DEFCON28

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by DEFCON28 8y ago
If Bitcoin is such a good solution, why do they have to mislead with news about banks that aren’t banks?
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Are they unusually well-compensated for this sort of construction work?
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
I think many people in the West don’t realize the Arab and Moslim contribution to the slave trade. Especially considering the sympathy these groups receive from Progressive political groups in the United States.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
The Wikipedia article about the Clodilda says: > After the Civil War, the people had asked the U.S. government to repatriate them, but they were refused.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Yes. And I fully agree that without the demand there would not have been the supply. I’m not trying to start a “butwhatabout” here.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
> members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States. Even rep
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Not to detract one bit from the evil horror of Americans who purchased him and brought him to the US but what of the neighboring tribe who captured and sold him? (As is described in this article, and was news to me.) That’s a story I’ve nev
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
One technique I use is my phones have an area code from another state that I never get calls from. (South Dakota). If I get a call from this area code I know it’s spam.
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Hawaii Volcano Can Next Spew 10-Ton Boulders from Its Summit(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|0 comments
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
I wouldn’t expect the poor to hoard $10B
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Why don’t they think even further ahead and build a robot that cuts your hair?
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
I like the skrillex
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
But this law is all about calories. And counting calories works. If you’re unable to count calories then of course you need some remedial help. But pretending that it’s about “eating the right foods” is lying to yourself.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
And especially don’t listen to anyone who is overweight. They are like crabs in a bucket and will try to pull you back in.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Exactly. I am a strict calorie counter and I am not overweight. (155# 5’10” 55 year old man). Sometimes I have hostess cupcakes for breakfast. (330 calories). Sometimes I have a Big Mac for lunch (550 calories). It’s hilarious when fat peop
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Sean was just Ok.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Or Jackdaws! (Here’s the thing....)
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Silicon Valley Sees Dollar Signs in the A.I. Apocolypse(vanityfair.com)
2 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|0 comments
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The Problem with Aspergers(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|0 comments
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
No they're not. An innocent person can't succumb to an ICO the way anyone can get Cancer. This is just a very old story: "A fool and his money."
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I saved 15% or more on car insurance by switching my gender(reddit.com)
9 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|2 comments
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Exactly! These countries may start blocking Amazon and Cloudfront domains. Amazon needs to put its foot down.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Why should we in the United States coerce (or sneak into) countries whose Governments don't want us there? Are these folks really "idealists" who think that access to tools like "Signal" will usher in a new spring!
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Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (1996)(discovermagazine.com)
132 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|62 comments
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Because to YCombinator fans Microsoft is always bad, and nobody should ever be able to own intellectual property.
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Microsoft didn’t imprison anyone. The U.S. government did.
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A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit(sam.zeloof.xyz)
712 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|116 comments
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Former CEO of Paypal, Intuit: “Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history”(recode.net)
53 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|40 comments
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Plantom of Heilbronn – Unknown Female Serial Killer from DNA Error(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by DEFCON28 8y ago|0 comments
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by DEFCON28 8y ago
Ha! Neither buyer nor seller is protected with Crypto Currencies.

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