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by socillion 13y ago
I disagree with your thesis; anyone with malicious intent can be assumed to already have their own copy. Even the Adobe dump is under 4gb compressed - a trivial amount of storage. Additionally, there is a huge long tail of publicly availabl
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by socillion 13y ago
While that is possible, marijuana can affect motivation and it is a very good idea to quit for a month or more before reevaluating the situation. Long term marijuana users have been shown to have lower dopamine levels [1] which can (does?)
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by socillion 13y ago
Advertisers do not pay for skipped ads.
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by socillion 13y ago
The Time poll for person of the year is notorious for being rigged. In 2009, 4chan got moot to the top, in addition spelling out "marblecake also the game" with the first initials of the 21 top nominees. [1] In 2012, something sim
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by socillion 13y ago
On the topic of flamewars causing removal of articles, the difficulty, IMO, is that an entry on HN is composed of both an article and comments. Flamewars have terrible comment quality, so even if the article is upvote-worthy, it can mean th
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by socillion 13y ago
By "kids don't watch TV anymore", I assume you're referring to them only watching TV for an average of 20-25 hours per week, or 3-4 hours per day ?
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by socillion 13y ago
There seems to be a common point of confusion in this discussion. It isn't the case that using a period implies hostility or anything else, it's using a period in a context where it's unexpected. In other words: if you avoid
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by socillion 13y ago
> If you are genuinely skilled, you will succeed. Some skilled people succeed, therefore all skilled people succeed eventually? Alternatively, it's a tautological statement that defines "genuinely skilled" people as th
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by socillion 13y ago
Awesome! Thank you, I was hoping someone else would have had the same idea.
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by socillion 13y ago
It has been demonstrated that: 1) gold can be stolen due to mistakes 2) bitcoin can be stolen due to mistakes but this does not mean that it is impossible to avoid having either stolen. I agree that long term storage of both of these can be
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by socillion 13y ago
Not only is Bitcoin sent frequently, it's also stolen frequently: http://rt.com/news/bitcoin-hacking-stolen-million-417/ http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/250-000-worth-bitcoins-sto...
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by socillion 13y ago
That zip file contained 5,000 stolen credit card numbers, along with CVVs and ID info.
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by socillion 13y ago
> Your second loophole doesn't apply to the NSA (they're not a law enforcement agency), but is a concern for the FBI. Good to know, thanks. 702 doesn't allow intentional collection of US communications - intentional be
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by socillion 13y ago
> - Specifies that any queries against this data must have documentation showing "reasonable articulable suspicion that the selector is associated with international terrorism or activities in preparation thereof" (note that mi
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by socillion 13y ago
Rolling stops on bicycle are only legal in one state - Idaho.
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by socillion 13y ago
Accusations of hypocrisy are a form of ad hominem, so I agree it's amusing that so many people think they are good arguments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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by socillion 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by socillion 13y ago
Lavabit had the capability and will to share information with law enforcement in the past; it was only in Snowden's case that Levison refused. > Levison isn’t an privacy absolutist. He has cooperated in the past with government inve
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by socillion 13y ago
Sync is one good reason if you're already using desktop Firefox. I had problems using Firefox on a stock Android Nexus 4 (bugs with selecting text and freezing when scrolling) but it's been a flawless experience after switching to
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by socillion 13y ago
> So, you cannot use gps for distractions, unless you can? Using GPS on a phone while driving is illegal as well (in CA): http://www.dmv.org/articles/california-bans-use-of-cell-phon...
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by socillion 13y ago
"Although marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogens and cocarcinogens, findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk for the development of either lung or upper airway c
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by socillion 13y ago
"Less than an hour" is with gigabit internet, which is rare for an attacker to have.
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by socillion 13y ago
I enjoy moments like this, where it's suddenly obvious in a discussion that we think about something in completely different ways. Did I want a blimp when I was 16? If someone offered me one I would have said yes, but it's not som
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by socillion 13y ago
> What kid in America doesn't want a car for their 16th birthday? The ones who don't have money for gasoline or $1800 a year for insurance, and who know without asking that their parents will never pay for any of this.
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by socillion 13y ago
Of course, it's only correlation . Causality is unclear, the correlation isn't, and correlation is enough to render incorrect the inference that athletes perform worse academically than non-athletes. Here's a review of the t
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by socillion 13y ago
High school sports are correlated with academic achievement: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/20127/it-s-not-either-or-s...
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by socillion 13y ago
A similar comment deriding your hypothetical financial analyst would be called pompous if they listed credentials, claimed the analyst was uninformed, then declined to say anything more (assuming other commentators were similarly uninformed
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by socillion 13y ago
You're saying that whether or not it's advertising depends on the context of where the paid ad appears, which is an arbitrary and baseless distinction. If a company rents a billboard that's right outside their office, isn&#x2
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by socillion 13y ago
I tried buying bitcoins by going through Liberty Reserve. They got shut down the week after I transferred the money there, with the couple thousand I deposited still in the account since I wanted to wait for a good opportunity. It was some
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by socillion 13y ago
Assertion: Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof. Euphemism: The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. Premise: A proposition up

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