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alextingle

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    Comment #49179551

    Just get a bike, and stop moaning.

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    Comment #48729597

    Muslim fascists and Western fascists are on the same side here. They both want the same thing... a world defined by hatred of the other. There is zero contradiction on opposing bot…

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    Comment #48729554

    Racial discrimination is illegal where I live, and I believe that's a good thing. Political parties that advocate racism are simply antithetical to the whole concept of liberal dem…

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    Comment #48729477

    If the local baker is a racist, then I'll buy my bread elsewhere. It's pretty simple.

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    Comment #48729363

    I down voted you because you accused the GP of bad faith, rather than genuinely engaging with their point. Don't dig yourself further into that hole by slinging "bad faith" around …

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    Comment #48683286

    How is "LGBT" left wing?? Furthermore, I'm not in the US, but "US politics" doesn't seem to have much left wing about it either.

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    Comment #48617434

    > how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or not locked up I think you'll find that some of them actually are locked up, and a few of them are dead.

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    Comment #48617404

    > in The Netherlands it was €210 for a 40 minute ride That's much more than taxis cost in the UK, and pretty expensive even for the Netherlands. You have great cycling infrastructu…

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    Comment #48617228

    What?? On what planet is getting your groceries on a bike "more privileged" than driving?

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    Comment #48617211

    I'd say that the vast majority of people who live in a city both work, and socialise almost exclusively there.

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    Comment #48588146

    If I don't care about secure boot today, but might in the future, is this something I need to care about right now?

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    Comment #48585400

    A landlord is doing exactly the same thing as an investor. They are tying up their capital in exchange for an income, and the possibility of a capital gain.

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    Comment #48488245

    I use Docusign on Firefox, no problem.

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    Comment #48488189

    It was Yeltsin.

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    Comment #47678327

    They can't find anyone else to headline, it has to be a literal, self-described Nazi?

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    Comment #47500092

    OK Grok, calm down.

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    Comment #47499762

    It's way better than the US.

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    Comment #47452008

    No. Apple's phones started out with only web apps. They only add the walled garden later.

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    Comment #47228434

    It couple physically disable camera + mic + whatever, and ALSO have hooks that enable you to do extra things with it in software?

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    Comment #47116367

    Why don't you work on improving rsync, rather than reinventing the wheel? Or create something new?? It's fine as a personal project, but as soon as you get other people using your …

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    Comment #47084447

    C++ destructors are implicit, while defer is explicit. You can just look at the code in front of you to see what defer is doing. With destructors, you need to know what type you ha…

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    Comment #46969807

    Example: If a build is going on in the background, I can see when it stops.

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    Comment #46957440

    Windows XP was a disaster. Resistance to adopting it was industry wide, and lasted years. It was only with Service Pack 2 (which was an enormous rewrite of basically the whole syst…

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    Comment #46932312

    That's insane.

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    Comment #46926127

    I bet someone who knew Bash well enough could probably just optimise the original script (xargs -P perhaps, to parallelise the calls to ln?), but no it must be rewritten in Rust, b…