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    Comment #19069395

    Interesting that you select only one example from the parent to construct an ad-hominem attack, and conveniently ignore the example that was provided that started in the 70's. Such…

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    Comment #17533937

    Care to expand on that thought? What's wrong with Gboard?

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    Comment #17505164

    Yes, I'm using it currently and have for over a year. It works well enough. However; The mobile apps haven't shown progress in over a year. Development on the main app is very slow…

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    Comment #15344582

    Source on this? I was under the impression DDG is it's own thing. Edit: Apparently they use yahoo and bing as a source for some of their results then filter and combine it with oth…

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    Comment #15209324

    You do give your consent. Everytime you deal with a financial, or credit issuing institution.

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    Comment #14938939

    Can I just ask. Why not use FreeBSD?

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    Comment #12590047

    Random info because I used to work at an office supply store: Most brother toner cartridges are cheaper because they separate the drum (That extra piece you take apart and place th…

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    Comment #12471028

    You really shouldn't need to be hard rebooting just because you ran out of ram... did you try a sysrq f (invokes the out of memory killer) first? If that doesn't work you should at…

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    Comment #12470986

    Ah, you're right I didn't look closely at the results. derp

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    Comment #12450645

    You just have to phrase it correctly: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+japan+ag... It's 4.75% according to alpha based on a 2010 estimate.

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    Comment #12440299

    In my experience XFS is rock solid. We use it almost everywhere at work. I've never had an issue with hard reboots with it. Only recently started playing with btrfs, so can't speak…

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    Comment #12434094

    Also most distro installers don't make it very easy to do this.

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    Comment #12434078

    Things like this is why I use XFS anywhere I'm not using btrfs, or ZFS.

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    Comment #12414975

    Yes, it generates an address to send them to.

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    Comment #12414944

    I believe the default setting in brave is to block ads not replace. The user has control over what the browser does.

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    Comment #12364037

    I believe it's Django

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    Comment #12024972

    Just seed the torrent.

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    Comment #12024935

    Already done. https://kat.cr/louis-rossmann-backup-t12864278.html

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    Comment #11962776

    Even with the ad blocker being a feature in opera out of the box? They were trying to show that opera can achieve better battery performance based on it's features and optimization…

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    Comment #11962735

    That wouldn't work. You don't get the same battery life out of a mac on windows as you do on macOS just sitting idle. I don't know how you would control for that.

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    Comment #11931142

    I think the parent meant bankruptcy as in not having any money for anything in your college years. You are correct Student loan debt can not be discharged in bankruptcy.

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    Comment #11320281

    That's a nice thought. But I think too much of our culture has been focused on assigning blame for these sort of things to the the "system". I'm sure some would come to the conclus…

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    Comment #10647702

    Wouldn't that pose problems for the navigation equipment?

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    Comment #8640028

    It's not even close to unregulated capitalism. in many areas Comcast has a legislated monopoly. Google is not some magic unicorn that's going to save us from old bloated mega corps…