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mssundaram··on Show HN: Earthly – Better Builds
> Made with <3 on Planet Earth

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

mssundaram··on Some Britons crave permanent pandemic lockdown
See also Brexit
mssundaram··on Coming to Terms with Tailwind
This looks really useful, thank you
mssundaram··on Ask HN: About to burn out. How to make 500$ in India by working 20 hrs per week?
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

mssundaram··on OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer science
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··on Study That Impregnated Male Rats Stirs Controversy
Should the mentally disabled have rights? Let the scientists study their stuff! /s
mssundaram··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
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··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
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··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
The argument is that pasture raised cows is better than factory farmed cows. I am saying that in both cases the cows die.
mssundaram··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
"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.
mssundaram··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
If I understand correctly, then I would say it's your choice to perpetuate owning a pet, specifically a dog. And in fact, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, with careful planning dogs can be plant based, and there are even synthesized amino acids available that normally only come from animals but can be grown from yeasts and mushrooms. So you can have your dog and not need to support killing other animals.
mssundaram··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
The "humane" argument is flawed because in the end - factory or pasture - the animal is killed. Live a happy life and be slaughtered or a miserable life and be slaughtered.
mssundaram··on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
From a strict vegan perspective, you're supporting the killing of other animals in support of your pet. Isn't that inconsistent?
mssundaram··on Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs
> That’s what barrel makers told the horseshoe fitters :)

I'm not following - can you explain the analogy?

mssundaram··on Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs
Hot take: if you're a mediocre dev, maybe be worried; if you're in a niche and have deep expertise you'll be fine.
mssundaram··on Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
I don't think it would take an unprecedented amount of coordination, because not many people would even need to know the secret. During times of mass chaos there is a collective emotional and psychological understanding that is easily influenced. At a simple level, see the "Brain Games - Social Conformity" experiment by National Geographic.
mssundaram··on GitHub Copilot
It sounds similar to the editor plugin called TabNine
mssundaram··on Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online
I'd like to see beyondd (one of the co-founders on here) to address this
mssundaram··on Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)
I see I misunderstood the question
mssundaram··on Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)
I think it's user submitted vs mods editing the title
mssundaram··on We can’t beat the climate crisis without rethinking land use
Uhm, how was I doing that?
mssundaram··on Austin cyclists split on sharing bike lanes with pizza delivery robots
This really sounds like the title of an Onion article
mssundaram··on We can’t beat the climate crisis without rethinking land use
Feedstock production is highly efficient. Grazing animals for meat is very inefficient in terms of caloric output. This is to say nothing about morality or even nutrition.
mssundaram··on We can’t beat the climate crisis without rethinking land use
There's a vast difference in historical numbers of large herbivores roaming wild and the amount needed to supply demand for meat. If the current level of demand is constant, it becomes nearly impossible to supply as "grassfed"
mssundaram··on How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs
They also ate berries and even some of partially digested plants from the stomachs of some of the land animals they ate.
mssundaram··on Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
I'm ignorant - why can't solar and wind provide enough power? What about somewhere like Arizona/Nevada/Utah?
mssundaram··on Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place
Feminine beauty in Thailand allowed transgender people to have their own platform where they are able to challenge stereotypes and claim cultural recognition. Miss Tiffany's Universe is a beauty contest that is opened to all transgender women. Beginning in 1998, the pageant takes place every year in Pattaya, Thailand during May. With over 100 applicants, the pageant is considered to be one of the most popular transgender pageants in the world. Through beauty pageants, Thailand has been able to promote the country's cosmetic surgery industry, which has had a massive increase in medical tourism for sex reassignment surgery. According to the Miss Tiffany's Universe website, the live broadcast attracts record of fifteen million viewers. The winner of the pageant receives a tiara, sash, car, grand prize of 100,000 baht (US$3,000), equivalent to an annual wage for a Thai factory worker. The assistant manager director, Alisa Phanthusak, stated that the pageant wants kathoeys to be visible and to treat them as normal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey#Miss_Tiffany's_Univers...

mssundaram··on Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place
I think you've quantified it as second class when it isn't actually so for kathoey or hijra
mssundaram··on Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place
I've been curious if anyone has studied why there are more and more transgender people lately. I don't believe it is only due to awareness and perception - it seems to be occuring more and more frequently. Do other animals with similar levels of consciousness experience gender dysmorphia?
mssundaram··on A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
Eloquent summary and analysis, thank you!
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