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by Doji 4y ago
How do you define discrimination and harassment precisely, so that the line is clearly drawn and does not slip?
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by Doji 4y ago
No, it's supposed to be comedy.
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by Doji 5y ago
I never claimed the phenomena was unique to this situation - it's a general phenomena. Deforestation is a real problem. How do you address this from a policy perspective? If you ban beef, that is only a temporary band-aid on the real p
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by Doji 5y ago
It's a concern, but fortunately if cattle population stays constant, their portion of the atmospheric resident methane will also remain constant, because methane degradation will keep pace with emissions. Compare this to cars. Even if
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by Doji 5y ago
You make a strong argument. I think this is a case where we'll find the global optimum somewhere in the middle. Deforesting the amazon to grow corn for cows is something I'm sure we can all agree is bad. Should we use livestock to
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by Doji 5y ago
There is a certain amount of carbon in the atmosphere, and a certain amount of carbon in the ground. When you burn oil, you take carbon from the ground and introduce it into the atmosphere. This increases the total amount of carbon resident
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by Doji 5y ago
Cow feed is generally not human edible: https://www.milkmeansmore.org/what-do-cows-eat/
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by Doji 5y ago
This analysis omits an important detail which I wrote about in a different thread a week or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26541860
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by Doji 5y ago
Yes this is correct, I'm guilty of oversimplifying.
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by Doji 5y ago
agurk found some nice charts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26542283 I suppose some people may consider stable to be overstating this situation. Nevertheless, when put into context of natural wild herd sizes as done
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by Doji 5y ago
I agree we should not ignore detrimental environmental effects. However we should strive for a nuanced view which attempts to determine root causes. The root cause of artificial fertilizers is fossil fuels. The root cause of feedlot runoff
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by Doji 5y ago
Yes that's right, plants can't tell the difference between a carbon atom which came from fossil fuels, and a carbon atom which came from an animal. It's all mixed together / fungible. Nevertheless, there's an import
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by Doji 5y ago
You're comparing north america to the world, and the American Bison are only one species while cattle have displaced many species.
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by Doji 5y ago
This is a very insightful comment, thank you!
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by Doji 5y ago
I'm likewise unsure if it's fair to treat cattle production which did not engage in deforestation (perhaps located on the great plains or similar) the same as cattle production which did. However I find your argument interesting.
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by Doji 5y ago
This article measures current biomass distribution. Given that Bison herds in North America has reduced from 60 million to 30 thousand, and I suspect other species have seen similar changes, I'm not surprised by the result. Also as a p
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by Doji 5y ago
Sorry I didn't mean to say that atmospheric methane has not increased. It definitely has, as other commenters have pointed out. However, I contend that most of this increase is likely from other factors. Melting of the polar ice caps,
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by Doji 5y ago
If the seaweed is a pure win, then I agree with this. I just think a deeper understanding is also worthwhile.
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by Doji 5y ago
I wasn't aware that fertilizers are commonly produced from fossil fuels. That's definitely a problem! I'll add some additional caveats myself. In certain areas of the world (South America comes to mind) cattle production is d
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by Doji 5y ago
A common misconception which I frequently see when this topic arises is the failure to distinguish carbon cycles and one-way carbon emission. You exhale carbon dioxide. However, this carbon dioxide comes from the carbon in the food you eat,
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by Doji 6y ago
Nickel does not generate Terraform. It is simply a language. The idea is that projects like Terraform could use it rather than create their own language out of a mess of JSON files. In that sentence, I believe their meaning is that Terrafor
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by Doji 6y ago
Thanks, my mistake
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by Doji 6y ago
Edit: Please disregard, wrong person > terraform modules are functions You seem to have found this feature useful. Doesn't that answer your question about why you would want a configuration language to have functions?
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by Doji 6y ago
This comment requires explanation.
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by Doji 6y ago
https://github.com/tweag/nickel#use-cases
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by Doji 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by Doji 6y ago
That's right, we just loan it money it'll never pay back.
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by Doji 7y ago
Don't buy smart speakers. Just buy regular speakers. Then you can plug them into whatever you like, run whatever software you like (e.g. pi musicbox) etc. So you actually own them, and they should serve you well for many years, for wha
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by Doji 9y ago
You are of course right, but it is nevertheless mostly true, and in this case mostly true happens to be sufficient. Evolution works despite the fact that unfit animals don't always die. More importantly, private companies preserve choi
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by Doji 9y ago
I believe there is likely a lot of truth to this. I'm sure we can all agree crony capitalism is awful. However, I do not agree with this article that red meat is a cause for health concern. Such claims tend to be based on weak associat

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