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I think some kind of privacy sandbox & data escape logging would suffice to allow data leaking apps, to run on a libre type OS. The main thing an OS like this needs is the a abilit…

The DTES is a shit hole, but it was kind of engineered to be that way. As for the safe injection site stuff, I lived and worked in the area around the time that place was opened. I…

Gold has been used as a store of value for countries which do not trust their fiat. It's also used to speculate. It's also used in industry. It's actually pretty easy to turn gold …

Except when the smart contract with 1/2 the ether in it, does exactly what it's programmed to do, then you hard fork and pretend it didn't happen. Because? Value? Sorry, I really l…

I've been running e-commerce stores for 12+ years. The main business I work for started to accept bitcoins for our physical goods in 2014ish. I did the integration. I adopted Bitco…

I've always been really skeptical of those language performance comparisons which refer to PHP. As stated above PHP7 has similar performance when compared to HHVM which was made by…

Popcorn Lung is the only thing I've seen in my research https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flavorings/ I'd be interested to hear of more.

Personally use SS316L now. Hard to find though.

Because it stops innovation. Ni200 which is a pure nickel wire was invented for temperature control. Required a specific device and chip to use as it has almost 0 resistance. Some …

I personally think ecigs are an interesting experiment in free markets. A bunch of like minded people who had a habbit which was the leading cause of preventable death coming toget…

It would be better if I quit, but wasn't planning on doing that, so I switched to vaping and haven't smoked since. Best? No. Better? Probably. One of the funny things with vaping i…

Called Snus. Banned in EU, but supposedly one of the healthiest nicotine injestion methods. Most people would puke if they tried it :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus

I quit smoking a while ago for 4 months using a vape, then Thailand's military junta banned them and most shops closed. It's been a couple years now and tonnes of online shops star…

"Clinical trials of NRT in patients with underlying, stable coronary disease suggest that nicotine does not increase cardiovascular risk. At worst, the risks of NRT are no more tha…

I made a deal with an e-commerce site to take 10% of revenue added, after marketing expenses from new channels I create. Added 300k+ of revenue a month.

Good vote spamming business will be completely automated. They'll have accounts in reserve pool, with ability to spin up thousands more in a couple minutes. Most likely they make a…

Good vote spamming business will be completely automated. They'll have accounts in reserve pool, with ability to spin up thousands more in a couple minutes. Most likely they make a…

Let's not bring identity politics in to this discussion.

The rates in Hong Kong with Stripe for non-hong Kong issued cards is 3.9% + 2% conversion fee if you don't charge in HKD. Additionally they're unable to deposit into a US denominat…

Can we get accepting payments outside of Hong Kong for less than 5.4% fees first for HK stripe businesses. Also allow transfer to US denominated bank accounts. That would be super.…

Originally OnePlus One shipped with CyanogenOS, but the Cyanogen Inc fuct up and sold exclusive rights to CyanogenOS to a domestic carrier in India. This blocked the sale of OnePlu…

Place to donate via PayPal. Also take a page from buffer and release your expenses and revenues. I'm willing to donate any time I get a cert from you guys and I'm sitting on all th…

Google Project "Redirect Method" admits it tweaks search to manipulate your thoughts/behavior. Is how i read this. Same thing when I read Algorithms used to catch pedo's, I read "t…

Media server remote code execution. No way! For those interested in an old talk about rooting phones via media server & MMS watch this great talk. https://youtu.be/71YP65UANP0