mrweiner
Your business revenue can really help you out in this department. If it happens to be that you lack motivation for specific things, can you hire those out and focus on working on the things that actually give you joy and satisfaction?
The suggestion of therapy is a good one, but I think that figuring out the root causes of your lack of motivation is also a good first step. So when you sit down to work and can’t get going, ask yourself “what am I trying to do, why am I doing it, why don’t I want to, and would handing this off to somebody else give me motivation to move onto the next thing.”
Best of luck!
Fwiw, I listened to an interview with Brian a couple of years back where he said that, internally and strategically, they call hosts “partners” and guests “customers.” Which makes sense to me.
You have no information about how much waste they produce.
> What other people do is not your business.
We cant comment that grocery stores throw out too much food because it’s not our business?
Growing mushrooms is one of those things that’s been on my list forever, but I never get around to setting anything up. What system do you use for your mushrooms?
From your second source:
> Carefully constructed vegan diets could provide adequate amounts of all six priority micronutrients for the general population, except vitamin B12, which would need to be consumed through fortified foods or supplements.
Further, the opening paragraph of your third link undermines your entire argument as well
> Diets that limit the consumption of animal source food to very low levels require careful fortification or supplementation, and the inclusion of specific nutrient-dense plants. If these cautionary measures are neglected, vegetarian and, especially, vegan populations risk to suffer from deficiencies in some key animal source food-associated nutrients."
It specifically says that vegan populations risk deficiencies when not including nutrient-dense foods and fortification/supplementation. It specifically does not say that full nutrition is impossible without animal products.
Event the title implicitly supports my argument: "Not all (micro)nutrients are easily obtained from plants." Emphasis on "easily."
The word "cannot" only appears alongside B12. The phrase "does not" doesn't appear alongside any nutrients intake. And the word "impossible" doesn't show up at all.
Are you sure that you read the articles you're claiming that I did not read?
Edit: Hopefully you read this after this edit, if not can address as a followup. Here is a page on the NHS specifically referencing how all nutrients can be obtained on a vegan diet: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/how-to-eat-a-balanced-....
Your sources don’t even refute this. Yes, supplementation for things like B12 and omegas are required. We eat a variety of fortified foods in the modern age anyway and supplementation is trivial. Yes, you need to eat a diverse range of foods to obtain a balance of essential nutrients. That doesn’t mean you cannot maintain long term health on a vegan diet.
Honestly no idea what you’re talking about, here.
> When you say vegan stuff like that, you should be more precise: people do not need to eat meat to survive. Survival and good health are on the opposite end of the spectrum.
I needn’t be more precise. Meat is not required for survival or for good health. Exception being if one’s situation demands eating meat. For somebody reading/commenting on HN, eating meat is almost certainly a decision, not a requirement of any sort.
And it’s scary how effective these things are. Aminopyralids (glyphosates, like grazon or roundup) can affect plants at concentrations of 1 part per billion (ppb), and apparently soil tests generally only test down to 5 ppb. So you could have contaminated soil or materials and have no idea, even if you ran a test. So the only real way to know is to test plant some peas or something to see whether they show signs of contamination. And hope that you have tested a representative sample.
These chemicals apparently mess with the stacking behavior of plant cells. So as the plant grows larger, the stems and leaves become more and more twisted and curled due to the cells not stacking properly. At least, that’s my understanding of how aminopyralids work, but it sounds like the chemical in this article may work similarly.
What’s worse is that some classes of herbicides (like aminopyralids) are persistant. They’re like the PFAs of herbicides. So if a farmer sprays their hay field with grazon to kill weeds, and then another person feeds that hay to some cows, horses, goats, rabbits, or whatever, the manure is basically poison; concentrated herbicides. If it’s applied to soil where crops are meant to grow, that soil will be contaminated for years. So one of nature’s greatest soil ammendments turns into a plague. The stories I’ve heard of persistent herbicide contamination are heartbreaking. Basically the only way to fix it is to grow vigorous grasses for several years to leech the poisons, and throw that grass into the landfill (because it’s contaminated too).
Be careful when you purchase manure, hay, and straw for your gardens, folks.
I suppose update frequency doesn’t matter from the perspective of just conveying how it works, but it could be updated frequently. For instance, any time a paper is published, or if the customer provided a data stream, etc.
> Ok. And what is the use case? What would be different if they did not publish the hashes on a blockchain?
The idea of blockchain is “don’t trust, verify,” right? Imagine you’re a researcher and you’re using this company’s services. Having the hashes on-chain allows you to verify the integrity of the data over time. Having it on-chain removes attack vectors associated with e.g. a standard database. Similarly, all of Vectorspace’s tooling for various services benefit from the same assurances that the data is sound. So like I said initially: data provenance.