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bobcat9··on If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving?
I find the bay area TINY compared to the NYC sprawl.
bobcat9··on Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie
Try reading the story and not just the headline.
bobcat9··on Bitcoin Miners Flock to New York’s Remote Corners, but Get Chilly Reception
"designed for money laundering and tax evasion."

That's reaching. Just because some people use it for that doesn't mean that's what it's designed for.

bobcat9··on An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's Presidential Vote at DEFCON
Agree that it's a media circus. Most of us attend to catch up with old friends.
bobcat9··on Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)
Indeed. Meth will do that.
bobcat9··on Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
Certainly. Facebook runs ads outside of just their own site, so they have to track as many folks as possible. Whether they're tracking PII of non FB users though is (hopefully) unlikely.
bobcat9··on New York Is Confiscating Delivery Bikes, Hurting Immigrants, And Helping No One
Those electric bikes are a nightmare. They are so quiet you can't hear them coming. Coupled with how recklessly the delivery guys ride them it's a recipe for disaster. These guys plow through red lights and gun it in the opposite direction on one way streets. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem if these guys didn't ride like assholes.
bobcat9··on Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?
Start reading books instead of consuming digital content piecemeal.
bobcat9··on Novogratz Halts Hedge Fund, Says Bitcoin May Drop to $8,000
Sounds like they forgot it's a volatile market where 30% drops are the norm.
bobcat9··on Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000
Some believe that it can easily scale to the that point, but there are corrupt and powerful people who are stifling that effort.
bobcat9··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why?
The sequel to Daemon was even better imo... Freedom TM
bobcat9··on Adguard found 220 sites that launch mining when a user opens their main page
adblock already blocks it.