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notatcomputer68

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    Comment #19054487

    Why would you pop pills when there are perfectly good sprays?

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    Comment #19044868

    Trivial for anyone who can click "host server" button in a multiplayer game / file sharing program / voice chat?

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    Comment #19008762

    Maybe they retire early because they are unable to work because they are dying.

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    Comment #19008706

    If you don't mind, which of them and how?

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    Comment #19008384

    Some other people have mentioned hiring people defensively so they can't compete. I don't know how true that is, but if it is... then making a redundant project means you need to b…

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    Comment #18998195

    I'll press if I think I can't jaywalk in a reasonable timeframe. If I can then no sense holding up traffic.

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    Comment #18963594

    Most people don't know lockpicking so while you are right in principle this will change things in practice.

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    Comment #18963554

    It doesn't have to be the artists optimizing. It could be that everyone makes whatever they want but those who happen to make shorter songs are pushed up and those that make longer…

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    Comment #18963143

    As someone who was only briefly acquainted with the "buy ugly produce" idea in the first place and thought it sounded vaguely good. I never looked into actually taking action becau…

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    Comment #18962454

    They cost money for both parties though so in that sense it's fair.

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    Comment #18962394

    Sounds great for first job out of college not so great if you already have a good job.

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    Comment #18935235

    In the long term we should bee able to clean it up again. I'd be more worried about shorter terms

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    Comment #18904726

    Pick a nice font and color write the company/product name or an abbreviation.

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    Comment #18902862

    It's a reminder that browsers are such huge beasts that no one can viable fork them when they feel the browsers are regressing.

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    Comment #18888062

    I'm not a lawyer yada yada but it says on my dollar bill that it's legal tender for all debts, public and private.

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    Comment #18880807

    Not everything is competitive

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    Comment #18805710

    My thinking is that people have lossily compressed images in their minds. I heard chess masters are way better than normal people at remembering legal chess positions but no better…

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    Comment #18802030

    Software is eating the world and it's almost finished. Decentralized software decentralized world

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    Comment #18785283

    Irc has been on the market for a long long time, but slack won anyway. Maybe the extra features saved users more time then they lost from running bloated JavaScript.

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    Comment #18785213

    I'm always suspicious when people say something can be done. Why isn't it the default then? Because there is some drawback to that choice. But what is it?

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    Comment #18768551

    Busybody morality police would abuse this to deprive people of their freedom of telephone. Hard no

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    Comment #18768504

    >at this point these scam phone calls may be nearing the majority of the phone calls placed in the USA, so it's going to be a huge financial disruption to the carriers when they ha…

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    Comment #18768374

    >so how are the men able to survive? Maybe they(equivalently poor men) are not and therefore choose not to study? Men do study at a lower rate after all

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    Comment #18768338

    Where are the local variables stored for a coroutine? I do like new advanced features but we must not let them make us lose sight of the metal.

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    Comment #18741076

    What I like about keypass is that it's not networked and not running in the browser, making the attack surface a lot smaller. Keypassxc having such features(and apparently the old …