dgesang

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by dgesang 12y ago
Well, I didn't say that anything nature-related is ought to be good and desirable. What I meant is that 'conventional food' yet has to be proven to be equally safe as food that was not genetically tampered with, grown without
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by dgesang 12y ago
And organically-grown food have been eating it for EONS with no major, obvious consequences. 'Conventionally-grown food' have just been thrown on the market a few decades ago without knowing any long-term effects to humans eating
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by dgesang 12y ago
Ha, yeah sure, we need to proof that natures goods are fine the way they are supposed to be, but highly manipulated goods don't. That kind of thinking is one of the reasons why so many people fear TTIP. Please stay on your side of the
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by dgesang 12y ago
> I'm still not convinced that organic is nutritionally superior or has levels of pesticides that prove harmful to humans. I'm curious what convinced you that they are equally healthy in the first place?
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by dgesang 12y ago
Naming alternative services in a news about some other service being bought/shutdown isn't really advertising. It's care.
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by dgesang 12y ago
Ask HN: Has anyone ever considered "MS Access a viable option"?
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by dgesang 12y ago
Nice template indeed, used it for my resume as well. Had to alter it to fit German application standards, though (e.g. added a portrait in the side bar, different fonts, etc).
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by dgesang 12y ago
That's a rather weird use case, tbh. I doubt many people edit their resume on a daily/weekly basis. Everyone I know update theirs rarely and they take their time to make it properly to not have any errors in it. So setting up LaTe
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by dgesang 12y ago
Who would want to work at a company that can't open a PDF file?
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by dgesang 12y ago
I can't use postman easily. I don't have a Google account. What do I do?
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by dgesang 13y ago
> There is a lot of truth in the idea that doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week. How about doing neither and instead use the money to solve some o
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by dgesang 13y ago
Also, backing up Emails is super simple, just fire up any mail client ...
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by dgesang 13y ago
> What should FFmpeg have been written in? There'll be a HN topic A FFmpeg reimplementation in JavaScript soon enough ...
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by dgesang 13y ago
"Bad news: Unicorn jobs don't exist, at least not for long." - Philip Guo http://pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm
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by dgesang 13y ago
> They're not exactly as supported, because they're not on by default I really don't get this. In almost any software there are features that are not 'on by default', but it's still implemented and supported
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by dgesang 13y ago
There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton
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by dgesang 13y ago
And there is also https://rhodecode.com/
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by dgesang 13y ago
Don't believe the hype. hg will be around for some time.
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by dgesang 13y ago
Or use TortoiseHg or SourceTree, if you're not comfortable with the CLI. They both work great. Also, if you need to host 'your own github', try RhodeCode.
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by dgesang 13y ago
> The Keynote by Glenn Greenwald - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5622_-_en_-_... > The Tor Network - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5423
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by dgesang 13y ago
More like: they want to enforce the use of their own delivery service, because they don't trust FedEx.
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by dgesang 13y ago
Now it's on us to bring them down ...
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by dgesang 13y ago
god, it is really getting old ...
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by dgesang 13y ago
> 1) No I am not "abdicating" my responsibilities as a parent. Then be responsible and setup some filter at home yourself. Problem solved. Now leave the rest of the world alone.
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by dgesang 13y ago
Great read, thanks for sharing!
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by dgesang 13y ago
Ha, and I though I've seen everything about Carmack ... great footage, thanks!
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by dgesang 13y ago
Crimes are escalating because bagatelles are being treated as crime. Besides that, overpolicing will not save you from terrorism, it will only lead to people being more afraid of the police and thus creating terror itself.
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by dgesang 13y ago
Indeed, many extension could be implemented as simple userscripts and as such could reach a much wider audience.
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by dgesang 13y ago
Absolutely amazing talk!
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by dgesang 13y ago
And your point is? The website is based on Flash and there is an iPhone app available. Now, how is this related to browser standards?

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