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mickronome
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Comment #17837195
If Amazon is actually taking advantage of the food stamp programme rules, how can changing the rules have any other effect than making people starve ?
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Comment #17775978
I actually stopped learning new languages with these features because I started to get so frustrated they weren't available. Or I implemented then am everyone got weirded out by th…
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Comment #17699825
From a narrative point of view, the spatial problem as stated is a quite decent post hoc argument for why time travel is usually fraught with danger, even after the science is know…
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Comment #17685951
Maybe not the case if they looked crooked, but having irregular placement of construction elements is a valid way to decrease tendency for self resonance through different vibratio…
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Comment #17668625
I would very much like to have something like Google authenticator, but for billing. With the ability so set it as alarms on my phone (and coworkers), preferably with some smarts t…
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Comment #17638338
Being frustrated with burned top, and undercooked bottom I figured out that using the broiler together with a couple 2-3 mm thick pre-heated aluminium sheet that I placed the pizza…
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Comment #17588852
I don't know anything about how the licencing works, and what parts are covered, but the patents reported to ITU for H.265/HEVC as a whole is substantial, see: https://www.itu.int/…
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Comment #17587606
It's satisfying for me, it's an honest answer, and as good as any other. With enough free time there wouldn't be much need for a direction. And after a while I would probably figur…
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Comment #17574047
Actually, it's chloramine alone that is the culprit for both the smell and the red eyes according to the actual report. Which isn't reporting any new finding, as far as I know this…
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Comment #17557972
It seems the argument could be that since he didn't object to the new ToS when they were changed, and kept using parts of their service, the clause forbidding arbitration towards R…
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Comment #17534792
There appears to be some volume limits for the free tier, that might explain the difference in experience. Right now I get the following for most of the graphics on the linked page…
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Comment #17503788
There might be a difference that's worth noting. There are game designs that are clearly engineered to create either outright addiction, or at the very least, cravings. Porn, at le…
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Comment #17442943
The parent seems to agree with you, that Haskell is maybe too eager to keep to 'mathematical' names, but it almost sounds like you interpreted the parent the other way around? Your…
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Comment #17433713
Game theoretical, I don't have a solution, but for the scoundrels they tend to have a different set of truths for everyone they talk to. I think it should be possible to use this t…
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Comment #17433695
Very few people are really able to spot people with even quite blatant sociopathic/anti-social behaviours, they just fit too well into the stereotype of the able, charismatic, and …
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Comment #17427332
It's a bit sad, I do long for the stars and planets. However, rramatically improving rockets might be like trying to improve the carriage to get a much faster personal transport, w…
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Comment #17389082
I've certainly seen this behaviour, years wasted on things that could never work in the long run, then rinse and repeat. I've only been on for one cycle, but the pattern is quite c…
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Comment #17389027
The reproducibility problems of psychology general - of which this is only a small fragment - is showing a few things: 1) Psychology is harder than almost anyone thought. 2) We are…
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Comment #17388960
It could be the case that the click driving articles themselves is an effect of Facebook, but also Google and many others, serving as implicit or explicit filters favouring the sty…
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Comment #17373172
Everyone that does online transaction of money, and many more. Like all those who use AWS services on AWS.
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Comment #17364164
Skeptics in the committee could have stopped this if I counted correctly, but they rather use it as bait to create more skeptics than to implement their own policies. While it coul…
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Comment #17362336
I didn't laugh our loud, I'm on the subway after all, and that's serious matters here in Sweden. But it sure made me grin, a most fitting and clever response!
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Comment #17362328
I'm a bit ambivalent on the issue, because if the quote is any good, it should stand on its own without appeal to any authority or writer. But then we have the quotes that are quit…
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Comment #17355863
Yep. It's quite clear that there are forces trying to affect EU in the hope of breaking it up, mostly to further a right-wing agenda of some sort, but also to simply destabilise it…
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Comment #17354961
Each op must be around 1000 iterations, because that's how much they seem the ns/op seem to be off.