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>I mean, have you read anything about Roundup? If so, how can you say that? What specifically about Roundup are you referring to?
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>If you are going to make such unequivocal statements you should back them up with sources, otherwise you are just adding more noise than signal. You're correct. But as I am not on my personal machine, my catalog isn't availabl
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Conventional pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers are more effective and sustainable. Conventional products require less of the substance to be applied and less frequently. If the concern is about the impact on the environment and humans
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>the (magnitude of) risk isn't certain yet, but it's unlikely zero, given our history of poorly quantifying the harmfulness of a variety of substances. a reasonable hedge is to buy organic for the dirty dozen and non-organic fo
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>But thats the problem: you have no way of knowing if "conventional methods" (i.e. no pesticides) were used to grow the produce unless there is a label signaling it. That label is called "organic". I don't follow
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>the dirty dozen concept seems global at this point. i've referred people to this list by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), though i don't know that it's better than any other: https://www.ewg.org/food
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>We know organic perma-culture is better; for our bodies, for the soil, for the water and birds and bees. It's not better. Not a thing about it makes it better than conventional agriculture. Indeed one could make the argument it i
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>This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce No. >should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce? Yes. It is no surprise you feel torn. Tons of mone
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This article has so much misleading information. It's bonkers. >The official figures, analysed by Pesticide Action Network (PAN), found 122 different pesticides in the 12 most polluted products, which the charity calls the “dirty do
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>Considering its popularity, vast ecosystem, and widespread use, you can't just state that it's hated so much - that is just your impression based on few very noisy people. I wouldn't say it's popular; it's ubiqu
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>My credit card issuer locked out my Visa after I bought some clothes from a French web site. They didn't notify me and I didn't find out until my card was declined at a restaurant, which was fairly embarrassing. >People get
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>1) As an editor it’s novel for his high performance across so many platforms. Sublime Text is one of many cross-platform text editors with superior performance than that of VS Code. >2) As a plug-in platform with a simple marketplace
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>it remains a fact that people wanting to use it will need to first learn a not so excellent programming language And to be able to develop with Electron people must first learn a not so excellent language, JavaScript. Complexity might b
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>In the comment they replied to there's a clear phrase describing my meaning. You are being ridiculous. What's ridiculous is asking for a thing, receiving that thing, then proceeding to lament the thing you asked for isn't
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This is just pure political red meat with zero substance; it's got no business being here.
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> "Enumerating" means identifying the specific beliefs of each individual in question, not waving your hands in the air and declaring what you think Ivy league professors are required to believe. Enumerating is specifying one a
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>Been seeing a lot of the right-wing media's daily outrage and victimization stories showing up on HN. What in this article do you disagree with?
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>It's so sad that HN is becoming more and more part of the right-wing outrage amplification media network. What do you mean by this?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
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>Does uBlock Origin also use a slow, memory and performance inefficient means of blocking ads? Yes. Is this true? It's been a little while but last time I looked over things it seemed like gorhill implemented a rather efficient mach
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>"Just" as in August 6th. Keep fightin' the good fight, Zach.
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1B users don't know.
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Not a single source backing the claims made in this article. It boils down to some person having decided to exclude some words from their common vocabulary.
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>No, I just expect people to use better browsers. Safari's issues are documented far and wide[0] (as well as extended by a plethora of WebKit issues) so I really don't see why most people would want to use it over Firefox or Ch
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>their engineers and security are above average. I don't think that's saying a whole lot.
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>As a person who formerly worked on the technical side of anti-abuse (both content and account) at Google, I urge you to read these kinds of reports critically. There is no reason to believe any of the details given in the post, which in
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>[...] have it inevitably RCE my machine due to some "cute" feature, plus consume 100% of my CPU [...] >I am, of course, deeply aware of the bi-weekly Chrome vulns, along with its ability to consume all RAM and CPU [...] Thi
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>From TFA: "Idle Detection API is subject to user permission, which can be found in Chrome 94 settings". Nothing in the article states specifically but, from what I can see, this "permission" looks to be opt out. If t
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>Given new entrants into the backend space, like Supabase (for a Firebase-like open source alternative), Hasura (open source GraphQL on Postgres), etc, how viable is Django and similar technologies like Rails these days? It seems like th
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>Tell me again though, why did the local chinese food place's menu need to be in flash? >The issue wasn't really the flash games. It was using it for everything that ruined it for the people using it for what it did well. St

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