kbenzle

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by kbenzle 10y ago
Death of Windows (for me at least)
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by kbenzle 10y ago
I saw Bitcoin as another Second Life, great for smart young programmers to have a new sandbox to play in, but not actually useful for working adults. I was similarly "annoyed" by all the Second Life media hype happening after I ha
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Ask HN: $10k in cryptos stolen off my desktop from an encrypted folder, how?
25 points by kbenzle 10y ago|23 comments
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by kbenzle 11y ago
If this is the kind of impetus needed to set off patent reform, all the better. I would argue against the "Troll" label, it is a legal firm doing its job very well. The Troll bashers I assume would prefer the companies to just lea
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by kbenzle 11y ago
If that was true the US would have A LOT fewer ads.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Are you Russian, this is a common sentiment there :)
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Yeh, at a PE of 36 I like what your saying, but still not close an the Amazonian 850+ PE!
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by kbenzle 11y ago
How can one China Ponzi sheme have $7.5 billion, but the the best ponzi sheme to date, bitcoin, market cap only stands at like $5 billiion?
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by kbenzle 11y ago
What, why?
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by kbenzle 11y ago
I think that means you hate breakthroughs.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
99% of your food contains a trans-gene, put there by someone like me.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Plant transformation and tissue culture.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Best reply, but... How often is a typo made (1:1000?), how much time for support staff is needed and how many lost orders due to a ~24 hour delay in some orders being placed. Also, easy to flood the system with bad orders that need to be ma
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by kbenzle 11y ago
What about accept PayPal with a 10% discount for bitcoin?
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Both protein and guide RNA need to be expressed in the organism, so viral, bacterial or mechanical introduction of DNA is still necessary.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
This number of course applies to only their targeted market, farms of a certain size and then only those growing two or three specific crops, but that's a long ass headline.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Your "reading" it still, what is this 2005?? The audio edition is amazing! After three years of listening to every issue I think I may be picking up a British accent in my day to day life.
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Also not addressed, why not decrease block dissemination time to 5 min, will that not do the same as doubling the block size?
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by kbenzle 11y ago
As a plant breeder I can assure you the gluten content has certainly gone up! We call it a "Multi Trait Index" for baking quality, and we can show nearly every years released varieties increase in the MTI. What is the number one w
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by kbenzle 11y ago
Can anyone tell me why French institutions are so inept at translating their sites into English. It must be on purpose, a big f-u to non native French speakers.