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timsayshey | 8 years ago | on: The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends”

Wow. I've just got to say thank you for some of the most rational responses I've seen on hn in regards to the Bible. It's almost always misrepresented here by people with little knowledge of it or just bad personal experiences. You can almost feel their anger and bitterness. Which I get because I used to be the same way.

Man, I really wish hn had a follow button so I could read more of your level headed and insightful responses :)

timsayshey | 8 years ago | on: PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer

I asked the same question here when this went up but I haven't heard anything from anyone. I have a feeling as Bitcoin goes more and more mainstream wallets will get cheaper. It's pretty ridiculous to expect people to pay $50-100 for a single wallet that could easily be lost. Especially when hardware is getting so cheap, there is no excuse for the prices. Either an open source alternative will bring the price down or competition but right now I think the answer to our question is unfortunately, no.

timsayshey | 8 years ago | on: Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $19k a Year

Where I'm from 90% of what a general practitioner does is give out antibiotics. I hate the over prescription of antibiotics but they could easily prescribe that over video chat. This would keep sick people at home and allow doctors to focus on people that actual need to come in to be physically examined.

timsayshey | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?

Really cool idea. As someone that hasn't really investigated the market indicators for collapse this is really eye opening. It really breaks things down into plain english. Hope this goes to the top for some rational/interesting conversation.

timsayshey | 8 years ago | on: Money can be stolen from an Uber account

This is exactly why when a new game comes out, I check to see if it is available on GOG.com before checking Steam. Thanks to GOG's DRM-Free policy, you can download and store the game installer. Not all digital distribution is bad.

timsayshey | 9 years ago | on: Unroll.me

Great, I'm sold on leaving unroll.me but I think there is a deeper problem here. Email is so insecure and if you're already using Gmail then who knows who Google is selling your emails to. Google is just a lot better about keeping it a secret. Fooling yourself into thinking your emails are secure if you're not using Unroll.me is a joke. Also, please suggest a secure alternative when telling people to leave a service over security. I'd love to switch to something else that gives me some false sense of security but shutting off unroll.me and allowing my inbox to implode with spam is not a great option right now.

timsayshey | 9 years ago | on: How I Kicked My Smartphone Addiction, and Never Looked Back

If you want to go nuclear you can add OpenDNS to your router and block specific sites or categories of sites. This will work for all devices on your network, android, iphone, laptops, etc. Or edit your hosts file and 127.0.0.1 the sites you want to block. To do this on android you have to root or you install Firefox and add Ublock Origin and blacklist the sites you don't want.
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