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Zr40

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    Comment #41003652

    Admin privileges aren't the same thing as a kernel-mode driver. Steam does require admin to be installed, but it does not install a kernel-mode driver.

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    Comment #41003264

    Steam does not have any kernel-mode components.

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    Comment #40209097

    This would be true if the only alternative to piracy is not using said content or software. If paying is a valid alternative to a nonzero fraction of pirate users if piracy was not…

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    Comment #38534979

    > a few years ago there was no way to unlink iMessage Deregistration[1] has been supported since November 2014. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

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    Comment #36538547

    > Doesn't work for me in the Netherlands. Down since this morning. Same for me. It is accessible from my home network (AS206238) and from public transport wifi (AS202189), but not …

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    Comment #34993161

    > With timezones: > * I want to call my friend in Germany. What time is it for her? I guess I'm UTC-7 and she's UTC+1, so she's 8 hours ahead of me. I know that everybody around th…

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    Comment #34909789

    As described in the CVE[0]: > In PHP 8.0.X before 8.0.28, 8.1.X before 8.1.16 and 8.2.X before 8.2.3, password_verify() function may accept some invalid Blowfish hashes as valid. I…

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    Comment #32426803

    There isn't enough renewable energy yet to cover all consumption. Which means that you paying extra is only an administrative move. You're just swapping places with the party that …

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    Comment #31557126

    In my experience it's quite the opposite. We use Flask for a large-scale webapp in production quite successfully and it's enabled us to reduce application complexity significantly.…

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    Comment #26993245

    > Where else are people meant to store money? Money isn't stored in other assets. It's transferred from the buyer of an asset to the seller. It doesn't cease to exist simply becaus…

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    Comment #26888607

    The domain is different. bbc.com versus bbc.co.uk.

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    Comment #25021096

    Except that playing Fortnite isn't the thing that's being disallowed. It just happened to contain an in-app purchase system that did not use the Apple-approved method, and Fortnite…

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    Comment #24291398

    Why would HFT even consider using it? They are located as close as possible to the exchange they operate on, not across states or halfway across the world.

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    Comment #19643091

    Interactive Brokers offers such a debit card to US clients, albeit not by selling assets automatically, but by using the cash balance or a margin loan backed by the assets. You can…

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    Comment #19632134

    No problem, I'll just remove software that requires me to disable notarization.

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    Comment #13615315

    The key could be encrypted using the account password.

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    Comment #12447141

    Bluetooth audio lag does depend on the buffer size of the audio device. My car also has a two second lag when playing through Bluetooth, but my Bluetooth headphones have nearly no …

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    Comment #11252542

    What makes you think so? Nothing in the FTP protocol makes it faster than, say, HTTP, yet FTP requires more network round-trips to initiate each file transfer.

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    Comment #11244675

    No, it's just PostgreSQL and MySQL. Neither has "Server" in its name.

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    Comment #11086192

    VOO is not synthetic. Quoting the overview page[1]: > Employs a passively managed, full-replication strategy. [1]: https://advisors.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip/site/advisor/investm...

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    Comment #11086085

    I was under the impression that a lot (if not all) of Vanguard's ETFs are physical, not synthetic. Can you name one of these synthetic ETFs?

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    Comment #11008100

    That's probably because the response to this particular https URL is larger; http on this server simply redirects to https and is therefore a smaller response. Not that this matter…

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    Comment #11007760

    wrk[1] does appear to reuse a connection for each request. [1] https://github.com/wg/wrk