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by qqn 7y ago
Exactly. It's like that Antonopoulos quote, in this case about cryptocurrency: "I absolutely do do not question the authority to do this. I very much questions the means to do this." Src: https://youtube.com/w
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by qqn 7y ago
I share this to underline that focusing on tighter gun legislation is reactive to a fault, missing the greater picture. It is ultimately misguided, treating the symptom (terrorism) rather than the cause (frustration, mental health, financia
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Make a Factory Quality 9mm Rifled Barrel Using Salt Water and Electricity(thefirearmblog.com)
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by qqn 7y ago
I like https://t.me/hacker_news_feed , it posts only the articles that have a score of 100+ so you don't get flooded by goodness, it just trickles in ; ) ... in fact, this is so useful I think it merits its own HN post!
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by qqn 7y ago
Thanks for the commentary guys, it’s been fascinating churning over all this even more. Thoughts: - Safety is the same issue as always, only it’s being ironed out faster than before. Controlled vertical landings, 3D space, and redundancy he
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Flying cars(spmx.ca)
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by qqn 7y ago
The reason was safety: there is a minimal height required for the chute to open in time. Any fall below that and the jumper's toast. They had the fellow start on the tower to ensure he'd have time to pull the chute in case of any
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by qqn 7y ago
What everyone else said: the imagination was there, it's just now that technology has caught up. I'd been following this topic for the past year and literally just today wrapped it all up by a blog post on the topic: https:/
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by qqn 7y ago
Originally from https://pippin.gimp.org .
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Grid tricks your mind into seeing colour(patreon.com)
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Explaining genetic drift (and bottleneck & founder effects) (2017) [video](youtube.com)
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Evolution as Fact, Theory, and Path (2008) [PDF](link.springer.com)
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by qqn 7y ago
Nice! And speaking of etymology, my favourite trivia from the article: The word was coined from Greek petros, meaning "stone", and ichor, meaning "the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods". I always wondered what th
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by qqn 7y ago
The pine scent may actually be "terpenes": "Often the plant chemicals that smell pleasant are produced in leaf hairs... and the rain may damage these, releasing the compounds."
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by qqn 7y ago
Lol this reminds me of what my dietitian cousin is known to say: everything in moderation... including moderation ; )
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by qqn 7y ago
I can't believe no one's mentioned that Mr. Robot scene yet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ee-cHbCI0s
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by qqn 7y ago
Oh come on. This comment was great, to the point, and led me to learn something new. OP's just calling it a financial Wild West but with historical backing of when it's been done before.
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by qqn 7y ago
I'm surprised this post is so popular. I wish s/he'd mentioned other alternatives like Tutanota/ProtonMail, Startpage, or Matomo (formerly Piwik) analytics. I also wish there was mention about how no one is truly Google-
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by qqn 7y ago
Right? I'm wondering this the whole time I'm scrolling down.
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by qqn 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this. From my first payments in crypto I immediately felt something huge had shifted in the world, exactly what you're talking about here. I hope you and yours are safe and secure.
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by qqn 7y ago
> I'd like to see some actual examples. I used Bitcoin to cover a flight a few years back when the only other options were PayPal or using a European bank deposit (0). More recently I also paid for graduate studies in Bitcoin (1). G
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by qqn 7y ago
Embrace, extend... exist?
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by qqn 7y ago
I've been using Tutanota for almost a year now and it's pretty good. I'm no expert on encryption but that part also seems pretty solid [0,1]. NordVPN "leans towards" TN over PM, but only for convenience and not secu
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by qqn 8y ago
A similar but, imho better piece can be found on https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths . Still, the interesting bits for me in this one were the following: "Financial innovation is always and in all ways one of
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by qqn 8y ago
Me three! Often in Hamilton for days/weeks at a time but frequently in Toronto and certainly no stranger to (U)Waterloo.
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by qqn 8y ago
Yes, I'm there every so often!
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by qqn 8y ago
Overall a neat piece of history to read, to sit in that disbelief as fragments of the world start being lifted back up from the ground where they've shattered. Neat quotes: Heisenberg: I believe this uranium business will give the Angl
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by qqn 8y ago
"Create an account" wall to read more than the headline, nice. Shimmying around this led me to https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ansfle/google_n... , where the commenting just made my
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Michelin created its Stars to sell tires (2016)(priceonomics.com)
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by qqn 8y ago
And for Android users, CamScanner is a great scanning app. It turns quick cellphone photos into great, clean, auto-cropped scans that it can then bundle into PDF batches (great for grouping receipts by month, for example). The free version

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