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by cronix 4y ago
Yes, it's because there is a large black market in states that haven't legalized it and in a lot of cases, they're selling it cheaper than the stores where it's legal. The state sanctioned growers all have to have their
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by cronix 4y ago
oh, you're not really a snob until you roast your own beans and won't drink any others /s
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by cronix 4y ago
Try Starbucks Via Instant. You might be surprised. I use it mainly for camping due to the ease, or if I run out of regular and can't bring myself to go to the store just for coffee right when I wake up, but I can't really tell the
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by cronix 4y ago
I'm in Oregon as well. There have been many news stories in Southern Oregon about the large cartel operations that are bigger than before legalization, because now they more or less blend in with the legal growers. They also involved t
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by cronix 4y ago
An android solution is to only ring/notify the phone for people in your contacts. It's easier than giving individuals a ring tone as unknowns get the silent treatment by default. Basically just whitelist instead of blacklist.
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by cronix 4y ago
Neither. It bypasses paywalls and opens the discussion up to everyone, which is the main reason why it's used on HN, or the discussion on each article would only be between the (relatively few) subscribers of that particular site and t
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by cronix 4y ago
In most states, and federally, political views aren't protected either. Keep that in mind with your McCarthyism-like lists. And businesses can already discriminate against gun owners without a list or specifically knowing who owns a fi
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by cronix 4y ago
I don't think that's a realistic definition. It all has to do with intention. LARPers, by definition, are role-playing and not actually intending to do the thing. A painter who never makes a sale or never finishes, but intended
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by cronix 4y ago
Kudos for your response, sir.
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The factories that built most of the equipment in WW2 didn't exist prior to WW2. They were built because of it.
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by cronix 4y ago
And if you're not engaged in any sort of commerce? Just hanging out on your own land consuming what you grew for yourself, like carrots?
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> We had an implicit right to privacy for abortion, RBG didn't see it that way. “Roe isn’t really about the woman’s choice, is it?” Ginsburg said. “It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice…it wasn’t woman-centered, it was physici
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That's odd that you think programmers all think the same things or are all politically aligned, or really any group of people for that matter.
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by cronix 4y ago
I remember being really cool in the early 2k's with a Compaq Ipaq PDA, PCMCIA GPS receiver that slid into the back and TomTom maps in my car. Most devices didn't have GPS then. Damn, they go for a pretty penny on ebay. Have to go
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by cronix 4y ago
Trump tried to ban it in 2020 out of "national security concerns" similar to Huawei. The ACLU and media painted it as anti free speech and xenophobia and never gave the claims any serious scrutiny. > On July 7, 2020, U.S. Secre
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by cronix 4y ago
Power companies, water companies, natural gas, heating oil companies, telephone companies are also private companies, that we classify as utilities because they are essential. They aren't allowed to discriminate at all. In 2022, I thin
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They didn't just go out and build some. The KGB was stealing NASA's plans. NASA caught on (with help from CIA) and implanted falsified heat tile formulas, which the Soviets copied. Their first Buran only flew once and mostly burne
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by cronix 4y ago
Just like how the people who are upset about this ruling can be upset that when their party controlled all 3 branches numerous times, they never put abortion into the constitution to firmly protect it, or the other "rights" you me
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Shouldn't the web browser be the one implementing css rules?
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whenever I hit a paywall I just copy the url into archive.is.
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> as is yelling “fire” in a crowded theater You really should stop spreading that falsehood. It was overturned over 50 years ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
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And then we stick them on antidepressants. > Although only 8.6% of American males are on antidepressants at any given time, they seem much better represented as a percentage of mass shooters. Here are 39 mass shooters who were either on
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It's more akin to butt dialing.
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Delaying has always been the point, whether it's Stuxnet or technology export bans or assassinating 4 scientists in the streets working on the program.
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What do you think they would choose if they had the option for gender, orientation and sexual preference?
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sorting from newest first is also a data driven algorithm
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> All that may change by 2023 — at least in new Los Angeles buildings. The L.A. City Council last week passed a motion that would ban most gas appliances in new residential and commercial construction in the city, citing an effort to com
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> It wouldn't be good for your power company to have the option of arbitrarily cutting you off as a customer, and never giving you a chance to get back your power. Yes, they're a regulated utility like water, power, natural gas
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Probably about the same odds as a company co-opting the common parlance such as "meta."
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Does that include data contained in their x years of backups?

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