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hortense

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    What was the first letter of the city in which that happened?

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    This is why devs are afraid of publicly criticizing Apple, let alone testifying against them in the court. Apple has shown that they will then prevent you from accessing 50%+ of th…

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    Comment #39027786

    To store dollars with a precision of 1 billionth of a cent, you store into your integers 1 billionth of cents instead of dollars.

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    Comment #39027775

    To store dollars with a precision of 1/10 cent, you store into your integers 1/10 cents instead of dollars.

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    Wouldn't that be Microsoft? It's worth 2.9T, vs Apple's 2.84T.

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    To store dollars with a precision of 1 cent, you store into your integers cents instead of dollars. No need to mess with anything more complicated.

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    You start spending all your time programming in middle school. By the time you enter college you know everything needed to write simple emulators, and then you meet other students …

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    Last time I looked, all the top commiters were from Google.

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    It's possible that the problem is that speech is not the right abstraction. Perhaps we should be advocating for something along the lines of "free expression of reasoning".

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    Comment #34703302

    No chance of Apple implementing this outside of the EU if they are not forced to. They are getting billions from Google every year because Safari is the most used browser on iOS, a…

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    > These are not coasters. Citation needed. Even if they were not coasters, I suspect they had a fat paycheck disproportionate to what they brought to the company.

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    If you take a constant fertility rate of 1, you'll always have an inverted pyramid, until there's no more pyramid. (I'm assuming that the life expectancy does not change significan…

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    > A perpetually inverted pyramid would require that fertility rate shrink even further, until it approaches 0 That is incorrect.

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    I would say he's trying to control the narrative so that his future prospective employers believe that he was not laid off because of his performance.

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