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max599

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    It's the shape of the grains of sand that's bad for concrete, not the chemical composition. It gets less angular and more round when it moves in the desert and it doesn't bound wel…

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    A compromise for when you want a high quality webcam without spending money or dealing with the downsides of using an "real" camera is to use your phone. A 3 year old iphone/samsun…

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    Comment #31155668

    Twitter is not "trying to solve this problem", they are embracing it and benefiting from it. They are strongly incentivised to keep the bots because it gives them a massive boost i…

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    A DeFi loan is paying a premium and _decreasing_ the amount of liquid assets available to you. No, because from their point of view the crypto they put as collateral is NOT liquid.…

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    >The whole point of a loan is that you're willing to pay extra over time in order to have access to more funds at the present No, that's not the point of these loans at all. They a…

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    Comment #31035126

    >Media started glossing over Nazi imagery on the very pictures of soldiers they spread, not even mentioning it. I think they genuinely didn't know what it was. Even on r/ukraine, t…

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    >Not really. There's a certain political party who seems to want to redefine private companies as public commons, all because they don't like their hate speech being censored. no, …

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    > 1st amendment means regarding government censorship that's just a loophole from people who have no argument so they go with the [legal in the US = Moral]. Just because the modern…

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    >That would plummet the stock From the point of view of the investors, there is no risk. If offer is accepted, they get their bags of cash and walk away with hopefully more than wh…

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    isn't it one of those "No one ever got fired for buying XXXXXX" type of situation? Maybe i'm wrong, but the impression I had of Jira is that just like using sharepoint for file sto…

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    Being a leader at the top of the food chain in a company this big means that you get to take credit for a significant portion of the success of company and your paycheck has an ext…

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    >A modern airship could make the transatlantic trip in about 24-36 hours, so it doesn't really matter for casual vacation travel How many vacation days do you guys get per year?!? …

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    Most of the building code is written with the blood of victims who died in a horrific accident. If you want to know why doors in public places have to open toward the outside in mo…

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    sometimes you can. A good exemple is Windows 8.1. Depending on who you ask, it's either the best OS Microsoft has ever made or one of the worse. If you know how to install a differ…

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    at least 20 years, probably more.

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    Comment #30995676

    Excel allows you to force a specific type during file import or directly on the worksheet with literally two clicks once the region is selected. You can also create templates if yo…

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    > you should be able to tell it whether a certain column is a date or not, Not only is this possible, but the tool to do it is located in best location (large menu, center of the s…

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