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Digit-Al
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Comment #49069191
Reader mode bypasses the paywall
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Comment #49056551
On YouTube there is a channel called Good News (@Good_News) that has a monthly show highlighting positive environmental stories.
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Comment #48246631
I guess, if you really think about it, a lot of the safety checking is to make sure that the person trying to adopt is not a predator who will abuse the child. In this case, someon…
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Comment #48246601
> It can also be the article skipped on these difficulties for a better headline. Thanks for the reply. That is certainly a possibility that I didn't think of. I guess they could p…
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Comment #48246352
I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just any…
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Comment #48246296
Taking advice from Paul Graham on why you should not impose a wealth tax is like taking advice from the neighbours cat on why you should allow him to crap on your lawn. His argumen…
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Comment #48246173
I know a lot of people like to dump on Firefox, but a number of paywalls, including the Guardian one, completely disappear when you use it. For those that don't, some of them disap…
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Comment #48161639
Are you mabe thinking of Solid[1]? This is an interesting idea, and I have looked into it on several occasions recently, but despite it being around for a really long time it appea…
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Comment #47299397
I'm not sure this is quite what you are looking for, though I could be wrong. As far as I can tell they haven't added support for writing Markdown, the added support for importing …
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Comment #47274778
It says all that in the article.
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Comment #47206711
You are possibly misunderstanding me. Firstly, I am not saying anything against the Iranian people in general. As far as I understand things, the majority of Iranians are moderate …
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Comment #47205366
The problem is that you are not dealing with rational people here, you are dealing with extreme religous fanatics. They are either not afraid of dying and becoming martyrs, or they…
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Comment #47094059
If you are on the mobile app, click on the burger menu and select "Feeds". You will then have a page that has tabs at the top. "All" will be selected by default, but if you select …
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Comment #46764790
The major problem is that no one trusts government not to abuse it and use it to track everything people do. There will be some proportion of people who trust the current governmen…
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Comment #46755217
Next thing we need is for them to host their own Git infra, to avoid dependency on US Github.
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Comment #46519228
On my Android phone, just the calculator app is 13MB. How in hell is it 13MB just for a calculator? It beggars belief.
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Comment #46415703
This should be marked as being from 2023.
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Comment #46238604
The Daily Mail is frequently referred to as either 'The Daily Fail' or 'The Daily Heil' (referring to the fact they supported Oswald Mosley and his fascist ideals, and remain very …
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Comment #45978708
Do you mean $300M for ByteDance? Because $300B dwarfs $1.5B and $3.4B.
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Comment #45780294
That's because we are no longer in the EU. Before Brexit they were legally mandated to allow free roaming in the EU. Now they are back to charging whatever outrageous prices they w…