> The value you provide not only has to beat Google, but also Netflix, Bitwarden...
It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to search the whole Internet, something you do every single day multiple times, less valuable than watching Netflix shows a few hours every week? Our perceptive is seriously skewed because we've had free (paid with ads+data) web search engines for almost as long as we've had the web. On the other hand, Netflix seems incredibly cheap because for a long time before it, legal access to movies and series was expensive and hard/impossible due to strong copyright laws.
Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.
Isn't racism fundamentally a type of caste/class discrimination? Not as well defined castes like seen in India, but "black people" are discriminated as a result of slavery, "asians" as a result of mass immigration. To the point where in many countries you were not allowed or able to marry outside your "caste", had different rights than locals/whites etc. People today don't feel racism as caste discrimination, but to say that there's no precedent in the West is being pedantic IMO.
The word you are looking for is bigotry. That's the generalized equivalent of racism. Thing is, bigotry in general isn't illegal. Specific kinds of bigotry are in regards to hiring though. Racism is one of them. But caste isn't.
A lawyer might be able to make the claim that it would fall under "national origin or ancestry" since, to my knowledge, caste is hereditary and hard to change.
But if so then that makes these kinds of talks all the more important. Because it helps Americans recognize a form of illegal discrimination they would otherwise not recognize.
Being hereditary is necessary but not sufficient for a grouping to constitute a race. Blond hair and blue eyes are hereditary, but blue eyed people aren’t a different race.
“Race” is a fuzzy concept but generally distinguishes people of different ethnic origins. Indian castes aren’t different races—low caste and high caste Indians can come from the same ethnic group. It’s more like the European distinction between nobility and commoners. That’s also hereditary, but it doesn’t define different races.
Proportion of steppe/Aryan origin varies among caste groups (some places as you go farther from cow belt that were subject to Brahminization or like Kashmir are exceptions to this, however this doesn’t mean all Hindus in Kashmir were Brahmins regardless of what certain recent films might claim on the subject) Physiognomy as some of the British attempted is not a golf way to go about studying it (see Native American skulls as to why, brachycephaly etc can be influenced by environment over generations) Markers like sickle cell trait (which I possess incidentally) are almost always found among aboriginal/tribal lower castes . It seems that story of “dasas” and Nishadas largely matches up with being forced into lower caste hood or untouchability as a result of losing wars.
'Racism' is absolutely a caste system, since the fundamental point of a caste system is to proportion resource and opportunity between breeding pools, however devised those are. The differentiator is simply the terms used to draw these boundaries. Which matters because different terms, say religious terms vs medico-scientific terms, resource different graphs for further narrativization. Jewish folk from Europe know full well the difference between being narrativized according to religious lines and according to medico-scientific lines, neither even approaching something like true or right. Black folk in America have been hounded about their medico-scientific distinction from the get-go, right down to the resurgence of heritable IQ and multi-regional emergence theory today.
It might not be considered "racism", as such, in the same way that discrimination against women is not necessarily racism.
But it certainly seems like caste would be a protected characteristic under California law--"Race, Color, National Origin, or Ancestry" are protected characteristics. Caste seems to obviously fall under ancestry.
Because your caste isn't a race. Caste is just taking the class system further. That's why its bigotry but not racism. I've no idea why people seem to want to extend racism to mean all of these things when there already exists a word for it.
> You trading potential tracking by thirdparties with potential tracking by yourself.
You're not making any sense. Proxying all requests is the only way to shield you from being tracked by third parties. If DDG wants to track you they don't need some convoluted dance - you're already on their website.
> If DDG wants to track you they don't need some convoluted dance - you're already on their website.
I don't trust their website either but the user-agent that I use that has enough anti-tracking measures I trust (whether those might be defeated is an orthogonal topic). The redirects through their servers... I cannot control what runs on it, just as I cannot control what terms they sign up with Microsoft.
> Another way in which farmers combat soil compaction is by aeration and tilling.
The problem is that constantly aerating and tilling the soil is destroying microbiomes and fungal networks. It's one of the fundamental principles of regenerative farming. In good industrial fashion, we destroy nature (overfarming) and try solving it (chemical fertilizers) only to destroy it further (mono cultures, no biodiversity, leading to soil degradation, reduced yields), so we try to fix it again (huge machines, more mono cultures), and now these machines are destroying the soil because they are too heavy. It's time to dial back and rethink what we're doing.
Yes, there's an actual no-till movement with organic farmers as well. It's popular for two reasons:
- It's a lot less work (no tilling, less need for getting rid of weeds). Especially for private gardeners, interesting to know probably.
- You can actually get good results with it. Healthy soil means plants have an easier time (less pests and diseases, which are generally signs of plants not doing great).
Simply using nature to work for you instead of trying to against it can be a huge time saver.
IMHO there are a few positive trends in agriculture:
- farmers are starting to like some of the organic farming practices. They work and produce good results. Also the produce is more valuable.
- high tech farming is all about being smarter with resources; including water, soil, labor, energy, fertilizers, pesticides etc. Low tech, intensive farming is mostly about blindly doing things at scale. It works but it isn't necessarily very efficient.
- vertical farming is much more efficient with land and increasingly used for producing high value produce. There might be some future breakthroughs with more nutrient rich things like rice or grains but that seems to be not possible currently.
- synthetic meat grown in a lab gets rid of a lot of CO2 issues associated with cattle.
So, the agriculture sector might look very different in a few decades. Plenty of new and exciting things happening.
Most (by far) farmers practicing no-till aren't using nature to work for them, they are using chemistry... specifically herbicides, like glyphosate.
That's not to say it's wrong; in a lot of cases using herbicides instead of tilling is actually more sustainable... many soil types will degrade very fast with tillage, and while herbicides surely also have damaging effects (in terms of microbial composition, etc), the evidence so far suggests strongly that tillage is worse.
>synthetic meat grown in a lab gets rid of a lot of CO2 issues associated with cattle.
I mean if you isolate for certain things like methane released trough farts sure...
But from what i've heard it's still a process that requires a lot of hard to add up factors which aren't accounted for and is difficult to scale to boot.
In a vacuum it seems like your meat was great and neutral for the environment. The gathering, production processes, logistics, etc of all the chemicals, materials, etc involved might make it all a bit more vague.
I don't think chemical fertiliser is a solution to overfarming; it's a way of increasing yield. Although I guess that could be what you mean by overfarming? The yield per hectare should be whatever is naturally sustained?
If there was any other obvious way to influence google it would instantly be gamed. Both my companies tried to increase their relevance in certain keywords and by competitors reporting their websites.
It's not even just that HIV mutates quickly. After the initial attack, it infiltrates the immune memory cells and injects itself into your DNA and lies dormant for a long time, while these immune cells reproduce happily.
My understanding (of course it could easily be wrong, always verify this stuff) is that it's actively suppressed in the 'dormancy' stage, and it's more an almost inevitable failure of suppression that allows it to stop being 'dormant' so to speak.
Yes. It can take up to a decade for AIDS to develop after infection. The number of viral particles in the blood will peak shortly after infection, and it can cause flu-like symptoms for a week or so. And then the immune system will ramp up and it's almost fully suppressed. But some T4 cells have been hijacked and are spitting out HIV which is hijacking other T4 cells. This requires destroying the infected T4 cells. And a war of attrition and cumulative damage of a long inflammatory response eventually leads to increasing failure in that suppression. (Same caveats apply to my understanding.)
It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to search the whole Internet, something you do every single day multiple times, less valuable than watching Netflix shows a few hours every week? Our perceptive is seriously skewed because we've had free (paid with ads+data) web search engines for almost as long as we've had the web. On the other hand, Netflix seems incredibly cheap because for a long time before it, legal access to movies and series was expensive and hard/impossible due to strong copyright laws.