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falsemyrmidon

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    Comment #49223474

    Is this an ad?

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    Comment #49197510

    Because markets are neither rational nor perfectly elastic.

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    Comment #49156782

    It's the dosage that makes the poison. If you dumped it all in the ocean in a single spot then yes, it would probably kill the local ecosystem.

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    Comment #49081735

    It's just as easy to go too far in the direction of shoving too much logic on a single line in the name of reducing lines of code.

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    Comment #49051078

    I just tried that with claude > The 2020 U.S. presidential election was won by Joe Biden, who defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump. Biden secured 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232…

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    Comment #49048860

    So glad we're becoming as locked down as iOS

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    Comment #49019113

    Who do you think should be voting if not their active users?

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    Comment #48979838

    This reads like some of that covert Russian election influence they're so fond of.

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    Comment #48979710

    My wife already doesn't do that

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    Comment #48958716

    I stopped doing it when I was in high school (I just stood there) and no one cared. This would have been about 22 years ago

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    Comment #48958600

    With the steam deck 5% is around 300% to 500% growth over the last 5 years

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    Comment #48935408

    I got a pixel 10 for 350 a few weeks ago.

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    Comment #48796410

    That seems like a lot of effort to go through

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    Comment #48793411

    Plumbers build all the pipes, but one of the aforementioned professional engineers created a drawing of where they would go and how the water and sewage would move through the buil…

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    Comment #48715825

    You may as well just randomly pick 65 to discard, if your only goal is to reduce the number for review.

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    Comment #48646756

    Gold is shiny and can make nice jewelry and other things shiny.

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    Comment #48646596

    Crypto has been the bad place for almost 10 years. It lost it's shot at being mainstream when Steam stopped accepting Bitcoin payments due to price instability.

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    Comment #48628156

    At some point I just work here man, and my job is to do whatever dumb shit management wants me to do this quarter, no matter how dumb it is.

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    Comment #48614197

    You could just as easily edit it, print it, then scan it again. This tech doesn't enable you to do anything you couldn't already do. The real problem is that written signatures are…

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    Comment #48610406

    Seeing what you made get to the point that that's an issue is a "a good problem". Yes, it's worth it to optimize at that point, but that's still an argument for what I consider pre…

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    Comment #48606420

    As someone that's a senior at a large corp, I absolutely do not want someone making the codebase more complex with the only benefit being being that it's now barely measurably fast…

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    Comment #48554420

    It's still about getting users even if you're not charging money for it. If you want to make an open source thing and don't care about getting users then that's great for you I gue…

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    Comment #48518964

    You think they wouldn't use every tool available to then, including the census data?

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    Comment #48504717

    The barrow wights and old man willow are kind of cool.

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    Comment #48503410

    After decades of infamous quality drops that have impacted their reputation and finally bottom line under non technical CEOs.