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by perplamps 8y ago
> Are you suggesting that eating meat because paying $10/pound for a mediocre steak that gives you the moral willies is honestly more convenient than buying a can of beans and taking a vitamin supplement? Humans naturally enjoy meat
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by perplamps 8y ago
There are a lot of things we do out of convenience that we don't delight in, like walking over ants. There's a distinct difference between welcoming an easy alternative to walking over ants and delighting in squishing them under y
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by perplamps 8y ago
Note that I said nothing about morals or being morally elevated. Just that what you said could have been a line from Silence of the Lambs. I think it's our automatic defensiveness about having our morals questioned that leads to all th
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by perplamps 8y ago
> there's no substitute for the flesh of an animal — especially one I raised, where I know its diet, its experiences, and how it was slaughtered and butchered When PG said eating meat might sound perverse one day, it's hard to
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by perplamps 8y ago
I ended up writing my own take on bare minimum security practices for less-technical people as a sort of response to the Mozilla article: https://medium.com/@perplamps/super-basic-security-advice-f9... If anyone finds
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The actual bare minimum you can do to protect your data(medium.com)
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by perplamps 8y ago
That's often due to PCI compliance which I believe mandates antivirus software.
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by perplamps 8y ago
I use Firebase hosting for a static site that gets between 100-400gb of traffic per month, and it works out a bit cheaper than Netlify ($15-$50/m vs. flat $45/m). I hardly ever use their web interface and just deal with their one