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by johnpowell 7y ago
Mouth/neck cancer. 35 treatments of radiation. It has been a year and my gums are still destroyed. My teeth were not in the best shape going into this. But the risk was high that the radiation would kill my teeth and need to be removed
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I went 40 years without getting a flu shot because I was terrified of needles. And I mean I would look away if someone was getting a shot on tv. Absolutely terrified of needles. A little over a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I have h
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Well, I saw that you were getting downvoted and tried to add some context to your comment. I thought that maybe people didn't know of the incident. I guess I made a mistake trying to help you. lol.jpg
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I'm not sure that people realized this happened and ended extremely poorly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I tried DDG within the last year. And I tried really hard. But I used !G about 25% of the time. Then I switched to ecosia.org, I know it is a front-end for Bing. But it is clean interface and the search results are more in-line with what Go
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I have absolutely no desire to do them. The constipation is unbearable for me when I take them. I do enjoy a hydrocodone. But it has been a year and they treat the cancer, and then another scan and there is a new spot, rinse and repeat. Ano
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by johnpowell 7y ago
That is why I said "no hard feelings". Fastmail or Plex could shut down tomorrow. I would be disappointed, but I wouldn't scream for a refund. As long as I felt that they tried I would be alright. Our wonderful journey wouldn
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I have a card with Capital One and can do virtual cards too. There is even a Firefox extension to make it a few clicks to make a new one and input the info. I guess I should mention that I am poor-ish. Right now I am getting lumber from a r
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I'm already there. I just hate random money coming out of my account. I just gave fastmail $130 for three years. I wish I could have given them a thousand for lifetime so I would just never have to think about it again. I bought a life
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I see the oncologist every three weeks. And the radiologist every few months. They always ask if I need any pills. I haven't taken a opioid in six months. And I have a ton of oxy and hydromorphone sitting in my bathroom from when I was
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I tried using DDG and found myself using !G a lot for simple things. Then I switched to Bing about six months ago and have only had to use google a few times. I know, Bing.. But I have used Windows for about 30 minutes in the last year and
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by johnpowell 7y ago
It is absolutely the black guy that is 16 and is shot by the cops is a "man". But this guy that is nearly 30 is just a naive boy that was warned by the state department, but you know.. Kids being kids.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-May/... Not sure what to think of this. But it is there.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BpSAT3sMUA I don't really want to comment.. But here we are.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Maybe I am the only person that watched the show. But I guess he was on the first season of King of the Nerds. It was a reality show on TBS.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I have Comcast Business. I pay them 100 dollars a month. Even if I paid them way more they just don't offer much more upload where I live. They will give me tons of download but all their plans have anemic upload. My only other option
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by johnpowell 7y ago
It is when when you have to. And it isn't like being underwater. You pretty much close your eyes and go to a different place. And like I said. Pills help a lot. And I had practiced (sitting at my desk) once I knew what had to be done a
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by johnpowell 7y ago
This makes sense. Thanks.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I'm somewhat shocked that residential connections have enough bandwidth to upload a streaming video as a proxy. But maybe people using a VPN for Disney+ are just glad it works at all. I have Comcast and my upload on a good day is 500KB
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by johnpowell 7y ago
They put in what is essentially a tube similar to what a scuba diver would wear with a piece that goes between your gums and lips. Then they monitor your breathing for a bit and they start to countdown. Then they just turn off a valve and n
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Well, Bloomberg probably has some actual cash. The crypto guy has a bunch of tokens he needs to turn into usable money. So he has a interest in keeping the price up while he slowly exits without crashing the price.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
A few months ago another cancerous spot popped up. The oncologist wanted to hold off a bit and see how it was reacting to my current medication. I wasn't thrilled about this since your urge is to just get in there and kill it. But he p
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by johnpowell 7y ago
Honestly.. I don't understand the details anymore. I just trust that Mozilla and gorhil are doing their best. And if they can't help me nobody can.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I torrent a lot of TV shows. And American Greed popped up a lot. I always dismissed the show until they they recently did a ep on the Fyre festival. I consume every bit of media about the Fyre festival. I Watched the ep about it. Then I saw
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by johnpowell 7y ago
That misses the point. I wish the internet was never used for financial gain. Just the sharing of information.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
In 1994 I was junior in high school and took as many years of auto-tech as possible. In the end we were rebuilding engines and air-conditioning units. And yeah, our high school had welding, cnc, woodworking, auto-cad, and even lumber-jackin
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Ask HN: Has anyone just blacklisted everything Google with a Pi-hole?
7 points by johnpowell 7y ago|2 comments
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by johnpowell 7y ago
It always bugs me when people say "my Facebook" or "my Twitter". I would assume there is the same sort of false ownership thing going on when people say they own the channels.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I use a pi-hole at my house and I love it. But I also realize that the 99% of the other people out there that have never heard of it deserve some privacy too.
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by johnpowell 7y ago
I had a bit of a moment back when I was 17. I had what I thought was a really good friend that I skateboarded with for 5 hours a day after school. We partied too and hung and everything seemed great. We had a big social circle in high schoo

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