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by 1457389 10y ago
Yup this is true when defined narrowly enough, but impossible in practice. Plus you'd have to address the argument that cutting short a happy life is a moral harm. If we were a society that was capable of doing this at scale, there wou
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by 1457389 10y ago
>Taken to its extreme, we'd end up with a world where we tried to save everything, even every insect, and we'd end up with an unsustainable world or at best a planet-sized zoo where everything was controlled and coddled We are
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by 1457389 10y ago
I think that possibility went out the window as soon as he brought up abortion. I'm not here to change his mind in particular, I'm just here to win the argument.
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by 1457389 10y ago
What isn't as true in coding shops is the torture and killing of sentient creatures, which was the whole point of this article. I think my point about the fixation of certain elements of this forum on inappropriately narrow and pecunia
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by 1457389 10y ago
plants -> livestock -> meat -> metabolic energy is less efficient than plants->metabolic energy. In the interest of minimizing suffering caused there is an obviously superior approach to providing our society with metabolic ener
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by 1457389 10y ago
I see your point, though probably not in the way you mean. So let's pay attention shall we? FCS and FBS are collected from slaughtered dairy cows once they have exhausted their productive lifespans and rendered into meat. Details: >
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by 1457389 10y ago
You need serums and growth media derived from animals. Not derived as in scraping a few cells with a spatula but as in grinding up foetuses into fetal calf serum, or the like. Synthetic media are nowhere near as cheap or effective, at least
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by 1457389 10y ago
You shouldn't eat meat because its production causes animal suffering. It's pretty simple really. I presuppose the need to justify just about everything actually. Your surprise at this approach kind of explains the gaping logical
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by 1457389 10y ago
>We need food to survive. Non sequitur, food isn't synonymous with killing animals >Almost all life consumes other life for survival Appeal to popularity, almost all life does all sorts of things that we don't condone or hav
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by 1457389 10y ago
Trust HN to find a way to make animal suffering all about their career prospects...
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by 1457389 10y ago
>the highly classified “source code” developed by the agency to break into computer systems of adversaries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Sure sounds like a plausible candidate considering what Shadow Brokers were touting.
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by 1457389 10y ago
>how can I possibly trust the author after statements such as Imperial Rome was a dim backwater by comparison. Well you could read the rest of the article and see if the statements hold up...I see nothing in your comment that justified w
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by 1457389 10y ago
>refresh rate that's fast enough for your brain's ability to process it Lol can we keep junk science out of threads like these. Nobody knows enough about the tech yet to say things like this, especially with such vehemence. Let
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by 1457389 10y ago
Except it's not. Autophagy as a process happens at the cellular level but the whole reason it's important is because it has emergent ramifications for the entire living organism, impacting on metabolism, senescence, carcinogenesis
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by 1457389 11y ago
I think your reply just confirmed that OP has a point. "Boys will be boys" is no justification for rudeness
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by 1457389 11y ago
So am I the only one here who knows what Pahrump is (in)famous for?
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by 1457389 11y ago
I think we may be seeing the beginning of that proof in the way the Gear VR sold out in hours.
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by 1457389 11y ago
I guess you've never seen a review article. The whole point is to go through the prevailing literature and rationalize the results, with the end goal of providing the consensus position among experts. Which is to say, cherrypicking &qu
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by 1457389 11y ago
If so they are relying on a pretty simplistic interpretation of the cost/benefit of sweatshops-style labor for developing societies. Sweatshop laborers can be argued to be investing in their own futures through one of the few avenues t
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by 1457389 11y ago
>So yes, it is theoretically possible to eat complete and healthy without meat. It's also theoretically possible to put 3 chop sticks on top of each other, put them on your head and walk like that to your super market. That doesn&#x
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by 1457389 11y ago
[0] Lived experience [1] Gorelick DA, Levin KH, Copersino ML, Heishman SJ, Liu F, Boggs DL, & Kelly DL (2012). Diagnostic criteria for cannabis withdrawal syndrome. Drug and alcohol dependence, 123 (1-3), 141-7 PMID: 22153944 I'm s
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by 1457389 11y ago
Opium comes from plants. Marijuana often has physical withdrawal symptoms for chronic users. I'm sure there are many people whose lives/potentials are limited by marijuana abuse. Legalization/regulation is a good step, but le
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by 1457389 11y ago
Hypothetical logic is flawed anyway. Higher ability Asian graduates could be less / only equally successful in the workplace due to pervasive external bias too. A lot of this is exacerbated by the fact that "soft skills" are
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by 1457389 11y ago
What happened to the other comments here?
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by 1457389 12y ago
> The business-school community closely studies each school's “return on investment” or “value added” ratio—how much an M.B.A. degree adds to a person's salary, compared with how much it costs to obtain. At Dartmouth's Amo
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by 1457389 12y ago
>shared experiences and cultural knowledge So you have replaced a debate about values and shared definitions to one predicated on groupthink. Basing your moral decisions on shared experiences and cultural knowledge leads to the exact kin
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by 1457389 12y ago
Relevance? I am sure Dutch zoologists would similarly agree that use of the term 'monkey' is just plain wrong in this instance.
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by 1457389 12y ago
I see what you are saying, but the same logic implies that there is no vital need to imprison animals, considering that the vast majority of people can get their sustenance from plant based products more efficiently. However, I would person
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by 1457389 12y ago
Paper tapes can't catalyze their own creation and modification. DNA can with the addition of ribonucleotides.
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by 1457389 12y ago
This is around when they start giving it away, in the hope that the enhanced livelihoods they generate frees the next generation of entrepreneurs to create even better uses for their capital. At some point we get The Culture. Or so the hope

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