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I read through the entire affidavit when it originally came out as I have an interest in online gambling... but I couldn't figure out what exactly the FBI was after these asian gam…

If not heavy cream then straight butter is fairly common in north america, yes.

I found it rather fitting.

I love PHP. I think of it as the English language of programming. Picking and choosing all of the best bits from every other language, and bastardizing them into it's own everyday …

>it's unlikely to do anything other than make you more alert and awake. I find that extremely hard to believe. If I drink 5 cups of coffee per day I get heart palpitations, an upse…

>Can you imagine where half the SaaS startups will be without recurring credit card subscriptions? I have done quite well opting not to use recurring credit card subscriptions for …

>probably a pretty mediocre typing experience. It's obviously no mechanical keyboard, but it's a full sized keyboard none the less, and it allows you to enter large amounts of text…

>The paranoia around opiates has to end. Lack of access to pain medication is a huge problem globally. I agree 100%. I passed kidney stones without any pain medication because the …

>The first question is whether the government can lawfully compel the telephone’s owner to divulge the passcode. I believe the answer is that yes, a person can in fact face punishm…

>The treatment is: Take B12 every day for the rest of my life. Every human being on earth that I know of needs this. It's not just vegetarians. What foods were you eating while hom…

>I hate being treated like I'm a criminal!! That's exactly how I felt when I called in for a refill of my pain medication after just having met with multiple doctors in the ER just…

>The man I paid was in his forties, and he spoke to me in the most patronizing tone, as if I were some silly little girl who did not have the right to question his work, despite th…

>I wandered outside the boundaries of telemetry. They lost my heartbeat. When I returned, they scolded me. The audacity of health care industry workers (those who should know what …

Why can't they just use a second email address?

Well then all of the worries about this child-porn being in the blockchain are warrantless. You could create a link to child-porn from this very comment I just posted using the rig…

He doesn't do a lot of the new videos. It's lovely to hear his voice when he does, though. Makes you feel just a bit more special. Perhaps Sal doesn't have a great understanding of…

Come on guys, this is HN. Not Reddit.

re: "is there a deterministic way[?]" I would assume so. Perhaps adding a word-checker to bitcoin clients that looks for recognizable words (or attempts to validate a URL found ins…

I should take a picture of my Local home depot's light bulb "selection", it truly is humorous. I picked up my two cree bulbs in an "end cap"-esque box today, however it was not at …

I wonder when they'll switch to thepiratebay.bit ? To help make that happen, take a look at Namecoins and the dot-bit.org project.

re: "The problem there is that you need a way to make sure when it becomes popular you don't end up with a land grab and all the reasonable names end up in the hands of scammers an…

Most definitely. You are talking about the dot-bit DNS project in particular. See here for more details: http://dot-bit.org

I just bought a 5k and 2.7k versions from Home Depot here in Canada for $15.97 CAD each. My only gripe is the ~22% markup over the US pricing when the Canadian Dollar is worth ~2% …

"doesn't immediately qualify it as spam", no. That's correct. It does however make it very difficult to gauge who is a legitimate linker and who is not. All I'm really saying is if…

The problem now is that (imho) 99% of the links posted on the internet are spam. Unless you have a baseline of "what was here first" and "exactly when every website went live with …