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Clearly you've never been to Appalachia. It's beautiful, and it's full of poverty.
No cash drawer?
Re:Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:30PM (#15286108)
Parity is a 3rd-party wallet application and is not Ethereum.
Where are they gonna go, though? The whole Valley has succumbed to this fad.
Re:How does FreedomPop make money? on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:00AM (#15098454)
I tried out a FreedomPop phone once and they ended up taking my credit card number and began billing me at the end of some term they had. I tried to cancel the service using their online service and got an email confirmation that it was canceled, but they billed me for months and I had to keep filing disputes with my credit card company. I won't touch or recommend FreedomPop.
This is because when I go to the start menu and start typing the name of the application I'm looking for, a large percentage of the time the Cortana search process is corrupted and my start menu is not searched, instead, I get an Edge window opened with a Bing search for "Photoshop"

I don't trust those numbers at all.

Re:Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:58PM (#14994208)
Is Apple even still working on Safari?
Re:World air pollution map on Saturday December 05, 2015 @10:11AM (#10682081)
Any policy to reduce carbon emissions that does not include Asia is a scam to take your money.
Re:Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @09:46PM (#10390832)
My lower back pain from sitting all day won't kill me, but it does significantly lower my quality of life.
Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:06PM (#9765570)
The governments of the world will allow decentralization only to the point where it starts to cut into the tax proceeds of centralized energy. In the U.S., solar isn't going to move to rooftops, it's going to move to panel arrays on large swaths of government-owned land out west where it can still be metered and taxed.
Re:A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:10AM (#9538576)
Isn't all computer art pixel art?
Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:37PM (#8656020)
I'm in a graduate CS program. Half, maybe more, of my cohort is female.
Re:Ask HN: Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do on Saturday November 08, 2014 @10:07AM (#8577031)
What do you think this site is? Reddit?
Re:IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:17PM (#8562869)
Wait, I did that too. Is the upgrade perpetual like the previous license?
Re:How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA on Thursday October 30, 2014 @12:10PM (#8533805)
The problem has nothing to do with the country. The problem is that the HR clerk, like all HR clerks, is an idiot.
Re:Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont. on Friday October 10, 2014 @09:18PM (#8440886)
Shit, I've been giving this away on facebook for free.
Re:Swift is a lot like Scala on Sunday August 24, 2014 @11:01AM (#8218717)
The difference is the rounded edges, you see.
Re:Professionalism for Software Engineers (2000) on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:36AM (#8089930)
I see this every time I install StartExplorer in Eclipse. And I love it. http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
Re:Hemingway App now available on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @11:59AM (#8075036)
The program is a windows frame wrapped around their web app. It looks almost exactly the same.