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mekal
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Comment #48490764
ya think
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Comment #48485940
lol no...the main issue here is being fooled by bots. you know your irl friends and you know they are not bots...devs will just need to get out more and actually meet / get to know…
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Comment #41373053
There certainly is...Zuck can censor whatever he wants but just because it's a private platform doesn't mean the gov can censor it, or pressure him to do so. You saw the "White Hou…
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Comment #41112447
i noticed the same exact thing. i thought weather had been solved with dark sky. then at some point something got messed up. i would love to know the full story behind this.
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Comment #41112420
this...every time i use the damn apple weather app i am reminded how much i miss dark sky and my contempt is rekindled. makes me wonder how often this sort of tragedy happens.
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Comment #39810103
And used ones are even cheaper!
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Comment #38683320
This...human beings are incredibly resilient.
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Comment #38294779
Make that Nov. 18th (same time).
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Comment #36817659
And here's a little extra for those that are about to walk away thinking a meaningful record was set: 1. "But before we get ahead of ourselves, it hasn’t quite been confirmed yet. …
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Comment #35853014
I'm sorry but as an AI model, I'm not allowed to do that either.
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Comment #35379416
Did they edit the article or something? I don't think it sounds entitled at all. Sounds to me like the author is just innocently wondering if open sourcing it might help them compe…
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Comment #34777429
Lol does that happen often? I can understand it with mace, but a taser?? What happens when a senior officer gets tased by some rookie? I imagine he would never hear the end of that…
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Comment #34775502
How about if the headline ends with a question mark, or begins with a click bait phrase like "It could be" or "We may have just witnessed", or says something about what someone is …
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Comment #32609428
If it's really so easy to make forgeries now, it seems like the street value would plummet. Even if that's not the case, instead of swapping the original and risking jail time, why…
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Comment #31122160
My commute is about 7 minutes and it's still too much. We need to drop everything we're doing and invent portal guns.
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Comment #30855924
"they can't guarantee that our screen setup at home is safe and we haven't completed a "Data Display Device Setup and Handling" course" - I work for a small company so pardon my ig…
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Comment #30710868
How could you possibly get into legal trouble for viewing the source code of a website? Are we talking about China or North Korea maybe??
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Comment #30647361
I can remember when I was younger my mom getting pissed when the phone (landline) would ring and thinking jeez, chill out! Some years later I'm doing something trying to concentrat…
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Comment #30608479
Regardless of what they think I'm still thankful for front-enders. CSS / UI-design/layout...people that enjoy that sorta thing are great because it means I don't have to do it. May…
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Comment #30542253
I'd like to see mankind drop everything it's doing and focus on making portal guns a reality. Once we have the ability to step from our home office into our work office (and back a…
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Comment #30276734
I'm in the same boat as you, but I think it's important to remember another factor besides conditioning. It's much easier to say "I would love to quit" when you have a job than it …
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Comment #30116750
How do you arrive at that conclusion? That it implies all your "personal" driving info would be made public? Seems to me its more like car companies would not be able to "hide behi…
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Comment #30012928
Have you read the Three-Body Problem trilogy? There's some stuff in the third book (Death's End) that sounds a lot like your dream. Specifically the different dimensions of space. …
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Comment #29833708
Needed a break from work and figured I'd take a shot at a random comment. Pardon the rant...nothing personal...here goes. So, I'm not saying that firing the guy in this particular …