loverofthings

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by loverofthings 9y ago
True.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
NOx is also the biggest product of animal agriculture. It also has an effect on climate change. Global warming potential is around 300 times larger than CO2. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potenti
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I thought candy was delicious CO2 intensive food. Not a complete lifestyle. Although, food is just one part of the equation. I've never said diet is the only change necessary to make. A person in the first world would do more by not us
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by loverofthings 9y ago
It might also be hamstrings. For example, while sitting on the chair try lifting one of your legs so you make L shape with your torso (without flexing your lower back). I can't do that, my leg can't stretch fully. This prevents me
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by loverofthings 9y ago
My lower back arches severely if I do it, which I regard as not a proper squat.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I can't do that squat. My hamstrings aren't flexible enough due to too much sitting in the first world.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Vegetables are expensive because subsidies are small. There's no free market in agriculture. I'm not exactly sure how candies are causing climate change.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
So do vegans have a workflow that makes their diet convenient. The thing is, one has to start somewhere, and no one starts anywhere because they see the change as inconvenient.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I'm not sure that many people do that. A good comparison would be FOSS. Richard Stallman inconveniences himself to the point of absurdity, but I'm pretty sure barely anyone does anything close to it. I changed my diet, I live in g
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by loverofthings 9y ago
In similar ways, majority of people that believe in climate change do nothing (or barely anything) to fight it. No one is reducing their heating/cooling, no one is changing their diet, no one is measuring their heating patterns and try
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Well, monad transformers make things easy but the abstraction impacts runtime performance :(
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Maybe plastic waste in the long run imposes a bigger cost? Just like overconsumption of cigarettes, alcohol etc. imposes a much bigger cost in the long run (in welfare countries).
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Yep. No more California beef too. Water there is too expensive and there's no free-market in agriculture there.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Poaching for what? It's palm oil, the delicious Lays.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Nothing better than palm oil and legume-fed beef, pork, chicken and fish.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
No one is going to build nuclear reactors in the West for cryptocurrency mining. Just like no one is building nuclear reactors for powering christmas lights or Amazon servers, or Internet servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by loverofthings 9y ago
In the grand scheme of things (context being the carbon footprint of humanity) it is insignificant, just like Denmark's carbon footprint is. Let's optimize the real stuff, not some trivialities (like the Christmas lights in the US
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Compared to heating and cooling, and a bunch of other stuff it is negligible. I guess you could complain about the usefulness of mining. Well, people do a bunch of useless stuff that has magnitudes bigger carbon footprint than mining. Let&#
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by loverofthings 9y ago
2nd Edition was published 10 years ago.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I'm pretty sure there's a handful of those that find meaningful work. Then a handful of those that find it in AI.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
It's amazing how judicial system works fast in the USA. In my country both companies would go bankrupt and would still be suing each other due to sunk cost fallacy.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Some stuff does not work easily with non fossil fuel based engines. What better way than to refine current tech instead of inventing a whole new one?
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by loverofthings 9y ago
The moment fossil fuels get more expensive you'd like a more efficient engine.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Bioaccumulation of pesticides in animal tissue is a serious problem. I do not think you can ever consume the same amount of pesticides by eating plants if before that you ate nontrivial amounts of chicken, chicken eggs, beef, milk etc. Cow
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Well, let's ignore the reuse of the seeds, let's focus on generating random numbers in a range 0-N using a uniform random generator that gives numbers from 0-M where M >= N. Code snippets shown use modulus (x % (N+1)) to accomp
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Animal tissue unlike plant tissue accumulates stuff magnitudes more. Bioaccumulation of harmful substances as we rise through the food chain is a known issue. Using our best antibiotics to produce 60 billion chickens per year is a state fin
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Now, the question is, which industry sector cuts the largest percentage of trees. Now, answering that question, is there a way to do the same thing without cutting trees? Answering that question and then executing a business plan is probabl
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I guess seeding is like proof of stake. Although who knows what is the currency.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I eat about 60-70% of calories in carbs. Would that be high carb? Most of my carbs come from legumes, I get no sugar spikes, am T1 diabetic and need insulin mostly to replenish it every morning, not after every meal.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
There have been cases where acupuncture combined with some "proven" treatment does better than that proven treatment. IMO, that just puts doubt into the efficacy of that proven treatment. Any serious disease, like cancer, skin bur

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