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graywh

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    Comment #48987434

    they (and others like them) also make zero effort to install poles complying with highway safety standards

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    Comment #45350464

    ZIP codes also span county boundaries that aren't state boundaries -- I know of several in my county alone

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    Comment #44640125

    a list of known games and tested "well-behaving" codes the really fun part was exploring building your own codes and how/why they worked or didn't

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    Comment #43789647

    can they at least fix the interstate highway exits it thinks are splits? why do I need to be told to keep left at random exits?

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    Comment #43789618

    double-check it on openstreetmap.org

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    Comment #43789612

    hundreds of people in my city-county really think they live in a city in the next county over just because of the "city" label on their zip code

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    Comment #43538875

    the rule for FG/XP attempts is for the safety of the long snapper, not the kicker

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    Comment #42703810

    I've had this happen when booking directly with an IHG hotel. My reservation in their system said I had a 2x queen room, but the hotel's end showed 1x king.

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    Comment #42657443

    > Batteries included. this is the Python standard library motto

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    Comment #40366940

    we've been searching for blood biomarkers for cancer for decades -- I'm sure we've found several by now

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    Comment #40238729

    32 whistleblowers in the last 3 years

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    Comment #40004540

    the government still uses them

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    Comment #39817137

    can I interest you in R?

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    Comment #39149319

    in English, we refer to smashed-together word(s) as "portmanteau", a French word that is a portmanteau itself

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    Comment #39119181

    kicking range would be meaningless in this situation if you fail, you still trail by 8

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    Comment #39119162

    if the Bucs use that timeout, the Lions could still get the clock to around 11 seconds before needing to punt

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    Comment #38380915

    "suburbia" generally refers to areas that were built out in the last 70 years, not towns that are 300+ years old

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    Comment #38311260

    I'm still using the coax for my OTA antenna

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    Comment #38264948

    the report is from the US Energy Information Administration

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    Comment #38264934

    > For one thing, the definition of “using electricity to heat their homes” used by the federal energy office appears to mean the use of electrical resistance baseboard heating vers…

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    Comment #38251299

    cubicle walls or not, windows are often blocked by office walls

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    Comment #38134467

    this wasn't the usual "pretend to be a victim" bit

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    Comment #38103396

    https://www.nationalmerchants.com/is-it-legal-to-surcharge-o...