seveneightn9ne
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3 years ago
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on: You can’t eat just any leaf (2018)
Pine needles may be calorie-negative and unpleasant to eat, but they're very high in Vit C and available in the dead of winter. I would hardly call them inedible. You can make an oxymel to extract the vitamins & make it easier to eat.
seveneightn9ne
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4 years ago
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on: International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising
Perhaps we agree as a society to pay for universal access to the digital "town square" - collectivize Facebook, Google, etc and pay for it through taxes.
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
> If customers do not care enough to stop using the product then there is no harm.
Facebook users (notably not customers) are the ones being harmed here, and they don't exactly have free reign to choose the platform their communities talk and organize on. If I choose not to use Facebook then I'm isolating myself from my community.
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
Fires, hurricanes, extreme heat, and drought are made more frequent & severe by climate change, and they certainly kill people. Climate change also disrupts food systems and will cause civil war and mass migrations. Millions will need to migrate just from coastal flooding, which I'd imagine will cause plenty of geopolitical strife and ultimately lead to many deaths.
"Existential threat" in my mind means humanity itself is threatened. The species will likely survive but millions if not billions will die due to climate change.
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
your shorturl doesn't seem to work
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: The Social Dilemma
I'd passed this over on Netflix, assuming it would be too introductory. Is it interesting enough for someone who's already familiar with the premise from having been around on HN?
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: Made-up difficulty of competitive games
The page doesn't seem to load in Firefox.
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health
seveneightn9ne
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5 years ago
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on: Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
I assume local food is more well-studied than local fashion, and may have similar environmental cost profiles. This study:
http://www.iufn.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Making-local-... found that transportation is actually less important than other factors.
On the other hand, local food has other important advantages: resiliency (perhaps less important for clothing), and supporting the local economy.
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
How would they decide that some computation was "needless"? If it was the best they could do at the time I'd argue it wasn't needless. If they were intentionally wasting CPU/energy for no reason it would be a different story.
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your life, study reveals
No, smoking is usually defined as smoking daily. But there's so few people that smoke less-than-daily that they aren't usually included in these sort of studies so it's harder to say what sort of effect it has.
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Citymapper
Yeah, it's sent me around the back of buildings more than once.
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Dietary Supplement Use During Chemotherapy and Survival Outcomes of Patients
They also looked at vitamin B, iron, and multivitamins.
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
Plug for thisplacewillbewater.com - they have a great map of what 4C warming will look like and you can also buy biodegradable stickers to post around and raise awareness if you live in an area that will be underwater.
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production
I'll believe that when our CO2 output per year stops accelerating (never mind when it actually starts shrinking!)
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Keybase iOS Has a Backdoor?
No, I think it's saying that your client only does this at the request of the keybase server to create an initial XLM address for the user, not that it will on-demand add random stellar addresses to the user's profile.
EDIT: See malgorithms's comment; it doesn't even do this much
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
Wait, what? NYC has some of the best tap water in the country (barring some old buildings with bad pipes).
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: The worrying state of Mediterranean fish stocks (2017)
You might be interested in what Extinction Rebellion is doing. If they're organizing in your area already, I strongly recommend you go see their "Heading for Extinction" talk in person, but their website covers it pretty well too. Their basic idea is 1) yes we are barreling towards extinction of humans and many other species, 2) nothing anyone has done so far has prevented this acceleration, and 3) non-violent direct action (aka civil disobedience) has the best chance of affecting the quick and drastic changes needed to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis.
https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/
seveneightn9ne
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6 years ago
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on: Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system
Teslas aren't really able to drive far outside populated areas.
