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by drekk 4y ago
1.7kg of feed gets you 1kg of chicken[0]. for a crop that humans can't even eat. and then you eat the american broiler chicken for calories, only getting 10% of them. if you get 500 calories from eating some chicken, that took 5,000 ca
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by drekk 4y ago
Yeah I mean who cares if that changes happens over millennia, centuries, or decades? I for one welcome the yearly "once in a lifetime" disasters :)
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by drekk 4y ago
It took decades to prove conclusively that cigarettes cause cancer in humans. Similarly to tobacco companies Monsanto is subsidizing research that just happens to find no harms with RoundUp. I'm sure it's fine though, no big deal
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by drekk 4y ago
Depression absolutely makes people irrational. It changes your risk calculus. Are we going to act like other disorders such as bipolar are rational and should be listened to whenever at face value?
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by drekk 4y ago
"I think 18 year olds should be able to end their lives because they got a bad grade in a class and who knows their life better than them" — I rewrote what you were saying. This strawmanning stuff sure is easy! Patients aren'
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by drekk 4y ago
Necessary but not sufficient for accuracy. Someone googling about molecular biology and posting it on Facebook isn't "contributing to the discourse". They're drowning out signal with noise.
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by drekk 4y ago
Or we could just cut out the middleman of private insurance like most of the developed world? I don't want 100 competing brands of insulin — I want my NovoLog and I want it at cost.
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by drekk 4y ago
What democracy exists in the US? You don't vote for your president. The preferences of the American public have a statistically insignificant effect on which legislative policies get passed. Popular suffrage has existed in the country
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by drekk 4y ago
A single Bitcoin transaction uses more energy than an Argentine family goes through in a year. As bad as the IMF is the cure you're proposing is worse than the sickness. Have open banking standards. Implement proper consumer finance re
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by drekk 4y ago
If most of the internet is on the AWS that is a pretty understandable argument, no? Mt. Gox was responsible for 70% of Bitcoin transactions at its peak. Most buy coins through exchanges, via fiat as an intermediary. They upload a driver&#x2
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by drekk 4y ago
Not sure where "cheerful" is coming from, this kind of editorializing detracted from the content
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This study was in mice. It might not generalize but it's also not nothing
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by drekk 4y ago
I think if your coin uses more energy to settle one transaction than a typical South American uses in a year it's the "shitcoin" Crypto being filled with scams is a feature, not a bug.
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by drekk 4y ago
It would be more correct to say "thanks to two pro-austerity political parties" — neither of which "listened to the science" or offered a solution more substantial than "sacrifice grandma for the GDP". Public h
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by drekk 4y ago
Really disingenuous to compare the US to China in this way as if they are comparable failures. We're talking about under a million cases and 5,000 deaths. In the US we had 91 million cases and over a million deaths. Especially embarras
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by drekk 4y ago
Superfood animals because they eat literal garbage; you're still not escaping the order of magnitude conversion loss going through a trophic level. In addition we don't know all the long-term impacts of eating poultry (or any anim
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by drekk 4y ago
California's government is center-right. There is no far left party in US politics. That's why you don't have affordable higher education or healthcare, why your infrastructure is decaying, why you don't have nice public
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by drekk 4y ago
That's wonderful! Do loggers or fishers have the ability to kill someone off duty without repurcussions? Do they get paid similarly? Do we give them discounts at stores?
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by drekk 4y ago
You don't need public outrage. Doctors can be sued and lose their licenses. They don't have qualified immunity. If they get fired by a hospital, it's unlikely they can cross county lines and find another job at any other hosp
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by drekk 4y ago
How long does a cop go to school for? Do medical professionals have qualified immunity?
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by drekk 4y ago
I guess the Civil War was morally wrong—we should have left the issue of slavery up to the legislative process
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by drekk 4y ago
Some humans do this too, the psychology Scrabble word for it is confabulation. Are those people not conscious? We might call them an edge case or what have you, but dismissing them as automata seems harsh. The point is that if a chatbot get
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by drekk 4y ago
Alcohol kills more people than "harder" drugs and is much more acceptable within polite society. Same situation with tobacco, which also happens to be one of the most difficult substances to quit that we know of. Your average pati
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by drekk 4y ago
This attitude does a lot to explain the quality of pedagogy to me. Why waste everyone's time and money with the course if students won't engage with the material? Plagiarism (or outright fabrication) in academia is a serious probl
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by drekk 4y ago
Overpopulation is mostly just a way to hand-wring about developing countries that aren't responsible for most historic emissions and have much lower per-capita emissions. It often overlaps with racist neocolonialism (see: Bill Gates di
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by drekk 4y ago
To use your analogy here, France should determine how much they should pay back to Haiti for taking their wealth after long hardship as a colony? I'm just trying to make sure I don't build a strawman here. France doesn't care
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by drekk 4y ago
If you haven't eaten in 4 hours you should eat anything, even if it's a "cheat item". Creating rules about what food is or is not permissible is how you give yourself anorexia. You feel good, sure. Your brain doesn'
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by drekk 4y ago
My grandma smoked with every meal and lived well past her 90s, what's your point?
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Your brain needs glucose to function. It can only use ketones for so much of that. If you don't eat every 4 hours, you are probably depriving your brain of glucose. Might not matter if you have a white collar office job that mostly inv
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by drekk 4y ago
Social media isn't the world, or a big matter. One can still read/engage with the news without having to deal with as many dark patterns. We don't have a public digital square, but I'm not going to help Zuckerberg et al

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