Damn that's huge. In these parts, a quarter pounder is considered large. You'll only see 8oz patties when you go to fancier restaurants.
Our largest issue is actually getting replies instead of drive-by-downvotes.
That's exactly what I mean in point #1. People rarely go out of their way for an in depth discussion. It just happens upon you, and the way this community is currently set up doesn't really allow for that. You have to come here deliberately looking for this discussion.
I don't think we'll ever get through to users that a downvote isn't a "disagree button" to many people.
I don't believe this is possible at all. Hence the proposal for a two vote system, because that allows you to easily filter out those who treat everything as an agree/disagree button.
Another benefit that I didn't mention is that this also allows you to sort/filter in more interesting ways. E.g. Sort by diversity where each subsequent comment has minimal overlap with previously seen comments in terms of the set of people agreeing with it, or filter to only show comments I agree/disagree with. It also lets you analyse the distribution of opinions in the overall community and take action to correct things if it ever skews too far in one direction or another.
Running a full instance is indeed a lot of work. I don't have time to do it myself either, but if anyone else wants to do it, I would be very happy to help.
I don't know if you mean that 3oz sounds high or low. It certainly sounds like a normal serving size to me. I normally aim for about 7oz per meal if I'm having pork, but I'm pretty sure that's on the high end. Even then, it's just a little over 100mg of sodium. I've seen the recommended minimum daily sodium for healthy adults to range anywhere between 500mg and 2000mg depending on the source.
And yes, I do mean it breaks up into sodium and chlorine. It makes sense to talk about "salt concentration" in the context of salt dissolved in distilled water, but less so when you have so many other things in solution because there's no straightforward way (to the best of my knowledge, but I'm also no chemist) to map from dissolved ions to the molecules they would've been a part of.
Bills that go towards the goal of keeping someone alive. That someone being either a person who helps victims of conversation therapy through an organization, or a person doing the same thing independently. What makes the former more deserving of compensation for their work than the latter?
The sad reality of adulthood. It's so hard to get properly immersed in a good story unless you have several straight hours to spare, and those are hard to come by.
It wins in the sense that you still have access to the software and code, and you have the option to either hire someone new to maintain it or switch to something else. Closed source proprietary software only leaves you with the latter choice.
And what happens when you donate the money? It's used to pay some other dude's wages, which then goes towards their bills.
An important component of the cost to consider is how long we expect a company to support a piece of software, and how much it would cost to migrate everything when they drop support. FOSS wins in this regard, especially if you can get a support contact with the devs.
I don't see how donating it is any less morally wrong. Between what he did and what you propose, both involve using the money to fix the same problem. The difference is just
- whether he provides the services himself or someone else does and
- whether we fix it through prevention or treatment after the fact.
I'd be very surprised if it was only pork that got this treatment. If anything, I'd think chicken breasts would be the most common victim.
Yeah, salt normally refers to sodium content. Salts separate in solution, so you never have actual NaCl unless you have a solid hunk of salt.
But also, sodium isn't inherently bad for you. Just like most things we consume, too little is bad, and too much is also bad. 53mg per serving is still so far off from what a typical adult needs.
Definitely. Go for it.