danieltillett

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by danieltillett 6y ago
I would not be surprised if there was some religion out there that espoused such a doctrine, likely one that believed in reincarnation.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes this is true - there is not enough grasslands to feed the current demand for meat - actually there is not enough feedlots to feed the demand for meat on a global scale. Many poor people around the world would eat more meat if it was che
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes grass fed cattle are less efficient than feedlot cattle, but this is not an ethical issue, but an economic one. Not many insects are killed by cattle stomping on them out on some grassland compared to how many are killed by insecticides
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by danieltillett 6y ago
https://grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/207321/mouse...
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I am in 100% agreement with this sentiment, what I am not in agreement with is that vegetarians are somehow more ethical than meat eaters.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Grass fed cattle and sheep have a pretty good life. What you are arguing against is intensive feedlots.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It is no more nonsense that the OP’s argument. If you do an analysis on animals killed per calorie, grains kill many more animals than say grass fed cattle. I think many people are unaware how many rodents are killed every year growing and
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I certainly do like eating meat and I don’t think there is any ethical problem with eating meat. The problem with trying to use ethics to justify a position is there is little agreement on what is ethical or not.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Some people don’t think there is any ethical problem with eating meat and rather than get into an argument with a vegetarian prefer to end the conversation. I am not one of these people.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Sure meat might become more of a luxury than it is now, but in a calorie to calorie trade off grains have a higher animal kill rate than grass fed meat. I don’t many people are aware how many rodents are killed harvesting and storing grain.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Do you know how many animals die growing grains and other vegetables? Or do you consider the the life of a rodent ethically less than that of a cow?
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I see you missed my point about grass fed.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I am an ethical meat eater. I would rather eat grass fed beef and lamb than see the additional suffering of hundreds/thousands of rodents (let alone the tens of millions of insects) that me adopting a vegetarian diet would induce. Bein
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by danieltillett 6y ago
So what happens when you have a group phone call? Should the telephone company be able to listen in and censor those as it wishes? The parallel is phone companies in the past did listen in to people’s conversation, but this was recognised a
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Ok what if your telephone or internet company decided the same thing? We will listen in to your private conversations and if you say something we don’t like we will terminate your contract. Some services are so large and entrenched that the
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes I can imagine this sort of advice is always bad, but most of the angel investors I have worked with have not fallen into this group - I don’t want to co-invest with them either.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I would tend to categorise bad advice as advice that is always bad, while good advice that just doesn’t fit the situation is on a different level. In some ways this sort of advice is more dangerous since it can make a lot of sense and seem
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by danieltillett 6y ago
As a former angel investor (I am too busy these days) it is not that angel investors give bad advice, just advice that matched their experience. Good advice, wrong situation. The advice I have given that seems to have been most useful is no
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Ah when something is 99.999% good let’s concentrate on the 0.001% that is bad. Everything has consequences, including not doing something. If we didn’t act because of the “unknown” we would still be living in caves.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Where have I offered any explanation for anything?
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by danieltillett 6y ago
You missed RNA.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I find it rather ironic that someone with the handle “DoingIsLearning” is arguing against doing new things. Everything we do that is new has risks. History has shown us that the benefits of innovation far outweighs the costs. This does not
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Thalidomide wasn’t a failure of chemistry, but of medicine. CFCs were an amazing breakthrough as they stopped people getting gassed by their refrigerator and killed (ammonia was used before). Once a problem was identified then changes were
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I love when I find I have cognitive dissonance as it means I have found something I believe to be true is actually false. Once I know something is false then it is easy to just stop believing it. Progress.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It is almost as though you can’t tell the difference between statements about population aggregates and statements about individuals.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I am sceptical that 2/3rds of all people are clinically depressed. This really does not seems close to reality. Thanks for the positive comments on my work. Yes I have been very lucky to have had the chance to work in some really inter
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It is amazing you manage to read this all into my post. Of course life is hard for many people in the world, but things are getting better every year for the average person. This seems to not include the average HN poster who seems to be ca
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I guess I am an optimist by nature and I certainly prefer to look at the positive rather than the negative. I am not sure it is helpful for most people to focus on the negatives in their lives rather than the positive. I have yet to see any
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Most likely yes, but you have to live your life as though it is not. I even wrote a post about this a few years ago [0]. 0. https://www.tillett.info/2018/12/21/the-last-word-on-free-wi...
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I have certainly experienced many awful things in life, but I have not become depressed. Maybe I am just resilient, but I don’t think I am that unusual. It is interesting that the response to my post has been to vote it down to oblivion. I

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