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by waffle_ss 4y ago
What is the point in linking this? Imagine the mess that comment threads would be if everyone who made similar comments about something did this.
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by waffle_ss 4y ago
That's just a typical high noise comment that no longer gets downvoted into oblivion like it used to. It was a top comment due to HN's comment ranking system weighting new comments towards the top for a while.
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by waffle_ss 4y ago
Nitpick but alcohol is not a controlled substance per 21 U.S.C. § 802(6) ("The term 'controlled substance' means a drug or other substance, or immediate precursor, included in schedule I, II, III, IV, or V of part B of this s
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by waffle_ss 5y ago
Judges can be phoned up at late hours to e-sign time-sensitive warrants. Hours that court clerks will not be sitting at their desk answering calls or emails. They also don't work weekends.
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by waffle_ss 5y ago
Glad to hear they thought of that - I haven't used this particular service before. However, I just looked at it and there are zero United States numbers available to rent for Twitter signups right now. I could use one of the European n
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by waffle_ss 5y ago
Many of these services use a limited pool of phone numbers that have already been used to register accounts on Twitter, and Twitter won't let you use them for fresh signups.
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by waffle_ss 5y ago
This concurs with my assessment. It's literally in the rules to not say what I'm about to say, but guess what: content-wise, HN threads are essentially Reddit threads at this point (ironically this stupid rule has likely played a
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Twitter rolling out NFT profile pictures(twitter.com)
6 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|0 comments
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Biscuit authorization(biscuitsec.org)
3 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|0 comments
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Amazon refusing to sell new Edward Tufte book(twitter.com)
5 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|0 comments
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China enforcing replacement of .com domains with .cn for in-country HTTP traffic(old.reddit.com)
12 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|1 comments
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Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys(twitter.com)
136 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|55 comments
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by waffle_ss 5y ago
Bertrand Russell, famous logician, made essentially that argument at the time.
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New suite of flaws found in Wi-Fi(fragattacks.com)
3 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|1 comments
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Oculus rolls out avatars that allow for a quintillion combinations(twitter.com)
2 points by waffle_ss 5y ago|0 comments
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
I get the feeling you’ve never ran n>1 Xbox Ones connecting to Xbox Live at the same time. Without UPnP only one will be able to connect.
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Handcrafted WebGL operating system that embeds YouTube videos(cyberspaceandtime.com)
1 points by waffle_ss 6y ago|0 comments
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Could Recent U.S. Warming Trends Be Largely Spurious?(drroyspencer.com)
2 points by waffle_ss 6y ago|0 comments
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Signal, Telegram rendered useless during Myanmar coup – deauth + SMS offline(twitter.com)
70 points by waffle_ss 6y ago|1 comments
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
I'm well aware of that guideline, and I flout it specifically because it has only made the problem worse. I get turned into a pincushion every time for my trouble but it's worth it.
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
Battlefield success was a huge sign of leadership fitness for Plains Indians. Comanche called it "puha" - it was sort of a marker of divine blessing or luck (good medicine) and it meant you could more easily gather more tribesmen
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
The name "Sioux" that the Dakota were called for many years is also an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe people) term meaning "little snakes." Wisconsin and Minnesota are littered with little battlegrounds where there was mass slaught
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
> smarter How do you figure that? Back in the 1800s bison hunters could clean out a whole herd, solo, because the bison would stand still as their fellow bison were being shot to death and dropping like flies around them Edit: not sure w
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
What does that even mean? Obama literally had his own drone kill list; he personally authorized the drone-execution of multiple American citizens abroad without trial. Yet much more than keeping Twitter access, he got a Nobel peace prize. &
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
So Signal and Telegram should be banned as well from all IaaS, app stores etc. as well since Islamic terrorists have been shown to use them?
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
That raised my eyebrow as well. Semi-recently I was interested in learning Datalog so I wanted to kick the tires on Datomic (written in Clojure). I ended up getting stuck on some things; posted questions to StackOverflow and didn't get
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OpenBazaar's infrastructure is shutting down(twitter.com)
3 points by waffle_ss 6y ago|0 comments
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Matrix Screensaver in 8 Bytes(twitter.com)
2 points by waffle_ss 6y ago|0 comments
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
Pharmacies exchanging prescription drugs. Regulated, not risky - don't confound the two. And there are no "rules" restricting these transactions over the ACH network, Stripe is applying the widest scope of restrictions gather
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by waffle_ss 6y ago
Is Stripe Treasury still beholden to Stripe's list of restricted businesses?[1] A few years ago I started a company with some partners and we signed up with Stripe Atlas. At the end of the lengthy application we got rejected by Stripe

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