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by ozy 10y ago
You are correct, as a matter of fact mon810 is a counter example. Also it is unfortunate I left the word banned in there, I meant to say regulated.
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by ozy 10y ago
You are absolutely right. Also, I cannot find anything but sensationalist articles on this pesticide thing I referenced. It allows mon810 which falls under this definition. It just regulates all GMOs and disallows them by default.
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by ozy 10y ago
Actually, the eu is just by default not allowing GMOs, but as of today allows 51 GMO products. Including 1 that falls squarely into (1) (mon810).
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by ozy 10y ago
I think you missed the point of my comment. These are not my concerns. In my opinion we should encourage GMOs while making sure we do so responsibly. My problem is that this article is polarizing the discussion. By leaving out the core of a
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by ozy 10y ago
I did not want to use the word banned, but I see I left it there. You are right, regulated is the word. Also I did not mean all GMOs are "banned" but those that specifically produce some kind of pesticide are more strictly regulat
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by ozy 10y ago
If it is a non issue, why is the EU banning it? I think you should rethink that one. Notice there are similar rules about the minimum time between using pesticide and harvest (afaik). "insane patent laws one allows companies to take co
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by ozy 10y ago
Well some plants are just poisonous and not fit for consumption. Specifically adding poison is a risk. And that makes it a tradeoff. But add to that these plants did not need to survive on their on in nature for millions of years. Instead a
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by ozy 10y ago
I find it hard reading articles like this. I agree with its main premise, but it fails to mention the valid points of the other side. And there are two: 1. Some GMO has a plant produce extra chemicals, specifically, pesticides 2. There is a
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by ozy 10y ago
We do not have democracies because people had the "gall to try something new". We slowly grew into it because people demanded better and used opportunities to move us closer. And this is what we should continue doing. In no way di
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by ozy 10y ago
There are two perspectives on democracy. You can compare it to some ideal world that has never been, and easily see it falls short, by a lot. Or you can look back on history, and look at countries who have done things differently, and reali
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by ozy 10y ago
> and intersex people _do_ exist Chromosomally speaking, or by self identification?
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by ozy 10y ago
Thank you for the extensive reply! Maybe my intuition is: the world is round. And your reply is: no, there are mountains, rotation flattens the poles, the moon causes bulges (the tides) due the the earth's constant falling to the cente
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Some sunday thoughs: when is something conscious? can a computer be conscious?(leverlabs.io)
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by ozy 10y ago
How about this intuition? Photons are massless and travel at light speed. But that is our perspective. From the photons perspective time is standing still. It is "touches" all space/time points on its path at once, and passes
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by ozy 10y ago
A fascinating subject. From a medium can come a new system of patterns. Like waves, really hard to figure their math, if you study water molecules. Plus waves are medium independent, and it gets really interesting as waves cross into a diff
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by ozy 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Or remote. Technologies: java, javascript, typescript, c++, c, go, ocaml, python, webkit, interpreters, concurrency, high performance CV: http://leverlabs.io/cv-ogorter.html email:
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by ozy 10y ago
Location: Amsterdam Remote: yes Willing to relocate: maybe Technologies: java, javascript, typescript, c++, c, go, ocaml, webkit, interpreters, concurrency, high performance Résumé/CV: http://leverlabs.io/cv-ogorter.htm
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A Conscious Brain in Small Steps(leverlabs.io)
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by ozy 10y ago
I only see this now. Good reply. All valid concerns. But > "I want all runtime errors to be at least this surprising", that level will be easier to achieve via types than via tests For the type of the values, yes, but you still
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On Being Skeptical of Human Made Climate Change(leverlabs.io)
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by ozy 10y ago
> Test suits shouldn't be about checking if a return value is of expected type Indeed and so they don't have to. When you have reasonable code coverage, it is really surprising to encounter type issues in production. And they a
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by ozy 10y ago
To most commenters: Indeed static typing has advantages as well, I just didn't list them. And some languages solve certain "complaints" I had. I would suggest though, that comparing haskell to javascript, is almost like compa
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by ozy 10y ago
So what might make dynamic languages easier to write in? I enjoy dynamic languages more because: * "double kilometerToMiles(double km) { return km / 1.6 }" here the types are of really low value, yet I have to type them in. *
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We Are Not a Simulation; or Why Elon Musk Is Wrong(leverlabs.io)
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by ozy 10y ago
No. I always wanted to say that to the title of this paper ;) The complaint of van neumann programming langauges, as the paper describes, is that it can only be extended as a framework. Todays imperative languages are much more powerful, ei
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Show HN: A genetic simulator for artificial life(leverlabs.io)
36 points by ozy 10y ago|3 comments
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Bottom Up Design, the Second Creative Force(leverlabs.io)
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Are else statements best avoided? Nodejs has only 15% Else(leverlabs.io)
1 points by ozy 11y ago|0 comments
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Flow, a Diamond in the Rough?(leverlabs.io)
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TypeScript, an Experience Report(leverlabs.io)
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