zymhan

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by zymhan 10y ago
Yeah, I suppose a better question is what fertilizer is used on organic tobacco. But u/searine mentioned that mined phosphate can be used on organic crops so maybe organic tobacco won't avoid the problem.
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by zymhan 10y ago
Would organic tobacco avoid the issue of Polonium then?
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by zymhan 10y ago
Windows Services for Unix has been discontinued for a while, so "since forever" is just flat wrong. And who in the hell ever developed for it anyway? That was a niche, forgotten product if there ever was one. edit: maybe you shoul
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by zymhan 10y ago
You mean the Unix subsystem they made just to claim POSIX compatibility, that they totally abandoned in recent Windows versions?
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by zymhan 10y ago
No, but given the short lifespan of these things due to radiation, literally other-wordly conditions, and the fact that you can never repair it, the fact that a rover on Mars can last a decade is a technical marvel. You also have to pre-pro
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by zymhan 10y ago
:(
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by zymhan 10y ago
Surely in 2016 no one is using imperial units as a default for anything even remotely related to aerospace programming.
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by zymhan 10y ago
It really puts into perspective what good job NASA does at what many call a "boring" mission.
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by zymhan 10y ago
"...hackers were able to take over the cameras because users had not changed the devices' default passwords." "Security issues are a problem facing all mankind," it said. "Since industry giants have experienced
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by zymhan 10y ago
Well, yeah, nothing is except for Apple software.
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by zymhan 10y ago
They didn't mean in the context of hustle and bustle, they mean political and societal stability.
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by zymhan 10y ago
The article doesn't have a byline because they're scared, The Economist just doesn't attribute articles to individual authors. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec..
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by zymhan 10y ago
It blows my mind that someone could reign from just after WWII until this year. I hope that Thailand will stay stable. Support of the King has been key to successful military coups and transitions. The Crown Prince is much less admired, and
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by zymhan 10y ago
Or just whitelist that one.
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by zymhan 10y ago
I assumed it was a reference to domain parking/squatting.
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by zymhan 10y ago
That was interesting to read, but I don't understand what the context is at all.
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by zymhan 10y ago
The site is now returning an error. I guess HN killed it?
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by zymhan 10y ago
I only heard the jab on air, I didn't realize they were actually being serious "In the second quarter it lost more than $100 million — so perhaps it already is a nonprofit."
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by zymhan 10y ago
Well if I'm playing the devil's advocate, I'd say you're one to talk with a green username.
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by zymhan 10y ago
That's actually pretty much what Cydia for iOS is.
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by zymhan 10y ago
An interesting SO post about what BUG_ON does http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6359700/using-assertion-i... Essentially, it causes the kernel to panic immediately.
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by zymhan 10y ago
We also weren't using as many walled-garden devices and ecosystems a decade ago. There are certainly a lot of issues with the app store model. But using a service like download.com was also rife with issues.
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by zymhan 10y ago
"Two officials said that some of the information the contractor is suspected of taking was dated." So, only some of it. The rest was up to date then. And the old stuff is helpful for figuring out how they think.
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Portugal’s Antonio Guterres is poised to become U.N. secretary general(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by zymhan 10y ago|0 comments
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by zymhan 10y ago
I beg to differ. I work for Pindrop. We have a unique product and we're growing steadily, with serious funding to boot. https://www.pindrop.com/about-pindrop-security/ https://www.pindrop.com/what-
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by zymhan 10y ago
Wait. John T Haller of PortableApps? Damn dude I still remember browsing your original site years ago. I used Portable Firefox in grade school and it was a life saver.
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by zymhan 10y ago
I was hoping that this was a dupe and that the real discussion was happening elsewhere. I'm not sure whether that's funny or just sad.
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by zymhan 10y ago
The fact that this has no discussion after 2 hours just underscores how lost and forgotten Blackberry is. It reminds me of the demise of Palm.
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Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Data on 500M Users in 2014(nytimes.com)
7 points by zymhan 10y ago|1 comments
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by zymhan 10y ago
I was purposefully being vague. 10,000 seems to me to be a lower bound on casualties.

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