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by dqv 5y ago
I tire of this type of comment on HN. There's a pervasive smug tone that doesn't do anything for the conversation. Are you here to have a good faith conversation or not? The evidence to the contrary would be strong evidence in fav
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by dqv 5y ago
Yeah this is what I was talking about elsewhere in this thread. But what the article really says is the hypothesis "that the virus was created or modified intentionally in a lab were dismissed by scientists and U.S. intelligence offici
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by dqv 5y ago
I guess mainstream is the wrong word for it. During the Trump administration, it seemed like there was an effort to suppress the theory by associating the lab leak theory with Trump supporters. I also recall an Indian virologist trying to s
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by dqv 5y ago
??? I don't remember hearing anything about genetic manipulation being a part of the lab leak theory. My understanding is that these kinds of viruses are studied all the time without being modified.
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by dqv 5y ago
Good. Of course I'm not expecting anyone to prove a negative, but the lab leak theory was dismissed with very little evidence to the contrary. We know other viruses have leaked from labs before [0]. I think part of the resistance to ac
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by dqv 5y ago
Ah, this is a more California-centric service it seems. Maybe I'll try it and see what happens for people outside of California.
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by dqv 5y ago
I love their customer service. Not once have I have I been asked how I'm doing at check out. I guess some people expect it but I find the obligation to have small talk annoying.
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by dqv 5y ago
My interpretation: He uses that to suggest the programs increase racial tensions, not to suggest that we shouldn't be trying to get more people of color involved in tech. He cites this article [0] as his reasoning. Is there something I
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by dqv 5y ago
Mailinabox is a great package that makes the best practices very easy. I always recommend it or similar packages.
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by dqv 5y ago
The only “common” email provider that has given me problems is Zoho. They’re annoying and do not respond on their mailer daemon email or whatever. I tell people we can’t correspond if they use Zoho and no one has had a problem with that yet
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by dqv 5y ago
Twitter is also (but isn't the only) tabloid social media. It promotes the sharing of sensational and one-sided content that is scant on details. I know we're supposed to be critical about what we read, but my first instinct was t
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by dqv 5y ago
I'm sure plenty of people here enable showdead. I do at least.
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by dqv 5y ago
I sold my 83+ just the other day for $30.
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by dqv 5y ago
>If we could be using that land for high-value crops, we probably would — look at the land values for cropland vs rangeland and you'll see all the incentive needed to allocate more cropland. I doubt this. The "think of the farm
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by dqv 5y ago
I again repeat what I said in my original comment: I highly doubt all 781 million acres can only be used for animal grazing.
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by dqv 5y ago
It's usually a refrain that comes as a leftist critique of liberals. Generally liberals believe that more thoughtful consumption can solve ills of capitalism while leftists do not. The same idea gets recycled without the critique to me
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by dqv 5y ago
We're lucky that kale isn't the only plant-based option. The vegan culinary tradition has existed for centuries. Seitan was invented as early as the 6th century in China.[0] And western vegan culinary traditions have evolved rapid
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by dqv 5y ago
You've already decided that any healthy vegan must be cheating - there is no way to have a productive conversation with you about this.
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by dqv 5y ago
We're not cats. We don't have the same digestive systems as cats. We are not obligate carnivores.
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by dqv 5y ago
>Cattle are fed the byproducts of human agriculture that humans refuse to eat. Anything else cattle are fed (scrubland plants, grass, etc.) is extremely low-impact. And there is no reason those byproducts can't be repurposed for oth
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by dqv 5y ago
>Cattle grazing causes less animal death than industrial plant agriculture (land clearing, pest control, insecticide usage, etc.). Even grass fed beef are fed fodder which is the result of industrial plant agriculture. >No they don&#x
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by dqv 5y ago
>It's also worth keeping in mind that living off plants generally kills more total animals (although smaller animals) than living off medium-large animals. Your net consumption of plants is reduced when you reduce your consumption o
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by dqv 5y ago
Less animals stand to die at the blades of the harvester when one chooses to stop eating animals altogether. You can't eliminate suffering, but you can take active measures to reduce it.
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by dqv 5y ago
We still us 1.5x the land for for growing feed for animals (excluding feed exports). If you're suggesting that feed requires less inputs, provide the sources that back up that suggestion.
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by dqv 5y ago
There's no need to bring the argument to this level of absurdity. The parent made a valid point about those food items being luxuries. Less fun is not the same thing as no fun.
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by dqv 5y ago
Sure but the 77.3 million acres to grow the plants we eat pales in comparison to the 781 million acres we use for animal agriculture.[0] Why turn almond orchards into cropland when we can just use less of the land we use for animal producti
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by dqv 5y ago
I only speculate but yes I think companies and other public figures use "PR hacking" just like this to try to shake associations with bad press. This case is slightly different to me, though, because Ikea just had a huge reckoni
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by dqv 5y ago
I think this is more because they are still trying to recover their reputation from the deadly dresser debacle.
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by dqv 5y ago
If you can get access to an archive of South China Morning Post that hasn't been scrubbed, the term you want to search for is "mystery pneumonia" or "sars like".
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by dqv 5y ago
Yes I remember a friend who lives in Hong Kong posting a news article (from a Chinese news source) describing a "mystery pneumonia" the first or second week of December 2019. He hypothesized that it was because of bushmeat. I thin

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