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oxide··on Fantasy Sports Employees Bet at Rival Sites Using Inside Information
that edit is very helpful for me, I've recently starting playing fantasy e-sports and I didn't fully understand the proper strategy for salary cap pools.
oxide··on DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked
I want to say something in my defense but I think it'll just make it worse. Hook, line and sinker.
oxide··on DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked
that's...uncool. most people grow out of drug experimentation naturally and never look back. you might have actually fucked that person's life up, compared to if you had done nothing. that's no solution, that's just plain mean.
oxide··on Block and Unsubscribe
actually, it does work. a template is a pretty clear concept, a fill-in-the-blanks form that is sent out en masse. an email becomes a "template" when it is used as a template.
oxide··on Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
some of these could be Onion headlines, I love it.
oxide··on Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
I would say it is timeless.
oxide··on How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames
sounds to me like a very specific problem that you turn around into a broad generalization. I get that you want to air a complaint, but what you're implying doesn't seem entirely fair IMO. what's more you say this was like 6 years ago. I mean, come on.

if this is what amounts to a horror story I'd say gog is doing just fine

oxide··on Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
1k for a low-end laptop? come on now, that's not even close.
oxide··on Open-source Playstation 4 SDK
I have a passing interest in this kind of thing, for novelty's sake more than anything.

I might have to buy the next console that comes out and just leave it boxed up in the closet for a year or two, so when this stuff surfaces I can experiment. I feel oddly left out when I hear about this stuff and either don't have the correct version or just don't have the hardware itself.

I had a friend growing up with an amazing PS2 that basically functioned as a media server. Absolutely blew me away at the time.

oxide··on SubredditSimulator: Automated subreddit with posts created using Markov chains
would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that.
oxide··on Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft
well...yes. I fully expect when I opt out of something, anything, that it isn't still doing what I just thought I opted out of.

that's probably my fault for being so naive.

oxide··on Galaxy Quest
"Mars One did certainly request donations along with 75 percent of any proceeds from participants’ media interviews, but this had no impact on Sonia’s selection that we could see."

this is denial. if it isn't, it's a giant red flag at the very least.

oxide··on Let's stop kidding ourselves about APIs
internal politics are just about everywhere. at the office, at your favorite bowling league, at the fishing competition.
oxide··on I am Mt. Gox's first employee – AMA
thanks for the highlights, I don't have time to dig through this properly at the moment and I haven't been following the story all that closely.
oxide··on A Pakistani Teen Gets Rich in E-Sports
even then, he'd have still been limited by his region. I don't know much about the DoTA scene, (I mostly watch counter-strike) but in CS living in a region like the middle east would be a serious setback in terms of LAN play. you might not have the same ease of access to LANs and your region might not have any LANs at all, leaving you to foot the bill for travel to Europe and the US to take part.

A counter-strike brazilian team recently moved to North America so they would have better access to teams and leagues. it really can be a game-changer for developing talent.

oxide··on The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more
this is jaw-droppingly awesome. In hindsight it seems almost obvious that these particular cells would form into these organoids. I suppose that's part of the beauty of science in general.
oxide··on 1.5 TB of Dark Net Market scrapes
what a great twitter account. thanks for bringing this to my attention.
oxide··on North Korean biochemical expert flees to Finland: source
What corrections? What is 'not exactly' true?
oxide··on Ask HN: What can I do to turn things around and make my 30's “good”?
Just want to say that there is no such thing as damaged goods.
oxide··on Warner Bros Suspends Sales of Batman: Arkham Knight PC Version
Which they eventually fixed, only to then say 'no more patches. We're moving on to DLC'
oxide··on Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M
Its funny how advertising influences "brand perception"

Before this thread I might have, stupidly, recommended them just because they had ads I didnt mind watching

oxide··on FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
I didn't even notice the error, my brain just registered that as 'surrendering.' I'm positive that's what was meant.
oxide··on Want a steady income? There's an app for that
fair enough, but almost no one uses payday loans that responsibly, the twice a year payday loan user is closer to a myth than commonplace.
oxide··on Chemical Change in Synthetic Marijuana Suspected of Causing Illnesses
the proper terminology is "synthetic cannabinoid." semantics are very important here. synthetic marijuana is an oxymoron IMO.
oxide··on Chemical Change in Synthetic Marijuana Suspected of Causing Illnesses
the synthetic cannabinoids are popular in part because because smoking marijuana will cause a failed UA. when it hit the shelves my friends on probation were smoking it to 'beat' the system.
oxide··on Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
I'm not sure why, but I get the feeling that these watches aren't all that smart. It sounds like the portable pocket computer we already bought does all the heavy lifting, while the smartwatch itself functions as a secondary display?

I never gave them much thought until just now, but learning that really saps some of the novelty away from the whole thing for me.

I can't imagine a good reason to own a watch in 2015 and learning they're only functional when paired with a phone reinforces that belief.

oxide··on Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
a lot?
oxide··on U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade
come on, now you're just grasping at straws.
oxide··on Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
sounds like macs are only in homes from your perspective.
oxide··on After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
Shh, Jim is coming. hide the PCP.
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