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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I heard somewhere the going rate was like 300/bucks per 10 minutes of solid voyeur film when uploaded to certain websites. Plenty of incentive for the small=time airBnB host to set up sketchy cams. Sure, cameras happen in hotels too,
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Harare obtains raw water from four dams: Harava, Seke, Chivero and Manyame. Harava and Seke are completely dry. This has led Harare city council to decommission the Prince Edward water treatment plant, which is fed by those dams. >
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
The Road was implied to be a comet or maybe nukes. This will look more like Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl".
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Kind of like a fever, heating your body up to fight off infections. Or, in a chemical sense, chemo vs. cancer.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Honestly, oil and hilarity aren't too bad, all told. I've heard stories of prisoners and mental patients using blood, or poo.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I'm reminded of Paris Syndrome, which is phenomenon common with the Japanese, where they assume Paris is something it is not, and get angry and frustrated upon visiting. https://grapee.jp/en/99643 I'd say sim
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Frees up the smaller banks to focus on what can’t be automated like community outreach. Or Last-Mile delivery, getting the food to the people who actually need it. They're not always in shelters, and not always amenable to regula
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
What imhoguy said, with particular emphasis on networking. Once you go remote it's hard to stay remote -- networking and having contacts is a must. The take away from the networking thing is Trust. You need to be able to demonstrate
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Sounds like classic Tea Party Libertarianism then.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
See also: Hulk Hogan v Gawker
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Isn't Planatir explicitly a government contractor? Like, the CIA/FBI/etc. is buying data mining from Theil's people. Pot-kettle-black. I wonder if some spook ripped off his software or said mean things about his mom or
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Shoot, it's not even Toronto. I live in a 2nd tier Canadian city and those numbers wouldn't fly. You might be able to swing it for a few months and not die, but that's not really any way to live.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> A general good rule is what when you see someone do something, there’s probably a, if not good, understandable reason for it. In this case, presumably a middle-class kid who was fed a line that going to college is the way forward. The
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Never been more drained then after baby-induced insomnia. A couple of low-effort, no-brain mturk forms to make extra diaper money? Great! I'll bust out the laptop while killing time at a kid's soccer practice.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Internet meme turned (potential) real life flash mob. "Everyone go to Area 51 -- they can't stop all of us" essentially. As to if it's just internet cranks, the US military shifting views, or aggressive, foreign AGI-PROP
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Bingo. That uneven distribution is why them Yankees seem to be fine with all these wars. The World Wars brought violence directly to the Asians and Europeans, devastating Europe from London to Moscow, and all over Asia. Rich and poor got
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
>> A Case of Exploding Mangoes had to be printed in India; the publishers in Pakistan found it a bit over the top and disrespectful to the establishment. To the surprise of everyone, nothing bad happened to me when it came out: no law
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Once every three weeks or so, my father catches me up on the latest in the alt-right scroogery. There's always some grand reveal just over the horizon, and the time shifts from 'real soon now' to 'in a few years&#x2
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
A haiku shamelessly stolen from elsewhere: It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Bollocks. Tipping is predictable and normative. You assume 15% when going to restaurants, and roughly the same amount in other contexts, like getting a haircut. No one is fleecing you, and the costs are predictable using basic math. You m
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Makes perfects sense to me. Building a solid campaign takes a lot of thought. You've gotta have a mix of storytelling, refereeing, and logistical skills to run an immersive game -- and that takes effort to learn. If you're going
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Why? Everyone loves pancakes
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by blaser-waffle 8y ago
I just went through the Canadian immigration process. It's been a few months but I recall reading about visas. IIRC, the "Investor Visa" was about $400k CAD to be invested in Canada or something.
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by blaser-waffle 8y ago
Local police are not required to enforce federal law, essentially. They can, if they want -- it's the highest law in the land -- but the obligation is on the Federal Gov to enforce their own laws, hence the FBI, DEA, ATF, etc. "De