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by rocgf 7y ago
If you separate this conversation from reality and strip any sort of relevant context, then yes, population and pollution are orthogonal concerns. What you're saying is "if human existence didn't cause externalities, then a g
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by rocgf 7y ago
I am also interested in moving to Munich at some point, could you tell me more about the state of the biking infrastructure? Is it practical to use cycling as your main transportation method around the city? What about recreationally - i.e.
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by rocgf 7y ago
> It's really not an issue. Really? As an extreme example, are you saying that if our planet only had only 1 million people, we'd have the exact same problem? This holds for 1 billion or 3 billion instead of the almost 8 billio
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by rocgf 7y ago
Apologies for being blunt, but you are heavily strawmanning. I don't think anyone said that it is "the only environmental problem" anywhere in this thread, and especially not me. I did not say it is the only environmental pro
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by rocgf 7y ago
Apologies, but I am not sure about what you're trying to say. Yes, pollution is not evenly distributed across countries and populations, but that does not mean that the original idea is wrong. The truth is that overpopulation is a huge
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by rocgf 7y ago
> it seems that the meat replacements are also becoming more popular Which is very unfortunate, in my opinion. It might get people to switch to a more animal-friendly diet, but I simply can't think of how meat replacements are healt
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by rocgf 7y ago
I get the feeling you do not know what good cycling infrastructure looks like.
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by rocgf 7y ago
Ideally, with absolutely no loss of comfort, no extra taxes, while maintaining our current wasteful lifestyles. We can barely get people to sort their trash into plastics/glass/paper before throwing it away and we say stuff like &
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by rocgf 7y ago
Not one thing you said is a reasonable concern. Rental cars must be picked up during business hours (which is 24/7 in a lot of places), but can be dropped off at any time. Any decent agency will provide proper tires for your climate. B
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by rocgf 7y ago
Well, there are two reasons, I believe. One is the fact that the longer in advance you buy it, the cheaper it is and the second is that peak vs. off-peak times matter a lot. If you buy one month in advance and at non-peak times (e.g. 12:00
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by rocgf 7y ago
Not sure this applies to everywhere, but I can talk about Romania (Eastern Europe) vs. Western Europe. Romania has some of the best Internet in the world; as far as I recall, you can get 1Gbps for like 10-15 dollars in most non-rural areas.
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by rocgf 7y ago
The cost of trains in the UK is ridiculous. My employer once paid £320 for a return ticket from Manchester to London.
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by rocgf 7y ago
Sort of off-topic, but I just wanted to point out the environmental impact that these ships have one the planet. According to Wikipedia, "maritime transport accounts for 3.5 to 4 percent of all climate change emissions, primarily carbo
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by rocgf 7y ago
Depends how you define 'need', how much you can afford to spend and what your usual routes are, so I agree that generalizing is not that great, but that goes both ways.
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by rocgf 7y ago
I do find that a bit weird myself, but I'm happy to see that there are countries that still value privacy. Towards the other side of the spectrum, you get countries like the UK where you are being filmed pretty much everywhere you go,
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by rocgf 7y ago
Which is really the problem, isn't it? However, no politician says this publicly because Western economies are built on a gigantic Ponzi scheme where we need more and more people to be born and create wealth for our ever-increasing ret
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by rocgf 7y ago
I really don't get this type of defeatist thinking, and I see this in basically every climate discussion. It's pretty simple - it either happens (along with renewables etc.) or we face the consequences. It either happens willingly
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by rocgf 7y ago
For Java projects, the most common one tends to be Flyway, in my experience. There's also Liquibase that I've heard of, but never used. Flyway is okay in my experience. Can't complain about it, but I can't praise it eith
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by rocgf 7y ago
Yes, but apparently it's very rare. You are much more likely to have some other issue to blame for your lack of sleep, rather than being genetically "gifted".
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by rocgf 7y ago
According to some videos in which Matthew Walker (the author of "Why we sleep") is answering some Q&As on the Internet, he briefly talks about weed and alcohol. Both these drugs are used as sedatives, but they are not good for
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by rocgf 7y ago
A previous company was using it and I think it was largely useless. The manager knew it and was quite vocal about it, but we still went through the tool in our 1-2-1s. It tells you what the reality in Git is - how many commits, how many lin
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by rocgf 7y ago
I must admit that my knowledge is lacking in this area. Can someone offer a high-level explanation to one of the people who don't understand corporate taxes in the US? As far as my understanding goes, the bulk of taxes are paid on prof
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by rocgf 7y ago
This is not strawmanning, this is showing you that your definition of what constitutes a victim is completely wrong and very easy to twist and abuse. A fast-food hamburger, alcohol and skydiving all fit your three criteria, but locking peop
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by rocgf 7y ago
All those apply to eating from McDonald's, as an example. Should we ban everything that has a negative health impact? Later edit: Actually, banning is not a huge problem, the problem is incarceration for choosing to do something that h
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by rocgf 7y ago
I was surprised too, but then I remembered that we live in a bubble. Privacy is only a highly-emphasized topic in niche places like HN. Most people couldn't care less about this, despite knowing the high level rhetoric.
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by rocgf 7y ago
Veganism is seen as a label, but it's actually not a binary trait, it's a spectrum at the very least. What I mean is that there are vegans who would never eat meat under any circumstances, ever. There are vegans who would eat eggs
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by rocgf 7y ago
I believe it's a bit more nuanced than that. Most vegans I've spoken to believe that hunting is okay. If you have the callousness of killing a baby dear, then you 'deserve' to eat it. The problem comes from how modern me
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by rocgf 7y ago
There is a myriad of Chrome/Firefox plugins that do just that, you just have to look through them.
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by rocgf 8y ago
Unfortunately, I don't know much about that. The only such guides I've seen were internal documents.
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by rocgf 8y ago
> By those standards I could have filed a few myself ;-) You most definitely can, but you should remember that filing for a patent is very expensive. :) This was years ago, so I cannot remember all the details, but I did attend one or tw

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