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But aren't the biggest commercial farms growing live stock feed?

Eating lower in the food chain is a practical and accessible solution.

I've been using PayPal to pay contractors in the Philippines and US (I'm in Canada), and it's been pretty good. The fees are low compared to other options.

- If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

I disagree with this. I have a SaaS that depends on me and I have never gotten so much satisfaction from work before. It's not only because I'm making more money than I would ever make as a salaried engineer or because I have a super flexible schedule, but because I have the autonomy to say no to clients and decide in which direction the product goes.

What about animal agriculture?

That's what the label says, so it must be true.

Since when humans need cows milk to develop their brain? Did you know that a significant part of the human population is lactose intolerant?

No, formula is what we give babies that for one reason or another cannot be breastfed.

I love how the anti-vaxer Mercola keeps being referenced here on HN every time someone wants to make a case against veganism. In fact, every single anti-vegan blog out there links to the same Mercola articles.

If something like this replaces animal products, the demand for grains would drastically fall. Is this the economic consequence you are worried about?

For the same reason people eat processed meat: taste. If processing plants can make them taste better for some people, then what's the big deal? It looks like you are trying to associate processed foods with "first world vegans/vegetarians".

> Conclusions: Maintaining a strict vegan or vegetarian diet results in a significant shift in the microbiota while total cell numbers remain unaltered.

Studies should almost never use the term "vegan diet" to arrive at any conclusions. A vegan diet can be potato chips and oreos, whole foods high carb, whole foods high fat, 100% raw, etc. I assume most of them would produce significantly different results.

Wouldn't SMS 2FA have a higher adoption rate among non-technical users, hence making it more suitable for certain types of systems?

Thanks. This thread was giving me the impression that adding 2fa with SMS to a system would make it more vulnerable somehow.

Is 2fa with SMS safer or less safe than no 2fa at all?

You also need to read at least one 1000 page fiction book per week and be on some version of the "paleo" diet.

My only daughter stopped breathing and turned blue 3 days after she was born, and I, lucky to have attended a first aid course just 3 weeks prior to that, was able to perform CPR and make her regain consciousness. She's 14 months old now and perfectly healthy, but the horror of those minutes where she was dying in my hands still haunts me. It's getting better, but every now and then my brain briefly relives those moments.

As a small company with limited budget who is looking to have its application tested, how can we differentiate between good firms and firms that will just run a scanner and charge you $5000?

Also, is it a good idea to hire a freelancer to pen-test your application?

The advantage, for me, is that there are no animal products in Soylent.

This doesn't address the fact that pigs are no less capable of experiencing pain and distress than dogs and cats. And most people in western cultures would not be okay with killing dogs and cats that are not being useful to them. So even though the cognitive dissonance and the framework that sustains it is well understood (look up carnism), it's still pretty strange when you stop to think about it.

Any objective justification for that or just your own bias?

Why do you think that people who don't eat animals don't enjoy life? Have you seen any correlation between happiness and the amount of animals one consumes?

Since you are not spending much time on it anyway, why not leverage the customers that you already acquired and spend time fixing the problem? Even if it requires rebuilding your product. The hardest part of every business endeavor is customer acquisition, don't underestimate all the hard work that went into building something people will pay to use.

Try to interview every user that churns (offer them a Starbucks card for their feedback) and figure out why they are leaving. For some reason, their expectations are not being met. Fixing that is probably easier than starting a new business.

I've been doing this since I switched from Windows to Mac a few years ago. The cmd is in a very awkward spot to me.

I think you are suffering from confirmation bias.

> why can't landing pages actually explain to me what the @#%^&ing product is, or does.

I like landing pages with lots of screenshots, showing how a problem is solved in a few steps. However, I tried to do that for my company and conversion rates dropped. So I had to give in to the marketing guy who was telling me to just focus on the benefits of using the product and not on how it solves it. Now our landing page has no screenshots and the conversion rates are great. Go figure.

My favorites are:

Human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdb4XGVTHkE

Earthlings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZUuR1Udno

Samsara: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/

If they are a Covered Entity or a Business Associate then they should definitely comply with HIPAA[1].

Even though I don't remember if the Security Rule specifically covers this stupid scenario, I think they would be found in violation if audited. They clearly have not performed a risk analysis, which by itself is a violation.

[1]https://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_06.asp

No, it's not arbitrary at all. It's based on the concept that inflicting pain and suffering on another being should be justified.

I'm sure that given the choice between not being tortured and being tortured, you would pick the former. And that's because you recognize that pain -even if subjective and sometimes necessary- is a negative feeling for the one experiencing it.

What's arbitrary is saying that you don't want to inflict pain on human babies but are okay with inflicting pain on baby pigs, assuming both are equally capable of experiencing pain and distress. You are picking an arbitrary trait (species) and ignoring the relevant one (ability to feel pain).