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This feels like a false dichotomy. Even if sauna doesn't impact long term health in a way that can replace exercise, that doesn't mean that it doesn't improve health.

From my perspective it would make a lot more sense to only allow index fund purchases as an elected official. If the economy does well you still do well, but there would clearly be no insider trading going on.

Or at least there would be less - you could only trade on the knowledge of full-market swings rather than per-company swings.

The quote was "ultimately some responsibility lies with us to think through how those tools will be used". It's saying that we as builders have a responsibility to consider and be mindful of the impacts of what we're building. It's not saying that the maintainer of wget is directly responsible for a system used to exfiltrate data from a database of political asylees.

To take your same point to its logical conclusion, no one is responsible for evil aside from the one who pulls the trigger.

the more acidity flavors are extracted later

The first compounds to be extracted with coffee tend to taste sharply sour, shifting to sweet and then to bitter as the brew progresses - you can actually taste this directly by sampling a bit of the coffee that drips out at the start, middle, and end phases of your brew.

I found this guide to be helpful when I was first getting started: https://www.homegrounds.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Coffee...

In a world where AirPods are ubiquitous, what value does such a niche product provide? Apple could easily add the same feature to something a huge number of people already own.

I consult for a specialty coffee shop, and in my experience the electrical ground of the machine has no impact on static generation - I doubt the burrs themselves are grounded. The amount of static you get very much depends on the specific grinder you use. Our large-batch shop grinder creates massive amounts of static and requires water to be added to not end up with a mess, while our espresso grinders tend to generate less.

To your second point, one of the fascinating things about this study is that the static charge during the grinding process causes the coffee to clump - that means that by the time the water hits the coffee puck it is too late to avoid the static-induced clumping.

As I've seen several comments on this here - people have used spritzes of water to reduce static when grinding coffee for years, but the interesting part of this study was the finding that beyond reducing static, adding enough water prior to grinding actually reduces flow rate and increases extraction by preventing the creation of coffee clumps / aggregates.

So it confirms the anti-static properties that everyone already knew, but has interesting implications for increasing extraction without changing any other variables.

I’m Canadian and have lived in the Atlantic provinces as well as Ontario. I have never seen anyone wear shoes inside aside from workers who are required to have steel toed boots on.

In my experience that’s the primary positive point of carb-restrictive diets.

In general I find it extremely hard to restrict calories under a standard North American diet due to craving carb-heavy foods and feeling a constant base level of hunger. When on keto I tend to only feel hunger around dinner time and have no issues at all with portion control throughout the rest of the day.

I think the real advantage of low carb diets is regulating hunger and making it easier to properly manage carb intake - at least in my case.

To be clear that was a black-market additive in unregulated cannabis vape cartridges, nothing to do with nicotine vapes and definitely not relevant to a company as regulated as Juul.

This would be like saying Coors Light is dangerous because your cousin's moonshine had methanol in it.