paavokoya

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by paavokoya 10y ago
As someone who grew up in Portland and still lives here. Please stop telling people about Portland. The traffic is already bad enough and I personally enjoy dreaming of owning a house one day that isn't in the sticks. Portland housi
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I switched to T-Mobile a while back. Best decision I've ever made.
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How do I delete/deactivate my account?
1 points by paavokoya 10y ago|1 comments
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by paavokoya 10y ago
That's called a summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I'd also point out that the term "nutritionist" doesn't even mean anything is most jurisdictions As someone who is living with someone becoming an accredited "Nutritionist" I can assure you this is not
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Not everyone wants to read through life like Nathan Lane.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I'd venture to say the reason there is 100% reliability is due to the personal and "non-corporate" aspect to the way he does business. When you stop having face-to-face transactions and stop seeing your customers the intere
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by paavokoya 10y ago
As a professional photo/video/audio editor, my problem with this is not "touch-typing" but rather it's another thing I'll have to adjust my senses to. I'll have to relearn the keyboard and spend unnecessa
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by paavokoya 10y ago
But apple fanboys will keep buying it It's extremely patronizing and dismissive to insinuate that only "apple fanboys" buy macbook pros. There are plenty of reasons to buy an apple laptop without being a "fanbo
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Yeah but most of the time laypeople disregard the scientists and substitute their own logic anyways.. People are incredibly stubborn and set in their opinions.
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Slack fails to address privacy concerns for over 2 years(twitter.com)
3 points by paavokoya 10y ago|0 comments
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by paavokoya 10y ago
letting people exchange money (directly) with whatever currencies they want If you had any idea the amount of regulation and ridiculousness involved in banking and forex, you'd laugh at this statement.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
It's the internet vs. intranets all over again. People have too much stock invested in "bitcoin is fundamentally flawed" and before that it was "bitcoin is a scam". Now it's "a different bitcoin is the a
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by paavokoya 10y ago
This is my exact argument for why "free market" doesn't always work. Sometimes you need to subsidize an unprofitable venture to truly move forward. Then innovation and profit models come after the initial hurdle is over. M
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Does Nest ping to any companies servers?
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by paavokoya 10y ago
That's a whole nother topic. CICO isn't as important as where you get those calories from. If a majority are from sugar, you are getting way too much insulin which then creates fat in the body. If you get fibrous and fatty ca
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by paavokoya 10y ago
The CIA is an arm of US corporate interests that carries out missions to benefit US corporate interests abroad.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
my Nest Cam People buying literal spyware to spy on themselves is definitely part of the problem. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476599/cybercrime-hack... EDIT: I knew this would get downvotes from
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I meant confidence in what came after it. Meaning the likelihood of a backdoored and/or weak software was likely.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
The way in which TrueCrypt "became abandoned" does not inspire confidence as well. Considering they left a cryptic and very strange exit note that many perceived as a notice of law enforcement activity.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I've noticed a lot of these "Foundations" for open-source projects eventually lead to in-fighting and control usurping where entire boards of directors "resign" and thus the legitimacy of the whole project is questi
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by paavokoya 10y ago
having multiple windows on desktop really distracts and confuses them, harming their productivity. You sound elitist about ADHD. Focus isn't a bad thing.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
it's going to be tough for existing stakeholders to back it or anything like it if the idea would result in the end of their business. Regardless of our inflation-positive zero-rate economy that caters to the investing class, I
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by paavokoya 10y ago
It seems this thread is filled with defensive cat-lovers who have no argument other than to bury heads in the sand.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
quality news sources, like NPR NPR is CNN marketed towards psuedo-intellectuals by replacing common terms with sophisticated sounding vocabulary. Most of the pieces that discuss topics I am heavily familiar with are shallow and oft
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Now that subscription based walled-gardens are becoming the new internet, I don't expect freedom (outsiders) to be much of a concern for society.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
No one is saying you wouldn't. The major benefit of bitcoin is a global currency with predictable monetary policy. Bitcoin works anywhere the internet does without any need for third-party. Just because I have the freedom to drive m
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I think the advanced users of HN vastly over-estimate the common sense level of the general public. http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-ide...
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by paavokoya 10y ago
minimum standards of knowledge required for the citizens Do you know how the electricity in your wall works? What about the plumbing under your house? Would you be able to fix those things on your own?
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I know a lot of people who do that.. politicians, judges, police, people on the internet.. Though, journalists and writers have a wider reaching platform.

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