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bluefinity

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    Comment #42607507

    What duopoly? Just off the top of my head, there is at least Schindler, Otis, Kone, Toshiba, ThyssenKrupp, and Mitsubishi.

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    Comment #42437853

    macOS is not really a good OS for running a server anyway, and Docker Desktop is intended for development more than anything else.

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    Comment #42425946

    Jobs tries to bully and threaten a smaller company into signing an illegal agreement and all you have to say is how great of a writer he is because of how few sentences he wrote?

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    Comment #39460446

    To be fair, the tweet says that they don't work on the models at Google anymore, not that they have left Google. Might be true, might not be. It's unsourced speculation.

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    Comment #39438240

    (1) You can't really go based off "views" on Twitter. They don't really mean anything, just that someone scrolled past the tweet. I found that baguette tweet you were talking about…

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    Comment #39437491

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    Comment #38837385

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    Comment #37043487

    > Why wouldn't it have one? Because that's illegal?

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    Comment #37030352

    Most maps do that, even print ones. It's not about a "clean look", but about readability. There is also a scale, in the bottom right corner.

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    Comment #36903079

    I'm not sure Elbakyan receiving this award is particularly appropriate, considering she is strongly pro-Putin and is a big fan of Joseph Stalin (she regularly quotes him on VK).

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    Comment #36834362

    Nice conspiracy theory, but there is no declared upper limit on vitamin K.

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    Comment #36703010

    He only made 4 commits to the repo, so probably not.

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    Comment #31323190

    While "toxin" refers specifically to a poison produced by a living cell or organism, "toxic" does not -- it's a synonym of poisonous, directly derived from the Latin word for "pois…

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    Comment #31010589

    No, they definitely do not. Foreign relations is a federal responsibility, as laid out in the constitution.

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    Comment #31010582

    Have you read the commerce clause? It's not very long, so I'll post it here: > To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

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    Comment #30410847

    Which in turn is a clone of Sketch.

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    Comment #24165356

    You're arguing in very bad faith here. That's a huge misrepresentation of what pro-choice advocates want. > You're demanding a special privilege for your partner and then talking a…

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    Comment #12493946

    libccv perhaps?

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    Comment #12024721

    See definition 4 here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man#Noun

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    Comment #11952721

    HMF doesn't seem to be carcinogenic: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21462333

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    Comment #11578002

    The 16GB version of the current generation has 2GB memory. I got the 8GB (with 1GB memory) originally and ended up selling it and buying the higher-spec version. 2GB is just a much…

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    Comment #10965530

    Uber is the world's most highly valued private company? Somebody better tell Saudi Aramco.

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    Comment #10858227

    I don't think that's the reason, you could just quote the filename (which is commonly done if the name contains spaces anyway): myapp "-verify.txt"

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    Comment #9994024

    I had a lot of fun when I was younger with websites on https://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting , but no idea what they're like nowdays. Worth a look, in any case.

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    Comment #9973737

    That would be... disturbing. Fortunately it's not true, as you can see for yourself with the chrome developer tools.