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https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/animals-eat-animals No, obviously vegans think arresting bears is dumb. This same "lions tho" argument has been made enough times to become a meme…

And the ideal number of suicides is 0, and the ideal amount of spyware is 0, etc. All of these are targets, but an ideal doesn't give you further information on how to prioritize

My thoughts exactly. My overall takeaway from sleep research is that although there are some health risks with undersleeping, there are (possibly greater) health risks with oversle…

Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue

Insofar as I can tell, thermostats have a 0% chance of feeling pain (or as close to 0 as is logically possible), so I see no need to afford them moral consideration. If we had evid…

I do think there's a big moral difference between species. I care about protecting a human from suffering much more than a dog, a dog more than a mouse, a mouse more than a cricket…

How would you make the argument for plants or AI? It seems sensible to say - these creature with nocicepters and familiar aperture for feeling pain, who react to to bodily damage i…

Generally speaking, the highest birth rates aren't in the types of counties overrepresented on HN. Our best shot for reducing the global birth rate is improving education in develo…

Totally agree with this. Rimworld itself is amazing and I highly recommend it, but I'm lukewarm on how much value I've gotten from the Royalty expansion. It's cool , but the mods a…

It feels like profoundly missing the point to sell NFTs (with their associated heavy environmental costs) in the name of ecological preservation. Besides that, I still fail to see …

If people are really willing to pay for crappy phones that come installed with political apps and news feeds meant to flatter their ego instead of providing any actual news, I'd sa…

I think this is such a massive and fundamental restructuring of the US's historical way of doing things (and the popular conception of "how it should be done") that pushing for inc…

As in UBI? That's the only experiment I know of (or at least, politically feasible experiment) trying to decouple physical necessities and employment. I guess you bring up an inter…

So basically it's existing hardware/software doused in snake oil and sold at a $350 upcharge? A terrible product, if this review is accurate. But you have to at least admire their …

For the sake of my own sanity, if nothing else, I am going to choose to believe that this isn't the majority opinion. I don't think Objectivism is quite that popular.

In your opinion, what is the minimum standard of living that someone who works full-time deserves? ( / what is the minimum that someone who works full-time and has dependents deser…

We've tried the no-minimum-wage experiment before.[0] A lack of minimum wage tends to lead to extremely exploitative wages for workers without skills in high demand. If you agree w…

What are the best ways to feed advertisers incorrect data? If they already have valid data on who I am and what I do, what could make them overwrite this knowledge?

The most obvious issue would be that the 6,000 figure in the article was pre-pandemic, so it might be much higher now. Also, I don't know the economics of homelessness, but I feel …

I'm glad they're trying to work on offering these people services to help them get safe housing, rather than just kicking them off the land to be homeless somewhere else. Obviously…

You lost me at the vegan part? I agree that this is a major source of error in a lot of studies like these, though.

How likely are these numbers to be accurate? This Swiss study of 431 adults gives a 26% incidence of "Long Covid" at 6-8 months. But another study that I'm more familiar with that …

Yes, of the 177 million doses of vaccine given in the U.S., there have been ~1000 reports of heart issues. Amounts to ~0.000006% of people who receive the vaccine (in the U.S.) hav…

> You’re doing it again, just stop, it’s not your job to convince people :) > “It’s ok to make a choice, but here’s the consequences asshole” > It’s exactly what I’m opposed too. Y…

You cited the CDC, but now that the figure you used has been cleared up, you no longer like the CDC as a source? > Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, includi…