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by adriand 5y ago
No need to apologize, I appreciate the thoughtful (and passionate) reply. To clarify one of my points: when I said the terms of the deal have changed I didn’t mean just for animals. The existence of plant-based alternatives for every type o
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by adriand 5y ago
Of the arguments Pollan presents for why it's okay to kill animals for food, the most persuasive is that domesticated animals evolved in symbiosis with humans — that they essentially made a deal with humans whereby we would take care o
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by adriand 5y ago
I took the author’s perspective to be within the context of wealth-building, i.e. the world of work/professional focus/etc. Within this context I thought his point was well-made: it isn’t that agency is more important than all oth
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by adriand 5y ago
I don't think your depiction of who holds the power in Canada is entirely accurate. The power you are speaking of is wielded more by suburbs. In Ontario that area is referred to as "the 905": the regions of Halton, Peel, York
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by adriand 5y ago
It doesn’t seem hateful whatsoever, and everyone knows it, including you. So I don’t think you’ve made your point very effectively here. I think the well-known distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from” is relevant here. In the wak
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by adriand 5y ago
You’re conflating colonialism with modernization. They are not the same thing. Of the G7 only two countries are colonies, which shows that nations (and the indigenous peoples of North America were indeed nations - engaging in treaties, send
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> While it may have some negative aspects, Canada is actually a beacon many positive ways - largely because of what the Colonialists have managed to create. Canada is a positive beacon in many ways in spite of its origins as a colony, no
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Your comments are not at all sloppy; they are very well-written and well-taken, at least by this reader (and Canadian). I think you are correct in your analysis and your perspective. The fact is, as Canadians we ought to feel ashamed of thi
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by adriand 5y ago
Any chance you could list some links for the Twitch streams you're referring to? I've been asked to participate in some live streaming sessions for electronic music and I'm not quite sure how not to make it boring, at least f
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A tax is a subscription fee for the privileges of citizenship. There are many millions of people who would happily become "subscribers" in return for becoming US citizens.
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The author writes that you can either pay with money or you can “pay with your attention”. What’s left unsaid is the cost of that attention. I believe that cost is very high and it isn’t just ads, it’s the design of countless products inclu
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by adriand 5y ago
The photographs are incredibly interesting. What colours my excitement about them, however, is the knowledge of how ignorant I am of non-biological processes that may produce similar results. Two examples that come to mind are stalagmites&#
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by adriand 5y ago
Industrial agriculture is depleting the soil, abusing animals, polluting our water and significantly contributing to planet-destroying climate change. How about we start tackling the problem by ending subsidies and requiring meat producers
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by adriand 6y ago
Honestly I don’t think you should worry about it. Once you know how to program, you know how to program - the fundamentals don’t change very quickly. Anything you don’t know now you can learn when you need it. The most important thing to re
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Alex (Parrot)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by adriand 6y ago|0 comments
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Suggestion: regulation. There are already many industries where what you can agree to is regulated. There should be more.
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by adriand 6y ago
This is so insane and so tragic. The anguish these people are going through right now is unconscionable. And the people doing this are truly the scum of the earth. It also raises the question whether certain records just ought not to be dig
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by adriand 6y ago
But then we’re in the dark ages for everything, except maybe siege warfare. So it becomes a meaningless comment.
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by adriand 6y ago
I also instituted a news blackout about three weeks ago, with the intent to (perhaps) resume reading the news on Nov 5. In 2016 I spent an inordinate amount of time hooked on election news. This year I decided to spend my time more producti
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by adriand 6y ago
> People want to grow plants, it's a fun hobby, growing your own food is fun, this is great. True, and don't expect to be able to sustain yourself to any meaningful extent on food grown on your balcony. You could likely eat all
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by adriand 6y ago
This sounds like what people say about immigrants. They don’t have deep roots or a command of the local lingo either, but they are still “locals” once they are living where locals live, shopping where locals shop, etc. Nomads, migrants, wha
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by adriand 6y ago
You may find that with enough experiences like this, you can perceive the same type (but not degree) of fluctuations when looking at any kind of textured or patterned material, such as asphalt or a woven rug. Try gazing at a surface in a sl
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Why Figma Wins(kwokchain.com)
385 points by adriand 6y ago|181 comments
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by adriand 6y ago
Another fund in the "new" category is TinySeed: https://tinyseed.com/ Also, congrats on your success!
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I've always thought it would be fun to make experimental hardware devices with this type of technology. An example: Build a solar-powered device that you stick up in a tree in a forested patch near an urban center where kids go and hav
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by adriand 6y ago
It's also just plain fun to use, IMO. I built a site using Gatsby for a product I'm helping with ( https://greeter.ai/ ) and it was a really fun and enjoyable experience. The site is blazing fast. The ease of React
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by adriand 7y ago
Beautiful. It was a great idea: congratulations on it spreading the way it has. My reaction on seeing this, probably like that of many other people, was, “wow, that would be so cool”. But of course if it looked like this normally we wouldn’
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by adriand 7y ago
> What value is there in renaming anything? You've said that out that "Google is a stupid and juvenile-sounding name." but you imply it doesn't matter - so what's the point? To be clear, my sentence was slightly
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by adriand 7y ago
As someone who has been involved in many branding projects, it is amusing to see all the negative commentary on the rebrand. This is human nature 101. Everyone always hates rebrands. In fact I am willing to bet that the executives who event
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by adriand 7y ago
Sounds a little similar to https://rave.io/ Nice job!

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