etrabroline

5 年前議論

I think these kinds of Cybersecurity issues will be used opportunistically to justify regulations that infringe on privacy and give more access to governments. I'm reminded of how the lead up and aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks were used to justify the PATRIOT Act.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

I don't think its reasonable to demand people pepper every comment with citaitons and links for things that can easily be found with a quick internet search.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

> Boards should have more apprehension about their companies being exploited as political platforms by employees.

The ownership of these companies are the ones pushing these politics. Their employees are just pointing out their hypocrisy.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

Coming up with a poll question where any answer you give will be interpreted as support for the pollster's politics is an art. I totally believe that poll. A lot of those people probably wish they could express an ANTI-work opinion at work, but we'll never know how many because the poll was designed to not reveal exactly how popular or unpopular woke politics are.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen

Do you think these maybe have more to do with causing those differences in the first place?

etrabroline

5 年前議論

>probably goes back tens of thousands of years

I think you're off by several orders of magnitude, but yea it goes back a long way lol

etrabroline

5 年前議論

Why do you think those parents think that? Would any parent have thought that 50 years ago? No way.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

Do you think the Israeli government was telling the truth when it denied using the phone call records transmitted to Amdocs' servers in Israel for intelligence purposes?

etrabroline

5 年前議論

Any report that cites the navy videos from last year is not going to be very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA

Videos of blurry splotches and eye witness testimony that repeats the word "technology" over and over to imply that unlike the last 6, _this_ blurry splotch is an alien spacecraft is really just annoying at this point.

EDIT: Hey judge2020 did you watch Dr Mason's analysis I linked above? It's very informative and pretty entertaining too. I'll take your downvote as a no.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

>chronically-suffering animal’s life

I don't think most farm animals are suffering through their entire life. They seem pretty all right to me. Factory chicken farms should be banned but not all meat.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

> Removing grazing animals from the land can allow for reforestation and increase biodiversity and carbon sequestration

Ok. How much land could be reforested that way? Most grazing happens in places that are naturally pasture and were never forest like Texas and Argentina. Northern cali isn't exactly known for beef.

2/3rds of land used for grazing being unsuitable for farming sounds like a lot to me.

EDIT: drooly, HOW MUCH land would become forested if cattle were removed? Because if it's like 1 acre then its not really a good argument for banning all meat. Also I explicitly said I DO think we could survive on an all vegetarian diet I just don't see any reason to do it.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

I can respect that. Slaughterhouses are not pretty places. The weirdness is when you consider that the animals only exist because people raised them for their meat, is it really less cruel for these animals to never exist at all? I think we have to accept that both man and nature can and must be cruel at times.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

And yet it's true. 2/3rds of pasture is not suitable for agriculture and would be worthless without ruminants. The corn-fed cattle industry in the US is a result of energy being cheap and labor being expensive. Less than 20% of beef is farmed that way.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

That land is called marginal land, or pasture. You can't grow crops there economically r do anything else really. Removing the grazing animals from the land changes nothing and does not improve the environment at all. That land would be worthless if not for grazing animals.

I'm not sure there is enough arible land to support the human population without grazing animals. I suspect anything is possible with enough technology and money, but matthewmorgan is correct in being concerned.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

Precisely this. A blog gets to decide what comments to allow. But if Facebook wants to connect everyone in my country then we as a people have a right to decide what is allowed and what isn't, not some billionaire. This is especially egregious for people outside the US where Facebook is a foreign company.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

I've seen this argument a lot recently. "If we screw other people in a sufficiently convoluted and Rube-Goldbergian enough way then it's almost like we're not screwing over anyone at all!"

etrabroline

5 年前議論

Train stations are cheaper than airports. California High-Speed rail line plus a few stations is most certainly not.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Con...

>In March 2018, the Authority revised its estimate to $77.3 billion and up to $98.1 billion, pushing initial service to 2029 and services from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 2033

The cost of Ca HSR has gone up to $98 billion. There is no way building even 6 airports could possibly cost that much, and you can build the airports when you need the capacity one at a time and airports support travel to anywhere in the world, not just the handful of other cities in California the rails connect to.

https://www.therichest.com/luxury-architecture/10-most-expen...

> #1: Kansai International Airport - $20 billion

So California could build 5 huge earthquake proof airports in the middle of the ocean including sea wall and bridge for the cost of HSR. It just makes no sense. I'm not opposed to rail or high-speed rail. But the places where better public transportation are needed are mostly in the US North East where density is much higher. Existing rail infrastructure is crumbling in the North East while California asks for Federal money for white elephant boondoggles like Ca HRS. It's infuriating.

etrabroline

5 年前議論

There were opportunists on both sides but the blockstream people argued that purely observational non-mining nodes somehow 'secure' the network despite having no effect and need to be possible to run with a non-broadband connection and less than 100GB of free disk space. Satoshi himself in the Bitcoin whitepaper estimated higher bandwidth and storage requirements for nodes than what the blockstream employed devs said were too high. The point of Wall Street getting involved was to kill Bitcoin as a currency and turn it into a pure speculator's playground. (aka bitcoin as gold)

etrabroline

5 年前議論

>they only lose flexibility when compared with cars

Planes fly in more or less straight lines from source to destination, and adding a new route is just some paperwork and renting the terminal space. No multi-billion dollar investment to connect a new nearby or distant city.

>flexibility of busses is not the same as the flexibility of a bus

Again, he means the flexibility of adding new routes, not having the bus pick you up at your hotel.

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