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New comment by dgesang in "Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]"

dgesang — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:51:27 +0000

Well, I didn't say that anything nature-related is ought to be good and desirable. What I meant is that 'conventional food' yet has to be proven to be equally safe as food that was not genetically tampered with, grown without using pesticides, etc. pp.

And quite honestly, I doubt that Moore had genetic engineering and todays massive (ab)use of pesticides in mind when he first stated that law. He might even have added an exception ...

New comment by dgesang in "Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]"

dgesang — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:39:17 +0000

And organically-grown food have been eating it for EONS with no major, obvious consequences. 'Conventionally-grown food' have just been thrown on the market a few decades ago without knowing any long-term effects to humans eating them or to the environment they are grown in. I don't care about proof for equivalence or difference, I only care about safety. And any food should be proven to be safe BEFORE being released, not decades later.

New comment by dgesang in "Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]"

dgesang — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:19:34 +0000

Ha, yeah sure, we need to proof that natures goods are fine the way they are supposed to be, but highly manipulated goods don't. That kind of thinking is one of the reasons why so many people fear TTIP. Please stay on your side of the Atlantic.

New comment by dgesang in "Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]"

dgesang — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:07:55 +0000

> I'm still not convinced that organic is nutritionally superior or has levels of pesticides that prove harmful to humans.

I'm curious what convinced you that they are equally healthy in the first place?

New comment by dgesang in "YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?"

dgesang — Sun, 18 May 2014 23:53:05 +0000

Naming alternative services in a news about some other service being bought/shutdown isn't really advertising. It's care.

New comment by dgesang in "Poll: What database does your company/you use?"

dgesang — Sun, 11 May 2014 21:04:04 +0000

Ask HN: Has anyone ever considered "MS Access a viable option"?

New comment by dgesang in "A LaTeX Resume Template that fits everything AND looks good"

dgesang — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:13:45 +0000

Nice template indeed, used it for my resume as well. Had to alter it to fit German application standards, though (e.g. added a portrait in the side bar, different fonts, etc).

New comment by dgesang in "A LaTeX Resume Template that fits everything AND looks good"

dgesang — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:08:45 +0000

That's a rather weird use case, tbh. I doubt many people edit their resume on a daily/weekly basis. Everyone I know update theirs rarely and they take their time to make it properly to not have any errors in it. So setting up LaTeX is part of the process, while keeping the actual CV code in a repo.

New comment by dgesang in "A LaTeX Resume Template that fits everything AND looks good"

dgesang — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:03:23 +0000

Who would want to work at a company that can't open a PDF file?

New comment by dgesang in "Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services"

dgesang — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:19:25 +0000

I can't use postman easily. I don't have a Google account. What do I do?

New comment by dgesang in "Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity"

dgesang — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:41:52 +0000

> There is a lot of truth in the idea that doing something like colonizing mars could do more good for humanity than giving people enough money to eat for a day or a week.

How about doing neither and instead use the money to solve some of the problems the earth suffers from today? Colonizing Mars, seriously, wtf ...

New comment by dgesang in "Gmail was down"

dgesang — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:29:19 +0000

Also, backing up Emails is super simple, just fire up any mail client ...

New comment by dgesang in "FFmpeg and a thousand fixes"

dgesang — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 02:04:35 +0000

> What should FFmpeg have been written in?

There'll be a HN topic A FFmpeg reimplementation in JavaScript soon enough ...

New comment by dgesang in "Ask HN: Where are the interesting jobs?"

dgesang — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:19:58 +0000

"Bad news: Unicorn jobs don't exist, at least not for long." - Philip Guo http://pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm

New comment by dgesang in "Scaling Mercurial at Facebook"

dgesang — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:16:23 +0000

> They're not exactly as supported, because they're not on by default

I really don't get this. In almost any software there are features that are not 'on by default', but it's still implemented and supported (except explicitly stated otherwise). How can this be a reason to not use the functionality when you need it?

New comment by dgesang in "Scaling Mercurial at Facebook"

dgesang — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:09:38 +0000

There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton

New comment by dgesang in "Scaling Mercurial at Facebook"

dgesang — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:06:03 +0000

And there is also https://rhodecode.com/

New comment by dgesang in "Scaling Mercurial at Facebook"

dgesang — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:02:51 +0000

Don't believe the hype. hg will be around for some time.

New comment by dgesang in "Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move"

dgesang — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:37:02 +0000

Or use TortoiseHg or SourceTree, if you're not comfortable with the CLI. They both work great. Also, if you need to host 'your own github', try RhodeCode.

New comment by dgesang in "30C3 Recordings"

dgesang — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:37:22 +0000

> The Keynote by Glenn Greenwald - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5622_-_en_-_...

> The Tor Network - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5423_-_en_-_...

> Bullshit made in Germany (might only be interesting for Germans) - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5210_-_de_-_...