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badbug

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    Comment #18148831

    Buying isn't always the best option but don't forget about potential appreciation and tax write-offs in your financial decisions.

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    Comment #18123998

    Google "co-working space". Then imagine someone sleeping in the picture

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    Comment #18085637

    There is no doubt that pihole works for some people. I'm just giving my honest review: it didn't work for me. It blocked too much. I asked for guidance and got a lecture about priv…

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    Comment #18080764

    Can't find it, it may have been on chat. But I did find a very similar request here with a work around: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/49ckht/feature_requ... So I underst…

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    Comment #18080306

    You can whitelist but it isn't easy for non-technical users and becomes a huge chore. And this story is 100% accurate. I'll try and find it.

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    Comment #18080288

    Yes, it was. In fact, I think it was you personally, lol.

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    Comment #18077201

    They may be suffering in silence. Ask them if any sites or emails seem broken.

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    Comment #18077190

    I spoke directly with the pihole maintainers. They took a Hardline position that them blocking email from my city was the right thing to do because it used click tracking or some o…

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    Comment #18077156

    Yes you can. But having non-technical people verbalize the need to whitelist a domain is incredibly painful.

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    Comment #18076621

    How do I edit the hosts file on my iPhone?

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    Comment #18076603

    I tried pi-hole but my family couldn't make it work. Pihole blocks a lot of content they want to see, for example, email newsletters from our city gov. I understand why (privacy/tr…

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    Comment #17987462

    They keep your cc on file so the next transaction is simply a text message.

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    Comment #17979082

    For some people, Google sheets was their first spreadsheet and people tend to stick with what they know.

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    Comment #17953895

    The working class will be too busy trying to keep up. There won't be time for a revolution.

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    Comment #17918469

    > I'm 40 this year and as a milestone birthday It's only a milestone if you make it a milestone. You don't have to participate in these made up events if you don't want to. I'd rec…

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    Comment #17913983

    They would use Verizon if anything

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    Comment #17913074

    A nice lesson for the rest of us to learn.

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    Comment #17860118

    > can't win You are buying national brands. Try something a little more local

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    Comment #17837496

    Different priorities. The goal isn't to make beautiful software. The goal is a system flexible enough to meet the users needs. I also think it is a cultural. See SAP's blog entry "…

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    Comment #17828193

    I don't have unlimited ram and am not interested in subsidizing the companies cost at the expense of my resources.

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    Comment #17820075

    The upvote is an implicit down vote for other things. I think you need two things. First an upvote/downvote so that users can express their agree/disagree. This value wouldn't nece…

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    Comment #17819998

    Think about contentious issues like abortion, politics, vim vs emacs and the comments that could arise "Those other people should die in a fire" "But you should shoot them too, jus…

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    Comment #17819604

    "sentiment analysis" is flawed because it lacks broader context of the conversation. A negative/angry/abusive comment can still be a quality comment depending on the comments upstr…