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cbluthon Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and Internet Use

The poverty rates and broadband service maps look like the other, except opposite.

cbluthon Missing Emirati princess 'planned escape for seven years'

love? in a royal family?

cbluthon Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem

This is already happening in Amsterdam

cbluthon Namecheap announces support for TOTP-based 2FA

I want to let you know that your previous 2FA was so awful that I had to turn it off. I had Project FI service, and ported my number back to google voice, which permanently locked me out of my namecheap account. I contacted support for help, but by the time they had responded, I had already lost my opportunity on responding to a gig.

This is probably the worst place to air a grievance like this, but it seemed like my frustrations had fallen on deaf ears. I haven't bought a domain from namecheap since.

cbluthon What a meth: Woman held for 3 months after cops mistake candy floss for drugs

Understandably. But they train the dogs to provide false positives, and then they arrest you anyways.

cbluthon The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

thats the premise of the next big sci-fi hit.

cbluthon You might not need Kubernetes

Its the bigger brother of m3.

cbluthon Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation

In many cases, they are the same.

cbluthon A Link Between Probiotic Use and Brain Fogginess

I have never been ID'd when buying kombucha, and I buy it quite often.

cbluthon Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone

Why is it so hard to believe the headline?

cbluthon US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level

Whatever information the IRS has on me is far from accurate.

I have never been able to file my taxes electronically because I cannot pass their electronic verification process.

They have to verify birth date, which they think is something else other than my actual birth date.

I have spent hours and hours being shuffled around between different governmental offices, explaining my case, and it got to a point where you have to give up. Have you ever seen the movie Brazil? You might know what I'm talking about.

Imagine having to be reduced to calling around your city, trying to find the nearest fax machine because some governmental office will only take faxes so that you can continue your quest towards the distant sanity...

cbluthon Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor (2009)

I've been hearing that word a lot

https://i.imgur.com/hh0zNRT.jpg

cbluthon What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

Yeah, I'm convinced now, too

cbluthon No Such Thing as Too Much Exercise, Study Finds

You could inhale too much air too, your lungs aren't balloons, man!

cbluthon Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin

I think thats the original problem with crypto

cbluthon America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig Explains Corruption

> me and a military man holding an AK 47

Sounds blatantly clear to me.