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Comment #48943681
A single protocol seems to be very limited, especially if your collection of music is purely physical, and for a lot of people it is
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Comment #48943662
> The real problem was almost no one had a CD player not even in their car! That's wild. Popping in a CD is part of the road trip experience!
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Comment #48496561
> Hell, when my kids were young, they weren't even allowed to be outside on the same side of the house that I was mowing. Why let them outside at all? An eagle could snatch them or…
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Comment #48418447
It's more reasonable to say that the russian people tolerate the war as long as it does not impact their economic situation over a certain tolerance threshold. Almost all of the fi…
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Comment #47373850
Well, you yiyrself did not provide any sources for asserting the argument that some of what is on Wikipedia is false
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Comment #47373822
Damn, this only validates the use of ad-blockers / sponsor-blockers even more
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Comment #47012487
> alternative keyboards in iOS feel second class in some ways From my experience the opposite is true. The iOS keyboard feels unintuitive and buggy whilst most alternatives just wo…
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Comment #46043346
Though not an equivalent, the US has extradition treaties and various international agreements for surrendering a fugitive to a foreign country
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Comment #45246968
You generally can't really pet a wild brown bear, since they are not interested in humans and would avoid you. You can't run away from it either, since it can outrun you easily
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Comment #45226374
My comment was very rude, I apologize
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Comment #45211567
The US military would be the defending force, though, which would put The People at a disadvantage. Pushing through the defenses of a multi-trillion dollar military with AR-15s see…
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Comment #45209174
What are the odds of winning against a tyrannical government that has UAVs, nukes, tanks, helicopters and jets?
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Comment #45209135
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Comment #45209074
Guess the government wasn't motivated enough to catch D.B. Cooper
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Comment #45208987
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Comment #45193737
> "Sir, those are just internet memes I've been sharing with a friend of mine" Then it is reasonable to assume that you can just show us these internet memes?
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Comment #45178568
When it comes to providing direct links to PDFs of scientific papers, you can often run into paywall issues. Court decisions / rulings on the other hand do not belong to any publis…
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Comment #45125527
A lot of US citizens have been imprisoned for their political ideas, though [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoners_in_the_Uni...
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Comment #45125359
> is legally permitted to execute me. Luckily not a single US citizen was ever executed by the US government
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Comment #45091526
I will forever call it the Amazon Swindle now, that's hilarious
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Comment #45036186
Perhaps a good idea would be a horizontal comparison slider for the non-enhanced and enhanced versions. Kind of like how it is in Topaz Gigapixel AI
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Comment #44899971
As a fan of Theo, I think that his arguments in the Anthropic video were bad and he seemed very entitled. Instead of owning it during the backlash, he plays victim and literally te…
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Comment #44885166
> Western writing has a very small character set If you include all of the Latin-script characters, Cyrillic, Greek, accent symbols and ligatures, you'd have over 300 characters, a…
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Comment #44821545
Many of the top US generals at the time thought that the blockade and imminent Soviet invasion would have been enough to force the Japanese into surrender. The land invasion compar…
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Comment #44821537
But you do realize that in cabinet meetings after the atomic bombings, the bombings themselves were only scarcely discussed? It is unknown how much impact the atomic bomb had on th…