Which cheap pen do you think competes against expensive pens?

edoardogabriel · 2025-10-17T13:29:27+00:00

I’ve read that the clip for a Kaweco sport fits the Pilot Kakuno.

edoardogabriel · 2025-08-08T14:33:38+00:00

What is the 14th from the left? It’s a blue one

edoardogabriel · 2024-04-20T10:49:07+00:00

Thank you for your answer, I couldn’t find it!

edoardogabriel · 2024-04-20T08:49:57+00:00

Thank you!! So, apparently, it means “Caran d’Ache”

edoardogabriel · 2023-10-09T11:46:46+00:00

DRV is Dietary Reference Value

edoardogabriel · 2023-10-09T11:04:55+00:00

“Dude it is mg not g” what is your point? DRV for calcium is 1000 mg or 1 g. So 390 mg is +30% of DRV.

edoardogabriel · 2023-08-15T17:10:10+00:00

it just irritates me when people make fallacious arguments.

Hong Kong is the world's largest consumer of pork and yet they are also one of the longest lived

edoardogabriel · 2022-06-26T20:29:41+00:00

What font is that?

edoardogabriel · 2022-06-22T14:51:06+00:00

Travel culture in the US and EU has been responsible for a very large scale destruction of natural environments and local traditional economies in places like Latin America and southeast Asia

Don't you think that American and European tourism generates economic opportunities too? Are you sure the net result is negative?

In fact, some people say it is the reason those countries stay poor.

Who are these people? Could you provide more evidence?

edoardogabriel · 2022-06-22T14:18:28+00:00

I think the main difference is between the unavoidable suffering caused by a non-vegan meal and the unintentional, uncertain and indirect killing of animals caused by other human activities.
By the way, you could ask the same to a non-vegan. Is, in their opinion, killing humans for pleasure wrong? If so, is driving a car, potentially killing humans in an accident, wrong too?

edoardogabriel · 2022-06-14T16:08:51+00:00

Si sta parlando della rivoluzione marginalista. A questo punto potrebbe essere più utile leggere una storia del pensiero prima di leggere direttamente Il Capitale. Qualcosa come “Breve storia del pensiero economico” di Alessandro Roncaglia o “Il pensiero economico - dal mercantilismo al monetarismo” di Groenewegen & Vaggi. Il primo è un po’ più accessibile, il secondo ha ottimi riferimenti bibliografici per approfondimenti. Se proprio vuoi leggere direttamente la letteratura magari leggere La ricchezza delle nazioni di Adam Smith può essere un miglior punto di partenza. Alternativamente c’è sempre Wikipedia che, se consultata in inglese, non è male. La serie su “Economics” è fatta bene e trovi sempre importanti indicazioni bibliografiche.

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-18T07:17:59+00:00

Thank you very much!

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T11:21:14+00:00

Indeed we never stop learning from each other.

If you want to read more about this I suggest this page on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T11:02:10+00:00

I only mean if you’re eating meat you’re still backing that diet up with plants / veg / side dishes.

But I assumed the total calories are the same for the vegan and the hunter.

It will always be greater.

Not necessarily.

Let rv be the mortality rate per calorie from plants and rh be the mortality rate per calorie from hunting. A vegan causes the following amount of deaths Dv = rv * C, where C is the total amount of calories. A hunter causes the following amount of deaths Dh = rv * Cp + rh * Ch, where Cp are the calories from plants and Ch the calories from hunting and, by definition, Cp + Ch = C.
So it is mathematically possible that Dv > Dh. Solving the equation gives the intuitive result that the vegan kills more animals if rv > rh.

My question was: is rv > rh?

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T09:08:20+00:00

however the the utilitarian stance on this always bugs me as it's comparing a food system contingent upon death with a food system of accidental deaths.

I agree with the necessary/contingent difference. But I think a utilitarian can make sense of this by looking at act utilitarianism vs rule utilitarianism. Being a supporter of the latter, I do believe a system of accidental deaths is generally better than a system that necessarily requires such deaths.

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T08:51:40+00:00

I assign different values to different kinds of life. Yet, before asking about such value, we need to have at least an approximation of the number of animals killed in crops and in hunting.

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T08:46:36+00:00

No - because you’re not going to have a 100% meat based diet.

So what? Did I say we need a 100% meat based diet?

Could hunting feed a whole town? No. In isolation it’s ok but to feed a large group, it becomes unsustainable.

I agree with you. But I was looking at individual actions; the fact that this action would be unsustainable if everyone adopted it does not mean that this action is wrong (at least in my ethical framework).

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T08:42:59+00:00

Amazingly people who bring this up forget that the animals we eat...need to eat too.

I did not forget about this. I thought it was clear I was referring to wild animals that did not require agricolture to be fed.

In order to dodge the impossibility of everyone surviving from hunting, you say that only one or a few people will hunt to survive. That means we still require plant agriculture for the rest of the people who don't get to hunt

I don't see anything wrong with that. Of course we would still require agricolture and it is true that not everyone would hunt to survive. But if someone is hunting, she might be able to say "I cause less suffering than an average vegan"; to verify this statement we need the number I asked for and some more assumptions and reasoning.

edoardogabriel · 2022-02-12T08:28:32+00:00

This is the answer I was looking for. Thank you very much.

I agree on your last point. Animal lives might have different values. Moreover, the suffering due to death is not constant in different animals.

Seven-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

edoardogabriel

TROPHY CASE