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DNied

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    Comment #40367945

    As usual with tech giants, the burden of playing whack-a-mole with the perpetrators is left to the victims, while the company profits.

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    Comment #34440844

    You forget that √x always has 2 solutions: 1 positive and 1 negative.

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    Comment #34089152

    I wonder how it would work before Javascript.

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    Comment #33963353

    Nice, but I wish they opted for an RSS feed instead.

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    Comment #33903949

    Yeah. It's basically a God hypothesis for geeks.

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    Comment #33099209

    If this forum were to live up to its name, you would be laughed out of here after that comment.

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    Comment #29810197

    Yeah, it needs Javascript to display text. No thanks, bye.

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    Comment #29590820

    Just like who knows how many bits of false information. Which then get copied, pasted and repeated across the web and the world. I've randomly found several, and I'm just one perso…

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    Comment #28096409

    At this point, I can't help thinking it created more problems than it solved.

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    Comment #27730115

    > 2. Bad people steal good thing. 2. Good people sell good thing to bad people.

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    Comment #27717561

    At point #3, I think you meant "then a→c".

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    Comment #26298755

    The syntax of those defines sure looks weird. In what dialect does the name of the function being defined appear as the CAR of a list, followed by the parameters?

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    Comment #26193693

    Very interesting! Maybe preprocessors really are the way to go for PHP, even if it were just for ironing out its inconsistencies (not to mention implementing a whole new language o…

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    Comment #26150782

    My solution: only read negative reviews. They're much more telling. As a bonus, they'll often kill impulse purchases, saving me money.

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    Comment #26150667

    >an atheist insists there must not be. Wrong... Only so-called "strong atheism" is active belief in gods' non-existence. Regular (unqualified) atheism is lack of belief in gods' ex…

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    Comment #26119472

    PAYWALLED

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    Comment #26112318

    To be fair, Apple started it in the late '90s with their Pentium-snail ads.

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    Comment #26097030

    A comparison with cash would be completely arbitrary: bitcoin doesn't replace cash, so it only adds to the problem.

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    Comment #25919315

    A god wouldn't have needed all that complexity to make organisms pop into life. Frankly, God is just the most unintelligent hypothesis.

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    Comment #25293535

    With the decline in Usenet traffic, that's much less of a problem nowadays. I haven't seen any spam in comp.lang.lisp for the last 2 years at least. It's pretty much all signal, an…

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    Comment #25290902

    Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp for sure.

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    Comment #25290136

    I wish Pure Data had a GUI like that. Hats off to the author.

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    Comment #25230254

    >Prosecco is also not Champagne Indeed: Prosecco is a spumante .

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    Comment #25224190

    > Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking. All the time, they would have had people…

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    Comment #24318789

    Cool. I use original sc almost every day. Is this from the same code base?