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811.
by wyre 6y ago
Same. I would think at this point there would be companies focused on algae production for ruminants. AFAIK there is only one company in Australia that is doing this. I haven’t read the Wired article yet but my critique is that there isn’t
812.
by wyre 6y ago
>humane killing Please explain how taking away another living, breathing creatures life can be humane.
813.
by wyre 6y ago
Brazilians are currently cutting down forests to grow crops for cattle feed. Plant based meat uses less resources than beef so I would call that a win in my book.
814.
by wyre 6y ago
The argument is that it is also inhumane to kill these animals.
815.
by wyre 6y ago
Cows need to eat thousands of pounds of plants before they are at a size to get slaughtered and prepared as food. Humans evolved to eat meat as a way to survive through winter. Early diets relied heavily on gathered foods.
816.
by wyre 6y ago
For this to scale properly it would need to rely on creating a new market for seaweed farms with the purpose of sending to feedlots. I have a hard time imagining this actually happening.
817.
by wyre 6y ago
It’s decentralized. Why does it need “a killer app?”
818.
by wyre 6y ago
Bitcoin is putting a cash price on energy consumption. I see this turning into a new positive.
819.
by wyre 6y ago
It hasn’t failed at being anything. Bitcoin is still very new to this world. Just because at this moment it isn’t realistic to use as a currency does not mean it has failed.
820.
by wyre 6y ago
If a regime is cutting off internet country wide that is a problem larger than bitcoin.
821.
by wyre 6y ago
Bitcoin is a store of value. When they need money to buy groceries or pay rent they will sell an amount of bitcoin. Stores and landlords won’t take payment in gold or index funds either.
822.
by wyre 6y ago
> Because if I want my startup to succeed, I have to have an iPhone app. The only person responsible for your success is you. There are plenty of other things successful startups need besides an iOS app but you’re targeting your anger at
823.
by wyre 6y ago
My favorite was a record label with language like “I don’t want this” or something similar.
824.
by wyre 6y ago
I haven’t bought anything off of Amazon in 2 years. Granted I use eBay a lot, but the only time I’ve been burned is when I’ve bought something used and the seller never shipped. Otherwise I’ll buy things from Part-express, Vitacost, Target,
825.
by wyre 6y ago
> people still want/need guidance on purchases It’s funny because Amazon normalized folks needing reviews on things before buying it.
826.
by wyre 6y ago
I’m not trying to defend the USSR but afaik the USSR failed because of Gorbachev lowered the amount of power of the state. I’m also pretty sure Holdimor was anti-Ukrainian state management holding wheat from them and less about its economic
827.
by wyre 6y ago
Can you give me an example? The only world power I can think of with high levels of poverty is the US, but I live here so I don’t have experience in other world power countries.
828.
by wyre 6y ago
Advancements in technology lifts people out of poverty. There is no proof these advancements in tech would not have realized without capitalism. If anything China and the USSR turning their agrarian societies into world powers in the course
829.
by wyre 6y ago
Since quitting caffeine if I have a cup of coffee I have an incredibly hard time falling asleep.
830.
by wyre 6y ago
I’ve spent so much money on cheap or inexpensive phones the past few years. They end up breaking or they lose functionality and become unusable. I have the new SE and knowing that it will likely be supported (and repairs, if needed, are acc
831.
by wyre 6y ago
How do other countries devastated by war have to do with US economic equality? Shipping technology has only gotten better since than too but that just hurts mom&pops and helps online retailers.
832.
by wyre 6y ago
I feel as if this opportunity is past us. Any company with the potential for that amount of growth is going to get bought out by multi-billion $ corps to further increase their already out of reach stock prices.
833.
by wyre 6y ago
The bottom 90% contains people that are too poor to invest in stocks.
834.
by wyre 6y ago
I don’t think the average person really knows how stocks work and isn’t even aware firms are able to buyback stock with debt.
835.
by wyre 6y ago
Is that kinda like how mass produced meat is literally an industrialized nightmare? Or are you just saying that having more than a handful of ingredients is bad?
836.
by wyre 6y ago
I’ve been vegan for 5 years. I was raised vegetarian, but I also cooked a chicken the night before I went vegan. It is feasible and as time goes on it gets easier and easier. Only recently have I started spending more than $200 a month on g
837.
by wyre 6y ago
A carbon-tax funded UBI would be popular, but ideally wouldn’t funding from a carbon tax go towards sequestering the carbon and other green initiatives instead of giving it back to consumers to spend on high-carbon goods and services?
838.
by wyre 6y ago
As much as I would love to see subsidies ended on animal products, it couldn’t happen overnight without huge backlash. Lowering the subsidies over time and eliminating the power that the animal agriculture industry has over politics would d
839.
by wyre 6y ago
That’s 4 million people averaging $5000. It could be?
840.
by wyre 6y ago
Reading HN this whole month has been disheartening after reading so many comments defending the insurrection and Parler.

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