"most men would rather die young than stop eating meat"
Seriously, you're going to phrase it like that? How about this, I enjoy a balanced diet and if that is going to kill me young then so be it. If I was scared of dying
I would be much more worried about the coat of plastic dust that lines the entire planet, including vegetables being grown and the grass/feed that animals eat, and the fact that I'm extremely likely to die of cancer due to plastics everywhere, metal particles everywhere, chemicals everywhere... if the meat doesn't get me first.
What if it wasn’t about you dying? What if it was to make the world better?
What amount of suffering in the world would cause you to even consider the option of eating less meat? Is it something you’re willing to contemplate? Not just animal suffering either. Think of the complicated web of problems that come out of people eating too much meat. The antibiotic use discussed in this thread. The methane byproduct discussed in countless others. The inhumane conditions of most butchers (for workers! Let’s forget the animals still).
It’s okay if none of that bothers you. We’re only human. I’m a former vegan, I’ve likely considered it all more than strictly necessary. I don’t think anyone _has_ to be anything. But for what it’s worth it _could_ be about more than an individual’s health.
"What if it wasn’t about you dying? What if it was to make the world better?"
That would be a different discussion, with a different answer. I was only replying to the comment above mine.
Yes... animals produce waste & suffer from infections...
Inhumane conditions exist in the minority in every industry.
You're claiming most butchers/abattoirs have inhumane conditions in an industry that I'm certain you've never worked in.
You're a former vegan but I see that you're still brain-washed by the material that you were hand fed.
It is not a different discussion. Here is the context of the line you quoted line I believe you were replying to.
that would require people cut back on meat consumption
You chose to only quote the
Would rather die part.
I’m simply asking you consider something beyond the meals you want to partake in.
You’re absolutely correct- I never have worked in that industry. My family has worked the chicken industry in Georgia and South Carolina. I’ve seen the result of that labor first-hand. If that brain washed me then so be it. That labor is inhumane. It is hardly the only inhumane labor that we rely on.
The thing is I believe you’re capable of seeing more than your comment lets on. I wasn’t hand-fed some propaganda and I don’t think you were either. It’s a weird world out here.
It seems obvious Five Eyes will not tolerate or legitimize any email provider that doesn't allow them access to subpoenas, at the very least - this rules out most of the privacy features touted by protonmail & tutanota (no logs, E2E encryption, etc).
Perhaps what makes the ruse convincing in Tutanota's case is the crappy interface and clear dearth of basic features: search basically doesn't work; it's impossible to select all messages or use shift to select pages of messages. Their excuse is that customers might accidentally delete emails, but it might make more sense that they want to retain as much data as possible: https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/nc9jxx/suggestion...
> Perhaps what makes the ruse convincing in Tutanota's case is the crappy interface and clear dearth of basic features: search basically doesn't work; it's impossible to select all messages or use shift to select pages of messages. Their excuse is that customers might accidentally delete emails, but it might make more sense that they want to retain as much data as possible: https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/nc9jxx/suggestion...
Implementing search for E2EE mailbox is difficult problem (Protonmail is not doing the same). For search to be efficient, you would need to download the whole mailbox for your device. If you want to support as many users as possible, you can't. But maybe they could make it optional.
And they are very small team, offering mail for very low price (free for most), which has resulted on using Electron for producing the applications for as many platforms as possible. And it is a mess.
What comes to that Reddit post, it is two years old and they have supported mass selection for a long while for now.
Index processing should happen on the client's device (server never sees the content). That defeats the purpose since you need full mailbox on your device for that. At least in the beginning.
Maybe over longer period it would be possible to integrate and maintain the index so, that you can guarantee the correctness without full mailbox.
that's just America, and its not just nuclear, it's civil engineering & construction projects of all kind that have ballooned in complexity and cost due to myriad political and regulatory causes. France can build reactors cheaply and easily due to standardized reactor designs; I'm not sure the US has ever replicated a reactor build (ie, every reactor is built in a different & unique way)
They can, this one project is just the exception, it was a failure since the start (collaboration between France and Germany, Germany later ditched it in favor of their solar panel projects.. )
Chromecast with Google TV has half of the screenspace for streaming service ads. In some locations they have other ads too. This can't be removed even with the "Apps only" mode.
I was kind of forced to get a Chromecast, because they actively block independent receiver implementations, and the prevalent Cast button in Android apps is used by other inhabitants.
This should obviously be illegal, and probably is, but megacorps are above the law.
Tipping points and feedback loops are meaningless to techno-utopians, in their eyes nothing is fundamentally different between climate change and other technical challenges in the past
Good riddance, what a dumpster fire. The tiny buttons for pause, replay, skip buttons are all right next to each other on the lock screen, so you often skip podcasts when you really want to pause or fast forward. on the other hand, the rewind 10-seconds button has half the real estate of the widget. Downloads arent automatically deleted even after the episode is completed (even if you mark as played or remove from queue). There's no skip intro/outro options.
Frankly, the Overcast app is one of the main things attracting me to iOS at this point, and a dearth of good native podcast clients is hurting the Pixel/Google ecosystem
I switched from iOS/Overcast to Android/PocketCasts and I found it had a number of benefits which I struggle to recall now... batch downloads might be one of them.
My main bug bear is how how some screens are drawers and some screens are pages which makes navigation confusing. Even after years of use, I still keep accidentally closing the drawer screens when trying to scroll and trying to navigate backwards which isn't allowed. Please... just make them all pages so they behave consistently with the same navigation and gestures.
I use PocketCasts on iOS and agree about the sheets, I think the theory is that your "Now Playing" page is basically an overlay that can exist anywhere in the app, so you can go around looking at other podcasts while you listen but quickly pop back in to what's playing. Apple Music is set up the same way, I wonder if that was the inspiration for that layout.
I'm pretty happy with _Podcast Republic_ on Android. Its a bit of a "power user" app, but I have yet to find something that I want to tweak that it doesn't let me tweak via its vast settings menus.
"Believe it or not, I'm not home!"
The length and detail of the jingle makes me nostalgic... The prominence of the answering machine and payphones throughout the show are an underappreciated element of the show's cultural millieau! As well as Jerry's desktop computer getting updated every couple of seasons
Coinbase and Armstrong tried for months to get the SEC to tell them if their Earn/Staking product constituted a security, and they declined to answer.
Serving a Welles Notice makes it clear Gensler is a bad faith regulator
Because it isn't clear the product is a security at all. Coinbase earn is an IT service where Coinbase (or a contractor representing them) interacts with a protocol on your behalf in exchange for a cut of the proceeds.
>PArt of Coinbase earn is defi yield(aka lending), part of it is crypto staking.
Wrong. Nothing currently implemented in Coinbase Earn could be reasonably considered "lending". The article you linked is 2 years old and about Coinbase's prospective "Lend" product — which, as I understand it, never launched, perhaps because of a Wells notice submitted in 2021. This statement is about the one they've received more recently "regarding an unspecified portion of our listed digital assets, our staking service Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime, and Coinbase Wallet":
> regarding an unspecified portion of our listed digital assets
I believe that's the first link. Most (if not exactly 100% of them) cryptocurrencies are securities as per howey test. Tron in particular, matt levine calls out, is clearly securities, among other things. Coinbase also listed a lot of other tokens that were also clearly securities.
Whether or not Coinbase is operating a securities exchange (they obviously are, despite the fact that I don't necessarily agree that "most" cryptocurrencies they list being securities by any reasonable application of the Howey test), and whether Coinbase Earn ("the product") is a security, are two distinct questions.
Which part of howey do you think Coinbase earn(not staking, but the product offered by Coinbase themselves) doesn't satisfy and is therefore not a security?
I made it explicit between staking (you staking your own money) and doing it through Coinbase.
You can go ahead and try staking your money yourself on the protocol. But do it through coinbase equation changes.
Also coinbase earn does defi yield (which is more clear cut securities), but i am in mexico now, and can't tell if this were the case in the US or i am seeing geofenced content.
It makes more sense for this to be adjudicated by the court systems rather than an individual in an agency like the SEC. That is too much power for the SEC after all and we really need those separations in the US -- it's literally the foundation of the US.
Anyway, the fault here is with the US congress (all of the so-called elected representatives) since they haven't drafted legislation to clear said uncertainties now in over 10+ years. Gary Gensler is doing his job, no matter how difficult it is at this time. Congress people yelling at Gensler for example is akin to a boss yelling at his employee for an outcome that was determined by the system the boss created.
When congress isn't aligned with people (whether to draft legislation for or against cryptocurrencies) one doesn't need to go so far to determine what that person's agenda actually is -- if it's not the people's agenda, it's wrong.
I replied to your other comment, but posting here that this article is wrong and twists his words. He said Bitcoin is not a security, everything else is undecided. Big difference. Coinbase it taking them to court to make them decide.
