slamdance

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by slamdance 9y ago
so not much different than the stock market or ANY speculative investment, right?
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by slamdance 9y ago
How about anything regarding "black-on-black" crime? YOu hear about "serial killer" in Tampa after 3 shootings, but nothing about Chicago or Baltimore or Cleveland, etc... WHERE IS BLM THERE? Granted, some cops are a
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by slamdance 9y ago
so we end the war on drugs and outlaw private prisons. Do you really believe this will satisfy BLM? Do you really believe this will solve the problems in the inner cities? Chicago? Baltimore? St. Louis? There are a LOT of fingers poin
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by slamdance 9y ago
why is this on HN?
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by slamdance 9y ago
people that willingly choose those positions. I didn't go to college. I go a job out of high school. I did what I had to do, to be able to do what I want to do. People today think a degree entitles them to $100k/yr and a new
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by slamdance 9y ago
you're not reading it because you're looking to justify your own position and don't want to see it. when someone CHOOSES to give money towards a cause, it IS speech. (granted, most don't agree the citizens united r
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by slamdance 9y ago
that would depend on your country's individual currency movement regulations as well as the different policies of the various exchanges. for instance, coinbase only allows for a certain set amount of money in/out per week - and it
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by slamdance 9y ago
true - however what has been happening in the last 20 years with paper fiat is not how fiat is "supposed" to work - though granted, it seems that EVERY paper fiat eventually leads to increased inflation/hyper-inflation. With
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by slamdance 9y ago
> democratically elect representatives who will distribute it for them... good thing we live in a "republic". This line smacks of wanton theft. The poor should have a reason to be "given" money other than just being
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by slamdance 9y ago
when all you have is a spear, going after "slow", grazing animals is "easy", but the Charismatic megafauna that survives today is in general, the ones you don't mess with (again, when all you have is a spear). Also,
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by slamdance 9y ago
comparing it to a 5 year old, Basketball players have to good and fast at tying shoe laces. that's all. maybe a lame comparison...
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Magic mushrooms may 'reset' the brains of depressed patients(medicalxpress.com)
24 points by slamdance 9y ago|7 comments
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by slamdance 9y ago
Remember, we're ALL learning all the time, always progressing in knowledge and ability. Or at least we SHOULD be. So lets take something simple. tying your shoelaces. when a 5 year old does it while singing the bunny song, they feel th
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by slamdance 9y ago
its considered actual (gov't approved) currency in Japan and South Korea... beyond that, I don't know.
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by slamdance 9y ago
...and strangely enough they have less than 1/10th the population as the US. There are more people in the greater-Los Angeles area than there are in the entire continent of Australia
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by slamdance 9y ago
58 were killed in Vegas, as of today's count.
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by slamdance 9y ago
2016 Nice, France terror attack used a truck to kill more people than the Las Vegas killer in less time. 86 Dead, 458 injured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack
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by slamdance 9y ago
tell that to a Trump supporter in Berkeley. While Facebook (IMO) does not force people to waste their time, but much like booze, it doesn't discourage it either. The result of overuse of either is much the same - a wasted life.
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by slamdance 9y ago
Edit: Personally, i find it a bit ridiculous the fact that people always find ways to blame other people for their own problems - in this case, someone is THINKING too much, and that somehow is someone else's fault? If you want help,
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by slamdance 9y ago
i'm not sure if regulation is needed at this point. I'm not a fan of government interference. Unionization is one option. somehow enforcing certification is another to level the playing field (aside from certifications already bei
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by slamdance 9y ago
the problem being that everyone in this picture is 27.
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by slamdance 9y ago
eh. Maybe. If they copy the data to a 3rd party in America (i.e. sell the data a marketing company, for "research" purposes), then the EU can't really go after the marketing company. I'm not saying it's right. I don
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by slamdance 9y ago
I think worst case (best case?) scenario is that they will 'copy' the data they're not supposed to keep off to another country, maybe anonymize it but otherwise the data will still be there. Its too important - even in anon
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by slamdance 9y ago
so - he was a state senator for less than 4 years (Less than one full term) before being elected president. I would say that's "overnight" as far as politics go - considering the others who make it their entire careers and ne
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by slamdance 9y ago
and THIS is the attitude that gave us Trump. /full disclosure: I voted for Johnson.
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by slamdance 9y ago
Actually, studies found that pee-wee football players get hit with the same G-Forces as the pros (13 to 15 Gs). I can only surmise the same was true for high school and college. I was at an EMS conference when they cited the study. The one
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by slamdance 9y ago
Unplug the server, bury it in the back yard. Make sure the hole is deep. Website is now secure (maybe).
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by slamdance 9y ago
the legal and medical question that comes up is "when did it start?" Pee-wee football? high school? college? certainly before they get to the NFL. While I don't defend them for hiding the issue for so long, at this point, n
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by slamdance 9y ago
The Us.gov can't even keep the information of their cleared people safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
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by slamdance 9y ago
THIS. People need to understand this, as it is a snowball effect. Bush Left a 5 Trillion dollar debt (a 500% increase in debt). Then he signed TARP, and handed the mess to Obama, who distributed the subsequent rounds of 'quantitative

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