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  1. Comment on Calorie value of spent coffee grounds per gram? in ~food

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    I decided to look this up out of curiosity. The rules vary by nutrient; I only checked added sugars. Generally speaking, the nutrition label must contain "Includes `X' g Added Sugars". X may be...

    I decided to look this up out of curiosity. The rules vary by nutrient; I only checked added sugars.

    Generally speaking, the nutrition label must contain "Includes `X' g Added Sugars". X may be zero if there are less than 0.5g of added sugars (so your example isn't quite right). It can also read "less than 1 gram" (if that's accurate).

    Under some circumstances, that label is not required, but instead the statement "Not a significant source of added sugars" must be included below the nutrition tables. Oddly enough, that statement means "less than 1 gram" when the Standard Format tables are used, and "less than 0.5 grams" when the Simplified Format is permitted and used. I suspect this discrepancy is a bug.

    (If there are at least eight nutrients listed in the "Not a significant source" list (six for infants, toddlers, or RoboCop), it's probably the Simplified Format).

    In the end, it makes sense to have some cutoff, and I don't see 0.5 grams (that bug notwithstanding) as being an unreasonable one (1% of DV).

    References below
    Standard Format

    21 CFR 101.9(c)(6)(iii)

    label declaration of added sugars content is not required for products that contain less than 1 gram of added sugars in a serving if no claims are made about sweeteners, sugars, added sugars, or sugar alcohol content. Except as provided for in paragraph (f) of this section, if a statement of the added sugars content is not required and, as a result, not declared, the statement “Not a significant source of added sugars” shall be placed at the bottom of the table of nutrient values
    ...
    (“Includes `X' g Added Sugars”). It shall be expressed to the nearest gram, except that if a serving contains less than 1 gram, the statement “Contains less than 1 gram” or “less than 1 gram” may be used as an alternative, and if the serving contains less than 0.5 gram, the content may be expressed as zero.

    Simplified Format

    21 CFR 101.9(f)

    when a food product contains insignificant amounts of eight or more of the following: ... added sugars,
    ...
    (1) An “insignificant amount” shall be defined as that amount that allows a declaration of zero in nutrition labeling
    ...
    (4) ... the statement “Not a significant source of ________” (with the blank filled in with the name(s) of any nutrient(s) identified in paragraph (f) of this section that are present in insignificant amounts) shall be included at the bottom

    I also briefly checked Calories—less than five may be expressed as zero (so 0.25% of a 2000 Calorie daily intake).

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is suing the state for allegedly violating his human rights due to his being held in extreme isolation in ~news

    gurnec
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    Just to clarify: although Breivik initially did partially win his lawsuit in district court, the state appealed and won in appeals court, and the Norwegian Supreme Court declined to hear Breivik's...

    Just to clarify: although Breivik initially did partially win his lawsuit in district court, the state appealed and won in appeals court, and the Norwegian Supreme Court declined to hear Breivik's appeal.

    The European Court of Human Rights also agreed with the appeals court that there was no violation of human rights (translated as "High Court" instead of "Appeals" in that link).

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Meet the American nomad prepping for doomsday by living in a homemade cart pulled by sheep and drinking their milk | World Wide Waste in ~life

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    Thank you so much for these links! I also found this documentary on Vimeo, The Hermit, which you might be interested in. The filmmaker interviews several residents in the area sometime between the...

    Thank you so much for these links!

    I also found this documentary on Vimeo, The Hermit, which you might be interested in. The filmmaker interviews several residents in the area sometime between the arrest and the trial, some from whom Mr. Knight has stolen, as well as the arresting officer and some students at his former high school.

    I find it particularly interesting how much people's opinions differ regarding Mr. Knight's character, and I agree with the GQ journalist in that those opinions say as much (or more) about the opinion-holder as they do of Mr. Knight.

    Also tagging @BeanBurrito in case you're interested.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Non-anonymous "thank you" function in ~tildes

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    What if we could self-label our own comments? That way you could thank someone, and immediately label it Noise (and if you forget, someone else still can). I suppose only Offtopic, Joke, and Noise...

    What if we could self-label our own comments? That way you could thank someone, and immediately label it Noise (and if you forget, someone else still can).

    I suppose only Offtopic, Joke, and Noise would make sense for self-labeling.

    8 votes

  5. Comment on Comparing my favorite fonts for reading and writing code in ~comp

    gurnec
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    I do agree with you, and tend to use the SemiLight variant for coding.

    I do agree with you, and tend to use the SemiLight variant for coding.

  6. Comment on Reddit is Fun, Apollo, BaconReader, and other third-party Reddit apps have officially shut down in ~tech

    gurnec
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    One of the things that annoyed me about Reddit were all of the "Me too!" and "Thanks!" comments which add nothing to the discussion, and yet here I am doing exactly that... I just can't help...

    One of the things that annoyed me about Reddit were all of the "Me too!" and "Thanks!" comments which add nothing to the discussion, and yet here I am doing exactly that...

    I just can't help myself in this case, rif gp was such a wonderfully minimalistic yet also productive app (which helped me be far less productive), and I used it for the better part of a decade. Thank you so much for all time and effort you've put into it!

    And I look forward to reading this in Three Cheers for Tildes (I love that name btw)!

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Comparing my favorite fonts for reading and writing code in ~comp

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    Have you given Cascadia Code a try? It's open source, comes in ligature/arrow and non-ligature versions, has versions with Powerline support, has a cursive alternative for italics, and has become...

    Have you given Cascadia Code a try?

    It's open source, comes in ligature/arrow and non-ligature versions, has versions with Powerline support, has a cursive alternative for italics, and has become the default for a lot of Microsoft products (including Visual Studio, VS Code, and Windows Terminal).

    3 votes