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That data center is going to be staffed by sysadmins fed on champagne and foie gras, with octuple off-site backups.

Some things in France are nice (pate de foie gras at the French senate).

Imagine Bob is someone like the Unabomber[1] or the Mardis Gras bomber.

Foie gras is inefficient on every possible food production for energy/resource metric.

Pound for pound, about the same as black swan foie gras.

AOL has proven that as long as a sizable portion of your users are technically inept, you can extract value out of them like foie gras.

The median foie gras industry is not La Belle Farms.

A cruelty-free faux gras, for example, would be amazing!

Only the 4th point you made is specific to the production of foie gras, and I believe that the article argued fairly well that force feeding is not painful for the ducks.

I think that the question that this article is trying to answer is not whether it is ethical to produce foie gras, but whether it is less ethical than producing other farm animals.

When I was experimenting with polyphasic sleep there was a moment of around 30 seconds while waking up where I was conscious and aware but not knowing who I was or where I was until I figured out I was lying in the gras instead of standing somewhere.

"Foie gras production should be judged not by the worst farms, but by the best, because those are the ones that I'm going to choose to buy my foie from if at all." This is an interesting assumption which is not novel to foie gras advocates.

I think a pretty good anecdotal data point relating "issues due to alcohol" to "issues due to drugs" is the relative lack of injuries and crimes at Burning Man versus, say, Mardi Gras, Coachella, etc.

In the last few months I've done some awesome stuff (Like going to Mardi Gras, and hiking national parks, and partying with spring-breakers).