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    Comment #49225727

    In slovenia, at least in most engineering colleges, every exam was a combination of written + oral, way before AI even existed.

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    Comment #49225187

    You guys do know that the same thing is said about americans in "the rest of the world"? Remember the "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" thing?

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    Comment #49225177

    But pretty much every US president did something like that, killed people somewhere, usually half the planet away. No US president is in jail for that. OP above me is just blaming …

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    Comment #49222710

    So have many others before him. The only difference is, is that before him we had "Iraq has weapons for mass destruction! we must attack them, before they attack us, we're in dange…

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    Comment #49185262

    Not this quarter, and this quarter matters for bonuses! What happens with the next quarter is a "then-problem". Same for politicians, 4/5 years matter, if the world collapses after…

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    Comment #49171304

    The problem with electricity for industrial use is, that you also need electricity during long, dark, cloudy winters, when there is very little solar power available. Somehow all t…

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    Comment #49162456

    Firefox is a nice example of a human-managable set of preferences in the 'settings', and "about:config" for everythig else 'those few users' might need (without the need to reompil…

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    Comment #49143787

    "back then", you had to write for months to get a book out, and it sold 20 copies and you earned $20. Now you can do it in minutes, get 50 books out, 20 of them sell 10 copies, you…

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    Comment #49143639

    At least it didn't show the "give us your email to subscribe to our spam" the moment you scroll a milimeter down the page. I started subscribing "admin@theirdomain.com" every time …

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    Comment #49143628

    And your battery goes empty, and you just lost everything. Or your phone falls to the ground and breaks. And to add to payments, the store loyalty apps are the worst... Lidl over h…

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    Comment #49143003

    There are adblock blockers... some sites detect the ad blocker and prevent you from visiting the site without ads... so yeah, you then don't visit the site.

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    Comment #49128377

    You can still make cookies out of reference and/or lab materials :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjxpZHv7Hk

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    Comment #49112147

    > Allowing parents to configure their children’s devices to block services that require users to be older than the specified age or that do not provide an age rating. This could be…

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    Comment #49084772

    This sentiment is pretty popular amongst some of the younger working people... they work, pay a lot of taxes for everything, and then get outvoted by pensioners who retired under "…

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    Comment #49084423

    It's a problem that was "solved" long before that by just wearing a condom and protecting yourself against other diseases too, and even pregnancy. Condoms are cheap, widely availab…

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    Comment #49083919

    I mean, if someone is willing to pay them, why not? Even hundreds and thousands of years ago, people would put semi transparent rocks onto shiny metal shapes and sell those useless…

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    Comment #49083279

    This has been happening for more than a hundred years now... 90%+ of the people have been farming not that long ago, and mechanized farming equipment has replaced 95%+ of those wor…

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    Comment #49077627

    I gave my explanation, i sometimes have to download something to a server, and this means that I have to download it to my pc first and then scp it, sometimes over an extra server …

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    Comment #49061763

    But if the forests burn down, that makes more tree-free land to build more datacenters! (/s, it's a joke, like this one: https://i.imgur.com/CMsAp8v.png )

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    Comment #49061703

    There's a special place in hell for people who block curl and wget, especially on sites with downloadable files (eg source code tgz's, media, etc.), basically anything i might need…

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    Comment #49043661

    That just means that terrorism works. What's next? A bomb under a bench? No more benches!

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    Comment #49030202

    You don't need F-16s at all if you have cheap drones. Why send an expensive plane with a pilot to bomb some country if you can send a drone that costs as little as a basic SUV inst…

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    Comment #49020016

    Back in the days, you made the title with WordArt and then add clipart images below

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    Comment #49007515

    Why is the communist-built national assembly building in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the list here? A bunch of missing castles, but then a commie style building from 1959 comes on the m…

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    Comment #48995223

    It could be 1.7 if we actually built apartments young people could afford. It could be 1.9 if we had better paid jobs for those without college. We could have even more if kinderga…