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4ensic

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    Comment #46504166

    It begs for an acronym.

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    Comment #45263760

    "Follow your dreams". Without a backup plan, this will statistically doom the vast majority of those who dream of online gaming, being an influencer, or playing professional sports…

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    Comment #44907645

    3 years of Japanese in high school and I can still read hiragana 48 years later.

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    Comment #42309196

    In the US the condition will be called Werewolf-Therewolf in honor of Drs. Feldman and Wilder.

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    Comment #40731736

    Didn't AI-Generated Rat Dick open for the Stones?

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    Comment #38897937

    I use Ditto ( https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ ). It uses about 5MB Ram and lets you expire clips.

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    Comment #38897336

    What happens to the sales in neighboring cities without soda taxes?

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    Comment #38605067

    Agreed. I think lag / ping is just as important as throughput in determining subjective snappiness of a connection (unless you're doing large up/downloads.

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    Comment #38001803

    Cloudflare.com doesn't charge more than what the top level registrar charges them. NameSilo.com includes quite a few features (Privacy and email forwarding) that the sleazy registr…

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    Comment #35359543

    Thank you Google. Also note that Cloudflare offers a comparable free service for all domainholders, not just certain categories of sites.

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    Comment #35071010

    I use QuiteRSS reader on Windows.

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    Comment #34099701

    The FCC loves to attack Potemkin villages. The VOIP provider closes up shop with no assets and there is one less scumbag - a victory, but not in terms of taking money from phone ab…

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    Comment #33706295

    TL;DR. The latest version (105) of FireFox implemented the trick. Users don't need to do anything other than update.

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    Comment #33113774

    Quite handy, but not part of the free tier. It's included with purchase of the Advanced Certificate Manager.

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    Comment #33002650

    Oddly, Cloudflare is part of the Bandwidth Alliance - a consortium of 19 companies who want to reduce bandwidth costs. Backblaze, an online storage and backup company, is also a me…

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    Comment #32912935

    Plus $44 a month, because a rowing machine is also a stream of income.

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    Comment #32729121

    When somebody says "Sorry, I can't. I'm busy" I hear "I have something more important to do". May be true, may not.

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    Comment #31704616

    Anyone who cruises or travels internationally to certain nations. https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...

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    Comment #31673850

    A friend had an Apple ][+ and an acoustically coupled modem in the early 80s. He had to dial the phone and put the receiver into the cups of the modem. One evening of calling a lis…

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    Comment #31520521

    Free Cloudflare accounts come with 3 page rules per website.

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    Comment #30582549

    Still 4 heads short of a movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118541/

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    Comment #29949736

    "It's a kids movie from the 70s about cats in Paris. Oh, and it has the guy from Full House. Let's buy it for the grandkids." Kyle and Kaylie on the next visit. "We loved The Arist…

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    Comment #29816813

    TL;DR Yes, as good as reading on a screen. But maybe not as good as reading on paper (Easier to gauge where you are in a book on paper).

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    Comment #29523058

    "Hi Mom, how the f*ck ya doin?" "Kyle, where did you learn that word?" "A bird flew in the class.... Er, Edwin told me".

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    Comment #29451141

    Quite a few cromulent words, but far from perfect.