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by qyv 9y ago
What is the basis of the idea that organic pesticides and herbicides are safer/better than synthetic ones?
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by qyv 9y ago
What is the alternative for the nations that engage them?
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by qyv 9y ago
Oh good, so they should be able to do that now and give everyone there money back again. Thank goodness for decentralization! /s
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by qyv 9y ago
> But there can be no reasonable argument for a standard conceived of in the last 10 years to allow users to deploy something for which the payload chooses the cryptographic interpretation of the payload. No application anyone on HN is d
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by qyv 9y ago
Why are glad he won against Gawker? Can you point to any evidence to support his claims?
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by qyv 9y ago
I don't think that is a simple use case of an init system; using pre-built init scripts is the default use case. A simple use case is writing your own simple startup scripts for your own services. For that case, systemd is very, very
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by qyv 9y ago
Mature adults in a respectful workplace don't need to be reminded of these things. Why do you think that Uber has this kind of reputation AND has to say these things, other companies don't write these memos. These types of things
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by qyv 9y ago
So it is appropriate for the CEO to essentially pout to him staff that he can't have sex with them? All of these things are certainly in the employment agreements and HR guidelines at Uber, this memo is NOT the first time any of these
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by qyv 9y ago
I think it is more likely that the market corrects this well before the law. How much longer can the status-quo of online advertising remain intact? Do these targeted ad's really work? There is a ton of time and talent being poured
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by qyv 9y ago
I swear it feels like the next story we are going to hear out of Uber is how Travis had to discreetly dispose of a rhino carcass by dumping it in the bay...
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by qyv 9y ago
Hololens may never be a commercial success, or even a very compelling product, but that was not it's purpose. Hololens at it's core is a POC and tech demo, and we are already seeing that tech trickle down into the next gen. The
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by qyv 9y ago
Ya, because studios want (require) DRM. My point is that Netflix has done a lot to reduce the obnoxiousness and hassle of DRM compliance.
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by qyv 9y ago
This. It is 100% about being able to license more titles. Many people forget what the early days of Netflix streaming was like. Remember when you needed silverlight to watch on a computer? Remember when you couldn't even get Netfli
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by qyv 9y ago
The money isn't "stuck" abroad, it is hidden there. Don't pretend that it is the big bad tax man that is stopping these companies from being altruistic, this is 100% about maximizing profit. The idea of reinvesting mone
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by qyv 10y ago
The gig economy is not build upon technology ideas, it is built on disposable and expendable labor.
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by qyv 10y ago
How exactly do you apply that pressure?
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by qyv 10y ago
> And like you know, all the other things he listed: >> it's easy to call one from a crowded/loud place, you know how much it will cost, they don't use cash, they know where you are, and you don't have to give d
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by qyv 10y ago
It's not he accessibility of ride-sharing services that is doing this, it is the ride-sharing services policy of artificially low pricing to facilitate rapid growth that is responsible. Those $9 rides are not sustainable. When the pr
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by qyv 10y ago
Dolphins, which are another highly intelligent species, don't seem to have any qualms about eating octopus.
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by qyv 10y ago
The Robert McNamara documentary "Fog of War" has some excellent insight into the WW2 bombing campaign (mostly in the pacific) and the sheer scale of what was done. It is startling to say the least.
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by qyv 10y ago
> If you have one candidate who has seen all of this stuff before and can use it directly from memory... Then this candidate has likely done many tech interviews before, what does that tell you?
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by qyv 10y ago
Perhaps this is old information, but do SSD's from the same batch/model not tend to fail all within the same timeframe? A steady stream of failures is probably preferable to a single mass failure.
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by qyv 10y ago
Interesting that this is a standard use-case for ActiveRecord [0] and does not include any built-in protection against SQL injection. You can pass a hash of symbols into the method, but there is no safe way to pass string arguments with sa
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by qyv 10y ago
> This time around, people's smartphones are already the unifier. All messaging apps have notifications, so your phone will tell you what everyone is saying across networks, and you just tap to go straight into whatever app the mess
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by qyv 10y ago
Not according to Microsoft, VR is going to be a big push for them this year. Granted a lot can go wrong, but they are addressing all the points you just listed: * Headset Pricing: Major OEMs will be releasing headsets starting at $300 [0]
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by qyv 10y ago
Windows 10 Creators Update along with a slew of headsets from major PC vendors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.) starting at $300.
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by qyv 10y ago
If 2017 turns out to be the year the VR starts to hit the main stream, which it could be, it will be interesting to see what Apple's response will be.
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by qyv 10y ago
Many of these same type of things were said about Microsoft during the early Ballmer era. His emphasis of the bottom line over vision and innovation inflicted a lot of damage that Microsoft is still recovering from. Yes, total disarray is
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by qyv 10y ago
Google brings something that no amount of fancy engineering and elegant solutions can provide: New Users. Because of that it is necessary to dance to their SEO tune.
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by qyv 10y ago
I think the point here is that there is no such thing as a stable state in software. Maintaining old infrastructure to support old applications is not a steady-state, it is a degrading state. As bugs and exploits are discovered and patche

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