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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 …