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by gnosis 14y ago
Smearing every substance that happens to be illegal in a certain country at a certain time with the pejorative label "drug" both unfair, ignorant, and counterproductive. Good arguments could be made for considering alcohol, coffee, and ciga
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by gnosis 14y ago
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. - Frank Moore Colby
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by gnosis 14y ago
That's if you're lucky enough to be in a hotel, and not out on the street, where you'd be lucky to have access to even a hot plate.
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by gnosis 14y ago
If you think there aren't homeless people (and others) who don't gain any money at all, you are living in a fantasy world. Some don't get $2, not even $1. Some are lucky to get $0 instead of losing money every day. Sure, some homeless pe
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by gnosis 14y ago
Here[1] is a similar experiment, which initially started with a $1 per day budget for 30 days. "Here are the rules: 1. All food consumed each day must total $1 for each of us. 2. We cannot accept free food or “donated” food unless
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Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface(technologyreview.com)
8 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Bird Flu: On the Move and Hard to Track(technologyreview.com)
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Why do some people want to cut off a perfectly healthy limb?(readmatter.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
A much better and more in-depth article along the same lines: http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ross-andersen-human-...
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Comparing performance with sysbench: memory, threads and mutexes(blog.siphos.be)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
From the HN Guidelines[1]: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users
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by gnosis 14y ago
If you want to have children so that they will help humanity (just about the only unselfish justification for having children), why not adopt instead?
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Open Street Map – The Free Wiki World Map(openstreetmap.org)
36 points by gnosis 14y ago|15 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
Another perspective, from the War Resistors League[0]: Where your income tax money really goes: * Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,650 billion * MILITARY: 54% and $1,449 billion * NON-MILITARY: 46% and $1,210 billion "'Current military' i
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SSL And The Future Of Authenticity(thoughtcrime.org)
90 points by gnosis 14y ago|48 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
I value my privacy too much to use web services that are essentially spyware. What I'm reading or interested in is none of any company's business. This is why I prefer to use a dedicated RSS app on my computer rather than use one on some "f
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Pearls And The Puzzle of How They Form Perfect Spheres(technologyreview.com)
3 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
As someone who's been using vim for about 20 years, here are the problems I have with any vi/vim emulation modes in emacs: * Configuring emacs still requires learning a lot about emacs (which takes a lot of time). * These vi/vim emulation m
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Why aren't you using ionice yet?(friedcpu.wordpress.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
Political stories have long been a part of HN. Sometimes they do get deleted, but many times not. I'm personally happy that they're on HN. They make it harder for the tech community to bury their heads in the sand and remain in a self-imp
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Fun With Inform7(mulli.nu)
4 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you manage your logs?
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"Massive" Cyberattack Wasn't Really So Massive(technologyreview.com)
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Bitcoin Isn't the Only Cryptocurrency in Town(technologyreview.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Are you going to protect your private key with a password? Or are you recommending we use password-less private keys? Also, please let me know when you've convinced the major banks and web service providers to use public key cryptography i
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The Worst Password Tips(xato.net)
23 points by gnosis 14y ago|78 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
The original, with Harrison Ford's voice-overs, was perfect. The various-re-releases such as the Director's Cut ruined it. I hate Director's Cuts! They invariably make great movies worse. Why can't Hollywood leave well-enough alone? Why
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Passwords: First Letters(xato.net)
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A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors(wynnnetherland.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Here's a trillion pennies: http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/sixteen.asp And if that's not enough, one quadrillion pennies: http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seventeen.asp and if that's still not enough, one quintillion pennies: http:/

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