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hgsgm

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    Comment #48107331

    Yet again, our government ignores the national security threat from foreign terrorists. The State serves only itself. "Company pays" means "customers (taxpayers) pay", since Canvas…

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    Comment #48107322

    The government pays farms to burn crops. It's not the destruction that matters; it's the promise not to distribute that matters. For uniquely identifiable data and objects, a reput…

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    Comment #37500632

    It doesn't matter whether NSO are genius hackers or their freelancers are. They are still outsmarting Apple all day long.

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    Comment #37495980

    Much better article that actually explains the form https://blog.displate.com/rubber-hose-animation/

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    Comment #37491285

    You can't simply ignore the base rate, even if you don't know it. In a purely random world, 5% of experiments are false positives, at p=0.05. None are true positives. In a well ord…

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    Comment #37491217

    What's a reasonable number of categories? 10?

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    Comment #37490957

    On Android, the Learn More links aren't present, so the privacy invasion is not disclosed at all, beyond the deceptive first-page "summary".

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    Comment #37490911

    Sounds like regular parks in my city.

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    Comment #37490831

    Hmm? If "we feel a need to do it" makes it morally praiseworthy, then mirder, rape and thievery are morally praiseworthy.

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    Comment #37452357

    Strange that people are so strongly opposed to accurate facts.

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    Comment #37451976

    50 of the town's 700 residents.

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    Comment #37451958

    At least $4M was cancelled (due to false income statement on the application). I suspect more was cancelled. https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/06/15/judge-cancels-4m-life...

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    Comment #37450516

    Parent didn't say "Euclidean" It's finite. The same "point at infinity" also exists on circles (like a clock) and spheres (like the Earth) and toruses (like a bagel).

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    Comment #37450480

    https://www.google.com/search?q=set+game

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    Comment #37435651

    There's no way that's true. It may be "reported" as a typo or troll in the document.

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    Comment #37435640

    > The leaked salary data from Google reveals that employees with longer tenure with the company and who held higher-level positions tended to have higher salaries. And Women and Bl…

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    Comment #37435600

    No, the article headline and body incorrectly capitalize Pay

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    Comment #37420762

    Even a gym subscription is a startup that will probably fail. Almost everything new is hard.

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    Comment #37420716

    The sponsors already paid.

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    Comment #37420702

    RT is an industry shill site, fine. Worse is that Web Search Engines promote it as authoritative gospel.

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    Comment #37420671

    What gives you that feeling? Educate us.

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    Comment #37414268

    Sure, if you create a larger object it can contain two smaller objects. But that construction is so general that it contains all proofs of the from "There exists X that does not ha…

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    Comment #37414083

    No, it's not like that at all. It's just an algorithm that contradicts itself, like Russell's Paradox.

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    Comment #37414076

    I tried to comment that on the article. But they use Disqus which is hostile to people making comments.