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In the article, "P2P" is an abbreviation for Phenylacetone, a precursor to meth (the drug). It's not "peer to peer" so that solved a lot of puzzling over what
by throwaway81523 5y ago
In the article, "P2P" is an abbreviation for Phenylacetone, a precursor to meth (the drug). It's not "peer to peer" so that solved a lot of puzzling over what the headline could mean.
- dylan604 5y agoClearly, anyone questioning peer-to-peer has not watched Breaking Bad
- DarmokJalad1701 5y agoWhen I read the headline, the idea I had in my head was of some kind of crowdsourced meth production system.
- stcredzero 5y agoI thought someone had decided to be edgy, and named their project, "meth"!
- __blockcipher__ 5y agoOn MacOS I use an app called Amphetamine to prevent my computer from sleeping. I got a real kick out of that. I got a further kick when I learned that Amphetamine was the successor to the earlier version, which was called Caffeine.
- lamontcg 5y agoApple, of course, was not amused by that name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618245
- edgyquant 5y agoI don’t think that would be a bad description of the state of meth manufacturing in the Midwest during the 2000s and early 2010s. Users would source together (one person buys the Sudafed, another the chemicals, etc) to make meth and then they would trade with each other, etc. The rise of super labs and purity levels the average meth head couldn’t achieve basically killed the peer-to-peer meth business. At least this was my experience with my addicted cousins back home (in the Midwest.)
- agumonkey 5y agothe p2p drug would be ocytocine I guess
- Enginerrrd 5y agoTechnically, P2P is an abbreviation for phenyl-2-propanone which can also be called phenylacetone depending on the naming convention used.
- littlestymaar 5y agoThanks. My brain kind of parsed it as “p2p mesh” but I was a little bit confused still …
- dang 5y agoThanks - we've put Phenylacetone in the title above.