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rt.com 12y ago

Canadian denied entry to the US after agent cites private medical records

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startpage.com 13y ago

Startpage.com - the world's most private search engine

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Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf] 12 years ago

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 ...

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Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf] 12 years ago

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.

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A LaTeX Resume Template that fits everything AND looks good 12 years ago

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.

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Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity 12 years ago

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 ...

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Gmail was down 12 years ago

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

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Scaling Mercurial at Facebook 13 years ago

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?

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Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move 13 years ago

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.

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The Criminalization of Everyday Life 13 years ago

Crimes are escalating because bagatelles are being treated as crime. Besides that, overpolicing will not save you from terrorism, it will only lead to people being more afraid of the police and thus creating terror itself.

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