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As someone who grew up in Portland and still lives here. Please stop telling people about Portland. The traffic is already bad enough and I personally enjoy dreaming of owning a ho…

I switched to T-Mobile a while back. Best decision I've ever made.

I'm not "sticking it to the man". I simply want this account deleted for personal reasons. How is this not a simple option?

That's called a summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem

I'd also point out that the term "nutritionist" doesn't even mean anything is most jurisdictions As someone who is living with someone becoming an accredited "Nutritionist" I can a…

Not everyone wants to read through life like Nathan Lane.

I'd venture to say the reason there is 100% reliability is due to the personal and "non-corporate" aspect to the way he does business. When you stop having face-to-face transaction…

As a professional photo/video/audio editor, my problem with this is not "touch-typing" but rather it's another thing I'll have to adjust my senses to. I'll have to relearn the keyb…

But apple fanboys will keep buying it It's extremely patronizing and dismissive to insinuate that only "apple fanboys" buy macbook pros. There are plenty of reasons to buy an apple…

Yeah but most of the time laypeople disregard the scientists and substitute their own logic anyways.. People are incredibly stubborn and set in their opinions.

letting people exchange money (directly) with whatever currencies they want If you had any idea the amount of regulation and ridiculousness involved in banking and forex, you'd lau…

It's the internet vs. intranets all over again. People have too much stock invested in "bitcoin is fundamentally flawed" and before that it was "bitcoin is a scam". Now it's "a dif…

This is my exact argument for why "free market" doesn't always work. Sometimes you need to subsidize an unprofitable venture to truly move forward. Then innovation and profit model…

Does Nest ping to any companies servers?

That's a whole nother topic. CICO isn't as important as where you get those calories from. If a majority are from sugar, you are getting way too much insulin which then creates fat…

The CIA is an arm of US corporate interests that carries out missions to benefit US corporate interests abroad.

my Nest Cam People buying literal spyware to spy on themselves is definitely part of the problem. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476599/cybercrime-hack... EDIT: I knew this …

I meant confidence in what came after it. Meaning the likelihood of a backdoored and/or weak software was likely.

The way in which TrueCrypt "became abandoned" does not inspire confidence as well. Considering they left a cryptic and very strange exit note that many perceived as a notice of law…

I've noticed a lot of these "Foundations" for open-source projects eventually lead to in-fighting and control usurping where entire boards of directors "resign" and thus the legiti…

having multiple windows on desktop really distracts and confuses them, harming their productivity. You sound elitist about ADHD. Focus isn't a bad thing.

it's going to be tough for existing stakeholders to back it or anything like it if the idea would result in the end of their business. Regardless of our inflation-positive zero-rat…