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OverlordXenu
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Comment #29412812
they take your ID. you could get someone else to buy it for you, but they'll be easy to flip when looking at time.
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Comment #18178622
power
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Comment #18178609
unless the NSA or another intelligence agency has an insider that could catch that before it made it up high enough to cause trouble. conceivably, someone below the insider could l…
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Comment #18178564
well companies like Apple and Amazon are reflashing/updating, so that wouldn't stick.
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Comment #18153630
NSA intercepted routers to do pretty much the same kind of hack. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
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Comment #11378945
Is it… just for you? Can you just digitize your own 35mm film?
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Comment #10436930
There's a real difference between actually working with a Kimono and adapting it or remixing it or whatever, and just trying it on like a costume. The latter relegates it to the ro…
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Comment #10215551
It had non-monetary value, too. For one, he was essentially paid to go on a short vacation. He also had fun creating/solving a puzzle for himself. It had value beyond what he earne…
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Comment #9773342
You're being intentionally obtuse and making a flawed analogy. There is a major difference between a community garden where someone has to go to Home Depot to buy supplies and Uber…
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Comment #7836959
Yeah, but many devices support both AirPlay and DLNA or whatever else. I bet we'll see devices that support both Google and Apple. Or someone will reverse-engineer the API, like th…
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Comment #7426347
A tweed jacket and polka dot chambray? Uniqlo and H&M got you.
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Comment #7426219
They do exist ( http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/ ) but I have no idea if they're any good. You have to use their pen and their paper… I like my Field Notes and Lamy.
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Comment #7419307
It has very little to do with intent. Subconsciously thinking someone with a name usually thought to indicate blackness—like Tyrone—is different is racist. Subconsciously disbeliev…
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Comment #7413196
>Regarding the strip-club comment, I don't know the best way to avoid it. I, as a male, try to avoid staring at another female because I fear someone like Horvath accuses me of sex…
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Comment #7127149
USPS tracking codes aren't the most accurate thing.
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Comment #7114617
I have friends that work in the audio industry… there's a nice mix of Macs and PCs but everyone uses external audio interfaces.
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Comment #7114572
There's been research done on Dvorak? I remember a few years ago, when I was trying to learn it, I ended up looking into it and finding nothing but "this person can type faster on …
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Comment #7114508
Who says that? Most of the criticism is "Bitcoin is poorly designed, it fails at basic principles of Economics, it wastes tons of power, it continues to cause income inequality…" C…
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Comment #7114467
Because industrial design and UX doesn't matter when stacked against a spec list?
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Comment #7114461
Scientific papers are rarely perfect. Papers are often sent back for revision.
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Comment #7114398
This is just kind of ridiculously fallacious. Surely a slightly inaccurate paper is not comparable to malicious code. That's not a fair comparison to make.
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Comment #7114390
Was the science that terrible? Or rather, was the methodology so terrible or was it the data, or was it truly both? Studies are only ever useful in aggregate, anyway. It's about me…
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Comment #7045790
But is it terribly constructive to do it in such a snarky, belittling way? If they're doing good and you think their methods are wrong, I mean, you can say that without being an as…