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by j2d3 13y ago
"Smoking it cannot be much better for you than smoking cigarettes." --- well, it's complicated, but read this as a starting point: http://norml.org/component/zoo/category/cannabis-smoke-and-c...
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by j2d3 13y ago
There is really no media shitstorm about Michael Hastings. It's practically over now. What stays long afterwards is the chilling effect sensed by journalists and would-be-whistleblowers - the fear that by disclosing or reporting on the
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No.
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I had back surgery following a few months of severe debilitating nerve pain. The surgery fixed the pain, but I was hooked on prescribed opiate painkillers. I quit the pills cold turkey rather than tapering, because tapering just prolongs th
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by j2d3 13y ago
"In many major metro areas, you're more likely to be ticketed for cannabis than arrested." - as long as you are white and not wanted by the authorities for some other issue.
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by j2d3 13y ago
"When you have children, you can have exactly one hobby. Anything else is an exercise in futility, self-deception, and ineffectiveness. Cooking healthy food is a hobby. Exercising is a hobby. Maintaining a website is a hobby. Writing a
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by j2d3 13y ago
He has OFTEN been awkward and offensive. I do not censor him nor feel any obligation to do so.
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by j2d3 13y ago
@scuzzlebot uses them... by the fact that he is an implementation of MegaHAL ( http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/ ). He's out of order right now. I plan to fix him when I've got time. For a while he ended up tweeting
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by j2d3 13y ago
For the past few years I've been happily envisioning us all being chauffeured around in robot-driven cars preferably before my 2 year old is 16... imagining they must be safer. And, I still think that generally, auto-automobiles would
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by j2d3 13y ago
Also, google "Boston Brakes Michael Hastings" and you'll find a lot of speculation along these lines with a lot of significant support for the idea. Strikes me that a top result was an article from the Atlantic about how the
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Something similar to this stuff is possibly how Michael Hastings was assassinated in Los Angeles, June 18, 2013. There is a current HN thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162450
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by j2d3 13y ago
EXACTLY. He was a JOURNALIST. The point is to kill someone who might be about to disclose something you don't want disclosed, and create a chilling effect preventing others who might consider disclosing, whistleblowing, leaking, or sim
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maybe he was onto the story that broke over the weekend about the DEA spying on people: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/08/05/more-survei...
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"But the most significant missing evidence was the absence of any skid marks—even though the car made a 60-degree turn into a palm tree. Research of this topic reveals a new angle to this story, namely —Boston Brakes. This theory was e
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he's making a list, checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice...
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by j2d3 13y ago
it is not necessary to imagine this. we give it to our children. it is called adderall.
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NASA's ANTS: a swarm of 1000 tiny spacecraft to explore asteroid belt
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I have no words. There is just nothing
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like some have already noted in this thread, this and other real estate crowdfunding concepts are limited to involving only accredited investors. there can be ways to get around this, i think. what if the organization is a non-profit educat
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I'd like to see a real estate development swarm sourcing site that bootstraps a real estate dev deal from concept through site acquisition, design, build, and monetization (management if it's a rental / keeper and/or s
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What ever happened to NASA's ANTS (Autonomous Nanotechnological Swarm)?
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We can no longer trust Microsoft? Crazy. I've been trusting Microsoft all this time, and now, what to do!?!
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by j2d3 13y ago
Do not choose a language first, and certainly don't make a big list and try to learn each language on your list in a vacuum. Choose a project, and then research the best language to do that project in, and then learn that language by d
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this kind of memory is likely stored throughout the worms nervous system / body, rather than centralized in its brain.
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by j2d3 13y ago
Thanks for clarifying. That was the case. I shed a tear due to the incredible emotion conveyed in such a brilliant manner, and agree it is just a beautiful "I love you and am proud of you, son" type of letter... and historic, too.
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by j2d3 13y ago
Ok, wat? Ok.
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Wow. I cried a bit.
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The End is Neigh.
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You might consider using photos that have more than the target object in them. It is easy as heck for a computer to determine the bounds of an object in a photo, and increasingly easy for it to know what that object is. It's certainly
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by j2d3 13y ago
You'll find your "A players" allright, you'll find them politely completing your interview, and then declining any offers you might make. You might consider researching the company where they end up working for tips abou

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