I've never seen labeling like this before. Interesting.

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[–] 147 points 7 months ago (21 children)

Can we start doing this with everything?

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of times it's because those things required maintenance, and it was possible to do with basic tools.

    Most things these days aren't built with maintenance in mind, mostly because they're obsolete before they need to be fixed.

    There are certainly things that doesn't apply to, but for a lot of consumer products, it is.

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  • good luck getting the electrical scheme of a current CPU

    not because they're secret, but because they're pointless. you wouldn't understand anything from such a schematic. it's way too complicated, and has to be broken down with lots of extra annotations to be comprehensible.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    ingredient lables can be pretty long. I think we need a QR code with this and much more information. it should be able to back track where you product came from and such.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Can QRs fit enough text to hold all the ingredients and their descriptions?
    I'd hate it if they were just links to some crappy government website that'll inevitably go down couple of years down the line

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    The problem is a lot of nasty things come from less scary sounding things. For example:

    Ingredient: Ricin, Where it comes from: Castor beans, What it's used for: Poison.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I assume there's a better example to make your point because at least here you're explicitly stating ricin is used for poison, an objectively good thing to know.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My point being that knowledge of where something comes from doesn't tell you if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

    I could have rephrased "what it's used for" to be "laxative". A true statement which doesn't expose the fact that ricin is a pretty powerful poison.

    People are biased to think "chemical name bad, common name good" and that's the problem I'm exposing. You can pull out a lot of toxic stuff from things that sound harmless.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    The calculus here isn't strictly whether it's "healthy" or not. There are quite a few ingredients that can be derived from both plants and petroleum, for example, and I would choose the one derived from plants every time

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