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by joesmo 11y ago
It is however required for Amtrak trains. The situation you describe above happened in Hawaii and while the person involved was able to board a plane back to BWI with a police report stating her ID was stolen, Amtrak would not let her on f
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by joesmo 11y ago
I watched it just to help. Almost 300k views now. Piracy is a right, not a crime and something that is positive for the world, esp. software piracy, IMO.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yeah, Cluj is a great city. The people are friendly and quite hard working, IMO. There are multiple flights from/to Bucharest every day (and from there pretty much any place you want to go) so travel shouldn't be too difficult. Th
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by joesmo 11y ago
What about living in that house and retiring in it? You definitely can't rent in many places on social security payments. Though of course that requires taxes to at least be affordable on social security, something that isn't true
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by joesmo 11y ago
Another option is a tax on miles driven, or perhaps a higher tax only on miles driven without any passengers. That way, one can ride wherever for free but when sending the car out by itself, it'd cost enough to discourage such behavior
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by joesmo 11y ago
Fixed: most black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works Now it's not "racist". Can we move on? EDIT: Clarified that it never was racist.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"She asks the policemen precisely what she needs to do to prove she hasn’t just been murdered. Holding out her arm, she sighs as they take her blood pressure." What? Seriously? I mean, yes cops are incredibly stupid, but they&#x27
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by joesmo 11y ago
"The law is very logical, in the way applied mathematics is very mathematical." So applied math is not mathematical? Or are you being sarcastic? I don't understand how you can claim the law is logical when it's constitut
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by joesmo 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. As someone who made some stupid decisions by letting friends (or so I thought) borrow my car and take care of my cats (opened my home while I wasn't there) and who got totally fucked over for thousands of
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by joesmo 11y ago
What about non-addictive, extremely safe drugs (whose LD-50 is many times the active dose)?
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think those who consciously abstain from voting are the ones who have the biggest right to complain about a system that by design can no longer be changed. But the stupidity of the idea you mention, that you're not allowed to partici
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by joesmo 11y ago
Taught myself and started programming in 6th grade (around 12) and made a bunch of small games / demos (QBasic, C, C++). I went to college looking for an English degree (wanted to be a writer) on a full scholarship but graduated with t
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by joesmo 11y ago
Lots of people want to kill a whole bunch of people, including innocent children, yet few try and even fewer do. Are we punishing people for their thoughts now? Because there's no way in hell this kid could ever build a bomb on his own
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think it's obvious that our strategies haven't been working. It's also obvious that no amount of pointing this out is going to change anything. Attacks will continue. Liberties will continue disappearing. And countries that
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by joesmo 11y ago
"That Islam allows a way for them to recruit does not mean they are Islamic only opportunistic." Lol. They are by definition Islamic. You can't just change the meaning of words like "Islamic" because it suits your p
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by joesmo 11y ago
In my experience, yes.
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by joesmo 11y ago
The author is implying that Daesh or something like it would/could exist without religion and specifically without Islam. I doubt that. Also, just because there is Muslim on Muslim violence doesn't mean that Islam isn't the c
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by joesmo 11y ago
I wonder what these students will think when they get into an industry like software programming that's full of racism and sexism that they have no control over (if they manage to get past those obstacles to get in in the first place).
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Paris terrorists suspected of using PlayStation 4 to communicate(geek.com)
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by joesmo 11y ago
An article reporting what FOX News said is not an article worth posting, let alone worth reading. FOX News is not news and other news outlets need to stop quoting them as if they were legitimate. They're not. In fact, very few American
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by joesmo 11y ago
Professor's reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-VE8r7MSI
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yeah, let's fire the professor.
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by joesmo 11y ago
No it doesn't. They want to leave. Let them face the consequences of their own stupid actions. A respectable institution (not saying Yale is or isn't) shouldn't have to deal with such ridiculous bullshit and should stand behi
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by joesmo 11y ago
"A country can withdraw any time, on six months’ notice." Why not give notice now? Who exactly has this power? This is incredibly vague.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"In practice, I heard someone say that the biggest improvement in people’s privacy has been use of Gmail" Technologically that might be true, but since Google is a third party they're required to provide their data to the gov
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yeah, you're absolutely right. In which case, the numbers simply do not work out. Makes the article's argument seem even less thought out as the author didn't even do some basic calculations. But this slightly different syste
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by joesmo 11y ago
So it's just about charging $30-35 more for the same "unlimited" service. I don't understand how that's not false advertising when taking into account the real definition of "unlimited" and the fact that y
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by joesmo 11y ago
Partisan pieces like this are incredibly lame. He doesn't even address the issue properly. $10k is not a living wage in the US and I doubt it is on in Canada. Make it $30k and let's see if job wages get depressed (they won't)
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by joesmo 11y ago
I definitely feel for the regular people getting hit with such ransomware, but devs that don't have backups are just asking for it to begin with. Not that it's right or anything, but if you have no backups of your site, it was des
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't think anyone can rationally argue that solitary confinement is not cruel and unusual. The Supreme Court should be ashamed for having opportunities to right such an injustice and failing. And all for what? An "outstanding m

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