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How Much Does It Cost to Buy a Vegetarian? – Everyday Utilitarian
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How Much Does It Cost to Buy a Vegetarian? I start with the claim that it’s good for people to eat less meat, whether they become vegetarian or, better yet, vegan because this means less nonhuman animals are being painfully factory farmed. I’ve defended this claim previously in Why Eat Less Meat? The second idea is that it shouldn’t matter. Is eating less meat. As long as less meat is being eaten, less animals will be farmed, and this is a good thing. Therefore, we should try to get. And The Humane League.
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Peter Hurford's Effective Altruist Profile
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A Re-Analysis of ACE's Leaflet Study – Everyday Utilitarian
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A Re-Analysis of ACE's Leaflet Study. Now that I’ve been doing some research blogging, it’s time to continue the trend with something big. Maybe you’ve seen ACE’s leafleting study analysis. And was like woah, that’s long, no way I’m going to read all that . Instead, my reaction was that’s long, but is there any way I can make it longer? So I did. Sixteen hours later, I emerge with this:. And The Humane League. And convince them to eat less meat. But wants to put this to the test. I was personally somewha...
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Interview with Brian Tomasik – Everyday Utilitarian
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Interview with Brian Tomasik. Some people have committed a great deal of their lives to trying to best make the world a better place. I’m trying to sit down with some of these people and learn more about their thoughts and motivations. Today, I sit down with Brian Tomasik. Brian worked at Microsoft as a computer programmer, earning a sizable salary that he then donated to important causes. Throughout this time, he also wrote on his blog, Utilitarian Essays. And donating to vegan outreach. Potentially I c...
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A Better Way to Learn Programming? Notes on The Odin Project – Everyday Utilitarian
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A Better Way to Learn Programming? Notes on The Odin Project. Follow up to So You Wanna Learn How to Code? Going from Zero to Programmer Hero in One Guide, for Great Justice. I’m currently working as a computer programmer at a start-up in Chicago. I’m getting paid to write code. It’s pretty neat. Most notably, I was not a Computer Science major in college, and I only took two CS classes. I got the job nearly entirely through about 700 hours of self study. Best of all, you can do it too! That being said, ...
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Interesting Mathematical Relationship – Everyday Utilitarian
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Today I found an interesting mathematical relationship where if you define f(x) such that. And you define f(0) = c. And f(1) = 2c. Then f(x) = 3f(x-1). For all x = 2. This was figured out in this Facebook thread. Also, it was found that the relationship is true for all x 2 for f(0) and f(1) of. And hosted on GitHub Pages. Comments powered by Disqus.
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Personal Review for March - May 2014 – Everyday Utilitarian
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Personal Review for March - May 2014. Follow up to Personal Review for December 2013 - February 2014. How Did I Spend My Time? These two months, I was focused on pre-professional prep (learning a lot more statistics and programming), bringing greater organization to my projects, and trying different things. 1: Other includes things like showering, hygeine, prioritizing tasks, reading/answering email, travelling, packing/unpacking, visiting the dentist, getting a haircut, etc. What Did I Accomplish? In ad...
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One Struggle, One Fight... So Why Are Our Allies All Chowing Down on Steaks and Burgers? – Everyday Utilitarian
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One Struggle, One Fight. So Why Are Our Allies All Chowing Down on Steaks and Burgers? What follows is the transcript of a presentation by Norm Phelps, a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians, at a Compassionate Action for Animals. Conference. The transcript was originally hosted on Their Lives, Our Voices. One struggle, one fight: human freedom, animal rights. That’s a chant you don’t hear as much as you used to, probably because our tactics have evolved away from the h...
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Who Is This Peter Guy? – Everyday Utilitarian
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Who Is This Peter Guy? My name is Peter Hurford. Right now, I’m a software developer at Avant Credit. I used to write a blog called Greatplay.net. For many years, starting blogging in 2009. In the fall of 2010, I read Richard Carrier’s Sense and Goodness Without God. And Nicholas Everitt’s The Nonexistence of God. In the fall of 2011, things changed again. I read Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save. And How Are We to Live. For the second time in my life, reading books changed everything. I continued...
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