Wood burning can be made sustainable. Where I live, the forest service encourages people to take dead trees out of the forest. It reduces the fire load. And building codes and EPA certs have done a lot to clean up wood stoves. https://www.epa.gov/burnwise
Don’t buy cheap eggs. The plastic is introduced via the feed, through vectors like expired bread products. There’s nothing wrong with using expired baked goods. The issue comes when they don’t take off the plastic wrapping and just let everything be shredded into the feed.
I do not believe grass fed chickens have the same problem.
I strongly doubt they shred the plastic packaging into the feed. That said, plastic is already in everything. It's in our blood, in the placenta of fetuses. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a chicken that doesn't have microplastics in its blood.
It's apparently not economical to separate the plastic packaging from expired product. I've seen the same happen to old packets of biscuits being shredded.
I always think environmental charities should prepare an advert against the practice with a family eating breakfast, then one person picking some plastic packaging from their teeth.
I may have not used the right video, I can remember watching a documentary in the UK where things weren't separated properly, and they showed pieces of blue wrapping still in the feed.
Some animals have more microplastics than others due to their environment and other living conditions. Factory farm animals literally have plastic in their feed.
But seriously, this does raise genuine concerns about what is the acceptable limit for microplastics in the egg whites initially, since microplastics have made way to everything we consume today.
LROC, which may be the closest we have in volume to a lunar telescope, sends its data back to Earth. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about
LROC is one of seven instruments on board LRO. Together, these instruments have a downlink allocation of 310 Gbits per Ka band pass and up to 4 passes per day. That translates into 155 GBytes per day of data or 56,575 GBytes per year (55 TBytes). These data are processed by each respective instrument's Science Operation Center (SOC) with the final products being delivered to the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS).
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms... HDT
I've lived in the forest for the last ten years. Nothing better. Sure there's risks; there's risks everywhere.
I live in a forested area currently. Talking about single person choices is disingenuous. There is an industry around building houses where they shouldn't be. The entire zoning, tax and development system is broken, cities depend on building permits for income because they can't effectively tax existing lots. And basically, no one pays for the real cost of exurban sprawl till the whole thing burns up in a forest fire.
Here is a recent Frontline on how the petro-chem industry fooled consumers: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/. Advocates may be gearing up for a lawsuit, similar to what happened to the cigarette companies.
Frankly, for me, "Jessie and Bryan are going to start selling computers" is enough for me to get excited about it. I'm not sure I could give you an in-depth rundown, because well, I'm not privy to any information, and obviously this announcement is a bit light on details. Some quotes from both of their posts that I think are important:
> hardware and software should each be built with the other in mind.
> even as the world is moving (or has moved) to elastic, API-driven computing, there remain good reasons to run on one’s own equipment!
> Over the last year, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time talking with folks who are currently running workloads on premises. The consensus from all my conversations has been that everyone setting up infrastructure themselves is in a great deal of pain and they have been largely neglected by any existing vendor. All these folks have very good reasons for running on premises that include security, strategic reasons like latency, specialized workloads, or the reality that the unit economics of running at their scale in the cloud are unsustainable.
> the world needed a company to develop and deliver integrated, hyperscaler-class infrastructure to the broader market — that we needed to start a computer company.
> Hyperscalers like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have what I like to call “infrastructure privilege” since they long ago decided they could build their own hardware and software to fulfill their needs better than commodity vendors. We are working to bring that same infrastructure privilege to everyone else!
> could we find an investor who saw what we saw in Oxide? Fortunately, the answer to this question had been emphatic and unequivocal: [yes]
About 30% of the top HN posts every day are advertisements. Click on the "past" link at the top, go back each day. It's either a company or a software project trying to get eyeballs. And why not? This site exists because a business person wanted to show off their investments.
It definitely happens, but the moderators have been good at keeping that to a minimum. And even with guerilla advertising, the comments can offer critiques of features, or suggest alternatives. That's much more helpful than pure astroturfing when all the comments are pro-product in question.
