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by jshen 4y ago
Huh? What’s the math?
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It’s opportunity cost. Is it better for developer X to increase revenue by adding a feature or save money reducing a cost? It depends.
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Agree, but the question for me is whether it is clear that it’s better at organizational scale over decades. I think it is, but not hugely so. Edit: I should add that I think there are a ton of things that are far more important for a high
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You are describing writing code alone. I’m thinking about other peoples code I’ve had to deal with where I didn’t create the types. Not saying I’m great at it, but that you can’t always control the quality of the code you have to work on.
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There are other costs. One study I’ve seen found that writing libraries with typed generic code too longer to write, but we’re slightly faster to use. I’ve found that changing peoples badly typed code is worse than changing similar dynamic
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I’ve had the opposite experience with complex type systems. They make it harder to evolve out of bad designs. This is particularly true when a lot of inheritance is used.
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But at what cost? We shouldn’t assume it’s free
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It’s clear you have an ax to grind against the term capitalism which is quite uninteresting. Environmental degradation is not limited to, or primarily occurring in, capitalist societies unless you define the term so weirdly as to be meaning
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“ In any case, a 60,000 year civilisation not involving much in the way of capitalism seems to at least point to the possibility that what many contemporaries imagine from their very limited experience of the varieties of human experience t
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“ We know for certain that the 'growth' metaphor/ideology doesn't spring cleanly/directly from human nature, as there's no shortage of human societies that have lived in a relatively steady relationship with th
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I think we have that today, we could pass a carbon tax tomorrow for example. It’s the political will that is lacking.
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I think you are implying that it’s “the modern system” that’s ruining the world. What’s the possibility that it’s just human nature, and the system is kinda secondary?
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This is nonsense. We can make a huge dent without affecting lifestyles much at all, but people really get angry when you point this out. 1) eat significantly less meat 2) live in denser urban settings rather than suburbs.
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That’s not about consumption, it’s about property rights.
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Prior to capitalism, I know of no system where “consequence of consumption” was a major aspect of the system. I’m trying to figure out where capitalism becomes a factor here.
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I think you are conflating a few things. The idea of property came into existence long before capitalism, which seems to be the linchpin of your take. Are you suggesting we return to being hunter gatherers? If not, I’m not sure what you are
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No the person you were asking, but this is one of the better views of data on this topic. https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
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That’s not clear. Dietary changes could mean a lot of different things. When you also consider the fact that he keeps going on and on about a niche low volume method of raising cattle, it would be easy for someone to think that he is not ad
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by jshen 4y ago
No where did I advocate for veganism or anything like that. I wouldn’t ever want to push for anything like that. Im suggesting people eat less meat, not zero meat. But it doesn’t really matter what I say, we’ll either figure out how to get
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Again, no where in your list of what we should do did you include meat consumption. When you talk about these methods, that are unproven at scale, you do NOT mention the implications regarding the amount of meat that can be produced that w
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I have no idea why you keep bringing up these very niche methods that can’t produce the volumes of beef that people consume today by a very large margin. It’s like saying that it would use a lot less carbon to ride your bike from Los Angele
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Below is the list you provided, and no where in it do you call for a reduction in meat consumption. You have some weird ax to grind, because telling people to not fly is a far bigger sacrifice than asking them to eat a plant based meal once
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while shifting to a vegetarian meal one day a week could save the equivalent of driving 1,160 miles. Carbon Footprint Factsheet | Center for Sustainable Systems https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustain
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-u...
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No one is suggesting people become vegan. You keep constructing strawmen, and proposing things that will in fact dramatically increase the costs of meat and force the things you say you don’t want. It’s non-sensical. “… while shifting to a
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There is more to the environment than carbon footprint. Meat production is the leading cause of deforestation, it’s the biggest user of water in the south west, the cause of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and that’s ignoring the horrific co
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Dramatically reducing meat consumption is the single best thing the average westerner could do to limit their environmental impact. Why did you remove it?
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Most of that alfalfa is fed to cattle. Meat is extremely wasteful.
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We should eat a lot less meat, particularly red meat, which is extremely wasteful and destructive to the environment compared to other sources of food.
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I’m not talking about child porn. I’m talking about a woman promoting her own only fans site. Deciding that they don’t want to distribute that is just as much a free speech issue as the one you are talking about. You don’t get to cherry pic

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