thecrazyone's comments

Because demand for plastic bags or similar substances doesn't evaporate. You're using a different substance instead of plastic, if you ban it. Using paper implies cutting down more trees, and paper doesn't have all the awesome properties that plastic has: high tensile strength per weight, impermeable to air/moisture, lightweight, etc.

I'm an Indian and your statements are ignorant and myopic. Let me explain.

Littering is in every country not just India. Certain countries deal with it in a better way.

Banning something doesn't evaporate it's demand. Like, people litter because there are not dustbins (at least not often enough) on the street in India.

Open defecation is unrelated to this issue. Main reason open defecation happens is because there is no continuous supply of water (by the Govt) or proper sewage system (responsibility of the govt).

We need to stop blaming ourselves and think what is the root cause of the problem - Government.

PS: I've thought my stance through about this, please think through this and see whether or not Govt is to blame for this. Govt is not you and I. All govts these days are Govts of the people by the bureaucracy for the bureaucracy.

TIL littering is a common thing in multiple countries (not sarcastic)

I'm from India.

## Problem 1: The problem is not culture, but of poor govt. I as a responsible person want to throw this wrapper, there is no dustbin you'll find for kilometers on end sometimes.

Do you expect me to carry the wrapper back to my home or carry a small dustbin along with me every time?

## Problem 2: You would've noticed, most Indian homes are pretty clean (within reason and corresponding to income level). This is because we care for our private property. Govt is a body which owns public property and doesn't take care of roads and streets (which are public property). This will refute your claim that this is an issue of culture (because we keep our private property, houses, hotels, malls, etc clean).

## Solution (proposed): This is going to be against mainstream and HN views.

1) Privatize roads and streets (takes care of problem 2)

2) Privatize waste collection (takes care of problem 1)

But we won't do it anytime soon, because reasons (we'll I know the reasons, but just don't want to type them down here).

Amen, amen, amen.

Plastic is good. Your (Govt's) inability to recycle plastic is the issue. No! the govt is going to blame someone and something else for its failures :sigh:

I'm from India.

This is one of the most asinine steps the Govt has taken. If plastic is banned, the need will be replaced by another substance (perhaps with similar properties; also demand for a need doesn't evaporate) which will overflow in our landfills. A wiser step would've been to figure out a way to recycle plastic, which has already been figured out by other countries ([1],[2],[3]). Instead, we're setting ourselves up to blame another substance a few years down the line.

We're inconveniencing people, ruining existing businesses and capabilities for a non-solution or at the very least pushing the problem to another substance another day. Completely asinine indeed. Deeds of the government as usual.

[1] https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/scandinavian-plastic-re...

[2] https://sweden.se/nature/the-swedish-recycling-revolution/

[3] https://guce.oath.com/collectConsent?brandType=eu&.done=http...

Edit 1: Comment about demand

Edit 2: formatting

Edit 3: added "...some years down the line..."

Well, for all the snarkiness js gets, it has the biggest community

This deserves way more attention.

I thought this would be blowing up HN, but eh, tumbleweed here!

Is there some reason the HN community isn't too gung-ho about this? Is it because it's in the browser or is it javascript or that it's too high level (vs low level details). I'm completely Stumped by this response.

Thanks for putting the [1] [2] [3], it becomes easier to understand for someone who doesn't know about these test scores

Also my yubikey doesn't work with Firefox i.e. to use yubikey as 2nd factor during gmail login

lol. That's a keynesian reference if anyone was wondering :)

> Mostly what we think others should spent their money on is irrelevant. Yup yup. One would think this is almost a tautology but sadly isn't

> Depends on the game. lol

> When I am playing a game, my computer's power consumption increases by a lot. I am using more energy and ultimately generating more entropy in the universe. Is it worth it?

Yup, that's the right answer to a collectivist sentiment. Value is subjective

Maybe you're jumping to the conclusion too fast. Most coins don't have publicly declared vulnerabilities (ie there might be many 0days). But it might be untrue that bitcoin price is not being manipulated (an attack itself on the network) based on multiple articles on HN alone.

So bitcoin might not be too unique or valuable.

I'm an economics noob, but is `comparing regional prices to national income` in some way technically wrong or misleading in some way?

### Features:

- Fast. As fast as npm and Yarn.

- Efficient. One version of a package is saved only ever once on a disk.

- Deterministic. Has a lockfile called shrinkwrap.yaml.

- Strict. A package can access only dependencies that are specified in its package.json.

- Works everywhere. Works on Windows, Linux and OS X.

- Aliases. Install different versions of the same package or import it using a different name.

Edit: formatting

As a neutral observer, I've not been on past threads. Most people who don't have particular interest in this haven't. It would be nice to hear both sides of the argument

Well, packages are testable. You can test the api of a package today. Having people write said tests is the tough part.

Did you mean to say something else?

This, this is why I love HN, logical people making good points

I really like your current life state as you've mentioned it. I've saved to wonder if that's (perhaps in part) my life goal.

I'm in my late 20s, maybe a reasonable time to think where I want to land up or the journey I want to take :). (Edit:Wow I reread your post, you're about the same age as I am)

Thanks for sharing this :)