Viewing profile — samuelbalogh

Wrote an mcp server for Cursor Background Agents. This makes Cursor agents accessible like any other tool: your AI-assisted IDE (Kilo, Cline, Roo, etc) can spin them up programmati…

yes, super helpful - sequential thinking, DB access, browser automation, etc

Church - it's rare to read a sane comment like this on HN. The world we constructed is pure hell for around 80 billion animals.

Veganism is about reducing suffering as much as practical and possible. Some people (you included) have a problem with that and reject it altogether because of cognitive biases. Ye…

why should we wait for lab grown meat if we can go vegan right now?

> going against every bit of our human evolution you're saying this typing on a _computer_ - how does that fit into human evolution? IMO humans evolve in an ethical standpoint as w…

I got very positive feedback from students preparing for high school keystone exams (given that it can generate questions from a given online resource / PDF) so I'm pretty happy ab…

Yes, it's meaningless if the topic is mostly unknown to the learner. But that's not the goal of flashcards - the goal is to first read the text, and then reinforce what you learned…

A bit random plug - I made a flashcard site and generated flashcards based on this resource (because I want to learn computer architecture, among other tech topics) https://brightm…

It's partly due to the insane subsidies that livestock farming receives in the EU. If meat was not heavily subsidised, it would be much, much more expensive.

> Sometimes I talk to my vegetarian friends and ask "If you want to be vegetarian, why don't you just eat natively vegetarian dishes? Why the fake meat?". So far no satisfying answ…

> With no corresponding change to the amount of fuel used to climb up to cruising altitude Yes, but 1) a plane flying a larger distance has to lift a heavier load of fuel 2) emissi…

Same here - I do fly 1-3 times a year and I always feel bad about it. I can't help but think that flying will hopefully become a taboo topic, something that people do occasionally …

I would disagree with "We were built for work". Evolutionary, we were built to survive until reproduction age and a bit longer after that, to care for offsprings. I think people wh…

Such a great story, well written too.

That would possibly be a solution, but alas I don't think it's going to happen anywhere soon.

I think that in the systemic terminology, a mature forest is a carbon "stock". Deforestation means getting rid of that stock and putting all of its CO2 into the atmostphere by burn…

> You may be surprised to learn that cattle herd size has remained relatively stable over time This doesn't seem to be true, at all. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cattle-lives…

Thanks for the thoughtful comment! It's true, not all cattle production can be held accountable for deforestation. For example, here in the UK, it's supposed to be a less carbon-in…

I don't think it's fair to treat deforestation as a local issue. Cattle production drives deforestation - whether it's in Brazil or the USA or China, doesn't matter, because we sha…

Eating local doesn't even make a dent in reducing your carbon footprint. https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

Use the soy we are feeding cattle to feed humans directly. Cut out the middleman - lots of resources freed up all of a sudden. Keep subsidies to beef low and increase subsidies for…

I 100% agree. Even after the swine flu, bird flu, SARS, MERS, covid, HIV and other viruses, we are still keeping animals in confined spaces, butchering them and selling their meat …