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Comment #17214344
I honestly don't know why advertisers care where their advertisements appear. If they all just disclaimed any control over the associations with their advertising nobody would care…
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Comment #16806656
Equality absolutely does exist in mathematics.
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Comment #16790491
The GDPR does not apply to EU IP addresses. It applies to EU residents and citizens.
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Comment #16779897
Your USPS question has now been deleted by the way. Wow.
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Comment #16779119
Use reddit's '.compact'. It's a far superior mobile site than the normal mobile reddit site. Take any subreddit and add .compact at the end of the URL. e.g. https://reddit.com/r/pr…
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Comment #16779113
You're just plain wrong, mate. Anyone can ask a question. You just can't ask the same question that's been answered before or a question that is blatantly off topic.
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Comment #16753773
They did. Look at Ultima Online and other very early MMORPGs. They were called 'Graphical MUDs'.
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Comment #16753765
In the Witcher 3 you are playing a specific character created by the developers. It's a bit like a JRPG in that sense. Most western RPGs have you play as your own character.
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Comment #16751730
I pay an inescapable 15% goods and services tax on everything I buy. So yes.
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Comment #16751097
The Beatles is definitely gaining more fans that they're losing.
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Comment #16743986
>This overload means it now makes little sense to ask for the ‘chronological feed’ back. If you have 1,500 or 3,000 items a day, then the chronological feed is actually just the it…
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Comment #16703850
>However, some people find computers frustrating, stupid or boring. Such a person probably wouldn't enjoy a job working with them all the time - and it's difficult to build the ski…
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Comment #16561036
Maybe rampant neoliberalism is the 'great radicaliser' and YouTube is just the communications platform people are using?
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Comment #16528477
>Web forums sucked though. Slashdot figured out the right idea, the entire conversation loaded at once, one big page, it took the rest of the web a lot time to catch up. Web forums…
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Comment #16520346
Something isn't harmful to you just because it has the word 'estrogen' in its name.
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Comment #16511881
>female advantage in school marks If this were the other way around, it would be decried as a biased system and enormous effort would be put into 'fixing it'. As it is, it's just a…
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Comment #16511863
Having children with a sibling isn't anywhere near as dangerous as people think it is. People seem to think it nearly guarantees birth defects. It really doesn't. Cousins are even …
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Comment #16455916
Or you can just charge for open source software, which is already legal.
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Comment #16451254
'Serverless' has to be the stupidest idea I've seen in a long time. How could it POSSIBLY be a good idea?
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Comment #16444721
Why would I want to use this over Guix?
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Comment #16444719
But it isn't unusuable. It's in fact very usable. Things can be 'notorious for X' without actually being X.
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Comment #16435655
The 'American dream' has never existed in the form you seem to think it has. It's never been possible for everyone to 'make it big'. That's just physically impossible. The problem …
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Comment #16435605
It's still considered insane to suggest that today. > It is well known that everyone has a limited supply of willpower. It might be well known, but it's also not true. Things aren'…
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Comment #16428387
They're called CS programmes, but they're definitely seng programmes in reality.
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Comment #16428300
And are probably easier to get your hands on in a less embarrassing way than going to an STD clinic.