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    Comment #47442686

    Hilary Duff just released a new album too.

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    Comment #40918079

    I think he's given you examples of where music can be priced "below the impulse buy threshold". Supporting the claim are several studies that pirates or piracy advocates are often …

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    Comment #39981660

    I used to mine bitcoin on my VPCEC right after GPU support was available. I had bought it specifically to have a portable 1080p screen while in college for CS. Until just a few mon…

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    Comment #38015768

    It does work if you spray it directly in the nose. It does not work orally. I wonder if they think that CVS will be removing the spray.

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    Comment #36870124

    I've been playing it for 20 minutes. It's fun so far.

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    Comment #34252147

    I was wondering about that, actually. I am interested in magic, very much, and I have seen tons and tons. I also felt like it was beyond anything I have ever seen, and wondered if …

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    Comment #34251831

    DHL, which has normally been spectacular, got me the other week. I was getting a package delivered on Monday that I needed by Thursday at noon. It required a signature, so I filled…

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    Comment #33835529

    Whoa, you didn't hear about Roy Moore?

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    Comment #32268922

    I wonder if people are actually having their lives "ruined" by vaping. Maybe. What would be worse is if vaping wasn't available and they went from nothing to cigarettes. I guess yo…

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    Comment #32056853

    https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2020/12/12/worlds-thinnest-mo... The thinnest quartz watches have all been made well in the past, as far as I'm aware. They were still made to be pra…

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    Comment #31937374

    Asteroid Day "is the United Nations sanctioned day of public awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts" [0] though in practice, it's a pretty fun day of learning about asteroids t…

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    Comment #30603372

    People don't need to remember and apply formulas. They just need an intuition that they could be applied and how that might change the appearance of the statistics, as a kind of ga…

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    Comment #30528750

    $399 if you'd like keys on your keyboard.

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    Comment #21314577

    Probably because they prefer, or think they prefer, Google results to DDG results and don't realize that a decent company (ixquick developer) runs the domain StartPage.com https://…

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    Comment #21159624

    I installed it on one server that I only ssh to JUST to use that ebook-convert so I can read anything (epub, mobi, pdf, etc) on the command line. It's so easy to use, detects to- a…

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    Comment #20964701

    Most weight your body actually loses (as in not water) is lost as carbon in the CO2 you exhale.

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    Comment #20880941

    I did! Thank you!

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    Comment #20628612

    That was the sentence that made it clear it was satire, for me. I was only at about 60% sure before that, based on the hyperbole.

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    Comment #20183881

    Sure. I'll agree with your definition then! *Ah, what the fork! I just realized you're a GIMPer. You think that thing I said about the 1998 drama is what inferiorhuman was referenc…

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    Comment #20179597

    333! None of which really compete, but yeah, literally hundreds. Just one big one though, GIMP Painter.

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    Comment #20178063

    I'm not sure I follow your logic, but if it helps clear anything up, I did emphasize that this was an old story, like twice. I am also aware that Qt is GPL now, and that GIMP has h…

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    Comment #20178045

    I don't think they even forked it necessarily, and the Qt hack/patch wasn't even published. It was just presented at some Linux thing. This was the only story I could find that res…

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    Comment #20176316

    Over 20 years ago, Matthias Ettrich made a Qt GUI for GIMP. GIMP community apparently didn't like him doing that, don't know why. It may have had something to do with licensing -- …

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    Comment #20052492

    Or roughly $72,000-73,000 per household, assuming 127 million households and working with the numbers in your comment. If we stole all the money from every 10%er household, who con…