Djvacto

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by Djvacto 7y ago
Thanks for the awesome reply! Do you know much about the environmental/carbon cost comparison between your plane and an airline jet? I am guessing the smaller plane is better, consumption-wise with gas used per person, than an airline
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by Djvacto 7y ago
In my reading, this seems like a pretty common assumption for the average annual return (looking at a period of multiple years averaged together), used often by people in the FIRE community (places like /r/FinancialIndependence, o
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by Djvacto 7y ago
How does owning an airplane change your personal travel? Like, what kind of logistics go into travelling with a privately-owned plane? Or is it timeshare'd and someone else handles the stuff that has to do with getting a flight path, e
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by Djvacto 7y ago
I think a big part of the issue is also about what packaging choices are made, materials-wise. Surely not to say that people chucking their aluminum cans in the trash aren't also part of the problem, but corporations have a much bigger
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by Djvacto 7y ago
I do this just because I don't like watching trailers for movies I know I'll watch already (especially since trailers spoil more of the movie than the internet does sometimes), but taking in some in-ear earbuds (esp if they have n
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by Djvacto 7y ago
I think this was Grey Goose Vodka?
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by Djvacto 7y ago
Because everyone has a different line and a different length to which they are willing to go, and because the definition can be interpreted differently. There's even a qualifier in your quote, "strict" vegans. I personally wo
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by Djvacto 7y ago
His account was made in 2011, which makes me think maybe (hopefully?) he meant 'I would have guessed' and not 'been' 4 or 5 years. Either that, or at 15 he is way more involved in software than I am now :P
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by Djvacto 7y ago
I'm going to liken your question to a similar but slightly different example: If I have diabetes, and I need insulin to be "healthy", can I ever truly be healthy? You can swap that for any condition and any requirement of a s
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by Djvacto 8y ago
There are a number of reputable olive oils you can buy that aren't fake. I buy from the costco lineup personally. We prefer Ottavio, the one from Spain, but I believe the Kirkland Brand was also tested. Also, can you elaborate more on
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by Djvacto 8y ago
However, even if the animals require no food to be purchased by the farmer, there is still an environmental cost in the land being used, plus the opportunity cost of other uses of that land. Not all land used for grazing can be used to grow
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by Djvacto 8y ago
Nothing you are saying is explicitly wrong. Yeah life is easier when you have self discipline. But you're presenting what you're saying as a counter to what the other person is saying, which is that having all of those extra envir
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by Djvacto 8y ago
To anyone looking for the same thing I was, if you go to the bottom and hit "Meta" under categories, you'll find it only contains the first blog post where he details what the blog will be about, and then you can hit next pos
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by Djvacto 8y ago
If it's chronological, wouldn't it be best to start at the beginning? I haven't seen a link to the "first post" yet, though it may simply be hiding from me.
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I'm not claiming to be any sort of expert, but I would guess the tax system (not taxing the ultra-wealthy as much as you could/should, and corporations not carrying as much of the tax burden as they used to, once again arguably no
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by Djvacto 8y ago
It doesn't have to be all or nothing! My wife has been vegetarian since I've known her, and vegan for a year and a half or so, and I never fully stopped eating meat until about the same time she went vegan. Before that, what happe
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I think you're being downvoted because of the "Withdrawn statements" comment. It looks like this has been posted multiple times in the same thread, but the statement was not withdrawn.
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I mean, I'm not super well versed in small-scale agriculture or anything, but a) Is there that big of a difference between subsist and profit in this case? It's not like the family is just consuming the milk/etc themselves, t
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I haven't done this yet, but you could always try building an app, and using something like stressgrid to test it.
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I don't think the implication is that the Earth won't recover from our climate change issues (it will, we won't). So saying there was lots of life in the Cretaceous period doesn't really make sense, since I could also sa
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by Djvacto 8y ago
For what it's worth, it seems the companies that have been benefiting from the not "green" tech and society have been and still are spreading propaganda to minimize the fear/awareness/etc of climate change. I mean,
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by Djvacto 8y ago
Note that I haven't really researched this past personal perception, but: This year NC was hit by a couple of hurricanes, both more severe (and to be honest, 2 more in frequency) than I ever remember growing up here, and for sure more
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I believe 'we' referred simply to himself and his familial unit. But I'm making just as many assumptions as you are, so either could be the case. Based on his argument, though, I think it's not likely he was speaking for
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by Djvacto 8y ago
Almost categorically no. My wife and I eat vegan at home, we don't buy specifically organic but we buy pretty much always high quality, and we indulge plenty, and our grocery budget in a MCOL city only hits $500 for 2. And that's
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I think the other problem is people expect their first few times cooking to be the equivalent of a restaurant meal. For one thing, the restaurant meals are often loaded with salt, sugar, butter, or other things our biology makes taste so go
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by Djvacto 8y ago
The issue with this is the same thing that happens with all sorts of data breaches, regardless of whether it was caused by negligence. Of course there's no problem if you do it right. It's just that guaranteeing you did it right i
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by Djvacto 8y ago
https://www.livestrong.com/article/546054-disadvantages-of-c... This was the first I'd heard of it too, but I looked it up and saw this page (as well as various similar pages). It looks like canned has way less nu
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I love finding new plant-based products at our costco, but sadly they rotate in and out and so sometimes we lose a product that I would have loved to keep buying. Hopefully I see some of my favorites back in soon. I understand Costco rotate
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by Djvacto 8y ago
Being that the language is user-extensible, where do you see it going in the future? Will "finished" mean feature-complete, or will we see anything worth incorporating into the language? This isn't directed specifically at yo
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by Djvacto 8y ago
I feel like this varies based on your personal experience. For example, I've been exposed to a variety of these things in close family and friends from a young age (mental handicaps, eyesight problems/legal blindness, and elderly

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