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clear_dg

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    To call this "cheating", you have to assume that car manufacturers are more knowledgeable about car safety in general than NHTSA, to be able to spot the loopholes. It may be true, …

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    uMatrix can block frames and js requests on a domain/sub-domain level. afaik, it can't block at url level, if that's what you meant. That said, uMatrix, from what I remember, uses …

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    I think there's an assumption that the default DE gets more attention from the distro; it's more polished, and "just works" (or at least, something approaching the concept on Linux…

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    > why will we be supporting both WebM and animated WebP? From: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq (Why not simply support WebM in ?) WebM uses more memory, it is less wid…

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    Who cares about deniability or skepticism in an apocalyptic scenario as described? Do you really think cool heads would prevail if China was put in a such a situation? Chaos, and d…

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    > Within 6 months half the worlds population would be gone. Within 6 months, a country with nuclear weapons is forced in a desperate situation. What could go wrong? Is there really…

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    Call me cynical, but in my opinion, any company using the service of such agencies, have to know the possibility of abuses and unethical practices that might happen. They may even …

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    Paranoid like Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Venezuela, Thailand, Turkey, etc...? They all have Linux distros, sponsored nationally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State-…

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    Champagne is literally the name of the area where the product comes from. It makes perfect sense that anything that doesn't come from the region Champagne, isn't champagne... Call …

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    > What might be worse is it's quite possible Boeing is finding out through this reporting. _If_ Boeing really is behind all this, they may well be unaware of the specific details, …

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    This is what Bloomberg's article refers to as "unrelated reasons" for Apple cutting ties with Supermicro in 2016. > Three senior insiders at Apple say that in the summer of 2015, i…

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_(number)#In_religion

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20181003121506/https://slate.com...

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    Comment #18132254

    Check searx https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/

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    > its that they likely are using bots to upvote as well. Doesn't seem the case to me. The majority of BBC submissions, even by the OP, sit only at a few points.