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by Nicksil 5y ago
>You can kill insects and pests with a neurochemical. Or you can put sharp rocks (diatomaceous earth) and traps to do the same, albeit with more labor and less efficacy. Are you sincerely arguing that these must be the same? That an orga
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You're citing legal cases. Where does it say glyphosate was the cause?
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>Vinegar. Sticky traps. Soaps. Diatomaceous earth. Targeted bacteria. >Organic herbicides and pesticides are chosen specifically such that they don't contaminate the product (and thus products of the product). Nowhere in my comme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Advertising_Bureau
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>The opt-in of adtech is visiting the website and the reward is the content on the website. No, quite clearly I've opted-in to the site's content. No body has ever knowingly navigated to a website to enjoy its advertising a
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>Nothing has made it seem like anyone actually looks at any of this themselves. I've been following this a while now. This is you, mate. Look through your comments here; almost all are aggressive, confrontational, and toxic. Some of
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Do you understand that even if you don't click accept, if you browse the EU's own websites, they track you? > https://ec.europa.eu/info/privacy-policy/europa-analytics_en >The anti-google /
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>Right - agreed - (you'll get downvoted here though - HN moving towards the reddit orthodoxy model vs the discussion model). >Its super off-putting Nothing about any of your comments on this topic has demonstrated you're the
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>Even the EU's own website using cookies. What's the argument here? >Most users don't care about a session cookie or whatever. Where did you hear this? Most users don't know what a cookie is.
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Seems like a net win for the user. Good to see it.
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Well you both are right. It seems NYT slipped; the title of the document is <title> Opinion | Facebook Makes Us Know Too Much About Each Other - The New York Times </title> The Facebook hate isn't
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You're not wrong with respect to the difficulty and stigma you mention, but we can't just let it be OK to steal from others. To address those legit concerns, we need to focus our efforts on our prison systems and local governments
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Holy shit. In the first video there's a clip with a security guy confronting the person stealing and they just keep grabbing things as if he didn't exist. It's a bad comedy if it wasn't real.
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>Here is their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(company) Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074478 Seems like it may not be the same company.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
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>Tech literacy isn’t using a CLI. Get over yourself. Unnecessarily hostile. We need less of this.
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The message says "solve world hunger;" nothing about deployment.
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>What an outrageously toxic and arrogant comment. There are many reasons to dislike Firefox. Just because you're not personally affected by those reasons, doesn't make people who are affected by them somehow mentally ill or les
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>Important to keep in mind that the old hippie days from the 80s and 90s are long gone. What does this mean?
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>This is why I'm bullish on tech like Stadia. It's simply not possible to have conventional cheats on it. >If you haven't, give it a try (free): https://stadia.google.com/games/destiny-2 Perhaps yo
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> but let's not pretend that it is without problems Nobody is doing that.
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They weren't suspended for the tweet.
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>The often unmentioned killer feature part of js is that you can express tree data directly This is the case in almost all well-used programming languages. Calling it a "killer feature" is a bit of a stretch; it's more an
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That isn't a shallow dismissal.
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>It doesn't ship ads in your web browser Well, Waterfox is owned by an advertising company.
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>You’re entire argued through the comments here seem to be that we should trust the government, current monitoring practices, existing limits, and the current science. I have mentioned government once and even in that comment was in th
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by Nicksil 5y ago
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_pesticides I'm not sure what you're meaning to say by giving that link, but there isn't anything there to refute anything I've commented on. Wit
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>It’s not about reducing substances–it is about substances that are healthy. I agree that such substances should not post a risk to human health, but there is no argument that organic crop products are any better for humans than conventi
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>Even if that is accurate(source?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming >quantity applied says nothing about the danger of the substance to humans. Quantity is the deciding factor when talking about to
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>I think you mean "natural" not organic? Everything in the universe is inherently natural. No, I meant organic. >I used to have similar cynical beliefs about "organic" food. And i think even 10 years ago that cynic

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