martalist | 9 years ago | on: The US South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price
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martalist | 9 years ago | on: Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping
My concern is that this will lead to increased food waste, ie. retailers rejecting perfectly edible foods that don't scan well. That's already enough of an issue with irregular shaped produce.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: The US South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price
The article makes it sound very much like that, except 12 hours per day.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2
Your answer made me chuckle in a good way - great way to turn a potential negative into something funny and positive! I'm sure I'm not the only one checking out your site because of this.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Nomouse
> I just found myself in situations where either there was no mouse, or it was more convenient to use the keyboard.
So it's better to just unplug the mouse then? :)
martalist | 9 years ago | on: What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
Alcohol is ridiculously expensive in Australia. We don't drink less of it.
If the cost of meat were a driving factor in reducing consumption, consider that it's maybe 4x less expensive (a guesstimate based on my own experience) to eat whole plant based proteins than meat.
It is inherently more efficient and sustainable to eat the plant proteins we grow than to feed them to animals. 1kg of meat also requires 100x the amount of water per kg of protein [1].
martalist | 9 years ago | on: What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
Because we'd need significantly more land/pasture to feed livestock that way.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
It's the mass extinction event that we've created that really grinds at me. All these amazing species of flora/fauna erased from the universe to make our lives a little more convenient.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
Soya beans aren't the only bean a vegetarian can eat. There are plenty of protein rich plants that will grow in almost every climate.
While I applaud your meat buying preferences, it would be an environmental disaster for every meat eater on earth to attempt to do the same.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Master Numbers in a Foreign Language
Your Australian voice is decidedly British.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: New polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling
> "Only 2 percent of the 78 million tons of manufactured plastics are currently recycled"
Is there any info/stats on what happens to the rest?
martalist | 9 years ago | on: My GF and I just opened the Digital Nomad House in Malta on a tiny rocky island
Is San Diego cyclist friendly? A ride would be about 1/2 that commute time!
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page
I have the same issue with both 2.7.10 and 3.5.1 after following the steps in your readme.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots
First question, how do you define a robot?
martalist | 9 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online
+1. I can't believe I didn't know that.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Lessons from Doing YC Twice – Harj Taggar [video]
Indeed. I'd be interested to hear his views on candidates who've done the equivalent of an undergrad CS degree online (MOOCs, etc), too.
martalist | 9 years ago | on: Computer Science Education
Nice work - just signed up. What criteria you use in selecting MOOCs for the degree path? How do you keep it up to date?
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- global competition, in that factory workers are competing against the pay/living-standards of those in poorer nations
- no unions
- a preparedness of employees to work for a pittance, towards unobtainable quotas, in unsafe conditions, for dangerously long periods of time.
I'm not sure work gets any more full-time than 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. "Full-time permanent" sounds like semantics and a loophole for companies to exploit.