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halloij
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Comment #16367746
"Google will continue along the road of censorship and policing websites to further their path to complete web dominance and control."?
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Comment #16283105
Bitcoin is more like the million dollar homepage, except the homepage grows by a few pixels each day. > its not as if all crypto will die overnight. I think you'll be surprised.
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Comment #15337437
What does duckduckgo actually have to buy?
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Comment #15337403
They should have stepped in about 10 years ago.
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Comment #15242281
Hint: Over the same time period, womens own reported "happiness" has gradually and steadily declined. Well done ladies! You made yourselves miserable
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Comment #15174025
It's a clickbait title. Should be changed... Sure, it's an interesting list, but no. Not every programmer needs or would want to know.
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Comment #15012575
I love that this is getting down-voted. Because the liberal agenda is more important than scientific biological facts to some people :)
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Comment #15010359
> And WHY would this be a problem inherent to women? Because men and women have entirely different brains. They have entirely different strengths and weaknesses. Hate to break that…
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Comment #14870367
Agreed. When they say something like 90% of all new businesses fail, that doesn't mean you shouldn't start a new business, it just means a lot of stupid ill prepared people start b…
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Comment #14721547
> Are you trying to make some kind of analogy to humans being limited to a certain skill set because of genetics? Of course I am. Do you think anyone can be a great basketball play…
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Comment #14710891
2. The problem here is that you can't train a bulldog to herd sheep. You can't train a poodle to be a livestock guardian. Much of what working dogs do is pre-programmed. It's insti…
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Comment #14663186
Shame they can't issue wildcard certs. I don't see why they cannot.
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Comment #14661802
Why would your ISP allow you to send packets with a source address it hasn't allocated to YOU? That kind of check/enforcement is pretty cheap and simple.
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Comment #14559484
> If tourist movement is spread out across Europe equally It's not.
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Comment #14559467
Phew. That's good to know. As someone who has absolutely no desire to ever need "roaming", it's good to know it won't be forced on people.
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Comment #14559431
What a fantastic comment. Well thought out, and spot on! Well done you. Please tell us your opinions on Trump as well!
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Comment #14559422
There is still a cost. And that cost is going to be passed on to everyone whether you use it or not.
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Comment #14559410
So the cost incurred will be passed on to everyone in higher fees. eg people who never "roam" are going to be subsidising those people that do. A negative move spun as a positive..…
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Comment #14408448
There's a reason for that though - land in Scotland isn't as useful or valuable.
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Comment #14408438
> "Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets." > This seems really strange to me. Why should this be the case? It's not. It's a clickbait title. There is a lan…
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Comment #14361486
XML generators and parsers have been in use for a decade+. Pretty sure most of the bugs have been found and fixed by now. It's just reinventing the wheel because the new generation…
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Comment #14361145
If you're writing these things by hand, you're probably doing something wrong...
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Comment #14211829
"Lane changes" aren't really much of a thing in the UK either. Firstly, in the UK they aren't 'equal' lanes. They are for overtaking only. Undertaking is illegal. So we don't just …
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Comment #14202808
> Surely this isn't something we need to guess at, there are roads with such systems and similar roads without and those can be compared. It's mainly done for political reasons or …
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Comment #14202796
I would also say Cruise control results in more dangerous driving. If you're traveling at a constant speed, things get boring FAST. It's easy to just get bored, stop paying attenti…