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Someone got sick drinking 3L water per day? I find that hard to believe.

mdp2021 5y ago
I don't know Alison, I could put you in contact - I, by chance, brought her to the hospital the day she got sick. Then again, I was not the assessing doctor and there is always a doubt in putting causes together in a correct frame. This given, have you considered that some people weigh 120, some 80 and some 40? Already because of this, a "3l (or 1, or 9) [for everyone]" should intuitively make little sense. Another point: if the concentration of salts have a meaning, as a few are indicating around the thread, drinking Xl while eating 2Y and drinking Xl while eating ½Y makes quite a difference. These two humble points stress what already written: very generic stubs of rules make little sense. Match that with the missed notion that some things are harmful, match it again with the lazy inclination that makes the body a not-listened-to servant (I know people that do not know they should sleep), and one day or the other some get hurt.
- wolverine876 5y ago
  (There's something a little creepy about using someone's personal name, unless you know them.)
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    (There may be, wolverine, but it is also a rhetoric device that makes sense when there are reasons why you may be addressing one person more than a group. Some (sub-/)peoples, on the contrary, find using the name a polite form of addressing. Some (sub-/)cultures have peculiarities you may not guess: call e.g. some (many) Russians by surname and they will start shaking as if insulted. The impact and perception depend. "Wol", "wolverine", or "wolverine876", there is no rule to surely identify how you will react to any of these. When a user inserts what looks like a personal name in the username in a community context, it is as if they introduced themselves - it is the identity hook they are providing.)
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    - wolverine876 5y ago
      If you look around HN, I think you'll see that people refer to each other by username unless they know each other. That's my experience in other forums too.

mdp2021 5y ago

I don't know Alison, I could put you in contact - I, by chance, brought her to the hospital the day she got sick. Then again, I was not the assessing doctor and there is always a doubt in putting causes together in a correct frame. This given, have you considered that some people weigh 120, some 80 and some 40? Already because of this, a "3l (or 1, or 9) [for everyone]" should intuitively make little sense. Another point: if the concentration of salts have a meaning, as a few are indicating around the thread, drinking Xl while eating 2Y and drinking Xl while eating ½Y makes quite a difference. These two humble points stress what already written: very generic stubs of rules make little sense. Match that with the missed notion that some things are harmful, match it again with the lazy inclination that makes the body a not-listened-to servant (I know people that do not know they should sleep), and one day or the other some get hurt.

wolverine876 5y ago
(There's something a little creepy about using someone's personal name, unless you know them.)
- mdp2021 5y ago
  (There may be, wolverine, but it is also a rhetoric device that makes sense when there are reasons why you may be addressing one person more than a group. Some (sub-/)peoples, on the contrary, find using the name a polite form of addressing. Some (sub-/)cultures have peculiarities you may not guess: call e.g. some (many) Russians by surname and they will start shaking as if insulted. The impact and perception depend. "Wol", "wolverine", or "wolverine876", there is no rule to surely identify how you will react to any of these. When a user inserts what looks like a personal name in the username in a community context, it is as if they introduced themselves - it is the identity hook they are providing.)
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  - wolverine876 5y ago
    If you look around HN, I think you'll see that people refer to each other by username unless they know each other. That's my experience in other forums too.