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by rbobby 11y ago
Get a credit card. Cut up card into small bits.
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by rbobby 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd call what I said "wanton bashing". The NRA does attempt to mislead folks on a regular basis... this is well documented.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Back when seat belt laws where being introduced more than a few people complained that sometimes a person will die in a car accident because of the seat belt. Saner heads prevailed because the overall statistics showed much fewer deaths and
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by rbobby 11y ago
Collect early, pay late.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Must have US SIN, work permit, and agree to undergo a criminal background check to receive the bounty.
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by rbobby 11y ago
I wonder why some of the exact matches are not highlighted in yellow?
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by rbobby 11y ago
Kinda funny at the end... they zoom out and so much grey hair and bald heads :)
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by rbobby 11y ago
Probably start by not calling them an animal? Dehumanizing someone is probably step 1 on the road mistreating them.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Not a godly sort but this passage seems appropriate: > Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?' Then He
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by rbobby 11y ago
Sex is how to hotfix mitochondria.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Thought it was a typo on my part... but HN seems to be trimming running spaces.
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by rbobby 11y ago
> basic null check What's funny to me is that leftpad(null, 6, ' ') outputs " null".
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New magnet technology looks like MAGIC: “Programmable Polymagnets”(youtube.com)
15 points by rbobby 11y ago|5 comments
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by rbobby 11y ago
Meh. The FBI has already suggested that it might request the code signing certificate and the full source tree. With those in hand, I'd expect the NSA programmers could get this done in a few months.
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In Sweden's first unstaffed store all you need is a phone(bigstory.ap.org)
2 points by rbobby 11y ago|0 comments
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by rbobby 11y ago
Yet another reason why we can't have nice stuff. Sigh.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Not just lice... hepatitis can spread through poorly clean manicure tools.
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by rbobby 11y ago
I used 2checkout.com for years and years for a small business in Canada. Switched to Beanstream.com years ago (lower fees, but doesn't accept amex in usd). I'd never use or recommend paypal for any business. Their history of seizi
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by rbobby 11y ago
You'd think that Google could use a Bayesian classifier to detect malicious AdSense display ads at setup time. Add an appeal process to take care of ongoing training. This would negatively affect Google's revenue... which is proba
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by rbobby 11y ago
"charges were mysteriously resurrected by a different prosecutor" is incorrect. The women appealed the prosecutor's original decision, which is their right under Swedish law. A new prosecutor looked at the case and decided to
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by rbobby 11y ago
"would be no crime at all in every other country" is completely incorrect. He is accused of initiating sex with a person who was asleep at the time. This is a crime in the UK & Wales, in fact their legislation specifically men
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by rbobby 11y ago
If libraries offer free wifi and/or pc's then some stickers for them might also be a good idea.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Also don't forget that after their patent(s) expired Lego tried to claim that their shape was part of their trademark. Sued the pants off of MegaBlocks for trademark infringement in Canada. Lego lost in Federal Court, lost in the Feder
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by rbobby 11y ago
When traveling down, would turning around and facing the other direction help? It might also allow you to start a short conversation with the traveler above you, eg. "I have vertigo which makes going down escalators tough"... woul
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by rbobby 11y ago
> Borland recalls asking one sheriff how he knew that a courier had said what he was ordered to say when he was forced to call his boss and set up a meeting to trade the drugs. "That's what I told him to say," replied the
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by rbobby 11y ago
I tend to agree with a lot of this article. Cab driving is not a particularly well paid occupation and Uber is making it considerably less so. There's something a bit ugly about chiseling away at a low paid worker's wages that lea
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by rbobby 11y ago
Are there any better pictures?
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by rbobby 11y ago
I'm of two minds on this provision. First is that I'm very uncertain that it is a good idea to allow a gov't regulatory agency to require access to source code as a condition of access to a marketplace. Especially if it is an
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SEC charges GAW Miners and ZenMiner as a Ponzi scheme [pdf](sec.gov)
67 points by rbobby 11y ago|34 comments
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by rbobby 11y ago
I don't think I mentioned anything about the legality of what he's done. I guess I was struck by how he's trying to appear to be a good guy by supposedly honey potting the script kiddies and what not. But to me his reasoning

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