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heyimfromredditon Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital currency guru

Of course I am. But there is still some truth in there. Some CBP officers are friendly... many are not.

Upon entering the U.S. you effectively have no rights whatsoever. Whether or not you're allowed to enter the country is entirely at the discretion of the CBP officer you happen to get, and you have no right to appeal their decision. Run into one who's having a bad day and doesn't like the look of you and you're screwed.

heyimfromredditon Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital currency guru

Not surprising. They employ people with below average intelligence who are convinced that the U.S. is such a brilliant country and every single person they come into contact with is from such a terrible shithole that the only reason they could possibly be "visiting" the U.S. is because they plan to illegally overstay so that they may enjoy a much better life in the greatest country on Earth.

...And that's if you are white.

heyimfromredditon The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16

tl;dr: Apple.

heyimfromredditon Spotify launches in the US

They also probably have completely different licensing deals, there's a bigger market, etc.

heyimfromredditon Show HN: ChatVoting - American Idol-like voting for everyone

Allow me to see pricing without signing up.

heyimfromredditon Two Years of Pinboard

Any alternatives you'd recommend?

heyimfromredditon Two Years of Pinboard

DigitalOne seems to offer much more than I get with Linode. Anyone have experience with them?

heyimfromredditon WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

Looks like they've edited it.

heyimfromredditon WordPress › WordPress 3.2 now available

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.2

> ...the write page now loads XYZ% faster and paging through comments is ZYX% faster

Wow, what an improvement!

heyimfromredditon The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped

Can anyone type 150WPM on a non-touch screen phone?

heyimfromredditon The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped

>phone while I'm on my motorcycle

Probably not a good idea...

heyimfromredditon ICANN Approves generic top-level domains

Funny, but email validations should already just check that the address contains an @ symbol and leave it at that.

heyimfromredditon An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations

This is the first time I've tried using CSS3 animations and I managed to do it: http://jsfiddle.net/cmCfP/

heyimfromredditon Ask HN: How do you write a resume when all you've ever done is be a founder?

Tell HN: I've started lots of businesses and I've got a bunch of great job offers.

heyimfromredditon Senate bill amounts to death penalty for Web sites

This is scary.

I run a popular forum on which users sometimes post links to copyrighted materials – despite the fact that it's explicitly against the rules. Because of this I occasionally receive DCMA takedown notices regarding links that were posted 3-5 months prior (even though the links are often expired by that time). The last time it happened my hosting company was involved and threatened to suspend my account in less than 48 hours if I did not comply (harsh).

How easily could this bill result in an innocent site (such as mine) being taken down? Obviously the bill describes "steps" that have to be taken up to that point, but considering I was less than 48 hours away from my site being suspended for a 3 month old expired link to a video, I don't have much faith in the people entrusted to make these decisions.

Besides, isn't the DMCA enough?

heyimfromredditon ROME HTML5 demo

Probably privacy concerns.

heyimfromredditon Chattp: It lets you add a secret chat to any webpage. Click to join the HN chat

Javascript can be injected into the page via nick changes.

heyimfromredditon CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders

So why don't you start selling CSS with them too?

heyimfromredditon Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts

What made you choose Linode?