staplers

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1. 691.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   American foreign policy is to tell other countries to fuck off, yet get uppity when other countries do the same.
2. 692.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   This is exactly how horoscopes suck people in..
3. 693.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   So, if I killed you today, that would be fine because "nature set up the octagon"? I seem to have wandered onto an UFC/MMA forum or something..
4. 694.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   Refreshing to see another historically educated mind in this thread.
5. 695.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   So you're advocating for war because we might get some more cool technology out of it and not, say from economic growth, or cooperation of two interested minds?
6. 696.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   weren't much different at a far smaller scale You are literally saying the exact thing this article is arguing against. There were nearly 100 million people living in the Americas before Europeans arrived. It was in the direct
7. 697.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   https://pagedraw.io/tutorials/basics
8. 698.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   Step away from the bong for a sec and reread what I just wrote.
9. 699.▲
   by staplers 8y ago

   "Bland" is just catering to the mainstream audience. There's a reason McDonald's has owned the food world for 50 years selling the same hamburger.
10. 700.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Horrendous analogy. Yellowpages never tracked your real-time location, served hyper-targeted political ads, or tested emotion-manipulation on its readers.
11. 701.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Read again. "This includes cell tower and cell sector location, assisted GPS and cell tower trilateration."
12. 702.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Read again. "This includes cell tower and cell sector location, assisted GPS and cell tower trilateration."
13. 703.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Read again. "This includes cell tower and cell sector location, assisted GPS and cell tower trilateration."
14. 704.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Then don't eat factory farmed meat, and don't eat lab grown fake meat. There are more than two options.
15. 705.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    That was humanity's doing, not his music.
16. 706.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    After a decade of telling people about my favorite places around Portland (where I grew up) and watching them get absolutely destroyed by Instagram-tourists, I would highly advise against this sort of promotion of fragile amazing places.
17. 707.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    People cheer while it's novel (like television, social media) but our children will hate it and feel cheated out of real nutrition by 'manufactured food'.
18. 708.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Cellular carriers sell your real-time GPS location even if you turn off your phone (GPS chips operate outside the network) Proof: https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...
19. 709.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    FREE and OSS CMS' encrypt customer data now.. Don't know where this myth that it costs money to do basic encryption is coming from..
20. 710.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    In Europe I rented a Fiat with ADAS for pretty cheap.. it wasn't even mentioned when I purchased it.
21. 711.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    computer products are aimed at people who think they are too smart to be sold anything Hell there are ads right now on the front page of HN for job hirings..
22. 712.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    People fill threads up with reasons why they think bitcoin and cryptos fail even when year after year their opinions are proven wrong by the market.
23. 713.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Anyone know the current state of the industry? Large corporations are run by business majors who often have a disdain for computer science. Usually this leads to not hiring the top security experts (either through lack of knowledge
24. 714.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    So many people have it all figured out for "why cryptocurrencies fail" but your question is exactly why bitcoin and crypto succeed.
25. 715.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    I wouldn't attribute bad practices to "competition"
26. 716.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    Competition is the easiest path to refinement. See the space race.
27. 717.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    co-opted by mining Mining is a fundamental requirement for crypto..
28. 718.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    I wonder if they consider the Cali fires an "environmental emergency imminently threatening the safety of human life"?
29. 719.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    You can also take rationality to religious extremes and ignore things outside our perception.
30. 720.▲
    by staplers 8y ago

    I say coal plants toll on environment is too costly, not "necessary".