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by spodek 9y ago
The main reason is not having to account for externalities. As long as someone else has to pay for cleaning up, why bother thinking about it when you can keep the short-term profits?
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It would be awesome if we ourselves could interact with the ocean without doing harm to the ecosystem.
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Nutrition Facts' Michael Greger covered the misinterpretation of data that led people to believe in health benefits of moderate drinking in this video: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-It-Better-to-Drink-Littl..
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I wonder if he's trying to distract people from other news that makes him look bad. Can anyone think of any news or investigations he'd want to distract people from? If this attack doesn't work, he may start a war, which is g
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by spodek 9y ago
Why stop with targeted? Most of us would probably prefer fewer total ads. Living in New York City, I thought of Times Square as a tourist destination, but I hadn't thought about it without ads. On reflection, I'd prefer no billboa
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by spodek 9y ago
That picture is horrifying, as are the ones in the article's first link https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/10/27/idyllic-c... . I hope all of our needless plastic bottles, food packagi
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by spodek 9y ago
When I die, after the state picks out what organs it can use, I hope they dump the rest in shark-infested waters or some place the wild finds it nutritious. I won't complain if my body doesn't get a grave.
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by spodek 9y ago
Let's remember the macroplastic of the bottle holding the water that outside Flint, MI is unnecessary pollution in nearly every country of people reading these words. We can all stop buying bottled water. It won't solve every prob
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I spent too much of my life learning to do things by following rules, up to and including a PhD and an MBA. I've since learned to love learning by doing and diving in. Food is probably the best success in that area, combined with the o
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1) Say there is an absolute measure or at least good enough to base a meritocracy on. If top schools are diverging from it, are they not then rejecting top students? Shouldn't other colleges then be able to recruit those rejected top s
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It works for gangsters, organized crime, weapons merchants, and morticians.
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Comments here seem to agree there is too much junk in space, it's out of control, and a problem. It's nothing compared to the amount of junk on the ground and in the oceans. Let's also work on lowering that, I propose startin
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If they eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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There are many issues contributing to different pay. These videos of Warren Farrell address many of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb89YALUzL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxtu5ZyA048 https:&#x2F
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by spodek 9y ago
Do you consider 100:0 just?
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The issue for me is equality. If women faced prison as men do, justice and prison reform would happen faster, as happened in medicine when women became doctors. If people pushing for equality in high-pay, low-injury fields also pushed for e
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For most of my life I wouldn't have seen it this way, but the HN community is sensitive to equal representation of the sexes in STEM fields. This story had only men in it. Does this story not illustrate sexism in the criminal justice s
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by spodek 9y ago
Since we're mostly geeks here, I'll indulge in sharing that the term "plant-based" leaves out mushrooms, yeast, and other fungi. They're a whole other kingdom. > "Still, mushroom cultivation is not a green p
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You may like nutritional yeast. I started putting a tablespoon in my bowls of soups and stews. I liked the taste enough to keep putting on more until I put in a cup or two to the whole stew.
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The challenge isn't coming up with moon shot ideas, the challenge is implementation -- putting the bell on the cat. Legislation without popular support is authoritarian, which people resist, even if they like the law. They claim there
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With Facebook selling everyone's data, they could have gotten a lot more data from them.
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Also the Do The Math blog -- https://dothemath.ucsd.edu -- which does the math of many environmental ideas by a UC San Diego physicist who got his degree at Caltech.
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The atmosphere is a commons and this situation is the tragedy of the commons. In the language of the classic sheep-grazing commons, each player has incentive to put an extra sheep in the commons -- that is, to defect. Everyone loses, but th
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> I started regularly taking a Monday morning trip to the airport, then another ride home from the airport Tuesday evening. My first thought from the headline: Walk, bike, or take public transit. But the pollution I expected wasn't
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I can't tell if we treat our environment or our bodies worse, but the same mental process seems to drive how we treat each. The result is the same: to save a percent here and there we trash both.
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This book is my top recommendation too. Also: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=donella+meadows... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dennis+meadows https://www.youtube.com&#
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> owning a car is still a must if you have anything close to an outdoor lifestyle Nothing honors the beauty of nature like polluting it.
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> Across the UK, smoking remained by far the leading cause of preventable cancer, although it dropped from 19.4% in 2011 to 15.1%. Second was being overweight or obese . . . Since obesity doesn't just randomly happen but has causes,
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> I would not want to swap positions with the 14th century peasant and I suspect the author would not want to, either. I'm glad to have anesthesia, antibiotics, and so on, but if they lived as we do today, the Earth, seas, and air w
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Cleaning it up doesn't fix the problem: we're producing disposable garbage. We can stop buying disposable stuff -- plastic bags, coffee cups, stupid gifts people use for thirty seconds before throwing it away, etc. How much stuff

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