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Nicksil··on Macwright.com redirects HN readers away
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWrite
Nicksil··on Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
>Google it. Sheeshh...

Google what? The comment is what is being referenced, not Monsanto Roundup.

Nicksil··on Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
>They want to increase profit yield. If more pesticide produces more revenue than the cost of the stuff then they'll want to use more.

>You're free to do research on this on your own. I'm not interested in sourcing links for you. I will amend that it's moreso herbicides than pesticides.

I have done and continue to do research in this field which is why I am perplexed by what you're saying; it doesn't make sense.

Applying more pesticide doesn't increase profit; it lessens due to the added cost and diminished returns. You'll be hard-pressed to find an agriculture operation applying more pesticide than absolutely necessary.

The advances in agriculture technology has lessened the amount of product application necessary, not increased it.

Nicksil··on Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
>Fatal for the plants. Many GMO crops are designed by pesticide companies. They enable the farmers to use more pesticide. Which does increase yields. But now there's even more poison being thrown around.

Farmers want to use less pesticide.

What poison?

Nicksil··on Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
>Not when GMO crops are being modified to survive fatal amounts of pesticide.

Which GMO crops? Fatal for what/whom?

Nicksil··on Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
>Cough Monsanto Roundup cough

What is this? Please contribute a more substantive comment to the discussion.

Nicksil··on Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else
>Are you drink?

Are you American?

Nicksil··on Google suspended our domain out of the blue – lyearn[.]com
>At least ~half the 'BigCo is being unreasonable' stories here have another side where the poster was doing something terrible (eg. sharing child porn on their google drive account), ...

Where did "at least half" come from? Is this a statistic derived from factual information or just some gut feeling?

Nicksil··on Oberlin College to pay $36M to bakery owners who were falsely accused of racism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%27s_Bakery_v._Oberlin_C...

Answers your question.

- An attempt to illegally purchase alcohol is made

- During the attempt, it became apparent the guy was concealing two other bottles of wine inside his jacket.

- The clerk remarked something to the extent of calling the police and pulls out his phone to take a picture.

- Underage guy slaps phone out of clerk's hand, hitting clerk in the process, and runs out the store.

- Clerk tries to detain the guy when two of the guy's friends show up and join in on beating the clerk until the police show up.

Nicksil··on Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?
>Gmail is awful compared to what? I'd estimate a majority of people disagree here unless you're more of an IMAP purist.

GMail is bloody awful. I can hardly stand using it. Been using Thunderbird for a while now and have not many complaints.

The whole "IMAP" purist thing is unnecessary; there are plenty who prefer not using the GMail interface and have no idea what IMAP is.

Nicksil··on TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
>As far as I can tell, TikTok scares like these are 30% standard social media moral panic, 70% jingoism. Everyone knows that they are paying for TikTok with their data and a few hundred million people (myself included) are okay with that calculus and making a rational, informed decision to continue using the product.

This is just silly.

The overwhelming majority of people have no idea of what any of that means thus have not made any such calculus.

Nicksil··on O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want
>Just a reminder: this kind of behaviour results in aversion towards the cause you are propagating.

lol, no it doesn't.

Nicksil··on Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it never left Glasgow
Similar at Linate in Milan, Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linate_Airport_disaster
Nicksil··on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
Nicksil··on SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter
>Yes. The person in the left seat of an aircraft is unquestionably in charge and responsible for the safety of the crew and passengers. An aircraft is not a commune; there is a chain of command. If you don't like it you can leave.

That's not how it works with Crew Resource Management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management

Nicksil··on Sunsetting Atom
Sublime Text

https://www.sublimetext.com/

Nicksil··on Microsoft HoloLens boss Alex Kipman is out after misconduct allegations
>If you need a HR chaperone to every meeting, isn't the company complicit in the behavior?

>When Insider reached out at that time, Microsoft wouldn’t confirm or deny specific allegations of misconduct against women, but did deny that Kipman had started being chaperoned by human resources personnel in meetings.

Nicksil··on Request: Extension to hide Apple news from HN
It's getting ridiculous. Most of my front page is links to Apple stuff.

Can we get a single "Apple" thread to dump all announcements, etc.?

Nicksil··on StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
>We love “free” stuff.

Not all of us. It's just that most of the time there's no other choice.

Nicksil··on 4coder editor is now fully open source
>Still, the argument is the same - a person is posting an article on a news site for the sole purpose of other people seeing (consuming) it.

>I consider it basic decency to create a good presentation when you're showing something in people's news feed.

The individual posting the article may not be the owner of the code base thus making it impossible for the poster to alter the presentation.

If the owner of the code base has not posted a link for others' "consumption," they would have conformed to your expectations.

Nicksil··on Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_Manifesto
Nicksil··on Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power
>fukushima

What about it?

Nicksil··on FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
Nicksil··on An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser
You might be thinking of Percy Schmeiser.

Here's a source (with citation). The page also contains an audio version of the text.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4759

Nicksil··on Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?
Thunderbird

https://www.thunderbird.net

Nicksil··on CSS to browse the Washington Post without its insufferably self-righteous slogan
Or, if you have uBlock Origin installed (as you should), then you can simply right-click and "Block element..."
Nicksil··on Ask HN: Is there a site with code puzzles like chess puzzles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_I/O
Nicksil··on Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3
>Q: What does this mean for my New Relic bill? A: Collecting application logs means that more data will be ingested into the platform, at your standard ingest rate. The APM agent samples logs to ensure optimal agent performance. You can increase or decrease an application’s log volume as desired. Learn more here.

Automatic, opt-out bill increases come 5/3?

Nicksil··on The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31107606

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31116288

Nicksil··on HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Conservancy

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