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by vzidex 7y ago
Something like traffic deaths - which occur fairly routinely and regularly - are probably already factored in by large companies (i.e. companies expect N people to leave every year, of which M might be unexpected deaths). The new coronaviru
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by vzidex 7y ago
I think you'd be surprised - I don't have any numbers off the top of my head, but at my work there are at least 1 or two people on my team who don't believe in climate change, don't believe it's caused by humans, or
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by vzidex 7y ago
Reminds me of the joke whose punchline is that if we transition to renewable energy and go carbon-neutral we'll have gotten ourselves off of oil and its related issues (spills, war, etc.) for nothing [1]. Even if you don't believe
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by vzidex 7y ago
Same in Canada, I'd estimate 80%+ of places I go to support NFC payment - though I live in a major city so it might be less in more rural areas.
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by vzidex 7y ago
I feel like I keep seeing articles covering climate-related events/disasters happening Sooner Than Expected™. I'm already doing my best to reduce my personal impact and raise awareness in my social circle, but it's worrying t
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by vzidex 7y ago
Very cool! The site that worked best for me to learn regex was https://regexcrossword.com/ - after solving my way through all of them (I got really hooked when I discovered the site) I found I was alright at regex.
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by vzidex 7y ago
I'm a young, vegetarian person who is working on going vegan - and making good progress. If you do a cursory search of vegan material, or only pay attention to stuff that pops up on your Facebook/Reddit/HackerNews/Twitte
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by vzidex 7y ago
The article says that a large portion of material use is in construction, so if you've moved into a newly-built home that will have used quite a bit of material to build. 13 tons is also a mean - don't read too much into it. Some
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by vzidex 7y ago
Interesting, thank you! I guess I got caught up in my stress about this winter - while last winter did have a lot of snow, this winter has had nearly 0. Looking out the window of my office I see greenery, not snow, so I figure the huge swin
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by vzidex 7y ago
Here in Toronto I grew up with snow all winter long - quite literally, we'd get the first snow around the start of December and it would stick until the start of March. Now, this winter has been 30-50 degrees F all winter, save for the
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by vzidex 7y ago
For the Big Mac, I'm guessing it went Big McDonald -> Big Mc -> Big Mac
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by vzidex 7y ago
You can have sex without getting STDs - either by sticking with one/few monogamous relationships, or just using protection. On the other hand, sex has been found to have lots of benefits (I'm at work so I don't want to be lo
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by vzidex 7y ago
I think the idea is that full-blown alcoholism is what really destroys your body. That being said, the link is definitely inconclusive - this is the article I always think of when thinking about alcohol [1]. [1] https://www.bbc.c
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by vzidex 7y ago
Same here, I switched to DDG as my default engine at work and find it returns mediocre results for anything tech related and sufficiently niche. On the plus side, it does work fine for everything else - i.e. the typical searches a normal pe
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by vzidex 7y ago
Try disabling JavaScript :)
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by vzidex 7y ago
I think what the GP is trying to say is that there are a lot of people - like your past self - where an 11x11 room would be better than what they have now. It's a tangent to the point of the unaffordability of housing in large cities t
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by vzidex 7y ago
Having used rain showers at various fancy hotels, I am not a fan of them. The ones I've experienced don't pressurize the water, they just let it fall on you - the experience ends up being closer to standing in the rain than to a s
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by vzidex 7y ago
That sentence struck me as odd too. Perhaps it's because most of my friends and I are all still broke-ish students, but I also only know one person who has an Alexa in their home.
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by vzidex 7y ago
Agreed, based off the following data [1]: India: 7% global emissions, 1.34B people China: 30% global emissions, 1.39B people USA: 15% global emissions, 327.2M people EU-28: 9% of global emissions, 513.5M people India and the EU handily demo
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by vzidex 7y ago
Current generation here (I'm 20). There's a lot of steps you can take without decreasing your quality of life - is that cut of steak _really_ that important to your quality of life? If, aware of the problem of climate change AND o
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by vzidex 7y ago
Nothing much, which some people argue is additional justification for Apple removing it - one of their rules is that apps have to use native iOS features, and can't just be glorified webapps.
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by vzidex 7y ago
>noun: virtue signalling >the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. By definition this
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by vzidex 7y ago
This is a whataboutism that distracts from actually doing anything meaningful about climate change. We can't fix the entire problem, but combating climate change will require everyone to do as much as they can - so we should get to doi
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by vzidex 7y ago
I don't think lower population density explains it fully, for example Australia has extremely reasonable phone plans - you can get 15GB data/unlimited talk/unlimited text for AUD$55/month (USD$37/month) [1], and it
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by vzidex 7y ago
Anecdotally, the "Waste Wizard" app in Toronto specifies that normal tea bags should be composted, nylon and silk tea bags go in the garbage. I've always assumed they know what they're talking about, so I expect the recy
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by vzidex 7y ago
As someone who's young, childless, and just getting started in the tech industry at a big company: thank you.
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by vzidex 7y ago
This is a very cynical take - even if the employees that will be going on strike aren't following best practices for reducing their environmental impact, at least they're doing something (never mind that many are likely taking o
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by vzidex 7y ago
One of my biggest frustrations as a 95% vegetarian (for environmental reasons) is this misconception that's emerged about plant-based burgers being healthy. It distracts from the actual benefits of plant-based burgers - environmental a
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by vzidex 7y ago
As someone who recently transitioned to a >=95% vegetarian diet (I still consume dairy and eggs), the growing number of fast food places offering plant-based options has been a godsend, but lacking for variety - you can only eat so many
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by vzidex 7y ago
This reads like a hitpiece against vegetarianism/veganism to me, or a way to assure omnivores that their current diets are OK and not completely terrible for the environment. > she returned to eating meat after learning that the soy

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