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by metta2uall 4y ago
Our tastes mostly come from our distant ancestors. Some of them are clearly harmful in the modern world, e.g. people eating too much delicious sugar leading to obesity, diabetes, etc. Just as we evolved to mostly eat cooked meat rather than
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by metta2uall 4y ago
I would consider "Effective Altruism" to be a fairly broad abstract attitude of trying to effectively help living beings (oneself & others), as guided by one's own opinions. Self-examination, critical thinking & debat
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by metta2uall 4y ago
That's an over-generalization... I would think most effective altruists recognise that acting unethically by for example, risking client money, is not justified due to the long-term damage that causes. Big lies usually get found out. M
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by metta2uall 4y ago
The concept that seeking our own interests is to the betterment of the whole seems to be demonstrably false.. For example consider the tobacco and fossil fuel executives who are trying to delay the phase-out of their products. Or the people
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by metta2uall 4y ago
Nice to see an article on environmental impacts but it seems to be missing the "approach" of simply using less energy.. For example: 1. Generating less logs & expiring them more quickly 2. Including fewer third-party SDKs 3. U
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by metta2uall 4y ago
I think the point is that indeed Japan is known for earthquakes & tsunamis, and yet they still failed to do the work of making their reactors tsunami-proof. Thus people think that if Japan, with a reputation valuing "high quality&q
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by metta2uall 4y ago
Consider how much environmental damage they're doing by churning out so many physical products and convincing many people to buy them ASAP. That's arguably worse than privacy issues. Not that Facebook is any better - their busines
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by metta2uall 4y ago
This Metaverse/VR stuff would seem to require a lot of electricity.. and given our climate change problems I think it's mostly quite harmful.
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by metta2uall 4y ago
When "Zionism" only means that Jews have a right to live in those lands, that's fine because Jews are indeed one of the "indigenous" inhabitants of them. When "Zionism" also means that Jews can create a &q
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by metta2uall 4y ago
I've been using a Clevo-based laptop for years - very good value and works well with Linux. Just don't expect something light-weight with a great battery life - but if you're happy to carry more weight (it's actually goo
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by metta2uall 4y ago
If modern "Buddhists" are skillful their practice won't be poisoned by a couple of problematic/corrupt passages within the huge Pali cannon.. There's the now-famous Kalama Sutta where the Buddha specifically encoura
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by metta2uall 4y ago
Well, I don't think there's a conspiracy - accesstoinsight.org is actually an old site that is missing many suttas. It even links to a new updated website (e.g. from https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an
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by metta2uall 4y ago
Network effects, and that once many people get the hang of using git "well enough" they'd rather put up with it's annoyances than take the time to learn something that's marginally better..
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by metta2uall 4y ago
I haven't seen a study deeply analyzing non-food uses either. I suspect though that while there will indeed be replacement costs they will be less than the costs of continuing the current system. Michellin apparently already makes &quo
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by metta2uall 4y ago
When scientists take all the complex factors into account and do the sums it turns out that in general plant-based foods are still far more sustainable than livestock, e.g. https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-how-t
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by metta2uall 4y ago
Indeed the invasion of Ukraine is terrible all-round but the UN is already doing what they can to stop it. The UN is not some independent organization, it's member-based - but often it still cops direct criticism when the blame lies wi
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by metta2uall 4y ago
I don't think it's "virtually zero risk" because there is "long Covid". Regarding myocarditis it seems important to know the prognosis, i.e. how many people quickly recover from myocarditis with apparently no l
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by metta2uall 5y ago
Looks like a pretty reasonable & non-destructive message to reach Russians who are within the curtains of Kremlin propaganda.. Plus it'll teach some people about dependency management.
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by metta2uall 5y ago
Well, in addition to the current algorithmically generated pages (where the algorithm highly values new posts and can be gamed by bots), social sites could do more to help users maintain & publish high-quality material. The high-quality
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by metta2uall 5y ago
Maybe a social network that prioritizes high-quality content rather than fresh content. High-quality content (in terms of being e.g. persuasive & informative) may have a better chance of creating positive change than one's typical
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by metta2uall 5y ago
It's actually not plain old settler colonialism because Jewish people are also the "indigenous" inhabitants of those lands - but instead of sharing them with the non-Jewish indigenous inhabitants (now called the "Palesti
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by metta2uall 5y ago
This is probably true if you're writing an SPA from scratch, but in reality much of that complexity is handled by libraries like Next.js. I also think it's much easier to learn a React-like library than to learn various server-sid
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by metta2uall 5y ago
Donating and contributing to various causes that will hopefully make the world a better place for everyone is what adds a lot of meaning to my life
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by metta2uall 5y ago
Looks pretty cool. I'd be interested if the README had a comparison with Google's Logica ( https://github.com/EvgSkv/logica )
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by metta2uall 5y ago
There is also F# via Fable: https://fable.io Business logic can be shared with .NET and it has lots of ways to interoperate with JS. There's even a TypeScript converter though of course it's not as pleasant as "ya
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by metta2uall 5y ago
Many possibilities: firstly by reducing costs from excessive profits, insurance company staffing, "management", etc. Secondly by increasing revenue, e.g. from reducing corporate tax loopholes & increasing corporate tax rates.
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by metta2uall 5y ago
I think a more accurate phrasing is that we're "designed" by natural section to _optionally_ eat meat. Large numbers of people like many Hindus, Mahayana Buddhists, and now vegans don't eat meat and can live healthily. B
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by metta2uall 5y ago
This makes statements like "Eating less meat won't save the Planet" (obviously true) and debunks obviously false straw-man hyperbolic claims like "cows are polluting the air with their methane rich burps, they're ea
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by metta2uall 5y ago
The major difference seems to be that preact uses native browser events, unlike react which implements "synthetic events" - so preact may have issues in old browsers like IE8 ( https://preactjs.com/about/projec
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by metta2uall 5y ago
If a React developer is concerned about code size they can use Preact which is about 5kB: 3kB for Preact core [1], and 2kB for preact-compat [2]. [1] https://preactjs.com/ [2] "preact-compat adds somewhere around 2kb t

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