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TakeBlaster16

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    Comment #33158767

    https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/ It doesn't look like they update it more than once a year. I guess we'll see where we stand next January (if we make it that long)

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    Comment #33156550

    I said the same thing in 1983: it's been 14 years since ARPANET, how long will we be in the early stages of the internet? It took 50 years of hard work before the day came when you…

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    Comment #33156025

    First COVID, then Putin, and now Dylan. When will it end?

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    Comment #33155275

    Not a lawyer, but my understanding is you can take a theft loss deduction. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/vi... (Sorry for your loss.)

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    Comment #33155178

    No, not all ponzi schemes are wrapped in a cloak of crypto.

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    Comment #33144799

    enum MyEnum { Ok(u8), NotOk } fn main() { let value = MyEnum::Ok(42); assert!(matches!(value, MyEnum::Ok(_))); match value { MyEnum::Ok(x) => assert_eq!(x, 42), MyEnum::NotOk => un…

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    Comment #33108357

    If that's true, it sounds like companies have been weaponizing the legal system to get access to proprietary information from their competitors. Surely that has got to be illegal s…

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    Comment #33108024

    COVID for thee but not for me

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    Comment #33089790

    > remotely swiping Bitcoin In other words, he used his own private key to send a transaction. How is that "hacking"?

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    Comment #33080253

    I don't think "seamless" is a common word people use to describe it. https://old.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/un9rjb/airdrop_h...

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    Comment #33049877

    > Create a \Quicken directory in the root Windows has an existing convention for this, like Linux's XDG. Imagine if you looked at your Linux filesystem root and saw /boot, /dev, /u…

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    Comment #33049818

    Cypress is also missing some pretty fundamental things, like tabbing through the document using the tab key. I don't know how people test for accessibility without this. I haven't …

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    Comment #33034502

    If you're in the US, £510 might turn out to be pretty cheap by time 2023 rolls around.

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    Comment #33034453

    I was expecting that too. It seems strictly more expressive, since once you have the niche, you can do anything you like with it. And INT_MIN is a better place for it than zero imo…

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    Comment #33022868

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullam…

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    Comment #33001387

    Is it tech-savvy people they need? The Howey test doesn't say anything about tech or computers. I would have guessed they need finance-savvy lawyers.

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    Comment #32998507

    I was expecting George Carlin's "It's a big club and you aren't in it", but yours might be better

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    Comment #32990666

    Let the chess speak for itself... because I sure can't explain it!

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    Comment #32990643

    What do you do about subcutaneous implants?

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    Comment #32990621

    Honestly I think all you'd need is the piece. There are 6 pieces, so that's 3 bits of info with room to spare.

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    Comment #32985210

    Is there a way to set a global timeout now? Last I checked, you could only set them per job, i.e. you have to copy-paste "timeout-minutes: 15" to every single job in every single w…

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    Comment #32951646

    If you're worried your citizens might not appreciate you committing war crimes, there's an obvious solution to that.

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    Comment #32945650

    Yeah I came here to say this too, though I don't think it'll be popular. Schools are like prisons your parents send you to every day so they have time to work. A couple games have …

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    Comment #32917269

    I like the name! Could be stylized either LibRedirect or LibreDirect.