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by spodek 9y ago
> Does it really create more overall? Yes, much more, in my case. My transition from a standard American diet took a couple years, but is one of the biggest improvements I've made. I get most of my fruits and vegetables through a
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by spodek 9y ago
The article mentions hunting by running as an evolutionary adaptation suggesting running distances, not necessarily sprinting. I have to imagine running like hell to escape predators as a major part of our evolutionary past. It would seem c
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by spodek 9y ago
That article views life almost the opposite as I do. 1. I have long been inspired by Gandhi's having cleaned toilets in his ashram and he seems to have accomplished a fair amount of meaningful things. Monks garden and clean things in p
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by spodek 9y ago
The artillery that can reach Seoul and the buffer the nation offers China from the U.S. military there is all they need to prevent invasion. Then they can do what they want.
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by spodek 9y ago
You wrote elsewhere on this thread: > This has the side-effect that real victims are put off from filing charges, which is generally thought to be not a good thing. Well, this man appears to be a victim who is filing charges. You seem
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by spodek 9y ago
Let's not forget that there is a real victim here: the man accused of sexual harassment, if his counterclaim is correct. How would you feel if someone fraudulently accused you of something you didn't do that could ruin your care
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by spodek 9y ago
The man accused of sexual harassment is a real victim, if his accusation is correct. Why do people not see men as victims? His reputation could be ruined for the rest of his life, even if he is innocent. People take the law into their own
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by spodek 9y ago
> The next time you tuck into a protein rich dinner, it may be a good idea to hold off on the sugary drinks. For 300,000 of human existence except the past few decades, humans drank no sugar-sweetened drinks. It is always a good idea
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by spodek 9y ago
A great idea for 20 years ago. Better late than never, and a law 20 years ago would have to have been appropriate for the technology of the time, but the something of this spirit.
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by spodek 9y ago
> these are women who want to wait for a partner, someone who will go all in and plan for a future. Men who just wait will end up waiting for a long time, maybe forever, too. Equality also means responsibility. Today, finding a partner
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by spodek 9y ago
What responsibility does a typical reader of HN have? What can a reader do?
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by spodek 9y ago
He suggests the name change caused the deterioration. Since we know correlation is not causation, I propose a more likely situation: that one thing caused both: a personality that would choose to go through the effort of changing his name t
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by spodek 9y ago
1. That's not how supply and demand works. The infrastructure is there to sustain our behavior. If we change our behavior, we'll change the system. 2. We can do other things than what you suggested. We can reduce consumption over
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by spodek 9y ago
Your post ironically describes itself better than mine I didn't condemn or bring up morality. Satisfaction? I'm sad. I wish someone would write something like that they turned off their air conditioner, decided to take public tran
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by spodek 9y ago
> And while climate change is accepted to have played a role in the wholesale disintegration of the Larsen A and Larsen B ice shelves, Luckman emphasised that there is no evidence that the calving of the giant iceberg is linked to such p
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by spodek 9y ago
> it's about learning how to think It's about learning a set of thinking skills, not how to think . Many people who know no math can think and function very well in their domains and many people who know lots of math functio
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by spodek 9y ago
Since I bet the overwhelming majority of our 300,000 years worth of homo sapiens ancestors and countless more years of prior ancestors exercised in these ways as a matter of course, I would instead title it "How sedentary lifestyles an
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by spodek 9y ago
Money.
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by spodek 9y ago
I see their packaging littering my building's garbage areas, on its way to landfills. So much garbage.
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by spodek 9y ago
Is this post not promoting age discrimination? Isn't age discrimination illegal? Why would discriminating against younger people be any more fair or legal than against against older? I expect discriminating by amount of relevant experi
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by spodek 9y ago
Curiously, I do all those things without a second thought -- as well as my daily habit of picking up at least one piece of trash from the street and putting it in a trash can, putting my bare hands on subway poles and in dirt when gardening
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by spodek 9y ago
Technologists like this community often back up how great things are today by pointing out how even poor people today have material objects that kings couldn't dream of years ago, like big TVs. And yet look at how many people medicate
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by spodek 9y ago
> not so good for the urban resident trying to get a cooked dinner in front of his family every meal. Vegetables from the farm is how I create meals every day, plus legumes and nuts from the bulk food store, probably 90+% of my calorie
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by spodek 9y ago
Sorry to hear your experience. Mine is the opposite. I live between the Union Square and Abington Square farmers markets in Manhattan. Delicious food Great variety Low prices in season Friendly farmers They've made nearly all grocery s
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by spodek 9y ago
They create tremendous waste. https://grist.org/food/dear-blue-apron-youre-just-making-it-... https://www.buzzfeed.com/ellencushing/these-are-the-trashy-c... Promoting reusing or recycling all the
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by spodek 9y ago
> In the United States, some urban planners are already experimenting with techniques like adding green spaces or increasing the reflectivity of rooftops to cool down city centers during heat waves. As usual, anything but suggesting pe
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by spodek 9y ago
What do you think they would do about the lawsuit that accused Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer of discrimination against men? Would they treat it the same as a lawsuit accusing a male CEO of discrimination against women?
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by spodek 9y ago
> our failing decrepit subway system Decrepit I'll give you, and even a low grade, but failing? From Wikipedia: 2016 subway ridership: 1.76 billion = 147 million per month 2016 global Uber ridership in October: 40 million Not the
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by spodek 9y ago
Mine: to motivate people to choose to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (significantly, not just raising awareness or things like using electric cars instead of driving significantly less). People can do it but they prefe
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by spodek 9y ago
Carbon offsets don't take CO2 out of the atmosphere, as far as I've found. Some may result in some trees being planted, but they mostly replace trees that were cut down. They don't undo fossil fuels removed from underground.

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