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nickheer

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About nickheer

I write Pixel Envy (pxlnv.com) in my spare time.

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    Sorry I missed that. Whoops. Sorry.

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    Comment #32643755

    For what it is worth, Rumble is Canadian and I linked to an American writer in justifying the latter part of my argument.

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    Comment #32640455

    An airline or UPS can absolutely say “we don’t like the contents of what you are shipping so we refuse to transport it”. UPS will not ship marijuana, even for medical purposes, eve…

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    Comment #32266176

    Thanks! I will correct this.

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    Comment #17655750

    Fair. I take what I think is a reasonable and respectful approach, though: it takes only a partial IP address (which I don't look at), it respects Do Not Track, it anonymizes as mu…

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    Comment #17655639

    I don't use Google Analytics, and Carbon's script is restricted by my CSP to showing the display ad. They also have a reasonable privacy policy where they're not tracking users or …

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    Comment #17655492

    It's cached and, I promise, hasn't crumbled under heavy load for years. I don't know what's going on but I've asked for more resources. It does make me sad and embarrassed, though,…

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    Comment #17655440

    Thank you. This is so embarrassing.

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    Comment #8631492

    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌,.𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊,.𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗{𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙: ''; 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞: 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖈𝖐; 𝖜𝖎𝖉𝖙𝖍:100𝖕𝖝; 𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙: 20𝖕𝖝;} .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉: #00…

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    Comment #7055575

    He mentions that in the second-from-last paragraph: > The software that Google was most serious about — web search, Gmail, and so forth — ran in the cloud, and with the company’s l…

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    Comment #6572701

    This is probably the best analysis that I've seen of the iOS 7 icon shape: http://blog.mikeswanson.com/post/62341902567/unleashing-gene... (I am slightly biased, though.)

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    Comment #5633815

    The El Injerto that won is a particularly excellent crop. I didn't know Stumptown got a parcel, but I've had the Phil & Sebastian roast of the same crop, and it's delightful, parti…

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    Comment #5370807

    I (half-Swiss) like efficiency as much as the next HN reader, but at a certain point, efficiency must be weighed against enjoyability. I can't imagine not eating a delicious roaste…

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    Comment #5360659

    I thought this ( http://www.samsung.com/us/article/get-your-head-in-the-cloud ) was pretty funny, but I'm also a child in an adult's body.

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    Comment #5312578

    "Hasn't stopped me from writing poems in my spare time and engaging in my other pursuits." This is the epitome of the lack of concern for creative practices that gnosis is referrin…

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    Comment #5272914

    I am not a lawyer (contact one!), but your choices will be to either settle ($$$) or fight it ($$$$). A quick Google search tells me that these guys have sued quite a few people ov…

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    Comment #5233493

    I'm not sure which issue you're referring to, but that checkbox is to enable WiFi syncing with iTunes.

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    Comment #5027464

    > It's interesting what Dalton is trying, but I find the utter lack of design personality across the sites to be quite off-putting. Dalton is the guy behind App.net. Svbtle is a Du…

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    Comment #5010439

    > This clause applies to the SDK binary, not the SDK source code files, and it has been around for years. The SDK source code, like almost all of Android, is covered by the Apache …