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by geddy 7y ago
This is exactly the point I tried to make below when people kept claiming that E. coli was a plant problem and not a plant problem. But as you mentioned, it's far more convenient to talk about the dreaded potato blight and ignore the f
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by geddy 7y ago
When is the last time there was a major outbreak of potato blight that made thousands of people sick? The diseases I'm referring to here are the ones that are making humans sick on a large scale, like E. coli for example. I'd thin
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by geddy 7y ago
>E. coli and salmonella aren't plant diseases You must have misread what I wrote because I never claimed that they were. I put quotes around "plant diseases" because the two major outbreaks that everybody thinks about were
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by geddy 7y ago
Ironically, hundreds of billions of animals are killed every year for food, contributing massively to climate change, which is the root cause of these massive fires. But no one seems to care about _those_ animals. EDIT: This was linked belo
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by geddy 7y ago
How about regulation by the parents over what they allow their children to watch? Or is that too much of an inconvenience these days?
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Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube(youtube.googleblog.com)
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by geddy 7y ago
...from contact with contaminated water, which is contaminated with things like animal shit, from farms. Plants don't just get horrendous diseases - nearly all of these outbreaks can be traced back to animal agriculture in close proxim
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by geddy 7y ago
Plant diseases are caused by animal agriculture operations for the more part. E.Coli and salmonella are two big ones that were on salad greens recently. Guess what - they didn't originate from the plants. They are 100% animal (or human
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by geddy 7y ago
Wonder how many hundreds of millions he'll get as a "safety parachute". Lord only knows he was probably barely making ends meet and his kids wouldn't have Christmas without it!
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by geddy 7y ago
Totally valid criticism but kind of dickish delivery. The guy built a game, for free, I think it's worth more than an "Uninstalled."!
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by geddy 7y ago
"Wither away" uhh, that's not how it works. Beans, lentils, grains, bread, nuts, seeds, there are tons of foods that are both filling and caloric. We're in the age of information on a site called HACKER NEWS of all thing
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by geddy 7y ago
Nice strawman argument. Because I don't want to pay a lot to offset the most expensive, I want people to die. Not what I said at all. But half the country either smokes or is obese, and I shouldn't have to incur the cost of other
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by geddy 7y ago
I fix computers in my neighborhood. When someone approaches me they say, "hey, I need this fixed. How much will that cost?" I give them a price, then I fix it, then they pay me. End of transaction. That's as complicated as a
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by geddy 7y ago
If we're paying on an individual basis, I want to pay based on my physical health. We'd still pay out the ass because people don't take care of themselves here - it's not healthcare, it's sickcare. People go to the
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by geddy 7y ago
If you're really asking, the simplest way for all of us to help is to stop consuming meat, eggs, and dairy, for one.
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by geddy 7y ago
Yeah, that's all fair. Of course we're here on HN and natural tinkerers so the first thing I did was dial in the zones. Most people, as you mentioned indirectly, won't ever do this, and it'll just keep recording all day.
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by geddy 7y ago
Fair question. Of course I'd be against you following me around with your phone - but my Ring is pointed in my own front yard and walkway. A moving camera is different than a static one. I don't see how that's considered the
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by geddy 7y ago
I'm a pretty paranoid guy about Big Brother and the surveillance state and what-not. That being said, I got a Ring to try it out. I got it at a huge discount and figured, if I don't like it, I'll sell it. I actually love this
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Show HN: Video Games By Year – video game releases by year and console
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by geddy 7y ago
It blows my mind that anyone would support something like this. You're spending full price on a _streamed game_ that will be instantly remove when a) Google deems the service not profitable and closes the doors, rendering your money wa
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by geddy 7y ago
Yeah let's pretend guns don't exist. Knives exist too, those are weapons, better ban them. You could throw apples at someone for long enough and probably hurt them a good bit, better ban them too. The sterilized world you want to
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by geddy 7y ago
being an even bigger economic power!
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by geddy 7y ago
Just throwing my $0.02 into the ring - Vue struck me as incredibly easy to use. That was after learning AngularJS and some basic React stuff, and none of it felt natural or made sense. Something about Vue is just.. simple. I picked up on it
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by geddy 7y ago
What do the obesity rates look like in those countries? You cannot compare a country like Sweden or Finland to the United States when they have completely dissimilar obesity rates, the main driving force behind healthcare costs. A close exa
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by geddy 7y ago
Yeah, I really wonder where that $10,000/person figure comes from when you remove obesity and smoking related illnesses, so, the two highest and most preventable causes of death in this country. I always believed you should be able to
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by geddy 7y ago
> Doctor's are paid too much... why? You can also branch off here: because malpractice insurance is insanely expensive. Why? Because people sue over absolutely everything. Why? Because lawyers in this country are vultures. If anythi
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by geddy 7y ago
> I’m finding solace in boredom and using that as a catalyst for change Yes, this is exactly it! Perfectly summarized my day-to-day after doing everything you listed on that first paragraph. Hackernews a few times a day at most for no mo
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by geddy 7y ago
Were you trying to karate chop it in half?
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by geddy 7y ago
That's my mistake - I must have misread. I think twenty years is reasonable in this case.
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by geddy 7y ago
> I’d probably fire someone if I started to see `JSON.parse(…)` Guys - I think he was being hyperbolic. Ya know, like everyone does on the Internet. If he had said "if I had to look at JSON.parse(...) lines constantly, I'd jump

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