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Let me explain how many times I went back-and-forth with the opticians about "is this coating/feature optional?"

By the time I started staying up late, it seemed that most United States-based stations didn't "sign off" much at all. However, the "border blaster" stations in Mexico would sign o…

> the archive targets Isn't there a substantial overlap with the copyright holders?

[citation needed]

If the WMF had a dollar for every proposal to spend Endowment-derived funds, their Endowment would double and they could hire one additional grant-writer

Spammers and pirates just got super excited at that plan!

"Non-paywalled" ad-free link to archive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

It's an Internet trope — we could link to knowyourmeme, or link to the HN Guidelines

A sola scriptura republic

I recommend that commenters shell out and pony up for a thesaurus before its import duty is magnified sixfold.

US Consumers pay in fungible dollars, and so if your company paid for three pizzas eaten by an AWS team, and I paid for 1 ounce of Maersk fuel oil, and our Starbucks venti latte pu…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by…

Who can forget the billboards that launched a "career"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne

Ah, now you’ve captured the F/OSS zeitgeist!

The point was how they gained absolute power, and I would also say that there were multiple factors at work, and I doubt that the GP meant that “abusing free speech” was the only m…

It is okay, because most American voters cannot identify the capital of Africa on a map.

Perhaps you mean “prefixes” such as they are assigned by registrars, and announced by routing protocols. The instructor of my Cisco classes said that the only module that caused st…

Joseph Goebbels would have been disappointed to learn that his office was superfluous and irrelevant!