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True.

NOx is also the biggest product of animal agriculture. It also has an effect on climate change. Global warming potential is around 300 times larger than CO2. [1] [1]: https://en.wi…

I thought candy was delicious CO2 intensive food. Not a complete lifestyle. Although, food is just one part of the equation. I've never said diet is the only change necessary to ma…

It might also be hamstrings. For example, while sitting on the chair try lifting one of your legs so you make L shape with your torso (without flexing your lower back). I can't do …

My lower back arches severely if I do it, which I regard as not a proper squat.

I can't do that squat. My hamstrings aren't flexible enough due to too much sitting in the first world.

Vegetables are expensive because subsidies are small. There's no free market in agriculture. I'm not exactly sure how candies are causing climate change.

So do vegans have a workflow that makes their diet convenient. The thing is, one has to start somewhere, and no one starts anywhere because they see the change as inconvenient.

I'm not sure that many people do that. A good comparison would be FOSS. Richard Stallman inconveniences himself to the point of absurdity, but I'm pretty sure barely anyone does an…

In similar ways, majority of people that believe in climate change do nothing (or barely anything) to fight it. No one is reducing their heating/cooling, no one is changing their d…

Well, monad transformers make things easy but the abstraction impacts runtime performance :(

Maybe plastic waste in the long run imposes a bigger cost? Just like overconsumption of cigarettes, alcohol etc. imposes a much bigger cost in the long run (in welfare countries).

Yep. No more California beef too. Water there is too expensive and there's no free-market in agriculture there.

Poaching for what? It's palm oil, the delicious Lays.

Nothing better than palm oil and legume-fed beef, pork, chicken and fish.

No one is going to build nuclear reactors in the West for cryptocurrency mining. Just like no one is building nuclear reactors for powering christmas lights or Amazon servers, or I…

In the grand scheme of things (context being the carbon footprint of humanity) it is insignificant, just like Denmark's carbon footprint is. Let's optimize the real stuff, not some…

Compared to heating and cooling, and a bunch of other stuff it is negligible. I guess you could complain about the usefulness of mining. Well, people do a bunch of useless stuff th…

2nd Edition was published 10 years ago.

If you have labeled data (meaning that you know where proper splits need to be made) it's quite easy to build a DP based classifier that minimizes the error over training set. For …

I'm pretty sure there's a handful of those that find meaningful work. Then a handful of those that find it in AI.

It's amazing how judicial system works fast in the USA. In my country both companies would go bankrupt and would still be suing each other due to sunk cost fallacy.

Some stuff does not work easily with non fossil fuel based engines. What better way than to refine current tech instead of inventing a whole new one?

The moment fossil fuels get more expensive you'd like a more efficient engine.