brortao

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by brortao 12y ago
Fairphone[1] [1]: http://fairphone.com/
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by brortao 12y ago
Sorry, I phrased that wrong. I meant that they've voted Tory in one (and a half) election, so 6 years - like nmeofthestate wrote, there's a good image on the website linked.
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by brortao 12y ago
It happens on both sides, but my feeling is that the No campaign is hard to outdo when it comes to spreading fear[1]. Fair point about "think of the children" - though I'd say that it happens on both sides[2]. Not that there&
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by brortao 12y ago
It's really exciting to follow this referendum, even if purely from a democratic perspective (out of the last 68 years, Scotland has voted Conservative for 6 years, but has had Conservative governments for 38 of those years). The No ca
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by brortao 12y ago
I think in this case, it's the quality of meat that's the issue. But there's another very important issue with meat: it's one of the most inefficient forms of sustenance. Animal agriculture is the single largest source o
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by brortao 12y ago
I think this serves as a good example of (one of) the issues with animal testing. The scientist in this article doesn't think that we need to "redo decades of animal research", but it certainly casts doubt on previous results
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by brortao 13y ago
Not any healthier than vegetarianism. http://www.chooseveg.com/health
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by brortao 13y ago
There isn't exactly a lot of evidence that plants feel pain or can suffer in the same way that animals can. Even if they could, you'd still be minimizing the amount of killing by not eating meat, since animals have to be fed.
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by brortao 13y ago
At the current rate of consumption, it isn't likely that animals will be treated better. A "better implementation" isn't going to happen for a very long time (in the US, 99% of animals are factory farmed [1]). Demand is
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by brortao 13y ago
But individuals have a part to play. Individuals contribute to cultural changes, which are really important when it comes to fighting climate change and hunger.[1] Being vegan or vegetarian, full-time or not, doesn't mean that you&#x27
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by brortao 13y ago
there's a huge imbalance in the gender distribution at tech conferences, i don't see how trying to make it more equal is sexist.
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by brortao 13y ago
London attracts a lot of internationals because of opportunities for education & employment. That's why the ethnic English population is less than 50%. It's important to note that the >50% of internationals are not all musl
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by brortao 14y ago
As well as the fact that once enough of your classmates have Dropbox, its collaboration features and shared folders will really shine. Once you've worked on a group project without having to email files back and forth, you never want to go