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5 years ago
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on: No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981
Grass based livestock farming, or grass based with corn finishing, is pretty common in high rainfall areas of the world like Ireland & New Zealand. Considerably lower intensity than feedlots (better for the environment too), easier to handle, and generally a higher quality output so long as you're around area that can process that output & send it to the right market.
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
Have you tried reading books out loud? I found that made a surprising difference to experience of books, even just because I was devouring them much slower. Found it much easier to enjoy the 'craft' of the book too.
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5 years ago
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on: Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
There is a Belgian TV show called "Into the Night" which explores a kind of similar concept, where they have to stay in the night time or else bad things happen so they fly a plane around. I won't spoil it for you, but it's subtitled & available on Netflix.
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5 years ago
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on: The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients
I'd think that a fancy looking website for a group-buy, where you manage a relationship with a manufacturer to build to your spec & you build (or get them to build) the software behind it would give it what you want. Kind of like
https://www.weargustin.com/ or a Massdrop?
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5 years ago
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on: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
That's a really interesting idea. I'm not sure what the commercial value would be, but the artistic value (and gain in privacy) would be huge. I'm not sure what you'd do about identifying marks like tattoos, but perhaps that isn't the biggest concern when compared to faces.
Could you train a model with your own face as a start, and then run your photos through an existing consumer face-swap app? Or perhaps use a celebrities likeness? I wonder how much the visual 'likeness' of a stranger is worth.
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5 years ago
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on: How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?
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5 years ago
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on: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
Another view of this - if the true purchase is of a group of workflows, are they purchasing for the things they know they need or the assurance that behemoth IBM/SAP/whatever has a process for whatever they didn't think about? Purchasing to minimise some future operational risk.
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5 years ago
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on: Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer
Interesting, I had a similar issue with my NZ-issued TransferWise card, however it resolved itself in a few days. This was in Dubai airport & then across a few merchants in the UK, though.
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8 years ago
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on: macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
I can confirm that, too. Took 2 attempts.
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8 years ago
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on: Man who made passwords hard regrets rules that 'drive people crazy'
What? That's incorrect - I've recently had 1Password change my Outlook.com password, and it's much more than 8 characters.
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow?
I believe you're right. In .au they call it PayPass, but in .nz they call it PayWave. I believe some old Visa machines didn't support MasterCard, or the other way round. All I remember is my flatmate complaining that his new debit card kept failing contactless payments.
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8 years ago
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on: Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'
We don't have many - panadol & ibuprofen combos, viagra generics, branded asthma drugs. Generally they purchase ad spots outside of prime time (and likely with more regularity on channels like One & Prime, where there's a slightly older audience.
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9 years ago
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on: The .blog Bait and Switch
That makes me feel very good that I locked in .party for 10 years and $3/year with Gandi.
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9 years ago
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on: The .blog Bait and Switch
I managed to have a bit of fun with .party and .science.
firstname.party is great to have.
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9 years ago
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on: How to get the wine you really want
The followup doco is even better - the newly minted master sommeliers proceed to contradict each other, and seem to have a lot more fun than the first one.
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9 years ago
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on: The Mega Rich Have Found an Unlikely New Refuge
Really? Similar anecdata, except nearly everyone I know is on fibre. 100/20 for $79 a month, or 1000/500 for $129/month.
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9 years ago
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on: Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why are SIM cards still a thing?
It still is an issue - carriers (at least in NZ) still ask you if you've backed up SIM contacts before switching the phone number to a new card.
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: At 91, My Grandfather's Only Regret Is Never Skateboarding. Best VR Rig?
It's surprisingly good - if you combine poor vision with the relatively low latency of the Gear VR, it's quite convincing. The only thing it can't do (that an Oculus can) is depth.
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9 years ago
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on: FAA Urges Passengers to Not Use Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on Planes
I've heard second hand that they're being asked to not use them or charge them (just flew into Australia).
