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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by lyraphix »

cluckindan wrote: post #412
HaZeust wrote: post #389

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what country contradicts my statements? Where in this world is getting spotted a Geek Bar equate to a severe debt that requires crime to pay off? Absurd premise.

Obviously it isn’t about a single vape. A bulk dealer wants to get rid of stock as quickly as possible, so they don’t expect a payment up front. Say it’s a box of 200 vapes. Then, someone steals it from the teenage vape dealer. Now, the teenager is out $4k in income but expected to pay $1k to $2k to the bulk dealer. That kind of debt to organized crime balloons fast; there are no controls on the interest. After a mon…

Just made an account to call you on this ludicrous BS. Share the documentation if you're so sure it's out there!

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by lyraphix »

cluckindan wrote: post #477
chucksmash wrote: post #459

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What does somebody buying hundreds of vapes to resell and then having them stolen have to do with individual customers, which was the original premise?

Read it again?

Share your source. Insanity.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by HaZeust »

cluckindan wrote: post #478
HaZeust wrote: post #468

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The conversation was about a single vape, and casual use, in the first place. And yeah, I bet that's happened before, just like I bet a day-trader who ran on margin has lost all of his savings, house, cars, and wages through garnishment. That doesn't mean it's how 99% of situations, even in trading on margin, goes. Even as it relates to underage dealers - even the stupid ones, a very few amount of teens buy in bulk -…

It was about smuggling and dealing from my parent comment onwards.

For single-persons, yes. If you want to say it was about the macro, if you say so. You seem to be the only one on that page, though.

Anything else you want to answer to in my replying comment?

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by numpad0 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #318
SXX wrote: post #136

Talking of cheap and powerful devices one can also look at Chinese UZ801 4G LTE (Qualcomm MSM8916) dongles. They cost like only $4-5 and pack quite impressive HW: 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM, actual 4G modem sometimes with 2 sim switching support. Since it's actually old Android SOC there is even GPU and GPS in there. And a lot of work was already done on supporting them: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Zhihe_series_LTE_d…

Now what I'd like to see is the other way around - you know, like the "old" UMTS sticks, just for 5G. No OS, especially not one so prone to all sorts of security like Android, just a pure baseband chip, some interface chip that talks USB3, two built-in antennas and the option to connect more powerful/higher directionality external antennas.

https://www.simcom.com/product/SIM8300G_M2.html

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by Dilettante_ »

efilife wrote: post #472
Dilettante_ wrote: post #316

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Contributing to people buying stuff that's bad for them, and giving money to an industry that profits off it, presumably? Again, I'm just assuming the author's position(which, for the record I do not share) here.

may I ask what's your personal stance on this?

My position is "give people all the info you have, do not make the 'right' decision for them."

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by chucksmash »

cluckindan wrote: post #477
chucksmash wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does somebody buying hundreds of vapes to resell and then having them stolen have to do with individual customers, which was the original premise?

Read it again?

> which are favored by [...] underage users (price point and potential seizing by parent/teacher/police).

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by citizenpaul »

cluckindan wrote: post #476
citizenpaul wrote: post #465

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>healthier choice No just no. https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-lifestyle/qu...

You’re seriously considering that inhaling vapor of nicotinized smoke machine liquid is equally bad as inhaling 700-1200 Celsius combustion products containing microparticles and radioactive isotopes? I get that people want to scare kids, but that level of hyperbole is way overkill and has the opposite psychological effect on those who can think for themselves.

RJ reynolds. After 80 years of lying falsifying data, paying for favorable study outcomes, amd lobbying for "leaders" to ignore all that. We are proud to announce our new totally not lung cancer causing product. Vapeing.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by Breza »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #201
reaperducer wrote: post #126

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I see that as of the time of this comment, he hasn't run Doom on it. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them…

I was just thinking about that slashdot meme the other day. Like Beowulf clusters were the dream! Imagine one! I wanted one! Everybody did! And now you can spin that shit up for pennies an hour and then throw it all away when you are done. Who would have seen that coming back in, what, 1998…

I feel the same way. I remember thinking back in the day that every office would have a cluster of old servers to fire up once a month for a big data task. Instead, you can get massively more power for less than $100 of credits on BigQuery.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by Breza »

gabriel666smith wrote: post #397
midasz wrote: post #277

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Quitting smoking was the best decision I made and I wish I did it earlier. If you feel ready Allen Carr's book worked for me. I wasted so much time smoking.

Thanks man, appreciate it, and kudos for stopping. I might quit, I guess, when my fiancee has to for pregnancy, should it eventually stop being funny to tell her how wonderful each individual cigarette I smoke is. But I really, really love smoking - more than any of my other hobbies, wholesome or otherwise. I'm sure that'll change, and I'll look that book up if and when it does. Thanks again.

Motivation has to come from you, of course, but you might find it once you see your future baby and realize you have a shot at really seeing how he or she turns out as an adult. That was the impetus for me to start taking my health more seriously.
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