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…
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…
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…
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…
Cow feed is generally not human edible: https://www.milkmeansmore.org/what-do-cows-eat/
Yes this is correct, I'm guilty of oversimplifying.
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…
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…
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 important…
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…
If the seaweed is a pure win, then I agree with this. I just think a deeper understanding is also worthwhile.
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…
Thanks, my mistake
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?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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…
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…
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…
This is nothing unusual. Ballmer and many other male CEO's have been treated abusively. People only notice it more because she's a woman.
Bush + Obama eschew privacy. Bush + Obama wage wars on terror. Bush + Obama spend shit loads of money. Bush + Obama bail out large corporations. I don't really care what word you want to use to describe them, but…
> Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions This is wrong enough to make me stop reading.
C++11 and C++14 make the language bigger, which doesn't address the problem of the language being too big.
The tutorial does a great job of explaining why this is interesting: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-... For example, the pwd function returns a FilePath type rather than a String: Prelude…
They've become smaller and more maintanence-free than you might expect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
It should be noted that the nix package manager (http://nixos.org/nix/) already has: * Atomic upgrades * Rollbacks * Reproducible builds As well as a bunch of other solutions to common annoyances all as a result of an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cow feed is generally not human edible: https://www.milkmeansmore.org/what-do-cows-eat/
Yes this is correct, I'm guilty of oversimplifying.
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…
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…
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 important…
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…
If the seaweed is a pure win, then I agree with this. I just think a deeper understanding is also worthwhile.
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…
Thanks, my mistake
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?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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…
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…
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…
This is nothing unusual. Ballmer and many other male CEO's have been treated abusively. People only notice it more because she's a woman.
Bush + Obama eschew privacy. Bush + Obama wage wars on terror. Bush + Obama spend shit loads of money. Bush + Obama bail out large corporations. I don't really care what word you want to use to describe them, but…
> Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions This is wrong enough to make me stop reading.
C++11 and C++14 make the language bigger, which doesn't address the problem of the language being too big.
The tutorial does a great job of explaining why this is interesting: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-... For example, the pwd function returns a FilePath type rather than a String: Prelude…
They've become smaller and more maintanence-free than you might expect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
It should be noted that the nix package manager (http://nixos.org/nix/) already has: * Atomic upgrades * Rollbacks * Reproducible builds As well as a bunch of other solutions to common annoyances all as a result of an…