shillster

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by shillster 11y ago
Its called voting with your dollars.
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by shillster 11y ago
Lead poisoning in the aqueduct system is one theory for the fall of the Roman empire.
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by shillster 11y ago
Its still a Schedule 1 substance, indicating it has no recognized medical value, and on the other hand, the government owns patents on THC compounds used to shrink tumors.
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by shillster 11y ago
America is the land of half-assed approaches.
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by shillster 11y ago
A great deal of effort is currently being expended to algorithmically detect sarcasm, its a real problem.
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by shillster 11y ago
I'm sure it was just a few "bad apples", yes?
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by shillster 11y ago
Don't worry folks, it was just a few "bad apples", who happened to be vetted, highly trusted, undercover law enforcement officials. Just goes to show you how only criminals use Bitcoin.
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by shillster 11y ago
Just in time for FDA "approval"!
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by shillster 11y ago
Every time a vehicle is bought/sold there's transaction overhead. Real time and money is lost each time an individual replaces their transportation.
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by shillster 11y ago
Tech reform begins with the NSA
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by shillster 11y ago
One day it may catch up to terrorism theatre!
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by shillster 11y ago
Cemeteries are beyond ridiculous, and growing up, I thought there would be a cultural shift away from such non-sense, but maybe not?
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by shillster 12y ago
Imaginary property rights strike again!
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by shillster 12y ago
I forgot my yahoo password long ago, I had used my yahoo account to register a domain name. At the time, I agreed to allow recurring billing (though I don't consciously remember doing this). After a few years of seeing the recurring
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by shillster 12y ago
It will be great when this substance can be officially studied in a clinical setting but so long as its a schedule 1 substance at the federal level, well, its worse than methamphetamine (on paper).
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by shillster 12y ago
What was your experience like getting your prescription details from LensCrafters? I've heard they don't like give up the details to allow customers to easily work with a competitor.
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by shillster 12y ago
What about buying out the competition? The "consolidation" in the industry is what has led to a decrease in competition.
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by shillster 12y ago
Inelastic good, supply controlled by cartel.
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by shillster 12y ago
I was making a sarcastic remark, echoing the sentiment of all of the "free market" zealots and politicians. Not only are they talking out of both sides of their mouth, their statements are misleading as we see in hindsight. The o
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by shillster 12y ago
As jordon0day just wrote in an unrelated thread, "we have plenty of evidence that people are really bad at being suspicious of the often unreliable stuff they read on the internet" I think this is a group that is highly sensitive
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by shillster 12y ago
Passing tokens around via email isn't very secure. Its not like email is encrypted.
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by shillster 12y ago
He also said he was against warrantless wiretapping during his campaign.
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by shillster 12y ago
This is what has to happen to raise the bar.
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by shillster 12y ago
How do we know we aren't simply replacing one illusion with another?
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by shillster 12y ago
Spoken like a Buffet-believer
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by shillster 12y ago
We live in a world filled with speculative bubbles. You have speculators to thank for their price discovery efforts. This enables you to pay the "true value" of a given commodity at a given moment in time.
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by shillster 12y ago
The way you conflate these metaphors makes the truth of your statement seem self-evident, but it is not so.
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by shillster 12y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to cast anyone off, especially someone who undertakes personal initiatives such as this to ensure their own survival. The "economy" might suffer if more people adopted this attitude, but its hardly the
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by shillster 12y ago
He's only a burden in as much as the fall in his personal consumption reduces the overall demand for things he might have purchased. In other words, its no sweat off of anyone's brow. Being individually resourceful doesn't
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by shillster 12y ago
Microsoft's data centers have been used for mining for over a year and its been used by internal teams to compensate people outside the company (working with open source vendors) and its a very convenient way to bypass the age old figh

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