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This beef industry organization cites 3 studies: https://www.beefresearch.org/resources/beef-sustainability/f... > U.S. specific estimates put beef water use at 317, 441 and 808 ga…

One time when returning from an overseas country, I was in one of two lines: One for foreigners, and one for US citizens. It was quite the line. After a few minutes, I was pulled a…

I wouldn't even agree that it's not an issue. It's something the README doesn't cover.

I suppose Toyota / Lexus is black magic, then?

Basic knowledge of cats, most likely. A high number of outdoor cats I've known would hunt animals and bring the complete flailing bodies or corpses indoors. It's just an understood…

This reflects my experience with Go to a tee. (Well, minus being a prolific library contributor, thanks for that!) Prior to using Go professionally, I scoffed at the language and w…

Personally, my issue with Electron is that, in practice, it is hugely inefficient. The up-side to Electron, IMO, is that it doesn't try to straddle the uncanny valley of native GUI…

Blockchain does not provide any verification of trust, nor can it. It provides verification of number crunching transactions alone, as well as an immutable store of that number cru…

None of which you have listed can be proven by blockchain as it has proofs for today. All would rely on external sources of truth which entirely live outside the verification of th…

Processed is not a bad word when it comes to health. What matters are the ingredients. I'm not aware of any consensus on canola being anything but healthy, but am interested in lea…

I got the numbers from here: https://portlandloo.com/loo-locator/ I'd argue enough restrooms are provided when the number is population appropriate and within a one block distance.…

Do you honestly believe that someone that is living on the streets, shitting in the open, is thinking about the spread of disease or homelessness PR?

I got the number from the website you linked. However, using Google Maps, I found 4. I'm not sure how many bathrooms you'd normally allocate per person, but I imagine the number of…

The former is preferable because you are providing a disservice to the community that will not allow you dignity, even though they can most obviously afford it.

If you're not going to give someone a dignified place to relieve themselves, why would they care about using such a thing?

Why would _one_ of these solve any problems?

If this has solved the issue of automatically proving that any C or C++ program has no buffer overflows, why do we still see CVEs for popular libraries and software that result fro…

I don't believe Alexa and others are malevolently spying, but if the data exists, you should expect nothing less than it to be public at some point, or at least be accessed by some…

No, it's not. We can use facial recognition, we can use voice signatures. It doesn't even have to be recorded, as the device setup can record those signatures of consenting users a…

Why is live-listening impractical at scale? How can Discord provide such a service? You seem to be conflating Amazon's intent with the unknowable intent of anyone that can touch su…

Certainly, as long as the device does not trivialize the violation of those rights. If a car designed for road use by a human driver did not have a windshield to see out of, I'd sa…

What is a recording? Does a 10 millisecond delay mean it is a recording? What is the legally binding lock-out time for this audio stream before a human can listen to it?