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dxgarnish

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dxgarnish··on Tools for Thinking
What I've discovered is that the real breakthroughs needed in these tools aren't in the "taking" of notes but in the "retrieval" of notes/ideas.
dxgarnish··on 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
So, I've got a highly speculative hypothesis that BIG COFFEE will have a similar tobacco-like health event in the future. These are my semi-conspiratorial circumstantial evidences:

1. It's basically burnt bean water. Roasted is just a marketing term.

2. The constant rate of "New Study Finds Coffee Improves [insert health benefit]" articles

3. The incredibly powerful forces (industrial, corporate, personal) that would hold back such an event

I'm not willing to defend this hypothesis, but I would love some steel-manning

dxgarnish··on California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
It's a good question. There's two parts to it, whether the law allows for that, and whether or not the law should allow for it?

There are certainly some classes of items/products/services that allow X to legally bar Y from selling it to Z: airline tickets, sub-leasing apartments, software etc.

dxgarnish··on Handling Time Zone in JavaScript (2019)
I highly recommend using Luxon for dates in JS. At the very least reading up on the library.