guildenstern

Please re-read the emphasis I've been placing on the sorts of facilities I'm defending.

Please reread my comment, I am talking about farms (specifically chicken farms where 10% of chickens will die before they reach 1 month old because they are often packed 50,000 to a barn and not cared for), not zoos. I am not arguing that some zoos don’t do fantastic conservation work, I am arguing that it’s comparatively meaningless when you look at the wholescale abuse of animals perpetrated by the absolute majority of humans on this planet.

You’re ignoring my point. Every single day the average person will actively benefit from the direct, quantifiable harm of individuals animals — your lunch, your dinner, there’s probably at least one animal’s suffering associated with it. Every year tens of billions of animals are slaughtered after spending their lives in inhumane conditions.

How many whales are there on earth? How many lions? 50,000 at most. You could put a bullet in the head of every lion on earth tomorrow and it would be a drop in the ocean compared to the hundreds of millions of farm animals that would be killed _on that same day_. And the lions at least wouldn’t have spent their lives packed 10 to a square foot in a barn dying to sickness.

There are some incredible, highly regarded documentaries (planet earth, blue planet) that do far more for educating people about animals than viewing that animal in a cage ever can. If zoos actually created any sort of compassion in visitors for animals then we wouldn’t be having this argument — all they create is fascination in a select few species we’ve deemed to be interesting enough, and what use is that to the animals being tortured on a scale millions of times greater.

Exotic animals are just a tool used to support an entire species cognitive dissonance.

Zoos have nothing to do with my beliefs around animal welfare and that assumption shows your blinkered view of this problem.

The fundamental problem is that humans view animals as tools, torture and murder for our benefit is normalised from birth and zoos are just an extension of that.

You can argue that zoos play a part in giving some humans some compassion towards some animals but what use is that when their next stop after the lion enclosure is the hotdog cart.

We shouldn’t need zoos. There’s lots of non-invasive ways to learn about animals, and if our shared fundamental belief was that we should do everything we can to show animals compassion and respect, then at no point would anyone need to say “unless these kids see a caged tiger they’re not going to consider the consequences of deforestation”.

Except we have zoos now and we treat animals very poorly, consider the billions upon billions of animals we slaughter every single year who’ve been forced to live in torturous conditions — zoos haven’t saved them.

Perhaps zoos aren’t the solution, maybe if we stopped the wholesale destruction of animals in our every day lives that compassion would spread to wild animals and we wouldn’t need zoos to remind people that animals aren’t just tools for us to abuse.

Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $1000.

Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $20,000.

Now consider how much money will have to enter the market, after everyday “normal” people from outside of tech have lost hundreds or thousands, for the price to reach $250,000.

Spend any time on the crypto currency subreddits and you’ll find dozens of people who took out >$20k loans to buy cryptocurrency. There are people still doing it. My co-working office space was filled with people in December talking non-stop about buying crypto currency, although all the crypto currency traders are long gone now.

I don’t think people losing tens of thousands are the norm but absolutely there is a never ending list of people who’ve lost most of what they put in, whether that was hundreds or low thousands.

Authy specifically stores your account in the cloud and can be recovered using SMS. They have a 24 hour warning period during which the email address on file receives multiple notifications that a recovery is being attempted with the option to cancel but if someone has control over your phone number for an extended period of time they can absolutely take over your Authy account. I found this out when my Authy account was corrupted somehow and support said, hey no worries just go through the recovery process.

Google Authenticator is offline only and is not vulnerable.

Recreational usage is not relative to the substance, it’s dependent on behaviour. If you’re dependent on a substance (whether that’s physically dependent or mentally) you’re no longer a recreational user but if you’re using something frequently or infrequently for enjoyment then you are a recreational user — regardless of whether or not that substance is safe to use at your chosen frequency.

Yes but MDMA specifically will mangle your brain after very little recreational usage relative to almost all other drugs. Recreational use of MDMA a few times a week is _very bad_ on the long term health of your brain, very few other drugs are on that level — certainly none of the drugs you’ve listed.

Another vegan chiming in to say I assumed these weren’t suitable for me based on the name because buttermilk is an ingredient I see and think, “damn :(“. Veganism is very much about identifying red flags that make something unsuitable, so any reference to a non-vegan product is going to immediately turn off a non-zero portion of vegans because they won’t search out the ingredients to discover it is vegan.

A key part of a manageable vegan life is building a database of what you can consume that you enjoy and using that to drive choices, so if you can get vegan customers buying your food and enjoying it then they’re going to be stickier customers. I am a very loyal customer to my favourite food brands out of necessity, as are my vegan friends.

That said there’s certainly a double edged sword here in that there are some non-vegans who see “vegan” and are turned off but given Indian food is so often vegan I don’t think this would be a concern in your market. Although the name is cute, it’s definitely misrepresenting your product to a growing portion of your potential customers. If you stick with the name, regardless of marketing, you’re going to lose vegans, because many won’t look beyond the name because that’s a necessity for getting by.

There’s a few companies in the U.K. doing intentionally vegan ready meals (e.g https://allplants.com) and there’s a growing market for vegan ready meals (we are as busy/lazy as everybody else), so I think it’s worthwhile to reconsider the name, but also it’s a great name so maybe you can be the company to get vegans to look beyond red flags. Your product seems absolutely great for my needs and would, assuming they’re enjoyable to eat, integrate into my life well. Good luck!

This is absolutely untrue. There are many very profitable dating sites and apps. Tinder is a fantastic example of a dating app making money hand over fist since they began monetising, their revenue is in the hundreds of millions per quarter. Tinder is projected to be half of all Match groups revenue this year.

The question to ask is where will the money come from? The last bubble was all over TV, it was a constant part of the news cycle and everybody knows somebody who bought at least some crypto currency based on promises of wild riches. Most of those people have lost at least some (or even most) of the money they “invested”. When the layman has already been burned, where can money come from?

People often make the mistakes more than once so perhaps there’s room for “this time it’s different!” but I’m not convinced. I don’t see the crypto market ever exceeding the previous all time high.

There’s certainly room for individual cryptocurrency projects to succeed from their own merit as projects that happen to be crypto currencies so I don’t think all crypto currencies are dead forever but crypto as a growth market almost certainly is.

Out of the blue. I am very careful about what I sign up for, I don’t have a car nor can I find any previous emails from the person involved (going back ten years). There’s no chance I signed up to a mailing list for a car accessory — and just in case I had somehow subscribed (maybe through another product they offer) I asked how they got my email address and they didn’t respond which is a tell tale sign of a spammer. My email address was included in a database leak from Kickstarter in 2014, so I am almost certain they have been spamming everybody from the Kickstarter database leak.

I received their spam, reported it to mailchimp (their provider) and was told that they were suspended.

The creator doesn’t mention that one of his marketing strategies is email spam (his mailchimp account was suspended following abuse reports).

What’s the connection between reading books and the internet, aside from literacy? They’re such different things, I’m not clear on the connection between reading and the internet.

Presumably Sony and other major corporate users of YouTube do not have employees selecting a file and sitting waiting for it to upload every time a trailer needs to go out, nor do they give employees access to these high value YouTube accounts. Presumably they have a system between their staff and YouTube that is responsible for uploads, and in that system a mistake like this —- referencing the wrong file —- would be much easier to make and go unnoticed.

Bitfinex isn’t a company that ignored some AML requirements and they’re not a company just using Tether. They’re the company responsible for tether, they are the creators of Tether. Tether is hugely fraudulent, it’s foundation is fraudulent, they haven’t just avoided some regulations. There’s no way that Coinbase or any other legitimate institution would open themselves up to being responsible for that.

There is absolutely no chance that bitfinex and/or Tether will be acquired by any legitimate institution, much less Coinbase. They are far to steeped in fraudulent behaviour to ever go legitimate without regulatory punishment.

We (people who operate online services) are exposed to legal action already, but we aren’t worried about it because realistically there’s such little risk of being targeted. The same is true of the GDPR, the organisations responsible for ensuring GDPR compliance are going to have their hands full for years and years to come, by the time the little guys have anything to worry about the situation will be much better defined. I cannot see a scenario in which I’m going to be pursued because of accidental non-compliance with my revenueless service when there are so many large companies that can afford million dollar fines who can’t even store passwords properly.

if you’re so risk averse that any minuscule chance of GDPR noncompliance precludes you from running an online service... aren’t you already not running anything because of existing legal risk?

You’re comparing a massive group of people with a comparatively tiny group of people that have self selected for only the most willing and capable of abandoning everything and building a new life from nothing after qualifying to enter the United States. Of course those people are going to be more successful. That alone discredits the point you’re making.

nevermind, hn is not the place for discussion of race.

Most cameras in the U.K. are privately owned and operated with no central system.

Veganism is a commitment beyond diet. Every vegan I know does not intentionally make use of anything that contains animal products in any form. There is a huge industry for cruelty free cosmetics, for example. You’re mischaracterising veganism. A person who follows a diet of no animal products but uses animal products elsewhere in their life would usually say they follow a “plant based diet” and not claim to be vegan.

Tether isn’t a traditional “scam coin”. Tether is the currency used on many major exchanges, they don’t use USD they use USDT and if tether have printed 2bn in fraudulent dollars that underly the entire crypto market they could wipe out huge portions of the market when it implodes. The market cap isn’t the amount of money invested, a hundreds of billions market cap can come from a few billion in “real” dollars — and if those dollars don’t exist, well...

What I don’t understand about Ripple is that from what I’ve read, their partnerships with banks are using their technology not their cryptocurrency, so where does the value in XRP come from? As in, I see the value in the Ripple platform but I don’t see the value in XRP. e.g the American Express announcement explicitly states they are not using XRP. Can you clarify for me? Thank you!

I wouldn’t discount YouTube based on that experience. That channel looks to be one of the channels that drives a lot of views through children, specifically, children watch and watch and watch these videos on TVs (driving up the viewcounts) but aren’t engaged, they aren’t going to convert to customers. You may wish to try more targeted channels, i.e channels with an engaged audience of people who like Japanese culture. A video with 1,000 views to people who are enamoured with Japanese culture will perform significantly better than that video.

"The global pattern is very much males attacking young women and girls, relating to rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals or dowry-related attacks," he says.

But most of the attacks in the U.K. are random and are often connected to robberies or gang violence. Many of the perpetrators are in their teens."

I don't follow how we can lay the responsibility for this increase in attacks at the feet of people from the Middle East coming to the UK if the motives are so different. The method is the same but the motivation is fundamentally different.

Perhaps the simpler explanation -- that it's a method of assault that is easier to get away with, has lighter sentences if caught and is not illegal to carry the weapon -- is more likely.

I live in Tower Hamlets and witnessed an acid attack a few weeks ago, the attacker was white and the victims were white. I don't feel unsafe here either.