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a_plastic_bag

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    Comment #13151510

    I think it would be pretty hard to argue that you serve a "unified offer" (at the moment at least). The user requests the content without any promise of downloading and rendering a…

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    Comment #13102329

    The problem is: There is a market for it because the average Joe and Jane are pretty lazy and would rather touch something to unlock it than having to go through the hassle of typi…

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    Comment #13088918

    The way I see it, this looks more like an attempt by the video game industry to pass the cost of preventing cheating to the taxpayers.

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    Comment #12966541

    tl;dr: Celecoxib is safer than previously thought for people with heart problems.

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    Comment #12887293

    GMT doesn't change throughout the year. Birtain uses GMT during winter and BST(UTC+1) during summer though. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html

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    Comment #12885829

    “The complexity of life” is really ambiguous. The actual headline, “Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being”, is much more descriptive.

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    Comment #12873009

    Alcohol isn't very carcinogenic, but I think it's been estimated that it's the cause in a few percent of cancer cases.

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    Comment #12837595

    From what I found, Apple's laptops are sligthly above average in terms of reliability [0]. Sqaretrade sells warranties though, so there might be some selection bias, but I'm not su…

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    Comment #12837281

    > And as IBM reported a couple weeks ago, even at higher prices, Macs tend to be cheaper to own. I’m writing this on a mid-2010 non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro I bought six years ag…

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    Comment #12810379

    Sounds like we have a serious case of in-group favouritism and with a hint of bandwagon effect

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    Comment #12803697

    > You wouldn't have a cell phone, and especially a data connection, if not for the space program. And so on. Given enough time, it would've been invented regardless. You are right …