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JFFalcon

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    Comment #20645297

    I think that was referring to 12-17 year olds.

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    Comment #20293516

    The new Reddit desktop site has a good solution for that - each comment draws a bar down the side of its children, which you can click on to collapse the paarent. You collapse any …

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    Comment #18185575

    My company does the same with PGP Desktop.

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    Comment #17901275

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium#Planet... claims the limit of hydrostatic equilibrium for rocky bodies is ~400-500km, so probably not.

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    Comment #17885418

    I believe that copyright only refers to creative works. Technology would be covered by patents. See also trademarks as the third kind of intellectual property.

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    Comment #17652828

    Why wouldn't you expect a subscription to auto-renew?

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    Comment #17564882

    Yes, perhaps these will be reclassified as satellites and moons will have to be large enough to form spheres under their own gravity. That would mean that Mars would have no moons …

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    Comment #17548720

    If either of you guesses wrong, you both die.

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    Comment #17472140

    > It would of course be harder to count using your fingers. No necessarily. 4 fingers * 3 knuckles per finger make 12, so you can count in base-12 using only 1 hand. I think the Su…

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    Comment #17099677

    Searching for 'China internet percentage' shows several sites claiming ~50%, so double the ratio to ~0.5, or 10 times less than the USA.

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    Comment #17090405

    Maybe they should have just let people upload audio files with a title card, rather than fragment the service into another app. Would have fixed the bandwidth/battery problem and k…

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    Comment #16849512

    Generally, the goal of a boycott isn't to force a company to shut down, it's to force them to change their ways to end the boycott.

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    Comment #16584812

    Agreed. I'm amazed the comment got such a negative reaction. I can't think of anyone I know who would be happy about being called a chick, however casually.

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    Comment #15878123

    Maybe because then you could pick on small patents that a competitor isn't really using to hit them for 6k/60k a pop? Of course, that would only work if they have several dodgy pat…

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    Comment #15808117

    > A story about Syria might be filed under "America's foreign engagements" and a story about decaying highways could be filed under "Tracking America's infrastructure quality and i…

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    Comment #15559825

    The Learn More section has a very nice description of the concepts. The compression page [0] seems to say that they group each attribute for a fragment together and then apply comp…