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by dictum 13y ago
If the people running this scheme are profiting from it, soon they'd start using stolen CCs.
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by dictum 13y ago
A truly global business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140894
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by dictum 13y ago
>It is laws, and not technical means, that prevent rampant, systemic oppression. Which is exactly why it's so dangerous to have a secret court, with secret rulings, NSLs, and to make everything a secret in the name of national secur
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by dictum 13y ago
I can think of 3 possibilities: 1. HN has an influx of new users who are somewhat interested in technology and technology businesses, but do not have enough domain expertise to engage on discussion of technical subjects, or subjects related
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by dictum 13y ago
That's true. On the other hand, maturity often comes with apathy to real societal problems and abuse from bad actors, masked as greater insight: a sense of "that's just the way things are".
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by dictum 13y ago
>SASS not LESS Did you try bootstrap-sass? https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
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by dictum 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8
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by dictum 13y ago
This is not what I'm arguing. There are many different incentives for someone to do something: money, fame, respect from certain groups, the belief that you're doing something good, influence, following the wishes of your relative
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by dictum 13y ago
From a comment: >I don’t want to fix KA. I don’t think it is possible to do so given Sal Khan. Sal Khan should not be the voice on his videos. He should not be the person putting together the actual content of his videos. And, I suspect,
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by dictum 13y ago
Their audience is mainly comprised of web developers and marketing companies, I presume. I don't think this would be a good audience to show AdSense ads. On the other hand, it's a good audience to slap an invite to open their wall
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by dictum 13y ago
Many 16 year olds are not interested in meaningful, genuine relationships. Perhaps most teenagers who get casual sex are bullshitting their way to it. Some are just naturally confident, attractive and interesting, but I'd wager a bet t
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by dictum 13y ago
There will never be a Big Day when everything in your life will be aligned and when you'll have all you want and need. This is both depressing and liberating, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't work on your plans and have a gr
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by dictum 13y ago
The people who go to the Yahoo homepage maybe want to see photos of Kim Kardashian's baby . I'm not sure of the demographics of Yahoo's audience, but if memory serves right, in the US, they're big with middle class wome
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by dictum 13y ago
Some of the criticism that's raised against presidents is about personal attributes, not policy. However, this kind of criticism is not a new phenomenon, and Obama isn't the greatest victim of this. For a recent example, many peop
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by dictum 13y ago
Yahoo's core business is content, not search.
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by dictum 13y ago
"Action against regulation of large corporations with good relationships with the government" is only a subset of "action against regulation of business".
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by dictum 13y ago
WordPress benefited from the fact that PHP hosting was always cheaper (even free) than hosts that supported Perl or Python (this was a little before Ruby became popular through Rails). You could find oversold hosting plans for as little as
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by dictum 13y ago
Sorry for the news. Maybe I'm just not into competition, but I don't feel easy with a badge with a number that's supposed to tell much I've contributed to git repos, HN threads and StackOverflow questions, just like I&#x
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by dictum 13y ago
This is an appropriate forum for discussing the surveillance of our digital habits, and those of our customers, clients, employers, employees, and the public at large.
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by dictum 13y ago
>CamelCase CapitalPartners I imagined a very late-1990s VC firm, complete with swoosh logo. ( http://37signals.com/enormicom/09.html )
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by dictum 13y ago
>Get to work on cool technology with big scaling and parallel processing over web CRUD frameworks It's your right to work on whatever you want, but even though I work with technology, I prefer to focus on what I'm building and
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by dictum 13y ago
This reminds me of an habit I developed: I usually input the credit card number last. I usually start selecting the card issuer, then fill out my name, billing address, expiry date and CVV.
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by dictum 13y ago
>Every question a user has to ask themselves during the checkout process is another reason for them not to complete it. ( http://kenkeiter.com/2013/07/21/redesigning-credit-card-inpu... ) "Wait, where d
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by dictum 13y ago
Of course—and it wouldn't make sense to expect the law of the United States to apply to foreign citizens. Here's where I'm getting confused: if the laws of a country do not apply to someone who is not a citizen of that countr
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by dictum 13y ago
Is there anything to protect access to search records of foreign citizens? What rights FISA, Patriot Act and the other laws regarding surveillance from US agencies give to non-Americans? I don't want to carp at Americans, I'm just
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by dictum 13y ago
>Foreignness factor I know NSA's mandate is to spy on foreigners , but it's still very jingoistic and xenophobic that not being American makes it OK to spy on you.
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by dictum 13y ago
As with many things in life, what works for you may not work for everyone. Some people don't even know what they want to know. In the words of that great poet, Donald Rumsfeld: "there are also unknown unknowns – there are things w
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by dictum 13y ago
It's just so charming when an interviewee answers by reading pre-written responses in an style that would never be used in a real (even somewhat formal) conversation.
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by dictum 13y ago
"Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated." http://middleeast.about.com/od/usmideastp
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by dictum 13y ago
"C" is for "Creamy lather" https://www.google.com/search?q=white+soap+holder&tbm=isch

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