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by smtddr 13y ago
According to the article that comment linked to; it's now on the same level as a parking-ticket for those growing it without proper registration or in possession of more than 10-days-worth. I can live with that very positive step in th
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by smtddr 13y ago
I can't wait for the results of this to come out so I can use it in debates with people who are against legalization. I'm almost certain Uruguay will be better off for this. The resources involved in trying to suppress cannabis is
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by smtddr 13y ago
The fact that we are somehow considering Americans' privacy more important that non-Americans' privacy is what I find disturbing. Also, the illusion that they were ever discarding American citizens' data never took hold of m
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by smtddr 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795 (seriously, you again?)
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by smtddr 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795 ....every single time. Now watch as the comment section get destroyed. It's already the top-comment. By the time my comment is 12hrs old, this comment thread will take up 2
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by smtddr 13y ago
I've been using AeroFS for awhile on Linux(Mint & Debian). I have to say it's pretty nice. I don't actually know what makes it better than dropbox and all the other choices; never looked into any advanced features. A bud
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>Apparently being out in public is illegal. Only if you're black.
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by smtddr 13y ago
ok, now I'm scared....
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by smtddr 13y ago
So I'm assuming you're saying this is similar to current tech-boom & silicon valley culture. If I'm wrong, ignore this whole comment. I don't think what's going on these days is a scam. I see some valuable thing
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>We've up/downgraded multiple times without issue. Why would you need to downgrade if you didn't have issues? ;) ...kinda joking, kinda honest curiosity.
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by smtddr 13y ago
From the article: >> "As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan inv
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by smtddr 13y ago
>> First - humans ARE robots and have no soul/spirit I very strongly disagree with this, but I know on HN this makes me an absurd fool with no data to back myself up with. Ya know, on my myers briggs[1] test that took last year
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by smtddr 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850697 I already tried this subject on HN and failed miserably. There are a few things in life that I kinda trust my gut-feeling more than science[1]. Or rather, in the same way there w
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by smtddr 13y ago
Same here. From my experience in regular stock trading on etrade, I've come to expect anything I invest in to crash to the ground 1 minute later so I bought a minimal amount of BTC to test the waters. Sure enough, crash. I totally went
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>Poetry is just a pointless distraction. I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
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by smtddr 13y ago
I knew someone who traced it down to this: http://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-Gluten-Intolerance He's fine as long as he eats gluten free wheat.: http://udisglutenfree.com/products/whole-grain-bread&
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by smtddr 13y ago
Ah, okay then. So then he left himself open to that possibility but he believes the possibility is still too small for SF to make a law over. That's a fair conclusion. I can understand that there's no need to alarm the general pub
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by smtddr 13y ago
So this[1] is absurd to you? 0% chance of being true? http://www.naturalnews.com/042323_brain_cancer_risk_cell_pho... EDIT: ouch, those downvotes...
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by smtddr 13y ago
So we should all just give up? Economy is pretty dependent on gasoline/oil too; but I'm glad people are looking into finding better sources of energy. We know gasoline burning & the process of obtaining oil is not good for hum
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/us-usa-sanfrancisc... I don't see anything absurd here. It's still not clear that cellphones are "safe". >>Mobile phones are tested to
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>The original 9/11 attack showed how simple traditional weapons could be used to leverage using four whole airplanes as nontraditional weapons, three of them with devastating effect, all of them with lethal effect. For the rec
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/ ;)
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by smtddr 13y ago
In today's world, you'd be expelled... https://www.google.com/#q=expelled+for+reporting+security+bu...
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by smtddr 13y ago
I think he means that if we're not holding Prezi ethically responsible to pay the bounty, then we can't then start saying the researcher is ethically bound not to sell the exploit.
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://i.imgur.com/ip6zwes.png On Linux you can choose different behavior; so it's apparently software. At least, on machines I've worked on. Depending on that dropdown, I can plug in headphones and the built-in
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by smtddr 13y ago
Well, this better only be for the multiple free accounts despite the wording seemingly indicating more. Otherwise AMZ needs to update their ToS to let everyone know they don't support bitcoin mining; which makes no sense because I&#x2
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>I had to seriously check to see it wasn't April 1st. It isn't. Honestly; I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not. This totally fits the kind of stuff Google likes to do on April 1st. If this became real, I'
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by smtddr 13y ago
>> He brute forced two encrypted containers? Who does that for an SD card you find? I would _totally_ do that for any encrypted files that came into my possession via an apparently discarded device. My curiosity would be through the
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by smtddr 13y ago
Given your username, I have to ask: Are you joking? ;)
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by smtddr 13y ago
And I'm focusing on what you wrote: >> What we have learnt is that the CEO of Joyent is prone to over-reacting and will fire people over nothing. If you think what took place in that github thread was nothing, you represent exa

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