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ni-hil··on Apple MagSafe Battery Pack
1460 mAh

https://imgur.com/1khiiEj

ni-hil··on Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons
If you start farming them the price won’t stay $35k for long
ni-hil··on StateOfTheArt.ai
Very cool, will definitely keep this in my favorites.

However there is an issue with the pagination/navigation. I can't see the next items if there is more than 20.

ni-hil··on Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy
They are down right now
ni-hil··on Don't Buy Anyone an Echo
Ah that damned remote
ni-hil··on Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets
All right, keep the good work!
ni-hil··on Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets
Cool, anything that differentiates you from https://cryptowat.ch/ ?
ni-hil··on FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
I think what he was suggesting was sharing one AT&T contract with his neighbors
ni-hil··on These cities have the best chance of winning the war for Amazon's new HQ
Probably won't happen but has Canada been completely ruled out?
ni-hil··on So you think you can code?
So this is your interview technical test/screening process?
ni-hil··on Tesla Semi
I don't know if the timing is right, but I think what you have to understand here is that all of this is the beginning of the end for the trucking company as you know it.
ni-hil··on Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian Parliament (2016)
Sure, that's not my point
ni-hil··on Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian Parliament (2016)
The ability to potentially obtain a product of better quality, and to not have to deal with such shady people to get their dose.
ni-hil··on What would happen if all Americans went vegan?
The only thing that article tells me is that if I want to know anything about this I need to read the paper. I think it's an interesting subject and they could have made a good article but this is just lazy reporting.
ni-hil··on Richest 1% of people now own half the world's wealth
And apparently that the top 1% was equal to the other 99%. Is oxfam a questionable source?

Anyways, doesn't seems like a big surprising news...

ni-hil··on Richest 1% of people now own half the world's wealth
Mhh, ok. I remember an oxfam report of 2016 that stated that the wealth of the 62 richest people in the world was equal to the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2016-01-18/...

ni-hil··on Footage shows young elephants being captured for Chinese zoos
How is to not jeopardize the ecological system a selfish reason?
ni-hil··on Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store
Seeds are not free and are becoming more and more expensive. Fertilizer is overused for sure but the alternative to not using so much is fallow land or at least permaculture which certainly won't be adopted tomorrow.

You also forget pesticides, crop insurance, storage, etc

ni-hil··on The Untouchables – Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
Audio, monitor detection, battery life, etc. are not solved problems though. Linux is mostly fine, but there is still a lot of little things that makes it "painful" to use on a day to day basis.
ni-hil··on Ask HN: What do you as a developer want from a desktop Linux distro in 2017?
That the sound, the wifi, the sleep and wakeup, the connection to an external monitor and all those tiny little things just works.
ni-hil··on Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?
There is different types of keto diets, and the ones recommended for "non-sick" people, does not asks you to restrict your protein intake. You should still consume around ~1g of protein per lb of lean mass, probably even more if you are an intense bodybuilder. Only carbs are restricted (often <25g/day), and then fat become inevitably your de facto energy intake.

I also recommend the `Tim Ferriss - Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer` podcast, and as you will see, being a bodybuilder on keto does not seems to be an issue. Not for him also.

There is another podcast with him `Dom D’Agostino — The Power of the Ketogenic Diet` but I haven't got the chance to listen to it yet.

ni-hil··on Rebase and merge pull requests
Because sometimes the admin just tells you "ok, rebase then I will merge" and don't bother doing the rebase himself...
ni-hil··on This State Gained the Most Tech Jobs Last Year
This title is pure clickbait.
ni-hil··on Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?
I find it hard to believe you could be punished in the military system if you followed your superior orders.

Edit: my bad, in fact you can, if the order is illegal, and it has been unsuccessfully used as a legal defense in hundreds of cases. But, considering what you risk when you don't follow orders, it seems like a tought decision to take. If you don't follow orders, you are done and will probably be punished. And if you follow and you get caught it's on you and you will have to assume full responsability...

Here is more info on this subject: http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/militarylaw1/a/obeyingorders....

ni-hil··on The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors
Can you elaborate? What social and/or cultural aspects do you see as roadblocks? And in which countries?
ni-hil··on Citi Economist Says It Might Be Time to Abolish Cash
Because it would push people to spend money and not hold on to it, therefore it would increase consumption which induce economic growth?
ni-hil··on Is anybody working on a new SoundCloud?
If it's not ad-based what should then be the "new soundcloud-like app" business model?
ni-hil··on Origami – Design Prototyping
Yes, i'm on the french App Store and it's available
ni-hil··on OS X vs. Linux?
If you want to try to stick with OSX you could try homebrew[1] + homebrew-cask[2] as a package manager, even if it probably won't be as good as what you were used to.

For battery life if you want to switch to ubuntu, the issue is probably that you are not using a good power manager which OSX does automatically behind the curtain. This could be a starting point : http://askubuntu.com/questions/285434/is-there-a-power-savin...

[1] http://brew.sh/ [2] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask