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duckfang

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    Comment #27401452

    switch the letters of my username. that's what I think of you.

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    Comment #27401349

    Its not the first time you've been caught in a lie, dang. But folks, this is the secret hackernews site, called BookFace. This is the site that the event happened. Its also a nice …

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    Comment #27394218

    > In my opinion, the truly beautiful concept involved here is Euler's formula: > e^(ix) = cos x + i sin x. And that right there, is the mathematical basis for a quadrature mixer...…

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    Comment #27387434

    But that's always been true. And companies are going to do that if they can, regardless if we WfH or WfW. More than a few of us have seen the mass firings, and training some barely…

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    Comment #27383357

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jaywalking-arrest-black-... https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/stopped-... https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reform…

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    Comment #27383003

    EVERYTHING is political, when involving more than 1 person. The DMCA is political, and is the basis in which most orgs allow public comment. Copyright is political. Patents are pol…

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    Comment #27382426

    I've refused going on WebEx calls and claim technical reasons why it doesnt work. ANYTHING is better than Webex. Even smoke signals over IP is better.

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    Comment #27382303

    The Palestinians are also Semitic peoples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages Being against the peoples of Palestine makes you an anti-Semite as well. Edit: the downvo…

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    Comment #27361364

    - Social chatter. I associate with my friends and a few groups I frequent. I've never felt the compunction to do this at work or with work people for the most part. - Making friend…

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    Comment #27356082

    redtube you say? redtube.com is a porn site. Its a poor product naming with google. I'd imagine that's going to make for some consternation.

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    Comment #27347103

    It's not just VC finding. It's YCombinator funding. From https://tracxn.com/d/companies/platohq.com Jun 01, 2016 : $120K : Seed : Y Combinator How many predatory and scammy compani…

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    Comment #27346650

    I suggest you look up some reading on the subject, and try to shy away from the US propaganda. No Choice but War: The United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in…

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    Comment #27346376

    Lets remind us our dates. July 4, 1898, the Newlands Resolution was a joint resolution by the United States Congress to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii. In 1900, Congress …

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    Comment #27327923

    Same here, with their email AND vpn. Its been flawless so far, tech wise. But yeah, they really need to control and focus their core message to a tech board. If you whiff that (whi…

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    Comment #27327315

    This line of discussion from Protonmail is making me greatly reconsider closing my accounts (plural) there for VPN and mail service. This is embarrassing at minimum, and show negat…

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    Comment #27322003

    s/backed MMO metaverse game //g Fixed the title for you.

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    Comment #27317018

    No. That's called bible-thumping. In our world, it's trivially easy to get hold of any major religion's works, and only moderately difficult to get hold of smaller religion's works…

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    Comment #27316916

    Good question. My guess is, since your text is pretty gray, that the downvoter brigade also hit you too. I didnt go to news.somereligion.com . And being biblethumped is not indicat…

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    Comment #27316470

    Sorry, but I dont base my worldview on what a bunch of bronze-age people said. It's a good mythological story, though. We have science. -------------------------------- Edit: I rea…

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    Comment #27302749

    Convenient that you ignore my link: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2... ------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 11-20 Apri…

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    Comment #27302460

    Of course it's political. The claim is "Chinese military virology lab was experimenting with highly infectious material, and it escaped into the general population." And back in Oc…

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    Comment #27302399

    Easy to say that. But when you tear these claims down, they started with anything but factual or substantial. 1. COVID wasnt caused by 5G. Nor vice versa. 2. We've seen MERS, SARS,…

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    Comment #27302202

    You can say that, but I've heard the diatribes that the "China virus" was because they were playing with 5G and viruses and it escaped into bats and those chinamen ate the bats and…

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    Comment #27301911

    The company was a shell company owned by Greetings, across from Peoples' Park. They sell lots of novelty goods like this still.