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Salmon is disappearing.
- Alex3917 18y agoI've linked to this before and not many people seem to appreciate it, but for what it's worth: http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521&redirect=seafood http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521&redirect=seafood
- bprater 18y agoSalmon is or salmon are? A meese or a mouse?
- iamdave 18y agoI was actually looking at that myself, and wanted to comment on it (but the recent spree of downmodding folks for semantics kept me from saying anything).
- ghiotion 18y agoYes, I've noticed that. Seems as if people are feeling more free with the down arrow in general. I'm not sure I like it. I'm no karma whore, but I do like my karma points. Personally, I reserve a down vote for comments that are particularly stupid of 4chan-y. I too wanted to comment on the salmon is/are thing. I enjoy the vagaries of all languages, programming or otherwise.
- allenbrunson 18y agoi agree with that. i've often curbed my commenting lately, because these days i seem to get downvoted capriciously for any little thing. i think our original community values are getting diluted.
- ghiotion 18y agoI posted an Ask PG submission about the use of downvote. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214398 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214398
- hugh 18y agoBoth. Salmon (the fish) are disappearing, while salmon (the meat) is also disappearing.
- menloparkbum 18y agoIs the downvote arrow almost ready to go? This isn't "hacker" news. It isn't even "news" if you keep up with current events or go to the grocery store.
- walterk 18y agoIt's a bit of a stretch as far as relevance to the hacker/entrepreneur community goes, although this suddenly makes me realize that the same is true for almost all of those astronomy and theoretical physics stories that get submitted here. But they're more traditionally geeky subjects so nobody complains. Go fig.
- sophist 18y agoDidn't you get the handbook? Hackers are supposed to care about astronomy, physics, and math also. Not fish.
- tjr 18y agoI dunno; when I read this one, my thought was "so long, and thanks for being fish", which is sufficiently hackish for my tastes.
- Spyckie 18y agohaha, same here. Isn't it "thanks for all the fish?"
- tjr 18y agoNot when you're talking to the fish. :-)
- menloparkbum 18y agoWhat I got out of it was some dink in New York is upset because Lox is $2.50 an ounce. I probably wouldn't have minded the article so much if it wasn't an op-ed piece.
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- jimream 18y agoI vociferously disagree. This is social hacker news. This article talks about the externalized costs of buying salmon that are not represented accurately enough, thus highlighting a huge problem/unmet need. This is the community, if one exists that has the ability to create the technical hacks necessary to create social change. We can create tools/systems to solve problems like these, e.g., measuring externalized costs that prices do not/cannot account for. Until we more accurately represent costs/effects in our behaviors/purchases, it will be difficult to effectively promote positive behavior, i.e., solving the big problem.
- hobbs 18y agoHmm... does ballet count as social hacker news? No? Oh well, I can link to several sci-fi book reviews on Amazon instead. (Move along. Nothing to see here. All of you redders and diggers can go back home now.)
- hobbs 18y agoDamn! That's why I can't get into Twitter again!
- henryw 18y ago"To rid salmon of the lice, fish farmers spike their feed with a strong pesticide called emamectin benzoate, which when administered to rats and dogs causes tremors, spinal deterioration and muscle atrophy ... In other words, the farmed salmon in nearly every American supermarket may contain this pesticide"