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by task_queue 11y ago
Might be harder as operations are aware that people can sniff out a shill or sock puppet if they have five minutes and cared.
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by task_queue 11y ago
People will optimize to cut costs and not consider themselves thieves, but savvy business owners.
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by task_queue 11y ago
This is a false equivalence. There isn't one and only one State Taxi Company. There are hundreds if not thousands of successful private taxi companies in each state. There's one Uber and maybe Lyft if you're lucky. In the gre
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by task_queue 11y ago
It seems blindingly obvious what the grandparent's intent was in this context. What is weird and tortured in this comparison?
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by task_queue 11y ago
What about the social implications
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by task_queue 11y ago
I agree completely that there should be free and easily accessible addiction treatment centers available to those who need it. I just don't think buprenorphine is the solution. It's easily abusable and worth relatively a lot on th
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by task_queue 11y ago
This is the most HN sentence available, but: Sitting down and really learning the internals of a language, it's community and tools enough to construct a large project with competence was definitely significant in my recovery from addi
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by task_queue 11y ago
They'd have to rely on intuition or their understanding of how the world works. If it's the latter, it sounds like (an informal) science was used.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Profiting from either group is morally bankrupt. You know substance abusers have a problem and are giving you money to further it. You know bigots have an agenda and are giving you money to further it.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Are you a 5' 5" woman who was handed a gun to protect herself against someone likely to over power them? Or are you someone who was personally offended by the generalization that they might be in the group of people, considered No
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by task_queue 11y ago
You're right, I assumed that they were able to handle hearing words in a civilized manner. Doesn't sound like they're capable of controlling themselves around a deadly weapon, or is that a bad assumption to make as well?
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by task_queue 11y ago
A good percentage of the time a weapon used by a homeowner during a home invasion is used against them. Get out of the house and let the authorities deal with it. Your stuff isn't worth your life or your family's continued safety.
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by task_queue 11y ago
We can look at when, how and by whom the "think of the children" argument is trotted out to get your answer.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Someone bought the "hackers" narrative.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Judging by those with Aspergers I know, they are as close to that as you'll get. It leads to dysfunctional behaviors because people don't want to earnestly told that their face is ugly when they first meet someone and every time a
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by task_queue 11y ago
Poe's law at work.
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by task_queue 11y ago
"Sorry, this page doesn't work with IE6. Click here to download Mozilla Firefox"
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by task_queue 11y ago
I'm sure there are professional grade outfits, but many illicit metal scrappers I know are desperate and might take anything they perceive to have value.
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by task_queue 11y ago
A tracking device is a tracking device. Burners tend to be anomalies when it comes to activation/deactivation locations/times, payment methods, contacts communicated with and the locations/times that they're used. If the
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by task_queue 11y ago
I'd love to be the lucky person who fits the profile of being in the right place at the wrong time.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Apparently, it depends on if the banks hired any Greeks. If they did, then yes.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Apple isn't trying to use the weight of the monopoly it doesn't have in a market to try to monopolize another.
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by task_queue 11y ago
In America, it's the bottom line.
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by task_queue 11y ago
PyOtherSide exists and is maintained https://github.com/thp/pyotherside
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by task_queue 11y ago
I agree, but in this case I don't think you understand the severity.
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by task_queue 11y ago
This community is a joke on every site that isn't HN. And yet, I post.
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by task_queue 11y ago
A VPN will allow you to tunnel all of your traffic over a secure connection. In SSH, you can tunnel ports, but that only secures traffic at that port. You can use a SOCKS proxy, but that only secures traffic configured to go through it. Y
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by task_queue 11y ago
A child labor analogy would have worked better IMO
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by task_queue 11y ago
> Today's decision pushes back the more important goals of social equality and cultural integration. These are arguably more important, as our interactions with marriage laws are a relatively minor part of our lives when compared to
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by task_queue 11y ago
Telegram is the company that ignores proven crypto standards, rolls their own crypto without any verification or audit, then offers a $200k bounty to "break" their crypto by requiring developers to work with an arm tied behind the

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