I see a lot of reuse is good so it's all good. Do we know if the buyers of these reused shoes will recycle then when done or are these ending in a landfill? Because that's the ultimate issue here. Dow promised their end was not landfill.
Imagine that you collect soda bottles and promise you'll recycle them. When you get them, you turn them into sweaters that you sell. If someone who buys a sweater throws it in the landfill after it wears out, does that mean you broke your promise?
It's technically correct that we need some animal products. The big one I can think of is crude oil. It's from animals long dead and also used to make plastics. Not sure if we count insects as animal products but the work of bees helps pollinate our crops. We don't eat the bees but we do take advantage of them and breed them to go around and pollinate crops.
IIRC that's mostly from plants and algae, and definitely can be substituted with things made purely from plants and algae.
However, I was replying to someone who said specifically "meat", and crude oil isn't meat.
> Not sure if we count insects as animal products but the work of bees helps pollinate our crops. We don't eat the bees but we do take advantage of them and breed them to go around and pollinate crops.
If you're that expansive, humans are also animals, and we also rely on each other's labour.
This seems like a big flaw of crypto. Banks don't have their customers actual money. Crypto does. All that money in one place, under the control of a few, so tempting.
Yes. You need to provide legal id to get a phone number in Australia.
This is handled by the phone companies themselves. But this is probably a good reason to not let them do it themselves.
Yes it's legally required for them to properly verify your identity both for credit reasons (on a postpaid plan) and simply to identify who owns what phone number s
Probably not. As others have said, some of it is more or less legally required. What I don't understand is why they need to (or should be allowed to) retain that data in perpetuity.
Good question. I think the idea is you can’t have a burner phone. Well you can…for example use a foreign sim card of a less fussy telco. But in general this
makes it harder to have a burner. Once we get to a point where telcos are not needed to make calls (that amazon wifi mesh for example) maybe we can do away with this need for ID anyway because it is futile.
Calls yes, but making calls is not what’s regulated in Australia. The ACMA regulates the assignment of Numbers in Australia, so make calls to your hearts content but if you want to be addressable by a e164 or IP number, prepare your documents.
You don't need a CS diploma but you need to know how to program. You'll get either a take home project or white board problems during the interview. If you can pass those, you aren't lazy, and you aren't a jerk you are hired.
This is not necessarily representative. Leetcode interviewing is so common now, it gatekeeps many companies.
By all means take courses. But before you quit to just take time off and self educate, read the long threads on here about what it is really like out there in tech hiring.
Be prepared not only to be good at programming, but great at tech interviewing which is not the same.
