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Kind of relevant: the new TLD '.rich' is more expensive- $1,769.61 on Gandi. This is not a CCTLD, though.

That background is incredibly distracting.

Why is this being upvoted on HN? New crapcoins are introduced daily that offer nothing new and instead follow this formula:

1) Fork Bitcoin or Litecoin repo

2) Come up with cleaver name. In this case, an exhausted meme that some will be amused by

3) Do mass renames in fork

4) Make a logo and website

5) Post to internet and make eBay auctions for coin, call it "THE NEXT BITCOIN!!!"

How do we know this isn't an inside job?

That makes me really happy. I hope the new wave of gTLDs further devastates domain squatters/brokers.

Ego, perhaps.

The only downside to DuckDuckGo is the results are terrible -- I don't care the claims are, this search provider doesn't in the same league of intelligent search results as Google or Bing.

According to Wikipedia, Sonoma County has over 483k residents. That's a "very low population" area?

Yes, I have known many growers. Not an exaggeration. I've grown up in this area.

This is a good thing.

One of the main reasons that cannabis has failed to be fully legalized in California is because greedy dealers want the industry to stay small and contained. I remember seeing tons of "Vote No" signs in Mendocino and Sonoma counties regarding legalization (which are huge cultivation areas,) and have known many growers and distributors who were vehemently against legalizing it.

It is extremely easy to cheat on a lot of online courses. One major flaw is many instructors use a test-bank for all of their exam questions, which makes verbatim Googling for the answer a piece of cake.

Don't for a second think this is a partisan issue. There are just as many liberal media organizations doing this type of reporting on Snowden.