Over 18% supporting permanent curfew can’t be true, right? What’s going on in Britain?
See also Brexit
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mssundaram commented on Coming to Terms with Tailwind johanronsse.be/2021/07/07... · Posted by u/Wolfr_
I still don't get Tailwind either but I found https://github.com/seek-oss/vanilla-extract recently which solves the TS/CSS modules nicely. All the styles are extracted at compile time so no overhead like most CSS-in-JS.
This looks really useful, thank you
mssundaram commented on Ask HN: About to burn out. How to make 500$ in India by working 20 hrs per week? · Posted by u/Jaxtek
Namaskaram, I don't know of many part time engineering positions, but the trend is growing, e.g. [1]. However I'm confident that you could find a position that would pay you that salary for a more common 35-40 (and balanced compared to 48 hours, 6 days per week). Are you on LinkedIn? It can be helpful in my experience. Feel free to email me, maybe I can find someone to help (no guarantee though)
[1] 4dayweek.io
If you have the opportunity to go to university, my personally small and insignificant advice - do it. If you're already established in the industry but haven't studied these things - do it.
mssundaram commented on Study That Impregnated Male Rats Stirs Controversy the-scientist.com/news-op... · Posted by u/samizdis
Why are rat rights a thing at all? We learned something. We learned something! Learning new knowledge is precious. Learning new knowledge is hard.
And people will throw it away on whether vermin are being "mistreated."
I also don't think that the future implications are the problem of the scientist. This discussion reminds me of how schools in the USA are expected to solve every social problem involving children. Let the scientists study their stuff. If we don't like a technology, we can just ban its use later.
Should the mentally disabled have rights? Let the scientists study their stuff! /s
mssundaram commented on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World literaryreview.co.uk/meat... · Posted by u/jseliger
Farm animals are fed primarily crop byproduct that you can't digest and grass.
So what? If your argument is absolute number of deaths because of crop deaths, those crops would still be killing animals and thus it's still more than not eating meat.
mssundaram commented on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World literaryreview.co.uk/meat... · Posted by u/jseliger
I've seen this thoroughly debunked several times. What "numbers" are you alluding to? The most commonly cited number I've seen from a 2003 study is 7.3 billion crop deaths per year, which experts seem to agree is likely a large overestimate. Even if that were the case, that puts crop deaths at an order of magnitude smaller than the number of _land_ animals slaughtered every year; that number is further dwarfed if we included aquatic animals.
Additionally, the crops where some of the highest number of field deaths are encountered (such as soy and corn) are also primarily as animal feed.
So no. Vegans do not kill more animals.
Furthermore, most meat eaters additionally eat plants too, and the animals they eat also usually are eating industrially farmed plants, which really makes the crop deaths argument silly.
mssundaram commented on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World literaryreview.co.uk/meat... · Posted by u/jseliger
What is the argument you're referring to, and how is it flawed due to the fact that factory-raised and pasture-raised animals are both killed, regardless of the nature of their killing and the nature of their lives?
The argument is that pasture raised cows is better than factory farmed cows. I am saying that in both cases the cows die.
mssundaram commented on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World literaryreview.co.uk/meat... · Posted by u/jseliger
Can you stomach eating fruits and vegetables from an industrialized farm knowing that more animals died to make your salad compared to my steak? Or are certain animals lives worth more than others?
"crop deaths tho" is not a stable argument. Eating meat requires death. But there are ways to avoid killing animals when harvesting grains etc. And in any case, it's a very inflated view - you're still killing more animals by eating meat than you are by not.
Does anyone else gag with when companies do this (made with love)? It feels too emotional, but maybe it's really true for them?
Edit: Replace the heart character with <3 as HN doesn't seem to render it