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nmbr | 10 years ago | on: What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town

Hope and life are indeed flowing here in Seattle. For some into bank accounts, for others into dump trucks. Thrilling isn't the word I'd pick, but how could newcomers know what's been lost? Expecting empathy from them is unreasonable. As absurd as expecting someone to see around corners.

nmbr | 12 years ago | on: The end of the Facebook era

That's prescriptive. In reality, people's identities do vary. Masks are useful.

nmbr | 12 years ago | on: The Octopus That Almost Ate Seattle

> That is, publicly decry one group for doing something, but have zero problem with another group doing nearly (or exactly) the same thing.

This is a description of everywhere. The only thing Seattle has a monopoly on, is talking shit about Seattle (sorry Portland, we're stealing that one too).

nmbr | 12 years ago | on: Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road

I bet you could scramble it through a translation tool. Though it's probably not the best idea to feed Google your secret messages, there's probably a local solution.

nmbr | 13 years ago | on: Teaching Square Roots to a Five Year Old

I believe he's saying that crushing the dreams of children is required for a functional society.

nmbr | 13 years ago | on: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

I don't even know how to approach the moral quandary of seeking asylum in a concentration camp. Am I supposed to be impressed by the Fresh Young DPRK? There is no opening of relations here, just PR. Have TPB truly been hunted to the darkest corners of the Earth?

In the end all this means to me is that I'm going to save the $65 that I was about to spend on a PB hoodie. Assuming TPB are paying for their NK servers, I'd rather not risking providing funds for lil' Kim's holocaust.