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kbenzle

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    Comment #11597179

    Death of Windows (for me at least)

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    Comment #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 a…

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    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…

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    Comment #11034414

    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 bashe…

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    Comment #11034350

    If that was true the US would have A LOT fewer ads.

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    Comment #11015952

    Are you Russian, this is a common sentiment there :)

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    Comment #11015942

    Yeh, at a PE of 36 I like what your saying, but still not close an the Amazonian 850+ PE!

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    Comment #11015872

    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?

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    Comment #10975861

    What, why?

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    Comment #10969441

    I think that means you hate breakthroughs.

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    Comment #10968584

    99% of your food contains a trans-gene, put there by someone like me.

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    Comment #10960071

    Plant transformation and tissue culture.

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    Comment #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,…

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    Comment #10747678

    What about accept PayPal with a 10% discount for bitcoin?

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    Comment #10327911

    Both protein and guide RNA need to be expressed in the organism, so viral, bacterial or mechanical introduction of DNA is still necessary.

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    Comment #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.

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    Comment #10049312

    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 d…

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    Comment #10047664

    Also not addressed, why not decrease block dissemination time to 5 min, will that not do the same as doubling the block size?

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    Comment #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 varie…

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    Comment #9620550

    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.