DominikPeters

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by DominikPeters 10y ago
You personally have less control over habitat sizes, perhaps, beyond subtle effects from consumption choices (e.g., using a car will, in expectation, convert some nature to parking spaces; beef consumption converts forests to graze land). C
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
"Moral agents" are usually taken to be those beings that can make moral judgements. Wikipedia says: 'Moral agency is an individual's ability to make moral judgments based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
The "giant if" you mention is stated explicitly in the section you quote: "More precisely then, ethical consequentialist vegetarians believe that farmed animals have lives so bad they are not worth living, so that it is bette
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
I think the two estimates you mention are different things: 17B is the population of chickens alive in a single moment, 50B for number slaughtered in a year. (Broiler chickens live much less than a year.) The comparison of farm and wild pop
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Consistent Vegetarianism and the Suffering of Wild Animals(jpe.ox.ac.uk)
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
Airlines do a CBP-type interview before letting passengers board to make sure that they will actually be able to clear US immigration. If CBP decides not to let someone through, the airline has to pay a fine and the return ticket.
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
If you're talking about discount supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, etc), then note you're not supposed to pack your groceries at the cashier, but rather put them back into your shopping cart and pack up by the packing tables behind the ca
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
"The biggest impostor, fittingly, was farmed Asian catfish, a fish with white flesh that is easily disguised when it’s filleted and drenched in sauce. It was sold in place of 18 types of more expensive fish, including perch, cod and gr
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
per annum = per year
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
Going vegan isn't supposed to be as good for humanity as possible -- it is supposed to be as good as possible for all conscious beings, including non-human animals. It would be rather surprising if the best diet for humans would also
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
Probably the post is only visible to his FB friends.
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by DominikPeters 10y ago
Main points of the article: For purposes of terrorism prevention, the current German government wants to require sellers of SIM cards to check photo ID and ask for current address. If this happens, it will be (theoretically) impossible to o
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
I observed the same thing in Germany: pretty much all delivery services deliver packages the day after they receive the package, so that for Amazon to achieve 2-day delivery they need to deliberately wait a day before they start packaging a
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
Whenever he says "polynomial", he actually means "exponential", right? Economic growth over the last couple of centuries looks pretty exponential, at least.
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
I'm not sure why this paper would be of special interest to people outside the Stable Matching community. While interesting, yet another variation of the Gale-Shapley algorithm isn't ground-breaking, and both writing and the intro
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
Careful, the axiom of choice doesn't state that non-empty sets contain an element (this is a triviality). Rather (an equivalent of) it states that the Cartesian product of non-empty sets is non-empty. If we take a product of finitely
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
Some languages (particularly German) use the neutral gender when referring to children. It's actually quite jarring for me as a German to have a child (especially a generic child) referred to as "he" or "she" in Eng
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
True in practice, though shared bathrooms & kitchens are no impossibility.
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by DominikPeters 11y ago
I thought what was particularly problematic about rewriting that piece was that the URL didn't change and people had already linked to it, and implicitly or explicitly approved of the contents of that URL. When it morphed from a news p
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by DominikPeters 12y ago
But see http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
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by DominikPeters 12y ago
Probably not, sadly. The technologies currently in use (such as M-PESA in Kenya or bKash in Bangladesh) seem to be corporate and proprietary which to some extent is necessary given the need for lots of physical places to offer cash-to-mobil