all the time. Someone is making a claim by presenting a series of steps that seem quite reasonable. You then are left in a position where you can either: a) accept the overall conclusion, or b) attack the individual reasoning steps. All I’m doing is pointing out a possibility that your reasoning steps can be entirely plausible while your conclusion is completely wrong.

regnull commented on The Dollar Is Dead mathmeetsmoney.substack.c... · Posted by u/nhp_fermi

regnull · a month ago

I think this argument suffers from the same problem as many arguments of similar kind. It goes like this: if A then B. If B then C. If C then D. It all makes sense. Every single one of these steps makes sense. Except, if you have a chain with five steps and every one of them has a 90% likelihood, the whole chain has only 60% likelihood. And it’s probably less the 90% for each step, in reality. So, you can come up with an entirely plausible reasoning chain, where each step is highly likely to come true, and yet be completely wrong with your overall conclusion.

regnull commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis

regnull · a month ago

Anecdotal evidence: I found that it's super easy to eat way more than you should by just having some food laying around. And I don't mean just Cheetos - "healthy" food will set you back rather quickly as well. The amount of exercise doesn't matter that much - with the calorie density of common snacks, you will out-eat your exercise really fast. I don't think I'm that bad in that sense, but until I started keeping a track of what I eat and the count the calories, nothing worked. Yes it's a hassle, but I vibe-coded an app that does image analysis and tracks your calories. Shameless plug: HeartLens on app store, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heartlens-your-health-tracker/...

regnull commented on Checklists are hard, but still a good thing utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw

regnull · a month ago

I've been fascinated for checklists for a long time, and I've been thinking about creating this "checklists on steroids" app, where checklists can be shared, created from templates, executed (and information about each executing collected), etc.

I finally had some time to spend on it, and here's the result: https://checkoff.ai/

Would be grateful for any feedback!

regnull commented on The United States withdraws from UNESCO state.gov/releases/office... · Posted by u/layer8

kennywinker · a month ago

The US is complicit in the intentional starvation of gaza’s people by israel. At least 15 people have starved to death in the last 24 hours, including an infant.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-war-hunger-childre...

Ragequitting UNESCO over their recognition of palestine is a small part of the project of supporting the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the west bank.

regnull · a month ago

From WSJ article:

"KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip—Thousands of hungry Palestinians amassed last Tuesday morning outside a barbed-wire fence surrounding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid center here. The moment the gates cracked open, the crowd surged forward.

American security contractors tried to keep control, but scores of men pushed through barricades and snatched boxes of food awaiting distribution. Others sprinted in behind them. Men on speeding motorcycles raced past the pedestrians to grab whatever food they could. Gunshots rang out—it wasn’t clear from where. Within about 15 minutes, all the food was gone."

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/us-israel-gaza-aid-dea...

I know it's easy to judge being far away, but seriously, men on speeding motorcycles?