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by turc1656 9y ago
"The term ‘Identity Theft’ implies, and its usage accepts, that the person whose identity is being stolen is the victim. They’re almost always not." Flat out wrong. They nearly always are. They frequently have their credit impac
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by turc1656 9y ago
It just dawned on me that Tinder is basically the new and improved version of Zuckerberg's original creation - Facesmash. Except Tinder can do so much more than that. And amusingly, Tinder is hailed as a great app while Facesmash was
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by turc1656 9y ago
The 3rd and 4th boxes of liberty. As a reminder, the four boxes are: 1. Soap 2. Ballot 3. Jury 4. Ammo If the first two aren't working, you take to the jury box, and when people are unjustly charged with crimes that are either misappl
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yeah I think there is a business opportunity for them if they really wanted to give it a go. DuckDuckGo leverages Bing, Yahoo, and a number of other sites. I don't see why Apple can't do something similar and forge similar agree
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by turc1656 9y ago
If I understand your question, the answer is that what you describe is basically the same thing currently on Android phones with the Google search widget thing (I think it's called Google Now). It can perform a search without going to
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by turc1656 9y ago
Not really. A search engine crawls the web (billions and billions of sites) and indexes them for quick and easy access. If you use Outlook for email, it's kind of analogous to how the search option works there. When an email arrive
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by turc1656 9y ago
I care primarily when what I am searching for is news/political. It is helpful to know the date an article was published prior to clicking.
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by turc1656 9y ago
I strongly disagree with the core claim that the reason is "unproductive growth". That's not the reason. The reason is municipal debt and gross mismanagement of the townships at every level. The municipalities are taking o
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by turc1656 9y ago
That's precisely what the gas tax is supposed to fund. All drivers who purchase gas help pay for road maintenance.
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by turc1656 9y ago
That's not quite the same thing. What you quoted is referring to the IRS tax exemption for the first $255 per month spent on approved commuting costs (parking and mass transit). What mgreg refers to is the direct money that is used to
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by turc1656 9y ago
Industrial Society and Its Future. The miniseries on the Unabomber that just ended this week could not be more timely, even after 20 years.
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by turc1656 9y ago
There is a scientific theory out that has yet to be proven, but addresses the actual purpose of life. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o... TL;DR (with my philosophical interpretations included) -
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by turc1656 9y ago
The survival of our species is irrelevant on the large scale. It is only important to us - the members of the species. Let's he honest, the world as a whole needs nothing from us. In fact, it was arguably better off before us and th
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by turc1656 9y ago
I think what msla is saying is that people who are at or below the threshold for taxation would contribute nothing to taxes, which would be unfair in theory because they consume public goods and services like the rest of us.
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by turc1656 9y ago
You would do a flat tax on anything above X, where X is essentially a number calculated on base living costs in your area for the number of people in your household. Anything above X is taxed at a flat rate. This ensures people can afford
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by turc1656 9y ago
I don't know enough to say with certainty, but I don't think it's that simple. The way I understand it, the script that loads Adsense does/did so at the end-user level when their PC loads the HTML and executes the scrip
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by turc1656 9y ago
I met a guy once who made a browser add on that had legitimate functionality that people wanted, but behind the scenes he secretly read all incoming html and searched for Google Adsense links and replaced the number that identifies the sour
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by turc1656 9y ago
I'm so sick of seeing articles like this. And it seems like a cop out or excuse people can tell themselves if they don't get what they want. I think the old adage that luck is when preparedness meets opportunity is much closer to
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by turc1656 9y ago
Sorry, I had split my original (long) comment into two separate ones and I thought I left a brief mention of it. The winner was pCloud. Please see my other comment for a more detailed explanation of how I have things set up and why I use t
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by turc1656 9y ago
I chose pCloud as my provider of choice. It's not unlimited, but it's $10/mo for 2 TB of storage and 2 TB of traffic. That is more than enough for most users, and you can increase the size in 2 TB increments at additional c
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by turc1656 9y ago
I recently had evaluated my entire backup plan and CrashPlan was evaluated as a possible change. It was one of two finalists I was debating between. Boy am I glad I didn't go with them. I understand that they will not just cancel th
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by turc1656 9y ago
I had never heard of anything like this! Thank you very much for this information. Luckily for me I drive an old car (definitely pre-bluetooth for sure) so that part wouldn't apply to me, but the increasing use of plate readers applie
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by turc1656 9y ago
I also would never purchase an HOA property. They wield far too much power over what you can and cannot do with what you own and you can never leave the HOA as it is linked to the deed.
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by turc1656 9y ago
Another big brother style invention. Wonderful. I'm sure they won't sell this info to the government at any point. My biggest issue, though, is the inequitable terms of tracking. If you live in a given neighborhood then you can
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by turc1656 9y ago
My thoughts exactly. I think he is probably a Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant starting at 2:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rF4kcqLkI
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by turc1656 9y ago
You sound awesome and are, in this regard, better than me. I never had WhatsApp, Instagram, or Twitter, but I still have my Facebook account. However, I am not active. I log in only when I receive a message or some alert I actually care
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by turc1656 9y ago
Fascinating that a recruiter actually told you that. I wonder if it's actually true or if the recruiter was saying that because...they are a recruiter and having people on LinkedIn makes their life easier.
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by turc1656 9y ago
yeah but only the NSA will be tracking it if you use text, not some multinational conglomerate that is using it to continually build its profile about you while simultaneously selling that information to other parties. And if you do it righ
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by turc1656 9y ago
Thanks for this. I was wondering the same thing. Terrible term, for sure.
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by turc1656 9y ago
I won't be upset at all. My opinion is simply that is the only reasonable/ethical way to go about it if we choose to do so.

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