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kotajacob

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    Comment #21410184

    Just ban all ads.

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    Comment #20583350

    Markdown is actually a markup language which was inspired and built based on traditional email formatting.

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    Comment #19905996

    I wonder how long till we get the articles about teens using fortnite for sex. https://xkcd.com/1289/

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    Comment #19375065

    Additionally they'd have decent regular meals, presumably plenty of time to sleep, and time to work on schoolwork. Plus they probably don't need to work while in middleschool, high…

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    Comment #18590012

    I'm not sure who you have been giving money to, but Gorhill notoriously does not accept donations as he does not want this project to have money be a goal what-so-ever and does not…

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    Comment #18395188

    I see. However I disagree that they have a moral obligation to do something about it. You're setting up a bit of a false scenario. You said "if you don't believe we are a democracy…

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    Comment #18394290

    I do not need to have that opinion to understand that it exists. Personally I do vote and at least somewhat believe there is a democracy here in the states (especially compared to …

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    Comment #18391377

    and for people whom do not care about democracy and or do not believe we are in a democracy then?

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    Comment #18371861

    What's the reason for missing journaling file systems? Lack of developers? Design choice for code simplification? Security reasons? Or something else?

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    Comment #18293340

    Nowadays you could simply check with git blame right?

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    Comment #18097912

    I wonder if archive.org could actually store that much data.. and how long it would take to create a tar.xz of it.

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    Comment #17316963

    Libsixel is also pretty sweet. You can even integrate it with sdl and all kinds of crazy shit. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/

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    Comment #17241765

    Burn them, then update all your projects on GitHub to have nothing but a readme with a link to the video :p

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    Comment #17095450

    Makes sense... Thanks. There should be a law...

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    Comment #17095391

    Sorry if this is a stupid question, but do we know if this location was collected by the operating system of the mobile devices? Or was it being collected simply by data from carri…

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    Comment #16877638

    That's certainly an option, but choosing which subreddits to replace leadership on is a very tricky task. You can't realistically say all subs and picking and choosing will cause r…

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    Comment #16838777

    I agree that it should stay public, but because giving the government the power to destroy information and erase history in any sense is a very slippery slope. That said in the abo…

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    Comment #15514193

    It's pretty clearly key-logging and on top of that they've had poor security in the past which is not great when they're key-logging everything you type. Personally I can't say I t…

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    Comment #12765953

    Everyone's talking about switching emails, but realistically how difficult do you think it will be. Changing it for all the services you use and informing everyone? Or are you just…

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    Comment #10604757

    The main reason people have a hard time trusting them is because they aren't always completely honest with us... which isn't a great way to get trust from your citizens.