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bilalnpe

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    Comment #49060578

    Yeah, no one is obligated to engage with it. They did not dismiss the argument but refused to engage with it. This is totally valid and the point is to send a signal to the “writer…

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    Comment #49030267

    Do they not bother designing airframes to withstand more because the human wouldn't survive it anyway?

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    Comment #35006385

    I don't have an issue with using the term poor to describe people lacking money but it has other definitions and uses. The second and third definitions I get from define:poor on Go…

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    Comment #34614328

    Things like 1+1=2, water is wet, sky is blue?

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    Comment #34151412

    >My (naive) hope is that this might also discourage offshoring and/or reward companies employing Americans, if enough people do likewise. I doubt that. Instead they'll probably sta…

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    Comment #34150415

    Yeah, they spoof local numbers. I haven't lived in the city my area code is from in a long time. Occasionally I'll answer calls from there when I'm bored and it's always a scammer.…

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    Comment #34080396

    Similar to the Facebook outage earlier. Apparently everything is managed through Facebook accounts so employees could not get access to fix the issues.

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    Comment #32516769

    All of that is totally fine and not what people are upset about. If your entire app is just a web browser that renders your website, that should be fine too. The problem is when th…

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    Comment #32516600

    Apple and Google have guidelines about what apps are/aren't allowed to if they want to be on their app store. "Protecting the user" is supposed to be one reasons they take a 30% cu…

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    Comment #32339026

    >desire/appeal for a label that means "all Asians except those from the Indian subcontinent, middle-east, or central Asia", That used to be referred to as 'oriental'. Now 'East Asi…

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    Comment #32293293

    Torture. Getting beaten with a rubber hose.

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    Comment #31940948

    The same was said about MoviePass

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    Comment #31626726

    They could confirm the address you are requesting with the billing address on the card. This is what the '$1 authorized charge' is for when you submit the address change/mail forwa…

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    Comment #31626689

    Some have a prepaid envelop for your response.

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    Comment #31626662

    >I wish I had the skills to prolong the call. You could start by giving them more realistic car details. I engaged them one time when I got really annoyed. Gave fake car details (b…

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    Comment #29935872

    >but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison No, it's an apples-to-nvidias comparison

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    Comment #29805426

    Yes, this alone probably won't lead to unique user. This would be just another data point to narrow down the probable users.

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    Comment #29658865

    If it's faster spreading, it could "overwhelm the healthcare system" in areas where Delta would have been manageable.