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This report doesn't say you have to give up eating meat. It does say we need to reduce our consumption. This might mean eating meat once a week.

We are eating more meat today (at least in the industralised nations of the "West") than in any other time in human history thanks to intensive farming practices. People seems to think that this is the natural state of affairs and that's how we've always consumed meat. But go back a few decades and meat was never available in such abundance and at such cheap prices.

The ugly truth is we're simply too comfortable in our current lifestyles to make any changes that might challenge that comfort. Whether it's flying less (or even stopping altoghther) or eating less meat, the reaction is always resistance and sometimes even anger and outrage.

I've said this before: we love to point accusatory fingers at others for taking too little action over climate issues but never lift a finger ourselves. Are we all a bunch of hypocrites and simply not willing to admit it?
They're offering about 100x more than is common in these programs. Despite that, folks like yourself are whinging about the company that pays the most, instead of the ones who pay the least.

Y'all are a joke. Does that make sense?
As a new joiner to the Freelance Web Developer pool, building myself a portfolio website is on my list of things to do - but, honestly, I'm struggling with some very basic questions:

- Do I want the site to demonstrate the areas of coding I most enjoy (eg HTML5 canvas)? Or should I use it as a glossy form of CV which I can use to impress potential clients?

- Do I want it to act as a simplistic (single-page) calling card? Or should I be looking to use it more as an interactive hub aiming to do stuff like gather contacts, generate discussion on blog posts (which I could submit/share on HN, LinkedIn, Twitter) etc, etc.

- What tech should I be choosing to demo to visitors? If I go for a React front end is that going to put off potential clients with Vue projects I could work on? If I want to attract bread-and-butter work should I be looking to demo a Wordpress site with a home-built theme and plugins? Do I want to show off my skills with 3rd Party APIs?

At the moment I'm thinking of doing a minimalistic HTML site hosted in an AWS S3 bucket, with a picture of my cat above a big CTA button saying "Hire my human!" and a couple of links to my GitHub and LinkedIn accounts. At least it'll be easy to maintain and easy to replace once I'm clearer on the areas of work I want to focus on.
Er, the results on that are rather mixed and ambiguous and depend more on other factors; but then again, controlling food production and distribution was the main role of most governments in most of history; it wasn't really until the agricultural revolutions that were a key factor in the feudal economic system starting to be replaced with capitalism that some governments could really afford (even in the short-term) not to make that their primary concern most of the time, and even now and even among advanced liberal Democratic “capitalist” (really, mixed economies) states, guiding food production and distribution remains a major role of government, even if the means used involve markets with government intervention through price controls, production subsidies, consumer (means-tested) subsidies, direct government purchase and distribution, aggressive negotiation of agricultural trade deals, etc., etc., etc., rather than transparent direct state direction.
Don't forget that neighboring buildings have several stories, you need to add the appropriate multiplier.
Some toxins produced by "bad" organisms can survive high temperatures of an oven, e.g. causing ergotism.
Taxi exemptions make no sense to me either, it would just make life easier for well-off people.

Biking or public transit it the answer.
True, i would agree.

If only paying for high quality news and articles guaranteed me that i won't see ads, well at least non-js ads.

Sadly that won't happen because people who can pay for such news have higher disposable income and are better target for advertisers.
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I believe the government already has the right and power to control what people eat. People form the government, and people (ideally) choose the people to hold that power.

In part I, too have the right to control what people eat through voting.
Our studies have shown, that about 10% are first movers (willing to give up benefits, to become climate friendly eaters) and 80% will go with the default when it is acceptable. The last 10% would still need to be coerced actively by some kind of restriction.
There are depictions of cows and mention of amazon forest. Could this be about fast food industry ? Also need scales of damage for poultry, swine etc, not sensational articles about going from one extreme to the other. I don't eat much beef but do love steak twice a month, is it alot? I don't think so, mostly have chicken bc it is easier to prepare and it seems to be easier to digest.

at any rate i hope to see some scales for this sort of thing.
The attitude against genetically enhanced food is purposely promoted in Europe. You could say the attitude is not organic. :-)

It serves as a non-tariff trade barrier against the USA. Promoting this attitude serves the European agricultural producers, particularly the seed suppliers. European consumers of course pay higher prices.
Out of curiosity, which animals are more efficient? Do you have a source on that?

There are, as far as I know, regions where the soil is only capable of growing pasture, hard to plant trees in.
Birth rate seems to converge to 1-2 children per couple in advanced economies anyway.

Really we should be ensuring access to birth control and education in developing countries along with improving medical services to cut infant mortality (so that parents can be sure their young will reach old age and don't need to play it safe and have many young).

We are getting there slowly, but we could do more.
>adult don't need to drink any milk and many don't digest it well, by the way

Never understood the obsession with drinking milk on its own (though I never liked the taste of it myself either). There's plenty of calcium to be found in other sources: kale, leafy greens, almonds, fortrified grains, beans/pulses etc.
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I don't buy your labor shortage thesis because the vending machines are also commonplace inside restaurants in Korea, and there is certainly no labor shortage here. I think it's more of a cultural thing - Koreans (and Japanese) value efficiency more than Americans when it comes to eating out. Korean dining is the most standardized and efficient I've seen in the world.
I'm similar. Only eat meat if I go out at weekends or if there's some left over that needs to get used up. My wife and I almost entirely cook for ourselves and it's pretty easy to make nice vegetarian meals. I do a fair amount of weightlifting and like to get the protein in - quorn, soy, tofu, lentils and eggs are key. I also supplement daily with whey protein shakes and creatine. It's a bit of a hassle and sometimes I find myself dying for a nice bit of lamb or steak, otoh it's good to pay this level of attention to one's diet.
And meat from wild invasive species is even lower.
The real culprit is the uncontrolled population growth but nobody wants to talk about that.

Ok, let's assume that people do indeed eat too much meat and that we halve our current consumption. Population grows until it has doubled and the meat consumption is then back to the same level as to what it is now.

Eventually we can all be eating grass and rocks and there'd still be too much demand on nature crated by the existence of humans.

The only real long term solution is start limiting population growth drastically. Any crutch trying to limit energy and material consumption will not solve the root cause. (Ofc it still makes sense to cut off the excess and not be wasteful or a resource hog)

Personally I'd like to have only enough people on this planet, so that everyone can be fed and educated and have access to health care, sanitation and all the basic needs.
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This is the unfortunate truth and it's particularly bad beause the rich western countries that contribute the most to climate change will, in many instances, be the last to feel the effects. This in combination with decmoractic elections has the consequence that iniatives aimed at tackling climate change, all of which will have a negative impact on people's lives(percieved or not), will never be viable politics for any politcian who wants to stay in office.
Mother nature.
A DNS server can't help with that. You'd need a firewall.
Except this kind of reasoning accelerates the downfall. Very short sighted.
The same people who currently hold the right to destroy this planet and make it uninhabitable for all future generations.
Lots of deep technical detail, but where’s the leading sales pitch? Tell us what real-world Needs and Wants drove you to create it in the first place, and how your solution fits these problems better than popular established rivals.
Otherwise for any dev with experience, this is a dumb expectation.

A good website that demonstrates some ability to write frontend code well is a shortcut to demonstrating that you're good at what I want to employ you to do. It's a showcase of your skills, just as a graphic designer would have a Dribbble portfolio or a backend dev would have a few repos on Github. I'm not suggesting you can't get hired without a nice site, but if I get your resume you're much more likely to get a call for an interview if you do.
Given the extreme we are in yes, going to the other extreme would be a good thing. And even then, not enough. This is just one of the multiple changes that humanity need to bring about. I don't think people should be prohibited from eating animal products, but those who have the will to remove it completely from their diets would definitely be having a much higher positive impact on the environment.
> But this is an invisible blip on the radar compared to the climate impact of the meat industry

Me eating meat is an even smaller blip, why bother with taking my meat away?

The truth is that you have to lead also by example or you’re not credible.
Earlier discussion...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643257
Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint?
Was it the Therac-25 or the Therac-20? I thought 20s were unaffected.
Yes, living in Berlin I feel spoiled. When I was in South Korea, most of the time there was nothing vegetarian on the menu, in Berlin you have multiple vegan options and even more vegetarian options.

I believe restaurant options are very important since people learn from those and mimic them at home. We need restaurants to offer more vegetarian and vegan dishes for people to see that they can have a rich (IMHO richer) diet without meat.

I don’t know how to nudge the restaurants though. Lower tax on organic/sustainable food can be one thing, or even better subventions for such restaurants and produce. But most importantly the meat and dairy industry needs to get under real supervision. Governments all around the world have been looking away for far too long.
> The point with my example was that if 512 MB of swap would save you, then why wouldn't 8 GB of extra RAM save you?

Having 8 GB more RAM might avoid the issue, but it won't visibly degrade the system so you will not see that you're in trouble.

And again if you can have both, have both.

> Yes, if you run out of RAM, you're in trouble, but if you run out of RAM+swap you're in trouble too, so what's the point in adding a small 256 or 512 MB swap?

Because if you run out of RAM and have no swap, the system dies. If you run out of RAM and have swap, it starts swapping, which is noticeable.

> How about setting up some kind of alert when you're in your last half a gig or gig of RAM then? It seems like this would give a much better recovery experience. If its a server, you need an alert anyway since you're not going to notice the bad performance until its too late, most likely (you're not watching it 24/7 I assume).

If it's a server you need to do that anyway because the swapping will probably not be noticeable.
Springman, as cited in the report did a lot of calculations around this. He ended up with the minimal requirement for the average earth citizen with one portion of red meat per week. Check his definition of a flexitarien diet.
Making cars electric means they don't spew CO2, which is important so that the planet doesn't become uninhabitable (for us) BUT it doesn't actually stop them polluting.

Rolling at speed means two surfaces are ground together which will produce tiny particles of stuff that get stuck in your lungs. Which causes a statistically detectable increase in breathing problems, thus a small bump in deaths.

Getting rid of motor traffic in city centres mitigates this problem, regardless of whether the cars are ICE or electric. We can't make it go away altogether because rolling fast is very useful - the public transport will be doing it too, but we can significantly reduce it.
That's not entirely true - veganism has made massive strides in the last few years simply because more information is becoming available about the environmental, ethical and (arguably) health issues surrounding our heavy meat consumption.

Millions of people are already voluntarily reducing their consumption and now virtually every restaurant in the UK has vegan options, making it easier for more people to switch.

I live in the outskirts of a relatively small, low-income industrial city and there are signs outside small shops and restaurants everywhere promoting their new vegan menus. A traditional pub near me has no fewer than 14(!) plant-based main courses.

I'd love to see tax incentives that reflect the damage that the meat and dairy industry are doing (ending the massive government subsidies would be a good start), however the changes I've seen in the UK give me hope that the grassroots level can sway public opinion without forcing people to change via legislation.
> Facebook could arguably do some nebulous bad thing with their facial recognition data.

Theo already did a bad thing with their picture data by applying facial recognition to it! I never consented to this use of my pictures and am explicitly against it. Yet they did it anyway. Hence the lawsuit.
There's a good case to be made for humans being primarily meat eaters for much of our history and only eating plants as an alternative to starving - we certainly haven't had time to evolve to eat a vegetarian diet. Agriculture has only been around for a small fraction of our history and the skeletal record clearly shows how disasterous it was for our health.

The current 'plant based' fad diet recommendations are backed up by some very poor science and may be seriously unsuitable for humans and for children in particular, nutrition-wise. Animal agriculture is not even a major source of human emissions so to call for changes to our natural diet seems very premature.
Similarly, but I dot my zeros to distinguish them from the null / empty-set symbol ∅ (and from the Scandinavian Ø).
You're right. I was thinking of things like rocket physics (the US gained many great engineers and physicists from German and to some degree Russia). Example would have been better if I specified "rocket physics" or "aircraft engineering". Let's proceed on that basis.

"unfamiliarity with the rules of the normative allows the unscrupulous to corrupt the positive. "

Which rules of the positive are you talking about? Your rules? My rules? Trump's rules? Hitler's rules? Confucius' rules? Jesus' rules? Mohammed's rules?

The point is that the normative doesn't have rules in the same way as the positive. You can do a science experiment to objectively show Lysenkoism is wrong. You can't do a science experiment to objectively show that slavery is wrong.

Given that there are so many systems of rules of the positive, there's no way you can teach one as the rules the way you can teach physics.

My fear with such courses is that they just end up as moral propaganda for whoever is in power - empowering the powerful.
Not wise, unless the candidate's site happens to be an explicit showcase of their professional skills and intended to be such.
No, Amazon weren't the first to have one-button buy. Filed in 1994 (the year of the first WWW):

> the client computer will know which item is currently being offered for sale. In such a case, the viewer will be able to order it by Simply pressing one button on the TV remote

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/0a/99/bd/431ac01...

They were the first do this "with a shopping cart", and needed a patent examiner tell them how to get the patent claims approved. Genius(!)

> The Patent Owner is also advised that claims 1 and 11 would be considered to be patentable if they were amended to recite providing a shopping cart model

http://homepages.uc.edu/~armstrty/AmazonReExam-20071009.pdf

This is what is wrong with the US PTO: old inventions are patentable for new applications as long as it is novel, without consideration for inventiveness. Is it the "Guinness World Records" of invention, where you can be awarded for using a saw "in a musical ensemble".
>> If you had one of the coin ops, chances are your electric and gas were on coin operated meters too - with the landlord of your flat or bedsit setting their own markup on that meter...

Some friends of mine who lived in London had an electricity meter that they had to recharge with cards they got from the corner shop. This was in 2005 or so. Do you know how common this is in London, or the rest of the UK, nowadays?

At the time I had found it at the very least a huge hassle. It was one of those things when I first got to the UK that I just couldn't comprehend.

Another one: when I got my first check from my job at the time (working at a warehouse) I went to the bank to collect it and the bank said I had to wait for a week to make sure the check wouldn't bounce and I think to ensure I wasn't money laundering. I couldn't believe what they were telling me, so I asked the people I worked with who confirmed it. Except, they said it wasn't a big deal: you just go to a shop, give them the check and they give you 80% of your salary. So you don't have to wait for a week.

So wait, I work all week, then the bank will treat me as a potential criminal and some financial parasite will suck off 20% of my salary as a consequence? And the people I worked with just shrugged it off. It was considered just normal. I told people Back Home (in Greece) about all this and they just didn't believe me.
I heard that corn farming is subsidized in the US, which is also used to feed cows?
Well, I look at climate change heroes like Al Gore, jetting around the world and spending his resources graciously. If he can do it, why not me?

EDIT: also note that he has 3 rich kids. Is this more eco friendly than eating meat?
"which the media conveniently seem to neglect to mention"

What? No. These are well-known structural problems that are mentioned often. I mentioned one related to funding residency programs.

Another which has come up is the lack of public pricing information. Eg, "how much does it cost to give birth at your hospital if there are no complications?" - https://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11591592/birth-cost-hospital-bi... . (I believe this information is now required to be public.)

A third is how Medicare is prohibited from negotiating for better drug prices.

The exact details of your comments are important because if you don't know the source of the problems - which in part are due to the same federal government that you pin your hopes on - then you are at a high risk of being manipulated by the same mistaken views that have perpetuated this broken system.

Take your final statement, "takes too long, too regulated".

That is a common talking point pushed by those who want to sell "drugs" that haven't been proven to actually work, and by those who are philosophically opposed to government regulations.

Quite simply, the US isn't the only country developing new drugs. Other countries have their own, different regulations, and if it were a simple matter of the US being "over regulated" then we see companies elsewhere doing significantly better.

Or, look at all the people who, desperate for treatment, go to another country with weaker regulations to seek an experimental treatment which not only doesn't work, but drains them of money, and sometimes makes things worse.
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Developing and getting approval for a new drug takes two decades and costs hundreds of millions. Part of that surely is patent cost buy the main parts are testing, animal and human trials and the approval process. The 'innovation' lie in telecomms (that you need high margins to assure innovation and investment) is surely not true but pharmaceuticals really are expensive to get from R&D to market. Companies with a big seller where the patent protection runs out, and that didn't succeedem to get another big drug to market, often sell themselves as they expect to go bankrupt or have to sell off their half-developed portfolio, which amounts to the same thing. Of course all a bit different for the big drug makers.

So maintaining the current system without patents seems difficult. But an option would of course be to shift the system - public investment for research and promising trials and then the result is free to use (or protected only for a short period).
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Because many vegetarians have elitist approach and meat eating people feel judged so they become defensive.
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Already submitted as Show HN 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19705440 (218 points/222 comments)
> I was projecting sales of $1M over the year. At 15% commission that would be $150k.

That's a pretty big difference indeed, that's more like a normal SV salary than a 'live for ever in Thailand' amount of money.
I've been for the last 6 months, spending maybe half that time living with a Korean family. I think I'm past the "tourist" phase.

Also I only mentioned Korea because I happen to be there right now, but functional transportation and not needing a car is also prevalent in Japan and much of Europe. America is pretty unique in its sprawl and car-dependence.
Most bread-and-butter sites are just fine as server-side rendered page. Large client-side frameworks reimplementing the browser and server functionality should be rare, when the situation actually calls for it.

If you really need a offline site then a simple service worker is all you need to cache the pages, not a big JS app.
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> A lot of people seem to equate this to “they’re telling me to stop eating meat”

Indeed, in fact the report's authors are keen to stress that this is not the case.
I challenge your opinion:

I wouldn’t call the world consensus of the IPCC poor science. It is actually the opposite: the best science we have available.

The report goes into depth about the health benefits these diets have also.
It wouldn't matter if we weren't so uptight about sex (thanks, christianity!) Granted what goes on behind your doors may not be what I want to see, but it should not cost you much more than a red face and some banter down the pub if it comes out. And perhaps not even that. Sex is sex, let's chill out about it.