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bfdm

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    Comment #48941985

    I would ask you to let me type letters in arbitrary boxes (out of order) to I can more easily construct words. It's pretty difficult to juggle the letters without placing them.

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    Comment #48858731

    If you're Google you could transcribe and summarize all videos on upload for easier consumption, but then you lose your ad revenue so...

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    Comment #48858643

    I quite enjoy that the "animate wheels" button animates the sun instead.

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    Comment #48143130

    Blast, tricked into learning by making you think you're cheating!

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    Comment #47792328

    I wish this had shown the modern interface for contrast with the others. I have no idea what the current Xbox UI looks like, so while I appreciate the legacy console examples I wou…

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    Comment #46562144

    I actually prefer the result of the first down sampling. The "metallic" steps remind me acutely of old NES game 8bit audio.

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    Comment #45934298

    Maybe I'm out of the loop here, but scanning over this I can't help but ask myself: "Why Jujutsu?" I don't understand what the point is over just using git. The top intro defined s…

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    Comment #45830439

    That's news to me. Do you have a source for that I can look at? Not being snarky. I would legitimately like to read more about this.

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    Comment #45741311

    Very curious what you expect to move to. The market outside those options is extremely limited.

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    Comment #45627855

    This is why we need to pass right to repair (or modify) legislation , return control over your own belongings. This must supersede any TPM/copyright restrictions or other encumbran…

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    Comment #45323434

    The telltale sign for me is that chopping an onion causes the layers to separate from pressure before the knife starts to cut in. Super dangerous.

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    Comment #45192968

    Yea we should change that. Corporate life without parole: sorry, you don't get to be a business anymore, bye.

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    Comment #45192344

    Not a an expert in this area at all, but I suspect there's an aspect here if maintaining productive capacity to replace imported food, if that became unavailable. Cursory searching…

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    Comment #45089360

    Because it's bad for consumers to lose choices, even if they don't normally exercise those choices. The choice is the distributed power we have against the consolidated corporate p…

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    Comment #44183060

    There is interest, but thanks to DMCA 1201 they put a thin veneer of encryption on it and suddenly it's a felony to make/use that third party tool.

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    Comment #44067957

    This a real loss. I'll miss Glitch for rapid experimentation with UI and APIs together.

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    Comment #43793333

    I imagine with something like: Person name, Local-area name, Region Name, Country name, Phone number This gets it to the nearest handler to the local area, who then needs to know w…

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    Comment #43767646

    If chrome were split out (and subsequently stopped giving Google direct access to user data), Google would need them too. It would impact all ad players equally.

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    Comment #43715887

    This is widely understood to mean "free to the patient at time of use/need". Stop being deliberately obtuse.

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    Comment #43700986

    > Last year the second largest outlay behind social security was the interest payment at a trillion dollars. This is a trillion dollars that cannot be used to provide government se…

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    Comment #43524536

    Agreed. Sorry I had misunderstood your message as advocating for stopping the service.

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    Comment #43524266

    Care to try to explain how that would be a positive change for America?

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    Comment #43432045

    What? Why?

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    Comment #43378937

    Dying or becoming disable long term are also pretty bad for socializing. Anyone trying to take reasonable precautions for themselves or to protect vulnerable people around them has…

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    Comment #43306114

    What were the drawbacks? I guess, what motivated the revert.