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bgroins
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Comment #49044015
There are trillions of dollars at play, so probably
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Comment #48951300
Slightly different impression
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Comment #46864263
Worse than the Superconducting Supercollider?
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Comment #44597848
History
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Comment #37752720
The article is poorly written. "Scammers are using cellphone's Bluetooth option to hack the pump - and get it for free." is all the detail you get. My cellphone's Bluetooth doesn't…
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Comment #32069489
So one has a right to privacy and the other doesn't? Are companies not allowed to secure their data?
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Comment #31707740
Yes, works fine on Windows 11
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Comment #30402766
Seconded. It can use some work but I do enjoy the ability to add my own music and workout to a favorite album with the playlist option.
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Comment #29469218
The Gram series has been phenomenal in my experience, especially considering the price.
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Comment #28419033
Funny enough, I learned about Claudette Colvin from this Drunk History episode. https://youtu.be/Tov2tLSFq5k
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Comment #27542847
The reasoning is well established at this point. It was started by the Nixon administration to reduce the amount of left and left-leaning voters, particularly black Americans. "The…
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Comment #25157033
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is probably a test record for whatever software they use.
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Comment #23091847
I'd rather just focus on the 10% that is the detailed content, versus 90% hype, but to each their own. I don't need to be told for 3 hours that every minor feature is an Earth-shat…
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Comment #21837239
Yeah this is an extremely limited use case with very few data points. It doesn't take into account corporate discounts, spot instances, reserved instances, savings gained from repl…
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Comment #19934701
A bit hyperbolic don't you think? We've had Medicare since 1966 and despite the bad press the VA gets it has the highest rate of satisfaction of any system in the US. https://news.…
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Comment #19202550
Coming from a planet that launches a lot of alien spaceships, is it that implausible that it could be (or could have been) an alien spaceship?
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Comment #19081469
"media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground" if you're searching for this.
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Comment #19081442
As someone who has negotiated with AWS at the $1m/month level this is completely false.
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Comment #17523906
I started drinking Japanese whiskey because it was a better value than Scotch. Now I drink Scotch again because it's a better value than Japanese whiskey.
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Comment #17295435
> I think it's pretty obvious that on the whole, quality is generally proportional to cost. There are numerous examples that this is not true, and is a very common consumer misconc…
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Comment #17294479
> I have no evidence to back this up, but I'm guessing... I don't understand. You have admittedly have zero evidence that paying less for a LASIK procedure results in more complica…
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Comment #17101501
I love the incessant deification of Steve Jobs, regardless of his mistakes, juvenile behavior, and constant stories about his abuse of his staff. In this story Jobs mistakes the wr…
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Comment #17077278
If only we used all of that money spent on football programs to pay for higher education for poor kids. Wishful thinking I know.
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Comment #16755704
The irony being that Musk pushed the original engineers out of Tesla and took credit for their work.
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Comment #16507829
Sorry but this is complete crap. I'm not sure if you read the article, but it states: "More than two dozen clinical trials are aiming to modulate brainwaves in some way — some with…