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The most populous Islamic nation on earth is a massive archipelago, land lubber.

This is interesting, I'd love to read/hear more about it. Is the negotiation an above-board thing? What are the conditions and costs to getting this kind of exception ensured?

Funny you should say that. I'm in NYC and I like the tap water. When I travel--like to Texas recently--I can't drink the tap water, it tastes horrible to me. And New Yorkers take a lot of pride in our water actually, it tastes hugely different from most of the rest of the country. Goes to show how personal taste is I guess.

I've had Google alerts for "Silk Road" for the past 3 or 4 years. My focus is on black markets but I've inadvertently learned a lot about China's development plans (and a few cool historical articles as well).

How did the power and economic reach of pre-modern organizations like the British East India Company compare to modern megacorporations? -- http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17mvv1/how_di...

To kill "dark web" we need a good alternative. I'm all ears!

Yes, this is how it works.

As a reporter who receives these kind of emails from PR flacks all day, I can say that it is as simple and stupid as this in most cases. I can't say with 100% certainty that no one ever just pays a reporter to write PR bullshit but most of the time it's gross laziness.

I'm not sure that claim itself makes it likely or unlikely. Could be the truth, could be an obfuscation tactic. No way of knowing at this point.

That's exactly the point of the article: Why no charges after the indictments?

Do you think all drugs are the same?

This is a very fun game so far. Are there other hacking games people would recommend? The more educational the better.

I'll never understand the mindset where not going to an Ivy is a "setback." That's not meant to be an insult at all, if it sounded like one.

Good for you for having that attitude, of course, but that's such a foreign state of mind to me. I stumbled across the finish line in high school and self-destructed in college. Things have worked out but I wonder what even a small change in state of mind would have done for me as an adolescent.

The US is a party in court asking the judge.

Growing up and living in Brooklyn, I have a lot of different feelings but I'll leave that for another time. One thing that popped into my head though: For a lot of people in New York and I'm sure other cities, moving to the suburbs is cause for an eyeroll and a "Why?"

There's a lot of "I can't imagine living elsewhere" and a certain attitude that I find really funny.

I mean, I grew up here and love living here but boy oh boy, you can't even imagine living elsewhere? That says something sad about your imagination, doesn't it?

OS stands for operating system, I think, but euphemistically in the sense of "Our vision is that DemocracyOS will become the operating system of a more open and participatory government" as opposed to an actual OS.

Are you saying there is a complete directory of onion addresses?

It's more of a boring cliche that when parents join some network or adopt some tech, you gotta ditch it.

I dont have to prove anything,do search on the internet if you really want to find out the facts.

No one says you "have to" prove anything but if you enter into an Internet argument and then pull this out, do you really expect people to take you seriously?

Oh god, Geocities e-federations with black background and neon fonts in tables. Nostalgia pangs are coming on heavy, I need to go lie down.

Why can't Amazon just have the service be weather dependent like any air service? If some place has weather that makes drone delivery difficult, the option will be turned off.

They'll look at the weather in the next 30 minutes and judge whether or not the drone can fly. Pretty simple, right?

not as many as in midtown or uptown maybe but williamsburg and the LES have plenty of hotels nowadays.

Why do you think one is okay but not the other?

It's video game journalism, my friend. Everything is 10/10, buy it now!