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fbi-director

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    Comment #25928500

    Was logged out suddenly when trying to comment. I use a 3rd party app. Closing ("swiping it to the trash") and reopening showed me logged in again.

  2. story
    Ask HN: Why is there no 'road closed' option?

    Hi, long time reader lurker etc I've often wondered about this and can't figure it out. Why don't Google Maps and the likes have a way to say: that road is closed! Often it'll keep…

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    Comment #25889661

    What do you mean by "so cold google exploits?" If it's a typo for "so called", I'd still love some info on what google exploits are.

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    Comment #25807317

    I thought you said, the curse is worse than the disease... which also would've made sense.

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    Comment #25802139

    Seconded!

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    Comment #25653039

    I have an honest question. Why would anybody, ever, make an order number that only has 5 digits. Even if it's just a home-hobby project, the cost of changing to 7-10 digits is so s…

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    Comment #25359695

    The logic completely eludes me. Tax shipping and give the money to public transport. That's the bill. What's the connection between those two?

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    Comment #24096107

    As a 14 year old, learning to code and having written some small programs, I got word that the woman (27) I thought I was in love with, was getting married. It was just a crush but…

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    Comment #24067739

    If it truly was at the time of the original silkroad, you have to consider the change in value of btc since then to get a more realistic idea of the size and value of their busines…

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    Comment #23896389

    I couldn't get past two headlines before hitting the X in the forner With the first thing you see being a request to pay (buy in print!!) and the second being a headline like "femi…

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    Comment #23297183

    Ads pay money now!

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    Comment #22912601

    Thank you, because you wrote this, I too now understand what they meant. My train of thought was apparently on the same track as yours!

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    Comment #22723814

    From the article, which I find to be a nice read, this part particularly rings true to me: "Pick team leaders wisely. A team leader is not an average developer with secretary dutie…

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    Comment #22523918

    Think bigger than what you see on the news please. What you're describing is low level corruption. Now consider how many construction projects and government services are being 'ou…

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    Comment #22522303

    They are not talking about how they schedule and manage the family life. They are talking about desperately needing some time away from the family. Which is normal and healthy (dep…

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    Comment #21627755

    After a week - at most - none of the millions of users sees the "photoshopped image" anymore, it'll become ubiquitous. Mostly due to the fact that each and every image will have th…

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    Comment #21563056

    I'm hereby patenting an idea or company that let's you input a story, a use some gui to modify the looks of each character, and let the tool this company provides, create a porn to…

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    Comment #21513203

    Me too, mbpro 2013 or 2015 I'm not sure. Music or video keeps playing, input freezes. Very rare, but not rare enough to not notice.

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    Comment #20632320

    Standing at a crossroad in my life right now, your friend Michael has some really insightful quotes. Thank you.

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    Comment #20548908

    You can connect it to a regular (debit) bank card. Or a credit card. But not a prepaid credit card if they even have those anymore in the mainland.

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    Comment #20428997

    I suspect if you're logged into Google or Facebook, that's uniquely added to the exif data. So if there is later a question of who keeps anonymously uploading that banned photo, th…

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    Comment #20400648

    The article states that the real (long-term) goal of Facebook here is being an authority on proving identity. They will be, or want to be, a worldwide provider of a kind of service…

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    Comment #20400569

    Definitely an interesting idea, I should check the scene to figure out how many 'adversaries' are actually scanning robots.txt files.

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    Comment #20388911

    It's dauntingly scary that people seem to have already forgotten that FB is known and has been ousted for abusing every bit of power and information they are given. And now you're …

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    Comment #20320211

    Based on mroe than just this comment, have a serious talk with yourself Procrastination is often not about being lazy, but a deeply embedded or burried fear of failure. That being …