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aestra
13y ago
Someone came up with the idea of using the bitcoin network as a notary service. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039705/could-the-bitcoin-net...
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13y ago
You haven't had a proper cup of tea probably. ;) Different teas require different water temperatures AND different steeping times for the best taste. Generally the less oxidized the tea the lower the water temperature. I find the wors
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aestra
13y ago
Before the North American conversion to a digital only TV broadcasts, the audio for all analog channel 6 television stations in the United States could be picked up on 87.7 FM Some channel 6 stations have expressed interest in/have imp
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aestra
13y ago
>An indentured servant is not physically restrained from moving away What? If they could just move away, then they wouldn't be an indentured servant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant > Runaway
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13y ago
>Actually I meant audio books, not ebooks Interestingly enough, my public library has a HUGE collection of audiobooks in cassette form. I doubt anyone takes them out anymore. I wonder if they can be moved to prison libraries. Ever see ho
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aestra
13y ago
>where the hell are inmates getting $320 a month to spend? Family. They probably don't send that much, I know someone who sends his brother in prison about $100 a month.
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13y ago
11 kids on my mom's block died in a fire when she was growing up. The fire was arson. There was another guy recently who burned down his business to collect the insurance money. He endangered all his neighbors and the firefighers who r
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aestra
13y ago
Most (if not all) US States use prison labor to make their license plates. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/nj_inmates_work_to_... http://www.cqql.net/adrian.htm http:/
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13y ago
Many are by choice, aren't they? I know a lot who studied "just anything" in college, because, well, I've gotta go to college, don't I? They didn't have a career path or anything planned out, just picked someth
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13y ago
The toy burned up!! It was obvious because my mom just turned on the oven so she opened up the oven and saw a smoking half burned toy of my sister's. My sister was so upset. She didn't know better though, she was very young, proba
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aestra
13y ago
Not every campus is like this by far.
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aestra
13y ago
Yeah, it's too late even before it starts to discolor your clothes. Source: Experience. :(
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13y ago
When I was very very young, my sister put a stuffed toy in the oven. Then my mom went to preheat the oven... Then we smelled burning... The house didn't burn down or anything, but to this day I never turn the oven on without checking t
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aestra
13y ago
>Did you never get cash for birthdays or Christmas? Nope, never. I never had cash, ever. Not ever a dollar until I started worked at 16. Actually, that's not true, a couple times I went on a field trip to a big city and I got $20 to
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13y ago
>they cost 2/3 of what the front-loaders do. I just searched sears.com for "washing machine" and they are comparable in price. >Front-loading machines have larger capacities by virtue of not having to make room for the
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aestra
13y ago
Front loading machines are much more energy and water efficient. That's their big advantage. They use gravity. You can add much more clothes into a front loader too, so you don't have to do as many loads. Top loaders can be overfi
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aestra
13y ago
Ever try it? You can't. The machine won't let you... Yeah I did try to open it when I lived in Europe and had a front loading machine. Also do you have a source of this or is it just idle speculation?
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13y ago
Top loader are extremely common in the United States, I don't know a single person who has a front loader, however they are still sold, just the market share is very small. From what I understand (though it might be myth) front loaders
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13y ago
It isn't like Facebook doesn't "revamp" the UI all the time and confuse everyone while making it a worse experience. I can see it getting there eventually. Facebook used to be rather simple, now it is a convoluted mess.
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13y ago
I might be weird but really I do not understand giving your child money. I never got money as a child, ever. I just got things on birthdays and Christmas, that was it. We went without a LOT mostly because we didn't have a lot of mone
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13y ago
I agree it was kinda weird and misplaced. Teen and especially preteen girls tend to be really skinny until they put on their adult fat. I remember fitting into a size 0 at 12 and 14, same with my sister, we were both healthy. Then I looked
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13y ago
I was under the impression part of that is because of how Opera Mobile worked, they have some kinda "Turbo" mode that compressed websites and reduced downloading times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobil
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13y ago
The United States did not invent that idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
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I want to have some record of some things but not everything by far. For example, I wouldn't want a record of everything I ever did recorded, but my dad used to walk around once in a while with a video recorder on special times when ev
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13y ago
I can't stress this enough but if you're going to deploy a web application you need to be serious about and learn about web security. https://www.owasp.org is a good place to start. Windows is just fine, it's a pe
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13y ago
Facebook suggests I be friends with my high school chemistry teacher. No thanks.
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13y ago
Yes I did with my grandma until she passed a year and a half ago. I have about 2 of these letters but thats enough for me.
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13y ago
I find it doesn't really do this on the mobile site.
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13y ago
Anyone selling dogecoin for Paypal is stupid, those tranactions can easily be reversed. >you can use cpuminer to create some yourself. Depends on how many you want, the dogecoin difficulty has really gone through the roof lately, and you
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13y ago
I skimmed, read a few sentences, and felt I got the entire point.
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