SlowBro

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by SlowBro 9y ago
Thank you, I haven't looked at Bottle. The Hello World is actually comprehensible to me and I was able to mentally crunch the entire tutorial page no problem. I checked out Flask but was overwhelmed, went through the Django tutorial an
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I like the idea but I’m not quite ready to learn a new language at the moment. Can anyone recommend something similar in Python? The single-file part is less important to me than the simple API. I’m a simple guy and my app will be simple as
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by SlowBro 9y ago
As an ex-AOL employee that makes me grin :-)
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> this comment is like the Triple Crown of dumb GMO arguments Regarding points 1-5, did you miss that I said it was an honest question? I clearly did not say that it was an argument. I asked precisely because I knew there might be fa
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Please don’t make this more difficult than it needs to be. There are practices that the fruits of that labor, every human being has either consumed and/or his ancestors has consumed, across the entire face of the planet, for dozens of
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by SlowBro 9y ago
If evidence cannot be provided, then I kindly ask that impossible-to-prove assertions not be made. But the control group — wouldn’t it be non-GMO crops of any kind, organic or non? The assertion, yet to be provided evidence for, is that wit
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by SlowBro 9y ago
More importantly, it is not actual evidence that "GMO food saves millions of people from malnutrition in the 3rd world" as you asserted. So as to avoid repeating myself, please look here: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Unusual in the sense that it has not been practiced for hundreds of years and proven out. The short-term studies typically done with new practices are annoyingly inconsistent with reality. Time and lots of exposure are needed. There’s lies,
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Again this is not about millions of lives saved, but about potential millions of lives saved. Where is the _actual_ evidence of GMO’s salvation of millions?
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Just because we keep doing something does it make it safe? I’m inclined to agree with the WHO because I can’t see how they could profit from having the results be the way they are, if you believe the conspiracy theories. The old adage, “fol
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Controversy != wrong.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> But if you ask from the scientists from those fields Ask them what, about the many lives that are saved from malnutrition as the commenter asserted? You answered about safety. Neither of us are discussing safety. (Well, I did as an asi
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by SlowBro 9y ago
In March 2015 the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic in humans" (category 2A) based on epidemiological studies, animal studies, and in vitro
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Is the fox guarding the (non-GMO) hen house? "Testing for GMO products is currently voluntary," according to an FDA spokeswoman. "Although the consultation process is voluntary, compliance with the law is mandatory; it is the
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Well it is a USA government website so it holds some credence. Let's not commit a genetic fallacy. (Hah, pun totally not intended.) The article points to an open letter signed by a number of scientists (are they all food/agricultu
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by SlowBro 9y ago
So I read the open letter linked to in the article.[1] The only evidence given there that GMOs could (potentially) save millions of lives is centered around 'Golden Rice', a crop whose beta carotene has not yet been proven to be u
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> You can grow food however you like, for the most part. If you want to participate in certification, then that's what you have to do. Yes you can grow as you like but it seems backwards to me that you have to prove you are /no
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I don't suppose the FDA/USDA/EPA have ever been known to be wrong about relatively new practices? But classic methods have been used and proven for centuries. It seems riskier and frankly, backwards, to me to require stricter
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> GMO food saves millions of people from malnutrition in the 3rd world. Kindly provide evidence for such assertions.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> As a consumer, if I ever get suspicious about one specific change made to one specific breed, my only option is to buy non-GMO everything. That doesn't make any sense! It seems rational to me that the operation is on its head. If
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Apparently the answer is not settled on that yet. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600850 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/01/492091546/ho
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Another concern is cross-contamination. A three minute video from CBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MkH08772A4
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by SlowBro 9y ago
In theory, yes. In practice... https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/02/gmo-crop...
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Why not?
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Yeah, they all have skeletons in their closet don’t they :-/
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Enough of us doing this and Nissan WILL feel it.
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by SlowBro 9y ago
Technically they were called Nissan but not in the US. Yes the US legal system is indeed messed up. Lots of Pyrrhic victories out there. Read about the USFL vs NFL case. The USFL actually won their anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL behemot
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I actually encountered his story in the early 2000s and I have refused to buy Nissan cars ever since. Almost compromised once or twice but No. I’m just one person but we are all a bunch of one persons, and we can all together make a differe
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by SlowBro 9y ago
> adopted some poorly designed abandonware from VMWare I'm late to the game here; was it GSX Server a.k.a. VMware Server?[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Server
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by SlowBro 9y ago
I wonder if within 1,000 years they don’t develop nano robots that actually mine our current trash for the minerals? We toss out gold, silver, rare earth metals, petroleum, every day... the trick is it’s so very hard right now to extract th

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