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by pierat 3y ago
You smell bad. You look terrible. Your teeth are yellow. Your hair is stringy. But you can fix everything with our Cure-All Elixir, and you will be made whole again... but you had better keep drinking every day, or..... ---------- Advertise
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by pierat 3y ago
Then why is anyone under 18 charged in criminal court as adults? If you get ages can be seen to have the same legal cognitive patters as an adult, why shouldn't they also have the same rights as an adult?
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by pierat 3y ago
"Adolescence" was a made-up term to remove personal sovereignty over younger people who know full well, and would do, but aren't legally permitted to do so. They're also subject to our laws. They should have their say as
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by pierat 3y ago
> Sending humans would be effectively impossible. I can think of PLENTY of billionaires to send :)
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by pierat 3y ago
> Suhag Shukla, the executive director of advocacy group Hindu American Foundation, said that the bill would give California businesses a “license to discriminate against South Asians”. The group has lobbied against the bill, saying its
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by pierat 3y ago
What does sugar taste like? Can you describe it by not using 'sugary' or 'sweet' as descriptors? Can you define it using no other sense or emotion words?
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by pierat 3y ago
It's not an irony. How do you describe the taste of 'saltiness' to convey the sense of saltiness, if who you're writing to has no understanding of it? That's the problem with written word. We can write all around, a
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by pierat 3y ago
Why should I care about any technology of a company that was founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and then a whole lot worse?
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by pierat 3y ago
Wow, just reading the bulk of responses here is just embarrassing on the FLOSS communities. Person did the hard work and figured out a kernel bug. Was related to memory handling, so sent it to security list. Big ego on security list truncat
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by pierat 3y ago
> My porch light turns on 30 minutes after sunset and off before sunrise. It's under a roof so I would have needed to either replace the switch with one of those fancy ones, or installed a photocell somewhere else. But it was just a
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by pierat 3y ago
The only soap you can't use on cast iron is lye soap. That does strip that polymer smooth black coating. Basically it turns the patina into more soap. I use a chainmaille scrubber with dish soap. Works well.
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by pierat 3y ago
And corporate control of your hardware lasts a lifetime.
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by pierat 3y ago
Not today, Reagan. Deregulation is not the answer. Its a bad hack to claim "personal responsibility" on societal systemic issues. Gambling, and control and regulation of, is one of those societal systemic problems that can kill co
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by pierat 3y ago
Since you have severe problems with "whataboutism" and scope creep to idiocy; my rates to answer your questions are $150/hr , payable as a donation to the EFF.
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by pierat 3y ago
"Can you do the dirty job of recreating the housing market, and cite your sources in what amounts to a blog post?" Sure. Let me get right on that, after I get elected to be a Congresscritter.
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by pierat 3y ago
Ive seen your Reaganite "the government and regulations are the enemy" comments since Ive been born, and it was crap then and it's crap now. In fact, dereg is how we've gotten to this point. Housing has been turned from
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by pierat 3y ago
Hmm I remember this from Omni magazine. Their claim was that people got icked out with "mutated bacteria".
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by pierat 3y ago
So many people (at least in the USA, but likely everyone) are so bound to an identity that includes X but explicitly excludes Y. Worse yet those identities changed in their root definition, so that if you were some identity 20y ago, that n
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by pierat 3y ago
I've seen my cat wake up startled, and hissing and fur straight up, because of a nightmare. She saw us, and knew she was alright.
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by pierat 3y ago
It's called "late stage capitalism" because we're moving out of capitalism and into a techno-feudalism. And instead of feudalist manors and city-states, it's feudalist gentries of tech companies that can exert their
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by pierat 3y ago
I believe the founder, freediver. In the case of Radio Shack, they too made a promise never to sell or give the data to other entities. The CEO even fought for that in bankruptcy court. The judge deemed that the user data was worth a signif
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by pierat 3y ago
> It’s not that Kagi is better at search, it’s that Kagi is cleaner and more efficient. It doesn’t do bullshit dark patterns, reward SEO, track the shit out of you, or hide valuable tools. Yet. Google did the same originally. Super clea
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by pierat 3y ago
Oh Yandex is AWESOME, especially for tech, porn, and piracy. None of its blocked. I get exactly what I'm looking for. No bullshit. And I don't care if it is Russian. Tells me that the US government wont be buying search history fr
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by pierat 3y ago
Taking ultimate responsibility for your actions is something members of HN dont agree with. Your text is grayed, and my post is at -2. Again, if driving conditions prevent you from seeing too far down the road, either go slower or quit driv
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by pierat 3y ago
How bad of a driver were they, that they didn't use their eyes to see the condition of the road? Sure Google could also have done basic map due diligence. Sure, barriers could have been kept up. But this isn't much functionally di
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by pierat 3y ago
Consider it a chav announcement.
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by pierat 3y ago
You're touching on a real opportunity, going down a open hardware canbus-dash computer. This is one of those rare 'holy shit do this right now' kind of things.
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by pierat 3y ago
Another nasty pattern is with Google Translate. You want text translations from 1 lang to next? Cool. It works. You want an image text-> translated text? You MUST install and have Google app installed. No real reason other than to re-ena
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by pierat 3y ago
How much were you paid to shill Apple for this top post? If this were a real issue, then I as the device owner should be able to toggle this on and off as needed. But that hits deeper, since this is a device that's being sold as "
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by pierat 3y ago
You mean the thing that pops up on the dashboard that threatens to revoke usage of your cellphone-on-wheels if you dont "accept", even after a bill of sale was made with respect to the state?

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