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lobf

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    Comment #48809650

    I simply do not take acetaminophen because of this risk.

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    Comment #48728753

    Well regardless, the obvious answer is that you simply turn your zines in to slurry in a bucket or sink, you don’t drive them anywhere.

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    Comment #48728722

    This just reminds me that I have my old MicroATX HTPC (remember that term?) that I built in about 2010 sitting in a closet. I bet I haven’t booted it since 2014. I wonder what’s on…

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    Comment #48675881

    Yes, the 2006 one is the one I'm talking about. From the opening of the article: >Prey was a commercial success, selling more than one million copies in the first two months of its…

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    Comment #48664131

    I think the "John Romero is about to make you his bitch" campaign in particular was an incredibly bad call, especially in the "gay panic" era, and made people want to see it fail. …

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    Comment #48664036

    Prey was vaporware? It sold a million copies on release and got a sequel... Are we talking about the same game?

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    Comment #48653725

    You missed a chance to say he's been "mothballed"

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    Comment #48653153

    >A lot of locals just drove old Subarus. AKA a large SUV or truck is not necessary.

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    Comment #48653139

    I would argue that cars provide a tangible value, and guns only provide a perceived / emotional value. Guns make you objectively less safe, and at enormous social cost. Cars are (u…

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    Comment #48653001

    >My county doesn't believe in all that dumb bullshit that the "public" has the right to decide about victimless regulatory crimes on your own property and if we could overturn the …

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    Comment #48651108

    >If only that were actually the law. My roads are 100% private with absolutely zero tax payer funding yet the dumbass registration laws and requirement to display a plate even appl…

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    Comment #48606072

    The internet is more than the www

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    Comment #48604920

    Not only that but like, if your child touches the screen in your car have you committed a crime? Using a smart fridge is verboten- speaking to the house's Alexa? Straight to jail.

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    Comment #48573999

    It was initially purchased as a vehicle to drive customers to Amazon's DVD sales business. I think it's monetized itself pretty well since then, though.

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    Comment #48564841

    I work in film, not software engineering, but I've heard lots of shade thrown on React for a long time, mostly for this reason- messy code. The question I have is, does React someh…

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    Comment #48484313

    >I'd throw in the manual gearbox AKA the 4 speed transmission I mentioned :) But yes, the vibration, sound, and feel of the incredibly simple (as in stripped down, not unsophistica…

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    Comment #48484274

    But this is a thread about modifying 50-70 year old cars with electric drivetrains. There are so few of these cars on the road anymore that I think very little progress is to be ma…

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    Comment #48481902

    wtf are you talking about? I drive one of these cars every day (that I need to drive, which isn’t that often really) without leaded gasoline. It’s the punchy little m10 motor, 4 sp…

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    Comment #48479659

    As an antique BMW enthusiast, I know some people that have swapped electric motors in to 2002s and 2000 CSLs and they said it was actually a pretty disappointing experience. You lo…

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    Comment #48422084

    Sorry, what does POC mean in this context? I don’t see an earlier combination of words for which that would be an initialism.

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    Comment #48390751

    The wife just bought an Air and it’s incredibly light. Not as thin as they used to be but shockingly light still!

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    Comment #48390472

    Yup. Around 2005 my 83 year old grandpa decided he wanted to learn how to use a computer. I told him to just get a Mac- it’s a little more expensive but the user experience is unpa…

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    Comment #48363556

    Here you go: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo...

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    Comment #48361033

    Yeah, I was a pirate as a kid. I said “give me a place where I can pay to have legal access to everything and I will.” Then Netflix came along and introduced streaming. I was happy…

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    Comment #48351558

    This does indeed look great- is it only a demo now?