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> Please re-read the emphasis I've been placing on the sorts of facilities I'm defending. Please reread my comment, I am talking about farms (specifically chicken farms where 10% o…

You’re ignoring my point. Every single day the average person will actively benefit from the direct, quantifiable harm of individuals animals — your lunch, your dinner, there’s pro…

Zoos have nothing to do with my beliefs around animal welfare and that assumption shows your blinkered view of this problem. The fundamental problem is that humans view animals as …

Except we have zoos now and we treat animals very poorly, consider the billions upon billions of animals we slaughter every single year who’ve been forced to live in torturous cond…

Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $1000. Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $20,000. Now consider how much …

Spend any time on the crypto currency subreddits and you’ll find dozens of people who took out >$20k loans to buy cryptocurrency. There are people still doing it. My co-working off…

Authy specifically stores your account in the cloud and can be recovered using SMS. They have a 24 hour warning period during which the email address on file receives multiple noti…

Recreational usage is not relative to the substance, it’s dependent on behaviour. If you’re dependent on a substance (whether that’s physically dependent or mentally) you’re no lon…

Yes but MDMA specifically will mangle your brain after very little recreational usage relative to almost all other drugs. Recreational use of MDMA a few times a week is _very bad_ …

Another vegan chiming in to say I assumed these weren’t suitable for me based on the name because buttermilk is an ingredient I see and think, “damn :(“. Veganism is very much abou…

This is absolutely untrue. There are many very profitable dating sites and apps. Tinder is a fantastic example of a dating app making money hand over fist since they began monetisi…

The question to ask is where will the money come from? The last bubble was all over TV, it was a constant part of the news cycle and everybody knows somebody who bought at least so…

Out of the blue. I am very careful about what I sign up for, I don’t have a car nor can I find any previous emails from the person involved (going back ten years). There’s no chanc…

I received their spam, reported it to mailchimp (their provider) and was told that they were suspended.

The creator doesn’t mention that one of his marketing strategies is email spam (his mailchimp account was suspended following abuse reports).

What’s the connection between reading books and the internet, aside from literacy? They’re such different things, I’m not clear on the connection between reading and the internet.

Presumably Sony and other major corporate users of YouTube do not have employees selecting a file and sitting waiting for it to upload every time a trailer needs to go out, nor do …

Bitfinex isn’t a company that ignored some AML requirements and they’re not a company just using Tether. They’re the company responsible for tether, they are the creators of Tether…

There is absolutely no chance that bitfinex and/or Tether will be acquired by any legitimate institution, much less Coinbase. They are far to steeped in fraudulent behaviour to eve…

We (people who operate online services) are exposed to legal action already, but we aren’t worried about it because realistically there’s such little risk of being targeted. The sa…

You’re comparing a massive group of people with a comparatively tiny group of people that have self selected for only the most willing and capable of abandoning everything and buil…

nevermind, hn is not the place for discussion of race.