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Earlier this year I tried some of Burger King's plant-based (vegetarian) alternatives and I'd rate them as "meh".

They looked and felt like flatter, drier versions of the regular patties and the flavor wasn't bad but it also lacked something that you just can't really get without real meat.

Also IMHO products and companies should be banned from advertising using terms that are directly opposed to the product, like "Meatless Meat", "Fischstäbchen ohne Fisch" ("fish sticks without fish", a slogan by "iglo" for what's essentially just breaded veggie sticks). Just honestly call those products what they are, "meat alternatives", "meat replacements", "vegetarian/vegan alternatives", etc.
These would all be perfectly fine and in time people will get the idea.

And I say this all as someone who really likes meat and is curious about trying things like insect-based protein in the future but also really likes purely vegetarian or even vegan dishes.
> Nuclear energy is one of the most dangerous forms of energy as one mistake in handling nuclear power can cause loss of many lives and damage for centuries

I consider Nuclear Energy an insurance policy for the local civilization. As long as a nation runs this things, the people running the gov can not totally detach from the populace and can not go totally insane.

Well, at least I thought so until Zelynsky was elected.
You ignored the part where the atom is fired at such high speeds that it sees relativistic increase in mass.

I dunno if that works, but that's the part that matters in the explanation above, and that's the part you'll have to address.
Yeah, I'm ready.
To me, this seems subjective and grouchy. It might be that when you were growing up, things were a certain way, and now they're a bit different. You have a minor aesthetic disagreement. Some people like the shaky cam.
That's drawing on a canvas, not on the desktop that's currently being shared.
It doesn't help this winter, they can't install enough in time to really make a difference.
US government willfully asleep at the wheel and not exerting anything more than minimum regulatory pressure.
A lack of proper funding of well made things doesn't mean it won't be achieved ever. Many assumptions made in this post... makes it quite useless
I recently discovered this tool https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html and really like it. Essentially you just copy your iso files to the usb, and then on boot it gives you a menu to choose between them.
http://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/ works.
Speed isn't really the biggest factor for most of my node usage, though. Of course, if it's a drop-in replacement one might switch.

An aside, but as a non-native speaker and haven't heard of Bun before, an all-capitalized title is very confusing. "Who is Will Bun"?
I have read these quotes from Alan Moore online, but then, the actual text of the book is different.

Rorschach is clearly portrayed as a hero, despite his issues and his crazy-right views. He is the one that stays to his morals and is martyred in the end.

Maybe Alan did not intend to do that but the book just does that.
Pooled JDBC connections work this way in Java.
Subsidies. Meat is INCREDIBLY well subsidized (at least in the US). Most or all animal agriculture is.

It’s maddening when people use the myth that “veganism is classist because it’s much more expensive” to justify their penchant for animal abuse because they couldn’t be more wrong.
Could do with some optimisation. Runs very slow for me.
I've owned maybe 150 cars (personal ownership plus buying and selling). 100k miles is the usual point. Ive never owned one that had made it past 150k without needing a clutch. Many much sooner (town use only cars, maybe 50k?). Dual mass flywheels are always changed at the same time due to labour costs. A friend has a 2013 T5 van that needed it doing at 50k, bill was £1300. He never loads the van up (it's a people carrier really), and has done some long road trips as well.

Id suspect you do lots of highway miles with no gear changes (hence no clutch wear). Manufacturers now aim for ideal 150K life on a clutch, but that's aspirational, not the median by any means.
There are lots and lots of places where flood insurance isn’t available because flooding is likely.

All risk assessment involves local conditions. Determining what is tail risk and what is likely is a central part of the exercise.
> In the same city, with the same infrastructure, I see with my own eyes bikes and electric scooters disappearing in winter and reappearing in spring. That'd be just impossible if climate had no bearing and only infrastructure mattered.

They aren't saying weather doesn't matter. Just that people use weather as an excuse for bad infrastructure which matters much more, and is easier to change.

Also, people may not be aware that e-bike cargo van deliveries are already a thing in urban areas. Being enclosed from the rain is not a unique advantage of cars and removing cars from urban areas as much as possible is a necessary first step.

You might say, well that's just a small electric car and technically you'd be correct. A small, light, electric "car" that can intermix with pedestrians and cycles and wheelchairs and mobility scooters.
Ah, my mistake. Your number matches gasoline refinement (I see 85% quoted), but that's only one part of the gasoline supply chain.
Would you mind explain and source your claims?
I was going to respond to you point by point, but I realised halfway through you might not read it anyway, so I will focus on two misunderstandings you seem to hold, that affect all of your questions:

First, this is a very revealing question:

> Can I give out loans with crazy interest rates? If yes, you just legalised debt bondage, a form of slavery.

For a loan to turn into slavery, you presuppose a system that can by threat of violence convert debt to forced work. In a true anarchy, there's just no way to go from debt to forced work.

Under anarchy, debt is a voluntary cooperative agreement between two people where they think one can use the pooled resources of both more effectively than they could alone, in exchange for a cut of the fruit of the labour.

Both parties enter into this agreement fully aware that those fruit may never materialise and, critically, that there is no way to employ violence to ascertain that they do.

However, a community is not made out of two people. If one person routinely dishonours their loan agreements, they will find it hard to cooperate with other vital functions of society, for example to acquire food or tools or utilities or communication.

This leads into your second misunderstanding. You seem to imagine that a person under no regulation can "build up as far as I want".

As an individual, there is only so far up you can build. Realistically, you can personally forage material and build for at most 10 hours per day and then you need to forage food and get rest. As an individual, you cannot use machinery because you cannot, as an individual, get the petroleum to drive the machinery.

If you are going to build anything of consequence, you need to enlist the help of other people. In a capitalist society, this is somewhat easy: you can convert capital into tall buildings, regardless of what the local community wants. This is why capitalism needs regulation, to account for what the local community wants.

In an anarchist organisation, you will find it really hard to recruit builders that will voluntarily ruin their own local environment.

This theme continues throughout your comment:

- if you block my solar panels and the community disagrees with your reasoning, you might find it hard to live comfortably in that community because other people will be less inclined to help you acquire your creature comforts.

- if you start a pyramid scheme and call it a bank, the community bank rating association will give it a shitty score.

- if you repeatedly lie about the items you are selling, you will get a bad marketplace rating too -- just like what happens already in less regulated markets today.

- free banking was never the disaster currency monopolists would like it to be. Sure, it had its fuckups, but so does the current system. The problems may even have been more frequent, but also of a much lower magnitude.
the "meat" in "meatless meat" describes a texture and taste profile, not an ingredient. It is easier to communicate than, say, "chewy but soft, fibrous proteins which taste is usually determined by umami and maillard reaction flavors".

There is a large community around new recipes for this taste profile, e.g. https://seitansociety.com/ .

compared to the logistics (animal farming and slaughter pipelines), artificial inseminations, medical interventions (antibiotics), storage and food safety concerns around meat, plus the incredible daily amount of animal suffering caused by this consumption, I don't see meat as a "natural" product. all the steps in the "production" process can introduce factors that can degrade the quality and be risky to health (e.g. not cooled at appropriate temperature, antibiotics treatments to animals etc), while with plant proteins, you have far less processing steps between field and table. to vegans and people concerned with reducing global warming, the benefits outweigh the different composition by far.
> Documentation is limited, but Bun’s Discord is very active and a great source of knowledge.

:-1: I loath to use discords search interface to look for information. I'm sure the Bun team doesn't see this as an end goal, but I wish forums were still a thing. At least they're mostly indexed.
I'm legitimately happy you are content and satisfied.

I have a half dozen coworkers who value family, church, and hard work. Most of them are stress-eating themselves to death. They binge shop on Amazon, buy cars and houses they can't afford or enjoy, and generally seem to hate going home at the end of the day. I've seen them beg to be allowed to come back into the office, so they can escape their family. They seem to have loveless marriages, and dread the weekend.

I don't agree that traditional values is the cure for all humanity's woes. Perhaps some of these people you talk about would be happier with a traditional life, but then perhaps some people with a traditional life would be happier with something more freeing.

And perhaps there's many more dimensions at play, not just values.
Malicious usage of the tags from the sponsorblock community
It makes sense for those whose primary motivation for seeking out these products isn’t personal health, but ethical or environmental concerns.
Yes, complete with quotes. The person who put magnets in her fingertips was kind of interesting and gained a sense, at least.
There are people for whom GoT is their window into the past, specifically the Middle Ages. This is about as true as King Arthur’s Round Table. Sure, people fought with swords and rode horses, but most of the rest is pure bunk (although admittedly enjoyable!)
Dragons. magic, etc.
How do you arrive at the conclusion that the best thing to do in the US is switch your meats?

Every form from animal protein is going to be less efficient than plant protein and result in more emissions [1]. There are some amazing Kurzgesagt videos exposing how and why that is true [2].

So since we know that eating animals is not required to be healthy at any stage of life [3] (assuming basic access to required nutrients and what not which is very easy in developed countries) how did you arrive to conclusion that eating chicken is better than eating lentils, beans, etc?

I don’t think what you’re saying is based in fact. I’d love if you tried to prove me wrong though.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore

2. https://youtu.be/F1Hq8eVOMHs

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19562864/
Giant voids of nothingness may be flinging the universe apart
I'm curious, if you've been a programmer, one of the most in demand proffesions out there,
Why would you tolerate 10-12 hour days 6 days a week? What motivates you to not get a more time balanced job?
Are you arguing that you can’t avoid using a bank, or that your deposits are not a loan to the bank?
Its natural and easy to find the bad parts of a new solution. EVs are not perfect. EVs definitely have problems. There are better solutions if you maximize for energy efficiency. People didn't buy ICE cars to be energy efficient, and they won't buy EVs to be energy efficient. They buy them because having a car is an integral part of a certain lifestyle. That lifestyle may not be equitable or sustainable; handling that problem is a different challenge.

- but -

We lack an intimate and personal understanding of the byproducts of ICE cars. We use a liquid fuel that we rarely actually see. The emissions are almost completely in gas form that we don't see. You don't have to "unload" bricks of CO2 and particulate from your vehicle.

But imagine what it would be like if you did. Imagine if CO2 was sludge that you had to handle. For every 10 gallons of gas you put into a car (approximately 70 pounds) you would have to unload approximately 200 pounds of CO2 (not counting water or other byproducts). You would have to find a place to put that. Do you drop it off at the filling station? What do they do with it? How many trips would you have to make to unload it? A 5 gallon bucket of water weighs about 40 pounds, if our sludge had that density, it would be 5 of those 5 gallon buckets. Many people struggle to carry a 5 gallon bucket (not you dear reader, other weaker people).

I don't think CO2 is actually toxic sludge, this is a mental exercise. I do think CO2 is a pollutant. I think if we had to personally and physically deal with CO2, no one would bitch about the minerals used in EV production.
Most is used for heating and industrial processes. Only 15% of Germany's electricity production uses gas, although the use is likely not evenly distributed (gas peakers).
From Zero to Game Designer: how to start building video games
Uhm, I've worked on both free software projects that were "a giant hairball" and on nicely structured things to be proud of.

Whoever has ever done something knows that you can help someone more with a messy project that does something than a near-perfect codebase that does nothing of value. And you publish something to help someone else!

A personal project can be done to achieve something or to aim for that illusive perfection we can never achieve at work (or both, ofc: it's not a XOR). Neither is to be discounted!
Even if financial literacy is poor… does that make it “false advertising”?
> the old bank accounts contain have actually dropped in value

How? What happened to that currency since deposit?
Until we get a paper with some observations that indicate a problem, there's not a lot for the scientific community to go off, here..
Citation needed, I'd say.

I'd expect housing, healthcare, education, food, clothing, and transport to be bigger.

Anecdotally, I spend more on optical care and on fresh apples and oranges than I do on smartphones most years. Clothing, much more. Housing costs, orders of magnitude more.

Or did you mean "confining ourselves to goods with semiconductors in them"? Then cars are a bigger market. Probably kitchen appliances too.
Right, I suppose that is another option. That just involves a bunch of manual labor which I am not too excited about but it really doesn't seem like there is an easy option. Sigh.
Subtitles vs dubs/voiceovers are largely a cultural thing. I envy countries where movies/tv shows are pretty much exclusively subtitled, for example Sweden. Coincidentally, Swedes seem to be really fluent in English on average.

It's a win-win: you absorb languages for free as a child, and you later get to enjoy art in its original unmutilated form.
:mrgreen:
> “This is a puzzling move on Apple’s behalf, because Telemoji would have brought an entire new dimension to its static low-resolution emoji and would have significantly enriched their ecosystem.”

This guy talks like a press release.

> The update is loaded with other new emoji improvements, though. Users who subscribe to Telegram’s recently-launched $4.99 Premium service will be able to upload and use custom emoji in chats with friends, and Telegram is offering 10 custom packs with more than 500 emoji to start.

Actually, this whole article sounds like an advert. Has The Verge stooped so low they are now doing undisclosed advertorials?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina

> Since independence from Spain in 1816, the country has defaulted on its debt nine times
I understand where you're coming from. Growth has worked well for the past 80 years (for some definition of 'well').
I think human contentment should be the key metric, not growth though, for all our sake. Growth is an means to an end, right? Otherwise we're just paperclip maximizers.

There is of course the question of measuring that.

I think there's good evidence to show an excess of wealth (thus power / corruption) in the hands of a small group of people is detrimental to overall contentment.

The communist regimes of the 20th century didn't remove this wealth + power disparity between elites and proles and that is why it failed, along with aggressive competitive moves from and towards the U.S.

I wonder if green socialism in a circular economy has a hope of working outside of a global hegemony though.
I think in the legend,

2021 should be 2027 and
2017 should be 2021.

Otherwise I doesn't make sense to me. Maybe someone wrote by accident 2017 instead of 2027 and then swapped the legend so that it fits the graph's message.

Still, wondering why 6 co-authors, one editor and several peer-reviewers didn't notice it.

Or am I getting the graph wrong?
Police are currently being paid like $70 a week.
With al these planned obsolescense gimmicks I’d think the replacement market will be there quite a while.
The video is very unconvincing, unless I misunderstand what they're trying to achieve. Even with all the friction and air resistance in the environment, they didn't manage to rotate even a quarter of a turn. Even when it looked like it was working, the direction would sometimes invert for no apparent reason. You can do better than that just by shuffling around on an office chair.
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I doubt that there can be objectivity in music. It seems that even the basic notion of consonance is an acquired one, and people learn it from others. But when all the people got the idea of consonance as a pleasant sound, this idea becomes a very real thing. One can even say an objective thing. A social reality, where the choice between two hypotheses in your question dissolves because both hypotheses become essentially the same.

It is objectively good because we were told it is good. And we were told it is good because it is objectively good.

It is just like other phenomena of social reality. Money is valuable because people believe they are valuable, and people believe that money is valuable because money is valuable.
If it would be relevant for the models (e.g. to prepare for prolonged cloudy periods where the net has to step in more), I suppose you could account for rooftop generation in your models by comparing energy consumption from the net on both cloudy and sunny days.
His late wife… she was however a pretty significant figure in modern vegetarianism
If the US was actually interested in following the document, you might be able to make that argument.
Not astronomers but naval navigators. UTC is direct descendant of time signals broadcast by naval observatories as a companion for their naval almanacs. It ended up as general civil time pretty much because it was there and there wasn't much competition around.

Besides when UTC was standardized and adopted in the sixties, software wasn't really much of a concern
Why do you think so as the page literally goes on stating that the results are non- reproducible and we're heavily over exaggerated (not by the researcher though)
I think the reason programmers don't unionize is some are 10x better than others, so they don't want to get the same wages as 1x programmers. Conversely, something like airline piloting or being a factory worker or nurse can be done much more equally by everyone in the field, so they are more likely to unionize. Are there wild variations in talent of VFX professionals?
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I do not understand why this is downvoted. I see a fatalism in my peers that causes incredible stress. I think of animals that won't breed in captivity when there's too much noise or not the right food, but instead attack each other and self-harm.

We have high stress, lots of convenient unhealthy food, lots of noise and light, long hours, and the awareness that the planet is getting more hostile to human life. Of course we're biting and scratching each other, performing self-harm, and not reproducing.
The only people who like shaky can are those who haven't experienced real, well choreographed, action sequences that are clear and visible.

It works in some scenarios but really has been used a lot, likely predominantly, to obscure unreality.
I don't think defining something as undefined is buggy per se. That's not what I've meant.

But defining some things in a contradicting manner would make up a buggy spec, I guess.

Regarding the int example, funny enough I made a comment about that just before here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457056
Why? As long as the fake numbers in the bank accounts don't leave the "system" does it really matter?
No, I was not referring to or using Tornado as example here. I was referring to US sanctions on Russia forbidding trade, therefore causing Russia to fall back on their reserves and unable to access further USD reserves.

Cryptocurrency is vulnerable to this as well because, even if you have a cold wallet and run your own node, your transactions are still public and taint every wallet that receives your coins. Vendors might not want to trade with you so that they don’t get the same treatment, exchanges might not want to risk their entire liquidity to cash your BTC out, etc.
A CoW filesystem itself is not much more complicated than a plain filesystem. Or maybe a CoW softraid, with the filesystem existing at a different layer.

ZFS has countless bonus tunables, several types of caching distinct from the kernel VFS cache, its own write logs and special devices, multiple levels of topology (datasets in a pool consisting of vdevs consisting of drives), deduplication, compression, etc.

It is also not at all user friendly. When set up right (and no changing your mind on setup), and when fed enough resources, it does it's job well, but simple or elegant cannot describe it.
Honestly, if you really do, I think you will sooner or later escape from such behaviour.

Switching meats was my first step
Not sure what sort of code for you write but recursion and linked lists are incredibly helpful.
Can anyone recommend a source for setting up an environment in Linux to run the code in this book?

Do I need to learn eMacs to get close to a “modern lisp” programming environment?
If I need to advise someone anything, I give that person this link https://prism-break.org/.
People are free to do whatever they want of course. As a consumer (and investor having lost a significant amount on Beyond Meat), I think this is a pretty bad differentiator as the product always going to be compared to meat instead of being allowed to be its own thing.
My bad: I was going to link to deeper into the docs but I changed my mind… guess I mangled the link.