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Nutrition writers struggle to name the industry without using the word food. "Junk food," "fast food," "ultra-processed food," "frankenfood," and so on all help the industry obfuscate that they'v
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Ask HN: How hard is creating an app to replace Uber and Lyft?
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> I target customers few other bike shops appear bothered about – the older cyclists who are often returning to cycling after many years’ absence . . . Crazy coincidence that less than 24 hours ago, I was the customer he caters to. I&#
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For anyone who cares about sustainability and how textiles and fashion relate, the documentary The True Cost will change everything for you. It's available free online: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost . The ind
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I use it like yogurt -- usually I chop fruit and and nuts on it, or I thicken my breakfast oatmeal with it. I don't sweeten it beyond fruit, though you could. You might also check YouTube. Actually I just did and it returns a lot of id
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I earned my PhD in physics at Penn and Columbia, helping build a satellite still taking data (XMM-Newton). I love physics. I loved learning physics. Physics is not math. It is an experimental field. Ctrl-f experiment yields no results on
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The article mentioned Merchants of Doubt . I recommend following it up with Industrial Strength Denial https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Strength-Denial-Corporatio... , which documents similar practices supporting industr
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From misunderstanding exponential growth, which it will jump start. They think people will continue to live as they do now, just with lower electric bills. Norman Borlaug on receiving the Nobel Prize for the green revolution, said it well:
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Another side effect: insane amounts of pollution and litter.
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Sorry if off-topic, but this community may be able to help with a long-term problem. I live in Manhattan across the street from a firehouse. Every day they test their devices to get through locked doors that are basically chain saws. Imagin
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Odd. For me ctrl-f Calvin returns nothing.
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They left out the other version, Horace Smith's "Ozymandias": --- In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS,&quot
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No mention of Calvin and Hobbes, which came out a few years later and made a comparable splash?
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> State funding was increased for organized sport, music, art, dance and other clubs, to give kids alternative ways to feel part of a group, and to feel good, rather than through using alcohol and drugs, and kids from low-income familie
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We are not powerless against this. We eat more meat than ever. We subsidize meat production at every level so that all taxpayers pay for cheap meat, even vegetarians and vegans. We can reduce subsidies, or even reverse them to accurately ac
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I believe greater job security would improve many aspects of society, this argument implies that people with very high job security designed to promote risky speech would promote more viewpoint diversity. Yet tenured faculty seem to be part
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"Don't Be Evil", according to Wikipedia: "In April 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_b
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> the Elon Musk-founded firm Musk didn't found Tesla. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc . > Tesla was incorporated on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. an
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Agreed! A great resource on the subject is Countdown by Alan Weisman. I did a few podcast episodes on my Leadership and the Environment podcast on population: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/epi
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The world should act better about catastrophic and existential risks. We think fine. We think when things get serious we'll act. Then things get serious -- like billions of people locked down, plastic in our bloodstreams, would-be le
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We can legislate to stop producing it, or drastically reduce it. We did so with CFCs to stop destroying the ozone layer. The doomsayers weren't the scientists who predicted the problems, but those who said we'd lose refrigeration
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Using the word "food" even in "junk food" for ultra-processed stuff like these products seems confusing. I felt a new term would clarify and propose doof , "food" backward, which I explain in this podcast epis
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I've posted a bunch on inspiration during lockdown. For example, I did an episode on Nelson Mandela. Here's the audio: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... . Here's the text: --
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I bought an Apple 2e in the 80s, but haven't spent a penny on Apple since. I don't understand why people like the company so much. Stallman's views on Apple don't all make sense to me, but most of them do. I don't l
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Why name the problem "surveillance capitalism " instead of just surveillance ? Do fewer problems happen when a government does it? Does it matter if the government is more capitalist, socialist, etc?
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I helped build and calibrate XMM, earning my PhD https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252418991_The_X-ray... in the 90s, before leaving academia to start my first company. I haven't kept track of the field. Ha
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Then you probably haven't read John Updike's poem Cosmic Gall . All of us who worked on neutrinos at FermiLab did. Neutrinos, they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just
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I recorded a podcast episode with my brother-in-law, a New York City surgeon, that has become one of my most downloaded. He talks about not knowing important information early, the challenge of going between surgery and home, but most of al
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How do they factor in context and framing? - The oceans are filling with plastic so people with perfectly good tap water can drink bottled water - Sea levels rising so people in deserts can cool their homes and offices to 60 - Aquifers drai
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I tracked my finances for a while with GnuCash and found myself in the category he describes here: > If you’re happy with just knowing that your credit card balance is less than a certain amount each month, that’s great! You don’t need

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