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by shanev 9y ago
Cows don't need grain. Grain feeding is part of industrial meat production that is highly detrimental to the environment. Feeding cows grass (and rotating them) though has the total opposite effect. It creates soil that can hold more
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by shanev 9y ago
How do you know for that sure it will reduce the number of animal lives and reduce CO2? Farming the plants needed to produce this fake meat takes up land, potentially (and most likely) more land needed to produce equal amounts of meat. Unle
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by shanev 9y ago
The trick is to force yourself to do it for at least two weeks. Afterwards, pizza and bread will look disgusting. I experienced this when I followed a strict low-carb/paleo diet for 4 months. Many of my low carb friends have experience
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Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says(theguardian.com)
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by shanev 9y ago
Right, but the source of ignition here is invisible to the human eye. So it's bit of a grey area.
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by shanev 9y ago
A similar phenomenon causes birds to spontaneously combust when flying near industrial solar power plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLXQN_lURk .
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by shanev 9y ago
Check out the DIY threads here: https://www.themattressunderground.com/mattress-forum/index.... . You usually have some kind of firm base, a middle layer, and a soft top layer. I went with a firm latex layer (44 ILD), a
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by shanev 9y ago
I did a ton of research on mattresses when getting a new bed two years ago. Casper was my first choice since I heard so much about it from my startup friends. I wanted one that was biodegradable with no off-gassing. I took a deep dive into
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by shanev 9y ago
Accelerate is a low level C framework that is not representative of all Apple APIs. It's only used directly for very specific use cases. Most of the time you'll be creating neural nets with CoreML which is built on Accelerate and
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by shanev 9y ago
ARKit is fun and easy to get started with. Plane detection works even on a clear glass surface. Here's a demo of a fidget spinner I made: https://twitter.com/shanev/status/873225569164546048 .
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by shanev 9y ago
I love technology that mimmicks nature. Never thought I'd see it in a web non-framework. Cells in this are analogous to biological cells which contain DNA that knows how to build other cells.
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by shanev 9y ago
UberX was initially hybrid cars only.
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by shanev 9y ago
One limitation I see is the dependence on soil bacteria. We are already losing soil at alarming rate due to industrial farming. In the coming years it's going to be even more of a scarce resource.
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by shanev 9y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Fast forward 25 years into the future, and Soylet will have re-invented a piece of salmon and broccolli.
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by shanev 9y ago
Also the website back then was airbedandbreakfast.com, way too long and complex of a domain. Couchsurfing was huge, and I guess investors didn't think a paid version of it would take off if a free version existed. At least that's
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Tundra May Be Shifting Alaska to Put Out More Carbon Than It Stores(nytimes.com)
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by shanev 10y ago
Maybe they're feeling guilty for creating mostly polyester-based clothing that pollutes our oceans with microfiber plastic.
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by shanev 10y ago
The AirBnB I stayed at in Helsinki had a tiny washer with a built-in dryer. It fit in the bathroom which is the size of my closet in the U.S.
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by shanev 10y ago
Not surprised. There are many products like this. Most commercial maple syrup for example contain no actual maple syrup, just flavored corn syrup.
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by shanev 10y ago
As a person of Sri Lankan descent, this is great news. However, the elimination of malaria in Sardinia was correlated with the rapid rise of multiple sclerosis and type-1 diabetes. This is because the parasite that causes malaria is also th
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by shanev 10y ago
Plants absorb carbon dioxide. Grow more plants.
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by shanev 10y ago
This is not true at all. The majority of the land mass on Earth is grassland. At least it used to be. What are now cornfields in North America used to be plains full of bison that fed on grass. We can re-create a similar ecosystem using hig
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by shanev 10y ago
Right. This needs to change.
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by shanev 10y ago
Not all meat is the same. A slice of deli bologna isn't the same as a cut of pasture-raised sirloin. One comes from a factory that requires animal feed and antibiotics, the other comes from a farm that only needs sunlight, rain, and gr
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by shanev 10y ago
Yes, but farming soybeans destroys land and is dependent on pesticides and chemicals from companies like Monsanto. Pasture-raised grass-fed beef instead revitalizes land, provides natural fertilizer for plant growth, and sequesters carbon f
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by shanev 10y ago
Not necessarily. Eating pastured-raised grass-fed meat benefits the environment by nurturing soil and sequestering carbon. So if you base your diet around pasture raised meat and local produce, you can overcome many of the downsides of indu
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by shanev 10y ago
So what do you eat? Because grain and vegetable farming destroys ecosystems which causes the death of many of these animals too.
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by shanev 11y ago
Nearly every health-related article that makes it to the top of Hacker News these days is stuff that was discussed in the Paleo community 5+ years ago. Earlier today was the benefits of a high fat ketogenic diet in regards to cancer, and no
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by shanev 11y ago
Some farmers say it's possible to run holistically managed farms that produce the same or higher yields than industrial farms if run properly. The issue is changing policy and subsidies to make this a reality. As a side effect we'
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by shanev 11y ago
Which also has other benefits like getting more Vitamin D and lowering stress, anger, anxiety, depression, etc. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_bathing

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