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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…