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On a typewriter, you'd be able to just adjust the carriage position to make a continuous dash or underline or what have you. Typically I see XXXX over words instead of strike-throu…

And the XMPP Federation couldn't provide that ideal?

I didn't know they started banning people.

For me, it's the dinosaur game you can play when the internet is down.

I suspect that's related to the high degree of speculation and the lack of commodity backing.

Vermont gas distributors have the highest profit margins in the nation. The gasoline oligopoly here is committed to creating high barriers to entry. This includes buying their comp…

Then again, considering the number of retailers that categorize sex toys under sexual health and wellness, health being the keyword, is it possible that HIPAA could be relevant? An…

The article says 300,000 people. The talk says 2 million people.

Crowdsourced moderation, like downvote buttons on certain websites, hasn't worked particularly well. Wikipedia probably has the most appropriate moderation model I've come across. …

Was that also the case with people googling google.com? https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=google.com

I'm not saying that Americans shouldn't own this problem, but it's notable that Trump's presidency isn't even majority representation, nevermind democracy.

Hearing any mention of VR brings back memories of me trying out Mario's Tennis on the Nintendo Virtual Boy at Blockbuster Video back in the 1990s and then having a headache for the…

The company that fired their mascot?

You can be arrested without probable cause and still not be able to expunge the record at all, as in not even be able to request so in court, so I wouldn't exactly call it a right.…

Are you kidding me about Google customer support? They're the only company that ever solved my problem with a Linux question, and later helped me when I purchased a movie on YouTub…

Most successful people are able to hire someone to manage a schedule planning out their days.

cell tower triangulation.

What about the code for this python regular expression engine that is filled with goto statements? https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/sre_li... Or the code for t…

Organic is pretty easy to get information on. https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/organic-standards From what I've been told, there are definitely some things you can do that…

How about this photo of Champ? http://www.csicop.org/si/show/new_information_surfaces_on_wo...

The URL that's supposed to redirect to HTTPS is still vulnerable to MitM. It can be modified in transit to serve up the same data as the HTTPS URL, but in plaintext, and potentiall…

The problems would be portrayed differently depending on different subsets of the userbase. I don't like all of /r/news moderation, but unfortunately it hasn't alienated enough peo…

Scientologist? Jehovah's Witness?

And it's a district commission appointed by the governor that makes the decisions.

It's several towns. What he's doing will disrupt the local economy by inflating prices on the real estate market. New people won't be able to afford to move to town because their p…