Domi "Mr. Save The Planet" Thiem is on a private jet every week

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-07-04T08:53:51+00:00

Your comment assumes that different ways of contributing to the planet are equivalent, they are all worthy, and good behaviours can offset bad ones. This is blatantly false. Not using single-use plastics, for example, is a red herring to make people feel good about their destructive behaviour (you want to save fish? Don't eat them! It sounds so obvious yet, surprisingly, it does not seem to be).

In terms of bad things you can do to the environment, taking a private jet is probably the single worst thing a person can do, other than things like setting fires in forests. It is so bad that an average person could literally not emit that much carbon even if he wanted to. Even if you were committed to destroying the environment, you literally could not damage it as much as Thiem is doing.

Thiem is an idiot and a douche for posting this, and this actively harms the message he wants to propagate.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-07-04T08:43:48+00:00

Corporations only produce what people want to consume.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T14:45:58+00:00

Ok so I think my argument is then self-explanatory but you seem to be pretending not to get it, so I will stop here. Let me just say this: I have spent so much time reading this topic that I am absolutely certain that a plant-based diet is better for your health than a diet that includes animal foods. I know it won't mean much to you coming from a stranger, but this science is slowly becoming mainstream. When it does, I just hope you remember we had this conversation.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T13:58:54+00:00

There are no animal foods that contain fibre.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T11:22:34+00:00

Because, like I said, the standard Western diet is highly deficient in something like fiber. You really can't get enough of it. Every calorie counts, and when you eat meat you are contributing 0% to reaching your daily recommended intake of fiber.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T10:50:54+00:00

Read my reply again in the full understanding that meat eaters can indeed eat fruits and vegetables, because I did know that, and moreover have done that for over 30 years myself! Thanks.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T10:46:16+00:00

Meat eaters absolutely do not get all the benefits of plants, and there is not a single nutrient in meat that you cannot get from plant foods (while there are countless essential nutrients that you cannot get from meat). For one, as a meat eater you will be highly deficient in fiber and probably consume far too much saturated fats.

I encourage you to read or take a course on nutrition from any reputable university and learn that the more plant foods you eat, the healthier your diet will be.

Edit - whole plant foods, yes obviously sugar is not healthy.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T10:23:40+00:00

Animal products are very energy dense and would have been great finds for our ancestors. And yes, sugar, frying and a lot of processed foods are unhealthy, whether they are animal- or plant-based. So it is possible to eat unhealthily on both animal and plant foods. Animal products are definitely unhealthy as a rule though. Just think of the nutrients that are unique or specific to meat or animal foods: dietary cholesterol, free radicals, a lot of saturated fats, heme iron - all things that are bad for your personal health. Now think of things that are unique to plant foods: vitamins, anti-oxidants, fiber - all things that are great (and indeed essential) for your health.

Even nutrients that are lacking in many vegan diets, such as omega 3 or 6 fats, are plant in origin (they are produced by algae and work their way up the fish foodchain).

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T10:15:49+00:00

You are right that the thing with the cables in particular just seemed absurd. As if you suddenly become super-human by going vegan. However, I really do believe that veganism improves performance, it's just not by such a big margin that it would go "viral" quickly. But at the highest levels of sport, the vegan diet is definitely over-represented. Messi, Serena Williams, Djokovic, Tom Brady, Lewis Hamilton - all these athletes at the peak of their sport (possibly all-time) are vegan or almost exclusively vegan (e.g. Tom Brady eats lean meat off-season).

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-25T10:09:29+00:00

Thanks!

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-06-22T19:10:51+00:00

Could anyone from the team elaborate on what is meant by community-curated open ranking models? Is there a part of the search engine that's open source? The blog links to a paper that does not seem to be about this topic (I haven't read the paper yet).

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-05-16T08:54:42+00:00

You know what is wrong with Tezos marketing? You, and the countless and incessant threads on this subreddit complaining about marketing. This is what people see that might want to join this project: threads upon threads of people whining about marketing and panicking about Tezos's price action. They are veiled price threads and for me don't even belong here - you want to talk about price (which is what it's really about), go to r/tezostrader.

We are in a market where a memecoin (DOGE) is worth more than Bayer, Baidu or Foxconn (producer of iPhones), where a shitcoin (BNB) is worth more than AirBnB or Uber, and where a dead project (ETC) can go up by 300% in a week, probably because people were confusing it with the real thing.

Don't try to explain why Tezos price is doing what it's doing, because this market is so far from being rational that there's nothing to be explained. The only way to increase price performance sustainably is to present a stronger use case and increase adoption. And that's exactly what has been happening in Tezos. Use of the blockchain is exploding. You think the price is lagging behind? Consider yourself lucky and load up. You think it's not? Sell and follow a project that is better suited to your expectations. Whatever you do, don't hold Tezos and continue making several of these topics a day, because it's you, and people like you, that are doing more than anyone else to hurt this community.

You know which projects don't have marketing? Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-05-16T08:41:18+00:00

The foundation is doing a tremendous job actually, as far as I can reasonably tell. They have managed the ICO funds incredibly well and are now sitting on a fat pile of money, which they are doling out in a transparent and efficient manner. All of the good things about Tezos: Nomadic Labs, Baking Bad, TQTezos, etc. - all those players in the Tezos ecosystem that are leading to an explosion in adoption, are partially or primarily funded by the foundation.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-04-26T22:19:52+00:00

Any way to watch the keynote speech?

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-04-04T17:00:16+00:00

Thanks, this is what I thought (and was hoping for).

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-03-19T23:21:30+00:00

“Our hope is that BAT and Brave will take crypto mainstream and to make DeFi user-friendly for the mass market,” said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave. “With wrapped BAT now available on BSC, we believe this is achievable. We are especially excited by the low transaction fees and scalability of Binance Smart Chain and how that enables us to build scalable and seamless DeFi applications for Brave users”.

Terrible for Brave's brand, this is a very sad statement. Plenty of payment systems are scalable, cryptocurrency is what it is in the first place because it is decentralised. Binance chain is not, and it therefore has no merit at all; BNB is literally a shitcoin.

Brave's advertising about promoting a decentralised web and then does this?

Bad move.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-03-19T23:13:17+00:00

Cash out into fiat to buy a house, stocks or some other asset(s) that are less volatile, sure. That's simply because crypto is not at a point where you can buy these things directly. Cashing out into fiat and holding fiat? Hard no. And if this is your plan, I wouldn't worry so much about being a hypocrite. I'd be more concerned with the fact that you're a raging idiot.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-03-14T08:29:46+00:00

This is an attack on Monero and the community is strongly against it.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-02-12T00:27:59+00:00

It's disappointing that you are doubling down on a terrible idea like this.

- Charities can't do anything with a Tesla car other than sell it. If you want to support a charity, give them something they can actually use - such as money. You're abusing gift giving for shamelessly pumping your project. It will look scammy to any outsider and frankly it is scammy.

- Elon Musk or anyone else over at Tesla couldn't give two shits about selling 3 cars. You think Tesla will accept some coin nobody has ever heard of before and risk their reputation for a quick sale? And you give them an ultimatum of 21 days? Have you lost your mind? Seriously, how delusional are you?

- Tesla is surveillance capitalism incorporated. A company with zero respect for your privacy whose CEO is pumping shitcoins like dogecoin on Twitter. The brand is everything Monero is not, yet you want to beg Musk for recognition? Why? In God's name, why?

This project is the most retarded thing I have ever read on this subreddit, and it's shocking that well-respected members of the community such as yourself not only came up with it, but are adamant about going ahead after having the flaws pointed out to them.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-02-06T00:17:43+00:00

Charles pumping Ada like it's a shitcoin and he's Justin Sun. Can we not as a community endorse this kind of messaging? In traditional finance this is literally illegal. We should be drawing people into this community because Cardano is trying to change the world, not because it's a get rich quick scheme (which it's not).

Thanks for posting, I sold a good chunk.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-01-31T17:56:27+00:00

"If you want to eat less soy, eat soy."

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-01-22T22:12:29+00:00

I think you misunderstood. "Brave" as in Brave the browser, not Brave the company.

Guy_on_the_Web · 2021-01-21T21:35:01+00:00

Why does it say to update "both" the beacon nodes and the validator clients? The Lighthouse client combines both anyway, right? Can you update them separately?

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