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Re:Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:18PM (#11597179)
Death of Windows (for me at least)
Re:Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases on Thursday April 28, 2016 @10:21AM (#11589032)
I saw Bitcoin as another Second Life, great for smart young programmers to have a new sandbox to play in, but not actually useful for working adults. I was similarly "annoyed" by all the Second Life media hype happening after I had written it off.

Ask HN: $10k in cryptos stolen off my desktop from an encrypted folder, how?

I kept 500 Ether, 1,000 Litecoin and 500 PPC (and a little btc) in cold wallets in a password protected .rar file on my desktop, when I happened to check my watch address yesterday all the balances were emptied two days ago. I made two mistakes (1) I download a lot from Torrent sites, (2) I kept ALL my "cold" storage paper wallets in one encrypted WinRar file with a 12 character password. I...

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If this is the kind of impetus needed to set off patent reform, all the better. I would argue against the "Troll" label, it is a legal firm doing its job very well. The Troll bashers I assume would prefer the companies to just leave this $ to the infringes? Why? Is it somehow immoral to use the legal system for financial gain? No, it is not, not at all. I'd say good on them for finding the loop holes and driving their $600M lorrie straight through it to the bank. Don't say fuck the trolls, fuck the patent system in the US which Apple has used to the detriment of many young companies too, they are all playing the game.
If that was true the US would have A LOT fewer ads.
Are you Russian, this is a common sentiment there :)
Yeh, at a PE of 36 I like what your saying, but still not close an the Amazonian 850+ PE!
How can one China Ponzi sheme have $7.5 billion, but the the best ponzi sheme to date, bitcoin, market cap only stands at like $5 billiion?
Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:40PM (#10975861)
What, why?
Re:The Villain of CRISPR on Monday January 25, 2016 @02:47PM (#10969441)
I think that means you hate breakthroughs.
99% of your food contains a trans-gene, put there by someone like me.
Re:Ask HN: What is your obscure area of interest or expertise? on Saturday January 23, 2016 @04:03PM (#10960071)
Plant transformation and tissue culture.
Re:Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:06PM (#10747713)
Best reply, but... How often is a typo made (1:1000?), how much time for support staff is needed and how many lost orders due to a ~24 hour delay in some orders being placed. Also, easy to flood the system with bad orders that need to be manually sorted, like a fake order DDoS.
Re:Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:00PM (#10747678)
What about accept PayPal with a 10% discount for bitcoin?
Both protein and guide RNA need to be expressed in the organism, so viral, bacterial or mechanical introduction of DNA is still necessary.
Re:One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @07:25PM (#10262422)
This number of course applies to only their targeted market, farms of a certain size and then only those growing two or three specific crops, but that's a long ass headline.
Your "reading" it still, what is this 2005?? The audio edition is amazing! After three years of listening to every issue I think I may be picking up a British accent in my day to day life.
Re:The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @09:53AM (#10047664)
Also not addressed, why not decrease block dissemination time to 5 min, will that not do the same as doubling the block size?
Re:Gluten intolerance may really be immune dysfunction on Sunday July 05, 2015 @11:10AM (#9833782)
As a plant breeder I can assure you the gluten content has certainly gone up! We call it a "Multi Trait Index" for baking quality, and we can show nearly every years released varieties increase in the MTI. What is the number one weighted factor of the baking quality MTI? Gluten percentage. Also, this article is bunk, saying, "if people can maintain an enzyme to digest lactoes, we should be able to evolve an enzyme to break down gluten too. "Total hoggerty poggerty applesauce!" NYT, you are cut off!
Can anyone tell me why French institutions are so inept at translating their sites into English. It must be on purpose, a big f-u to non native French speakers.