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kevin_thibedeau
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Comment #49213439
The people who make the laws are the wealthy who pay their think tanks and lobbyists to write them. Nobody gets elected without being owned by a puppet master.
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Comment #49212550
Chicken pox is conquered. We went from 95% to <1%. Shingles will see a similar plunge.
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Comment #49212488
> Similar sad nonsense It's amazing how they normalized fillers to the point of being hideous and convinced themselves that that's a beautiful aesthetic. The consensus seeking hive…
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Comment #49211209
Singapore has severe consequences for executives who violate the public trust. That makes it hard for sociopaths to rig the system for the elites.
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Comment #49211099
If the storage is on US soil their contractual privacy declaration is meaningless. They can either be forced to hand over data or they can be backdoored to take it without their kn…
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Comment #49204588
You don't need a loop, just a toothed slot.
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Comment #49202875
Then we can have machine psychologists pull cards when they run amok.
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Comment #49178365
MMS costs more on the backend.
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Comment #49174630
A bit disparaging of morons. It takes a special kind of imbecile to ignore decades of war planning that pointed out the vulnerability of the strait.
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Comment #49163883
The problem is that even if you want to pay a premium, you can't be sure you're getting a better, more reliable product. It's safer to gamble on the economy option and replace as n…
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Comment #49158921
Not whole sets but individual fingers have turned up duplicates.
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Comment #49156976
Identical prints do exist. As with lab contamination of DNA, there is a potential for false accusation when you submit to dragnet biometric databases.
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Comment #49149534
English is a fault tolerant language that is usually comprehensible with errors. That isn't generally applicable to all languages.
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Comment #49149288
You can wordificate cromulent lexemes with abandon. The English language don't care.
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Comment #49139985
Windows needs to just adopt this rather than punish users with the alt codes. Compose key is so much better than dicking around with an IME or dead keys.
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Comment #49127856
The fix is a Google Voice number that you replace every few years. Keep your permanent number guarded for critical services only.
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Comment #49127698
> it is legally forbidden to have any morals that get in the way of shareholder profit. That isn't true. It's just the favored solution chosen by sociopaths who climb to the top. M…
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Comment #49125320
Pardons go for $3M these days.
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Comment #49125197
It's not a problem when other nations borrow in the fiat currency. They're being taught to seek alternative, more tolerable regimes to invest in. Once they establish a better alter…
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Comment #49124374
The intentional typo "is't" needs work. Either drop the apostrophe like the yoots or stick to believable transpositions.
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Comment #49124161
Good at constructing paragraphs, yeah. Generating coherent plotting and character development is still a human skill.
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Comment #49118367
Blockchain has higher compute density. Nobody was bitching when the miners built out their datacenters.
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Comment #49117735
Can someone explain why the new crop of datacenters are considered to be noisy?. I've been around the Wall Street datacenters in Jersey and they are basically the same as nondescri…
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Comment #49112237
The sensible solution doesn't build a consumer profile for resale and government surveillance.
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Comment #49105178
I abandoned cover letters when I showed up to an interview and the interviewer complained that my resume was too thin. That was on purpose because a lot of the meat was in the cove…