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by pmc1 9y ago
Here's data that says otherwise. Guess you are free to believe whatever data you wish. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...
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by pmc1 9y ago
> Millions of people have fallen victim to drugs, painkiller abuse, alcoholism, the rise of meth and the revival of heroin. Through all this carnage somehow the left still fights for the legalization of the gateway drug marijuana. Of cou
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by pmc1 9y ago
> large amounts of money can buy you a lot of political power. That is not true. Hillary spent the most money in any American campaign (nearly $1 Billion) and still lost. Strategy matters more than money https://www.vox.com&#x
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by pmc1 9y ago
My best guess is that the "store-of-value that can't be manipulated by banks" is effectively over. Big banks it seems will take over the trading volume of the big crypto coins and develop their own exchanges.
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by pmc1 9y ago
The keys to anti-aging and anti-brain degradation are daily intermittent fasting, plant/fruit based diet, low sodium, low fatty foods, and low stress. Many monks in the far east follow this and live well into their 120s
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by pmc1 9y ago
Many comments have this delusion of things being free. Free college, free healthcare, free this/that, etc. In this world of limited resources nothing is free. Either your tax money, someone else's tax money, or your govt through d
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by pmc1 9y ago
More accurately, this is what happens when a company operates based on illusion and not reality. Sooner or later reality rears its ugly face. Their business was created on handouts and grants, but when that money dried up they couldn't
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by pmc1 9y ago
Facebook turns the blind eye once again. They don't want to be held responsible for what's posted on their platform. Facebook is enabling discrimination. I left facebook 2 1/2 years ago very happy with the decision
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by pmc1 9y ago
Great article. Its sad that wealth automatically portrays hate in many peoples eyes. Jabs at the author don't advance anything and are not appropriate HN is better than that
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by pmc1 9y ago
I think the author is misrepresenting Musk's views and statements. Musk isn't condemning public transit, he knows it plays a valuable role in large cities. Musk is simply saying that there are ways to make it better. Also the stat
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by pmc1 9y ago
> I strongly suspect that he does, in fact, know that. His proposals imply that he does not in fact realize that zero-day attacks occur. Negligence is one thing, but having state of the art security systems and still being punished for a
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by pmc1 9y ago
> If you have a breach of data, your tax goes up for a period of 10 years. You do know it is impossible thwart all data breaches right? You can have the most sophisticated security system created and Zero-day attacks are still bound to o
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by pmc1 9y ago
Citron is not bitcoin neutral. They are short biased bitcoin as their website and twitter account reiterate. And a hedge doesn't mean "neutral." It simply protects you in the event that an investment doesn't go as expect
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by pmc1 9y ago
We desperately need to get away from the hyper-partisan, two party system. An Either-Or system was not what the framers had in mind and is damaging. While not the most popular position, I ALWAYS vote for the 3rd party candidate with reasona
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by pmc1 9y ago
> Citron would not be pounding table if not appropriate,” he wrote. “Thank you for the 70 percent profit.” So Bitcoin is up several 1000%s on the year and he is beating his chest from a 70% profit on the short side?