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by anextio 13y ago
I started smoking in university, and where I'm from a very high percentage of university students smoke (usually roll-your-own cigarettes, though). I can remember the first time I had a puff of a cigarette, and I was quite drunk at the
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by anextio 13y ago
Of course I have, and yeah, it is as effective. Sometimes I will still get up and walk around while doing it. I'm not going to claim any scientific miracles from it (that would be dumb), but for me the combination of taking a break fro
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by anextio 13y ago
> I can't fathom who thought these things were a good idea. The millions of people who have quit tobacco because of them, for one example. > I don't care if it's just steam, I don't want it in my face. On behalf of
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by anextio 13y ago
> There should be four ingredients. God only knows what actually goes into the lower quality versions. Then we're in agreement. I don't know of anyone (besides the usual anarcho-capitalists) who thinks that low quality ingredie
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by anextio 13y ago
As someone who switched to an e-cigarette, I might be able to answer this for you. The first thing is that the level and effect of nicotine that is absorbed though vapor is a lot less than a regular cigarette. The reason for this is twofold
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by anextio 13y ago
> I am starting to see people puffing on these stupid e-cigarettes in restaurants that ban cigarette smoking. Most reasonable people in the vaping community discourage that kind of behavior. At the end of the day, there will always be as
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by anextio 13y ago
The backups stored on iCloud are encrypted with your Apple ID password.
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by anextio 13y ago
> Most 'geeks' I know recommend that people not buy Apple because of the lock-in. Most 'geeks' give horrendous advice to non-technical people when it comes to computers/smartphones/etc. I was guilty of it fo
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by anextio 13y ago
> I have an algorithm that only takes 7 holes compared to your 12 which is seven bucks per sheep means make seven holes and shove 34 sheep into each money hole then count the total. Good thing for the shaman's job security that ther
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by anextio 13y ago
That's a fine argument with 7 times 34, because you only need 7 holes of 34 stones. But it breaks down when multiplying much larger numbers, because the number of holes you need increases by N. With this addition system, you only need
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by anextio 13y ago
> insecure systems are preferable (as a user) No they’re not. Religious issues should never come before security.
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by anextio 13y ago
As an engineer with no background in economics, do you have any sources that discuss the pitfalls of Austrian economics from a layman’s perspective? It seems nowadays that the internet is so rife with neo-Libertarians that it’s very difficu
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by anextio 13y ago
I’m not John Gruber, but having read the blog for many years I feel I can safely say that the guy does not hate Microsoft, nor does he hate Google.
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by anextio 14y ago
I couldn't help but cringe at the author's continual use of the term "stupid cow" to refer to the woman in question, or the reference to someone with ASD as "stupid". The response to racism should probably not be a needlessly gendered and s
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by anextio 14y ago
> The gender battle has existed for as long as we have. An unending competition as to which sex is better. This is no different, we're just changing the rules and bringing in a few different twists with this contest. Wow. No thank you.
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by anextio 14y ago
A fantastic talk by Meredith L. Patterson on this very topic at 28c3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
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by anextio 14y ago
> Computers can compile things really fast nowadays. Tell that to my fecking codebase.
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by anextio 14y ago
And also like... the XNU kernel?
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by anextio 14y ago
There's no evidence that the Game Center issues that arose the day Letterpress was released had anything to do with the game. iMessage had connectivity issues earlier in the day.
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by anextio 14y ago
18 U.S.C. § 873 Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or
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by anextio 14y ago
> Nokia produced far better phones under the Symbian banner The problem here is that you appear to have no idea what the word "better" means to a consumer, as opposed to a hacker. And that's why you can't understand Apple's success and
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by anextio 14y ago
Because Google and everyone else in the Android ecosystem* don't care. *EDIT: I don't mean third party developers when I said 'ecosystem'. I mean the manufacturers. They're in it for a profit like everyone else, and "open" is just a good a
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by anextio 14y ago
It amazes me how many people continue to misunderstand App Store rules and quote bullshit on a daily basis. In-App Purchasing rules apply to purchasing books in an e-reader, levels in a video game, or music in a player, etc. It doesn't appl
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by anextio 14y ago
None of those things apply anymore.
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by anextio 14y ago
No. Google want people using their services. They don't care if people are using Android or not - Android is simply a platform upon which they can get users to use their services. That is their only vested interest.
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by anextio 14y ago
To quote Zed Shaw on how enterprise software gets sold: "steak and strippers".
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by anextio 14y ago
Ugh. I hate the "bros" that inhabit many startup companies these days.
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by anextio 14y ago
> people with a preference for form over function People who keep using that phrase as an excuse to hate on anything designed that they don't like are the truly revolting people. Stifling discussion, silencing opinions, and perpetuating
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by anextio 14y ago
It searches for a keyword in the manpages and tells you what page contains the text. $ apropos printf fmtcheck(3) - sanitizes user-supplied printf(3)-style format string format(ntcl) - Format a string
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by anextio 14y ago
Actually you can do it with: <cmd>-<right>, <option-left>, <option-shift-right>, baz And considering you didn't have to press <mode>: beforehand, it can be just as fast. I'm a vim user, but using it f

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