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I would eat dog if it wasn't raised as someone's pet. Actually I just got back from Vietnam, and I'm pretty sure I ate both dog and cat at some point. Didn't bother me because they didn't raise them as pets. They raised them with the intention of eating every little bit (without wasting any part of the animal, I might add).

You can grow fond of plenty of the animals that we eat on a normal basis, pigs in particular. We also have a tendency to anthropomorphize animals which can lead to attachment.

Factory farming is indeed a huge problem, because it requires so much fossil fuel, grain, and antibiotics, and destroys the land and causes global warming. But the fix is not to stop eating animals, the answer is to go back to the roots of the ecosystem and actually raise more animals. Ever heard of Alan Savory? Check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
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The death penalty and locking up a fifth of the young black population is generally inconsistent with the other positions "people who oppose abortion" take, yet I don't see them doing much about that. If we can stop talking in such broad generalizations now...

Nobody who will be born in the future has been born yet. By choosing to use a condom or birth control, are we killing those people? What's the difference between a sperm being inside an egg and outside other than some sort of religious spiritual mumbo jumbo or philosophical possibility? At what point does a fertilized egg become a "person," and who are you to determine that?

All those progressive people you condescend to are not "supporters" of abortion. Almost nobody "supports" abortion, and hardly anyone is ok with late term abortion.

Those progressive people are generally thinking beings who have morality. They think about things rather than accepting an arbitrary criteria such as whether someone is born or not. For most it is whether the bundle of cells is a sentient being capable of experiencing, something a zygote most certainly is not. A zygote is not a person by any reasonable standard. It has the potential to become person with lots of help from its environment, as does every combination of viable sperm and egg on the planet.

Every sperm may be sacred, but every sperm is not deserving of equal protection.
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Avoidance of suffering is cognitively rather different from desiring to live.
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The #1 governmental tool for monitoring everyone right now is Gmail.

We should all be using encrypted mail all the time, but instead we just feed our mail to the FBG (Federal Bureau of Google).
You need to be aware that PhDs often make less or the same income as a "professional" degree holder does (for a higher student loan burden). That means if you feel that the experience will be personally enriching, the fact that it might not be financially enriching may not matter.
It's more efficient than 75 investors and $0.

Though seriously, there are no overnight successes and no-one is just going to give you $1m regardless of what we read on HN.

I don't have my notebook at hand to cite the exact number, but Matthew Prince of Cloudflare pitched to something like 60 or 70 investors. This was with Project Honeypot in the bag, and a stack of existing users via that, and the basis for what became Cloudflare tested.

My point is: Even with the idea and execution you're not just going to get the investment.

I think the real thing that Aihui achieved in a short time was to demonstrate determination, perseverance... and in the words of Mark Suster ( http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/11/15/invest-in-line... ) showed that her company (led by her) is a line going up and to the right, rather than a dot. It was most likely the weekly check-ins and constant hard grind at the communication that helped her get the investment.
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Neither your criterion, nor the pain criterion, are meaningful unless you believe in supernatural things like gods or souls. Believing in the supernatural without evidence is not what I would call rational - if you believe that, why not also believe in pixies in your garden, or Russell's Teapot?

Humans are just self-replicating collections of atoms that emerged through chance and evolution, and pain is just an emergent phenomenon formed by electrical impulses travelling over neurons to signal things that we evolved to avoid. So there is no absolute moral reason to protect the coherence of a particular collection of atoms over another, or to favour a doctrine of hedonism over pain.

Ultimately, to optimise for something, we need a criterion on which to optimise. For the above reasons, I consider preserving human biodiversity, or some kind of hedonic pleasure-pain balance as a fairly meaningless thing to pick as a fundamental thing to optimise for in the scheme of things (although it may emerge as a result of another more meaningful optimality criterion).

I consider the diversity of information / knowledge (that is, information that encodes something true about the world, not just random entropy) recorded in the universe in a form that can be processed by intelligently acting constructions to be a more fundamental thing to optimise for. Obviously, picking what to optimise for is completely arbitrary - it is used to justify everything, but it is like an axiom - there is nothing else to justify it in terms of.

Optimising for such knowledge means protecting the intellectual independence of constructions that create, process, and support the construction of such knowledge. Since this is primarily humans at the moment, this means ensuring that humans are not oppressed. Pain and fear of death are means of oppression of humans, and so it makes sense to ensure that living, thinking humans capable of knowing fear and feeling oppressed do not have to fear that they will be subjected to arbitrary death or pain for their intellectual activities.

One way to do this is to strictly enforce a no humans killing humans older then some certain amount of time after conception. If the amount of time after conception is too high, an age at which the person can know that they are at risk of death and fear it, then it will be oppressive. However, an embryo or fetus is very unlikely to be know that abortion exists, or to do anything differently to avoid it, and therefore abortion cannot be oppressive like murder or torture is. Anyone capable of knowing about abortion is too old to be killed deliberately by it.
I became vegetarian when I was sixteen under the influence of punk rock music :) The funny thing is that even though I have a much more nuanced opinion on the topic sixteen years on, I have lost the ability to see meat as a something separate from the animal itself. When I see slabs of meat in the supermarket, I don't think about how great it will taste, I just see a part of a cow, pig, or chicken. In other words, my reaction is much the same as yours would be if someone would be selling say, cat meat.

There is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance that is necessary to eat meat without feelings of guilt or disgust, and at the same time feel compassionate when animals of other species are hurt or killed. Once people become vegetarian, whatever the reason, they often lose that ability.

I know a few people who grew up vegetarian and never had the choice as a child. Because they never learned the difference between 'pig' and 'pork', 'cow' and 'beef', 'calf' and 'veal', it's often harder for them to make a conscious decision to start eating meat.
There is a difference between knowing that animals think and feel, and caring that animals think and feel.

I'm not trying to be funny here, I honestly don't care. Eating things that taste good is more important to me. Different people have different values, go figure.
It is important to look down as well as up when assessing one's position. However, such behavior is not natural, since our animal survival chances are general higher when we always strive for more, than if we grow complacent.
1. there's a vast difference between a third party simply tracking which sites i visit vs an app having access to my GPS location, address books, call history, etc.., whenever it pleases. with a web browser, i can "share my location" as i desire...if i want to find nearby restaurants on yelp's mobile site, i'll share my location once. with an app you just say "yes, you have permission to read my gps", you have no control of when or how often it does this.

2. on my desktop, there's no guarantee that any specific info will be in the same place. for example i use thunderbird portable in an encrypted container for my email and contacts. on a phone, your contacts are pretty much in the same place and every app knows how to get to them, there's much less variance.

3. you may have a point, but without a good mobile site, they can coerce people to use the app by providing a shitty experience in the browser, cause an app can get to a lot more of your juicy data which they crave.
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So if you found out people taste good?
I call myself a flexitarian. It's even in the dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flexitarian
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This. One of the things about vegetarian diets that rarely gets mentioned is that there are people whose body really profits from meat, while others' don't so much (this is why you get a lot of anecdotes like yours, but also a lot of people for which vegetarian diets do wonders). I read somewhere that it may be related to blood type, but I'm not sure about that, and certainly IANA biologist.
Many Federal contracts explicitly state that they must be the lowest rate being charged to any customer.
From the accounts I have read, I assume that they do. What is your point?
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My point is that I hope you don't find out where I live, because I don't want to be eaten. Also, that if you ever say it's wrong for anyone to murder anyone else, you'll be a hypocrite.
You have a point. I'm almost completely vegetarian (for ~20 years) and I try to avoid the issue, even if engaged about it, especially at mealtime.

It leads to conversations where people argumentatively try to find logical contradictions in my decisions. It's tiresome, because I can tell where it's headed before they even start ("But, is your belt leather?")

It seems more like they are trying to justify their own behaviors (which are even less well-grounded than mine), than to have a civil exchange of ideas.

And it happens not just with older males, but "logical" nerds as well (of all ages). ("Homo sapiens have evolved to be omnivores." -- gosh, I never thought of that before!)
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Thanks and sorry, I was clearly misinformed. I must have taken some "stuff they say on the Internet" at face value.
> In the animal kingdom, isn't death due to predators rather quick?

Not always. A lot of predator species are known to play with their prey.
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Hmm. I find it annoying too, but I can't help feeling that for my parents (and most other non-techie users) this level of control, with a single source of approved apps, is just great.
So you have proof that there are entities that fit an ideological profile that is consistent with pro Israel comments.

Now you have to show that the 'flood' of pro Israel comments are a result of this organization or others like it to game reddit.
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No one is arguing about sperms. Even though I consider myself progressive, I have a similar position as the parent comment author. Abortion in 24th week (which is the latest legal date) is WAY too late.
I wonder if we will ever have a day on HN without talking about death. Or if someone could write a filtering app.
Probably not very constructive: http://xkcd.com/1027/ - but true for me.
It's the terms of that $650k that matter...
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But is it more efficient than 0 investors and $0? It seems like if most people doing startups are having 70 investor meetings they could be better spending that time working on the product right? I think cloudflare is kind of an outlying example here.
And to think that this article doesn't even touch on the ability marketer's have to track you across multiple devices, locations, and other insight that Facebook allows.

I believe we're at a point where a legitimate proof of concept could emerge where given a first and last name of a person, one could theoretically track a person's location and browsing behaviors for an indefinite amount of time. Granted, it would require that the person not clear their cookies, grant geo-location on their phone and that you have a bit of money to ensure you win enough ad impressions in that time period. The takeaway would show that people aren't as anonymous as they think they are and that with enough money and motivation, someone could gain valuable insight into your behaviors.
> an age at which the person can know that they are at risk
> of death and fear it, then it will be oppressive

No one would really know about or have reason to fear getting killed for at least a few years after birth at the earliest...
Not just for mobile, but building a UI in html has always struck me as a hack. Mainly because the built-in components (dialogs, menus, buttons, etc) are lacking. And some components (tabs, overlays, etc) are missing altogether.

I think most front-end devs are so used to it now, that it doesn't seem bizarre to build tabs with a list element, float the items to the left, add a clearing div below the list, etc.
Don't worry, I lack the desire to eat humans and would not do so even if I had the desire.

Remember that thing I said about different people having different values? Well (although I suspect it may seem odd to you) I place more value in humans than I do in other animals. Kind of like how I place more value in family members than friends, and more value in friends than strangers. Although "because I want to" is sufficient justification for me to eat a non-human animal, it is not sufficient for me to eat a human. In my value system a strong necessity, not merely desire, would be required for me to do that. (Incidentally, the strength of the necessity required would be different for family, friends, and strangers...)

None of this should be surprising to you, unless either you honestly thing that omnivores don't realize that animals can feel things, or honestly think that omnivores are all casual cannibals... both clearly absurd things to think.
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But this also a the advantage when it comes to tooltips or clickable elements. In a canvas based chart there is no easy way to have to do this.
When a bank goes under, normally losses would hit the bond holders first, and only after that would depositors start to lose funds on amounts over €100k. Any amounts under €100k would be perfectly safe due to deposit insurance which is ultimately backstopped by the central bank via its ability to print money.

Cyprus banks are short about €16B that the Cyprus government does not have. They went to the EU/IMF and got €10B, leaving a €6B hole. In the normal course of events, the bondholders would lose everything (not significant for Cyprus banks; they're financed by deposits), accounts with over €100k would lose around 30% of the amount over €100k, and all other depositors would lose nothing.

Instead, the bond holders lose nothing, the depositors with over €100k lose only 9.9%, and the retirees and Cypriots with less than €100k in their accounts lose 6.75%.

In other words, ordinary savers are having their life savings confiscated in order to protect bondholders and Russian mobsters.

And, again, these savers are citizens of a EU country and Eurozone member who have been promised deposit insurance by their national government with the implicit promise that this would be backstopped by the EU, IMF, ECB. But their interests, it seems, are less important than the interests of the Russian oligarchs; after all we can't have them losing a significant amount of their uninsured deposits....
A great piece. Who was on crack over at Gourmet when they decided to send Wallace to a lobster boiling festival? Here's a capsule summary:

He travels to coastal Maine for the annual Lobster Festival. What begins as a witty, sometimes snooty point-and-laugh swerves into something altogether more uncomfortable when the author poses the question "Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?" "Consider the Lobster" originally appeared in Gourmet magazine, and it was controversial for all the obvious reasons. Few carnivores were amused by what they perceived as an attack on their morality.
Did playing that make anyone else nauseous?
Analogy-making is an important part of perception.
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> Your over-concern with animals and enlightenment as a teenager is only made possible by the advanced state of our civilization.

I think that's exactly the point of many vegetarians are making. In modern times, there is no longer any need to eat meat because cheap, healthy alternatives exist. Hence, eating meat is now a choice, and no longer a necessity.
Being a single founder how did the business travel during those 3 months of what must have been near fulltime fundraising?
Maybe he does know all of it but that is not directly implied. Just because one is keen on the two endpoints doesn't mean you've also got all of the creamy filling. There's quite a bit in between that one can be ignorant of and still be effective.
Saying "$X sucks" sucks. Even when it's accurate, it conveys little to no actual information.
I hope some day, you realize moral relativism is bullshit.
If we are accepting that animals and humans are generally treated differently (i.e., without equivalent levels of empathy), why should it be surprising that for some people that difference works out such that eating animals is okay?
What are the applications of this distinction?
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Who's standard of morality do you suggest I adopt? Yours?
How does that work if we could (can?) not prove that plants and the other sources of food can feel pain? Does eating at all become immoral?
As I said in my comment, keeping Bitcoins is like keeping cash - you can keep either and hide them. Yes, you can secure Bitcoins better than cash if you want to, but that is irrelevant to my point.

My point was that you can generally earn interest from a bank at better than inflation rates, and if Bitcoin becomes more mainstream, people will do exactly the same thing Bitcoin they do with cash - give control of it over to a bank, and get an account denominated in that currency (i.e. Bitcoin). Once you give the cash or Bitcoin, as applicable, to the bank, you no longer have it in your wallet / Bitcoin address, but instead, the bank promises that it will give you back that amount of Bitcoins, plus interest.

The bank promises to give you back a certain number of Bitcoins, but you don't have any physical way of enforcing that - it is the bank's Bitcoin address that holds them, not yours.

Other people borrow Bitcoins from the bank and have to pay back interest at a higher rate than the bank borrows it. Because of interest, banks collectively are owed more than actually exists in circulation at any one time, so Bitcoin becomes fractional reserve system.

Under this scenario, the government can still tell banks to reduce your balance (which is a number on your servers, and not physically enforced by the Bitcoin protocol). It doesn't affect BitCoins you hold in your own addresses (just like the Cypriot tax doesn't take a cut of money held as cash by individuals in Cyprus), but that might be only a small fraction of the Bitcoin economy in a future under a fractional reserve system.
I suggest you realize there is a standard of morality, then work on figuring out what it is.
I think, visiting a slaughterhouse should be a mandatory part of school education.
Live in BFE and need funding advice
Ok I'll make this short and to-the-point. I live in the south way out in the woods on the east coast. There are no big businesses here that are tech related. Most around here are cotton or textile mills. It just puzzled me how someone like myself that had a good idea and wanted to startup a company could do about getting funding since there is nothing like that around here. Most businesses here just go to the bank and get loans but I’m not for that. I’d rather not go into debt just to advance my life.
Any opinions would be great thanks :)
You do know that animals have to be fed stuff to grow?

I have a hard time believing that farming plants, feeding those plants to animals and then eating the animals is more efficient than just directly eating plants.
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Does that apply to plants? They're species too.
A dog bites a man, no news. A man bites a dog, news.
I agree that the principle of charity should be employed. Sometimes though, the conversation benefits from someone knowing why their arguments aren't solid.
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> You're acting like an eighth grader who just discovered logical fallacies on Friday.

Your defense of your first ad hominem is an ad hominem against the HN poster who called you out for it?

sigh...
In fact, we don't allow arbitrary violence to be performed on inanimate objects, for instance you might get in trouble for damaging the Statue of Liberty.

That's not a right of the object, it's a right of the people who own the object. If I make a replica of the Statue, I can do whatever I please with it, including burning it to the ground.
Perhaps... but birth is at least a bright line with a clear definition, and people are less likely to fear a slippery slope. If 'post-natal abortion' was allowed, I think people might fear a slippery slope where the deadline got later and later (and if it wasn't met with condemnation, some governments might even try to push the deadline out late enough to be oppressive).
I see no pressing need. My value system is flawed.. from your perspective. However I, not being you, don't see it as flawed and therefore see no reason to revise it.

Listen, I don't ask you to approve of what I eat (frankly, I don't give one damn about your approval). I expect that you will never agree with me. If you think resolving that is my intention, then you are dreadfully mistaken.
How says pigs get points?
That's the rough reality in China, 'cos basically all the media in China is manipulated by the gov, and they need to do what they are told, or else they will receive a big kick-ass "surprise", which is currently no one would be expecting. So lots of slapsticks like this happen in here from time to time.
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Just updated and closed this with an MIT license added to the docs and readme on Github.
well, it's pretty easy to go from canvas to png, which I think is more portable than svg + css
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1600x900 display [1], but I don't hold much hope that it will be an IPS screen. The screen viewing angle and lack of contrast is by far the worst part of my T410.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/17/lenovo-thinkpad-t431s-ult...