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phant0mason Greeks are abandoning cigarettes in record numbers

I am from Greece and everywhere I go everyone is smoking. Where do they get this data?

phant0mason Ask HN: How do you stay healthy?

I would be interested to read such a book.

phant0mason What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?

In Iraklio, Greece, this is how you drive. We even have a name for it: "Taliban driving". You assume you always have the right-of-way and you go. If you don't, you will never get anywhere. Anyone says otherwise, you tell him to go woohoo himself. And then people from Crete wonder why so many people die in the road every year!

phant0mason Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You

I see the same thing with all my family and friends. Whenever they have to do something that involves bureaucracy, they give up and/or start shouting. Especially in Greece, where the public sector and the banks depend on you giving up.

Personally I always make sure to go fully prepared, with every legal paper ready before hand, and having ready answers/solution for every possible issue. And above all else I talk as polite as I possibly can, showing respect and making sure I am asking clear and direct questions. And I always double check their answers. As a result I always get my job done.

Funny story: I once needed a signature from the tax office director. While I was at her office and she was taking quite some time to check every thing, looking for something wrong to send me away, her phone rang. The house next to hers caught on fire. She started search for the fire departments phone number and she couldn't find it. Luckily I had my phone with me, googled it really fast and told her the number. Got the paper signed in a instant after that.

phant0mason Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UTF8 and Windows (BSD)

Well I am clearly seeing a "Use a copyleft license so a community can be created by making other users share their modifications".

That is a feature of the GPL!

phant0mason Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UTF8 and Windows (BSD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIEDNyZOkA&feature=youtu.be...

Martin Fink, EVP & CTO of HP on why we should use the GPL