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by MrMember 14y ago
The term has been attributed to Josh Sugarmann, head of the gun control advocacy group the Violence Policy Center. Going by this quote of his, he likely came up with it to intentionally confuse people who aren't knowledgeable about firearms
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by MrMember 14y ago
Tarn, the creator, has said that Dwarf Fortress might be the last game he ever creates. He may still be working on it 20 years from now, and it may still be in a pre-release state at that time.
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by MrMember 14y ago
I highly doubt any ultra-restrictive form of 'ammunition control' would pass Constitutional scrutiny. Saying the 2nd Amendment doesn't protect ownership of ammunition is like saying the 1st Amendment only protects free speech in a literal s
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by MrMember 14y ago
Good lord, could the title be a little more editorialized?
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by MrMember 14y ago
The difficulty in mining will increase dramatically once people start using them. To use the analogy I've been seeing everywhere, during the 19th century gold rush would you rather have been a miner or the guy selling pickaxes?
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by MrMember 14y ago
It's a loophole of sorts. They cannot legally post a sign saying "Credit card transactions will have a 5% fee added" but it's perfectly fine to say "Cash purchases receive 5% discount."
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by MrMember 14y ago
I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it seems unlikely. What are the odds that I'd need to call 911 and: 1) I'm alone 2) I'm not near my car (I carry an old flip phone in the glove compartment for emergencies) 3) I've messed up my phone s
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by MrMember 14y ago
It hit home for me because it brought to light something I hadn't thought about before. I, like a lot people, have had daydreams about winning the lottery and what I would do with the money. I'd consider myself relatively fiscally intellige
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by MrMember 14y ago
After studying it for a bit it isn't too difficult to figure out how it works, and I'm sure if you drove through it every day it would even become boring, but if I encountered this roundabout blind without knowing anything about it I'd prob
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by MrMember 14y ago
It was written by Microsoft. >The following is a post from Panos Panay, General Manager of Microsoft Surface.
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by MrMember 14y ago
I can happily say that I've given up on free to play games. The vast majority of free to play games out there are fundamentally flawed. At their core they weren't designed to be fun to play, they were designed to milk the player of money, o
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by MrMember 14y ago
>Note: it's a shame most of the comments here are about the title of this post. Indeed, I check the HN comments for interesting conversation, not drivel about whether or not the submitted article's title is sensationalist.
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by MrMember 14y ago
A Pail of Air http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6...
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by MrMember 14y ago
On Verizon you can block up to five numbers for free. For an extra $5 a month you can block up to twenty numbers and get a bit finer control.
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by MrMember 14y ago
>Lets just hope they acknowledge the internet is the retail distribution channel of today. I wouldn't count on it. Just look at the absurdity that is the "Disney Vault."
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by MrMember 14y ago
This makes sense from Microsoft's point of view. Why would they pay a royalty fee on every copy of Windows when such a small percentage of users play DVDs? Especially when the fix is as easy as just downloading VLC.
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by MrMember 14y ago
You're underestimating the pull Apple has on people. There are plenty who will pay an extra $120 just because it's Apple.
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by MrMember 14y ago
We all make concessions for something (unless you're rms). I refuse to buy DRM laden ebooks, yet I've spent thousands of dollars on Steam games. I don't mind the inconveniences of using paper books but when it comes to PC games Steam is jus
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by MrMember 14y ago
When Amazon remotely deleted 1984 from people's Kindles a few years ago a student lost the digital notes he had been creating as he was reading it for a class. He ended up suing Amazon, but I have no idea if it was ever resolved or if it's
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by MrMember 14y ago
Exactly right. Unsubscribe from all of the default subs, then find specific subs for your interests and subscribe to them.
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by MrMember 14y ago
I'll be keeping my account, because there are several small subreddits I enjoy reading and participating in. That's the extent of my association with Reddit. I don't look at or comment on default subs, I don't make Reddit references in real
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by MrMember 14y ago
It could be huge in tabletop board game market too. Why buy hundreds of dollars worth of miniatures when you print your own for much less?
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by MrMember 14y ago
>...why should I give a hoot about people with such crackpot religious beliefs? We pander enough to this sort of nonsense already, and if the student finds it that objectionable maybe she should go to a private school instead. Seriously
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by MrMember 14y ago
I'm not much of a car guy, why are oil changes on exotics so much more expensive than on your average car?
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by MrMember 14y ago
It also thankfully gets rid of companies claiming they can't be punished for illegitimate takedowns because they weren't done through the DMCA. Until they find some other loophole to hide behind, of course.
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by MrMember 14y ago
This does raise an interesting point about HN as a whole. I remember in one of the Apple/Samsung threads someone brought up the point that people couldn't tell Apple and Samsung products apart, and in that case it was used as an attack agai
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by MrMember 14y ago
I may be beating a dead horse here, but I anticipate a similar outcome for the Ouya. Missed ship date after missed ship date.
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by MrMember 14y ago
>And that's assuming that the screening technique would actually catch a determined individual, which it won't, because he's a terrorist and he's thought things through. This is the real head scratcher. Say someone did get an explosive
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by MrMember 14y ago
That really sucks. I've been using Seesmic for Android for more than a year now because they haven't made any radical changes that completely break functionality like other Android Twitter clients have done in the past. Guess it's time to s
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by MrMember 14y ago
Maybe I'm being harsh, but if someone downloads a clearly sketchy looking app (DOWNLOAD FREE MP3S) I have no sympathy for them when it ends up being malicious. Just like I wouldn't pick up a candy bar off the street and eat it, I wouldn't d

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