illegal_in_ca

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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
I can't help but think the obvious solution here is the correct one: start talking politics with people IN PERSON. The signal to noise ratio around my kitchen table is a lot higher than on reddit (or even HN), and there are a lot fewer
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
According to Index of Economic Freedom, Hong Kong has had the highest degree of economic freedom in the world since the inception of the Index in 1995.[0] Hong Kong is the 32nd largest export economy in the world and the 12th most complex e
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Hey thanks for correctly my typo when you quoted my.
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Very clever. Your response is only 168 characters. If you were trying to fit it in a tweet, however, you'd have to make it only this long :)
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
There are several things happening here. I make a reference to a (rather famous?) book by Dale Carnegie, called How to win friends an influence people (that's the part after the asterisk). I personally have no doubt that the above re
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Yup, that's how you read a book. I would, however, cut the the paragraph as follows. Everything after is just an adversisement for the authors blog. When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
My HN reading bot gives an 84% chance that your response was not written by a bot. * Dictated, not read.
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
The death of reading is threatening the soul The death of thinking is threatening the soul. • Bill Gates reads 50 books a year. • Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every two weeks. • Elon Musk grew up reading two books a day. • Mar
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
So I did a Google image search for "poisonous mushrooms" and it gave me a picture of "Galerina marginata" from Encyclopeadia Britannica[0]. According to the app: I think it's: Psilocybe zapotecorum Or perhaps Psil
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Agreed, NewEgg customer service is excellent. Easy returns. I've probably spent more in raw dollars at NewEgg than at Amazon, even though I've made maybe 10x as many Amazon purchases. Edit: I have NewEgg Premier though, so I get f
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Interesting. I also find myself picking up tech from NewEgg more often than Amazon. And I recently ordered most of the supplies for a cocktail party I was having at Walmart and Bed Bad and Beyond. Amazon prices might beat local retail, but
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Someone got shot by police? Not newsworthy, happens all the time. Politicians taking bribes? Not newsworthy, been happening forever.
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by illegal_in_ca 9y ago
Er, is this not illegal in the USA? It is in Canada: The Act prohibits false or misleading representations to the public as to the ordinary selling price of a product, in any form whatsoever. Ordinary selling price is validated in one of t