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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> i’m curious why you don’t think it’s a reasonable value to also reduce plastics? If they’re not actually the problem, then why reduce them? Lots of things would be bad if sufficient quantities got into the environment, but we manage
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I appreciate the reply. I’ve given reasons in other responses that (it seems) the way to address this is to address poor waste management practices. That they’re the problem, not plastics per se.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> I think this is going to go down a hole of defending environental claims that have already achieved consensus in the scientific community (emphasis added) That's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for - rigorous evidence
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
[edit: this by itself isn’t an an argument against plastics. See the provided link with details about poor waste management practices (such as in marine vessels and certain countries). They appear to be the issue, not plastics per se] That
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Thanks for the response. > * We don't really know what the long tail of plastic in the environment looks like. See my response to another reply - the problem with plastic in the environment seems primarily to do with poor waste mana
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Thank you for the response. What I’ve heard is that plastics don’t pollute, per se, its poor waste management practices. When those practices are sufficient the plastic isn’t an issue (or is much less of an issue). https://ourwor
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
[downvoters: care to explain what is wrong with asking this question? I’ve received quite a few downvotes since asking this (the points have gone up and down) yet no-one has tried to explain why they object to asking the question. Seems th
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Then why are they being singled out? Plenty of other companies use plastic just as much in their products.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> I often find the latter more compelling than the former. We might find one compelling, but what matters is which is more accurate (or maybe neither of them are).
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Are there any other laptops with trackpads as good as the Apple ones? Maybe there are these days, I don’t know, but there definitely didn’t used to be.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I’m not making a comment about whether it was right for them to do so or not, but “someone that clearly do not pose a threat” is not as clear cut a category as it might seem. When the potential consequences of making an incorrect judgment a
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
That’s a fair point. In that case it would be the result of a both a mistake and randomization.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Sure. I’d call that the result of an intentional action, but maybe that’s just personal preference.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
mistake? As far as I can see, it could only be either intentional or the result of randomness.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I think it's likely just part of human nature. When something bad or tragic happens, we want to know what happened and why. It seems plausible that there's an evolutionary explanation for it, to do with learning how to avoid such
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> I dislike the mere concept of Super Mario Run; from what I know of it it's one of the most cynical examples of mobile games; minimal gameplay, maximal monetization That is completely untrue and completely misrepresenting the gam
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
did you miss the bit where I said: > Are all experts in agreement on virtual particles? If not, which are we meant to 'follow'? ? the person I was responding to picked out one particular expert's view "you can just te
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> Anytime someone insists on HN that virtual particles are real, you can just tell them that Arkani-Hamed disagrees with you and that he is also smarter than you. So, argument from authority then? Are all experts in agreement on virtua
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by context change. Is that where you have two (or more) items that are of different sorts (from different contexts or domains), where this difference between them makes it difficult to compare them and thus rank t
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> Counterintuitively, people love reading about and engaging in what they consider "stupidity". What is the intuition that this runs counter to? I don't see it as counterintuitive. It seems to me a reflection of human na
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I like products that have less friction, and are easier to deal with. I often find it fiddly to insert the lightning cable into my phone, especially in low light. It’s not a matter of whether one way is too difficult or not. It’s a matter o
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
...for the record, I got that slightly wrong. Australian pronounciation of the initial "Co" in "Cocoon" is more like "Kuh".
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
It’s the “Kak” bit. We’d say it in a way that rhymes with “back”. But we’d say “Coc” in “Cocoon” in a way that sounds like “cook”.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Thanks. I did look for a FAQ but could find it. It doesn’t seem to be linked from their read me documentation https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Really? I never would have guessed. It’s probably different for other accents, but with an Australian accent a word spelled like that would never be pronounced like “cocoon”.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
How is “Kakoune” pronounced? Ka-koon? Ka-koon-ey? Kak-oon? Kak-oon-ey? Or something else?
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I also have one of these email addresses, and have been accused of stealing it by some so-and-so who doesn't know what they're email actually is. I unsubscribe and/or report spam where I can, but on a typical day, I still get
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
The idea of it appeals to me. Phone size and weight, and thus portability, yet I can quickly and easily switch to viewing and working with the same details on a larger screen when that'd be useful. That can't be as effectively ac
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Well then you probably have a pretty compelling business opportunity on your hands.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> Or you could teach your kids to clean up their toys themselves. [...] To be clear: I am not shifting on you as a parent. I am making fun of owning robots to do the specific things you mentioned. Most of the specific things they menti

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