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Comment · 3 months ago
Yes? We don't have to blindly and constantly be making progress on everything at all cost. Look around you, look at what all this progress did to the world we live in.
Comment · 5 months ago
The law is ever changing and is not always a reflection of what's right, moral, ethical, etc.

You have plenty of historical examples of this, most prominently slavery being legal.

It's ok to defend a thing, but just because the law says so is very rarely a good argument.

Comment · 6 months ago
This looks great. I just started trying to generate some models using golang and the ecosystem doesn't seem great. Will check this out, might work out better.
Comment · 7 months ago
If you change inputs then obviously you will get a different output. Crucially using the same inputs, however, produces the same output. So compilers are actually deterministic.
Comment · 8 months ago
I also think the article glossed/skipped over the xmax/xmin concepts. And they are fundamental to understand how different isolation levels actually work. It's quite jarring to the point I'm wondering if a whole section got accidentally dropped from the article.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's really surprising how many people don't realise where omegas come from and just default to "more fish". Fish get omegas from alge. Simply skip the middle man and all the nasty side effects that has in the form of animal exploitation and harmful substances for humans they contain.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/most-dam...

Pasture raised animals are the most damaging way to raise animals for food when it comes to the environment. You've got it backwards here.

Comment · 10 months ago
Good. We do not need to bring even more animal suffering into this world. Especially when we have much better alternatives available to us.
Comment · 11 months ago
I love how google (youtube) starts immediately showing me ads in the language of whatever country I happen to be on holiday at the time. For that country specific services/products. As if they don't know exactly where I'm from and which languages I speak. Absolutely baffling that they get this so badly wrong.
Comment · 11 months ago
That doesn't seem very practical. The issue is that imgur links are everywhere and you wouldn't want to switch browsers whenever you encounter one. Not to mention it requires per device setup. Author's solution is much better than what you describe.
Comment · 11 months ago
Prime example: animal agriculture. By far the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and nature destruction. Yet people justify it constantly with trivial things like taste, convinience, tradition, etc.
Comment · 1 year ago
It looks like we will be forever looking for solutions when we keep on ignoring animal farming in these conversations. Not even a single mention of the orders of magnitude more of water that is required for animal agriculture vs just growing plants directly for human consumption.

Would it solve everything? No. But it would solve a whole lot and the fact that someone that specialises in environmentalism doesn't even mention it shows just how far we are from solving this.

Comment · 1 year ago
It'd be surprising if that applies in this context. In the case of the individuals OP mentions, their parents would not have been exposed to ultra processed food (or barely, perhaps only after they've reproduced), so ehatever gens they passed on would not have been adapted. There's simply not enough generations in this case. Especially not for such significant changes.

In any case, it's moot as by and large the westeren diet is not good for the population, exceptions are simply that.

Comment · 1 year ago
Evolution doesn't work over a span of few generations. If humans are evolving to adapt to the modern weetern diet then we won't see that for a very very very long time.

You're just cherry picking examples while ignoring a mountain of literature that shows exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

Comment · 1 year ago
Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar.

I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.

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