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Comment #46804989
Not if he controls the funds. Tax deductions are only afforded to contributions if they are charitable and am actual gift. If the contributor benefits, it is bit deductible, and co…
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Comment #46794450
A quick perusal of the site yields this page, which tells you what it uses by default: sysvinit. https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom It lists other options. It also lists other …
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Comment #46636704
You could be right. But plenty of websites with useful information intentionally obfuscate their pages to trick the browser into disabling reader mode.
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Comment #46475715
No, NAT64 was invented so v6-only hosts could access v4-only resources. CGNAT was invented so v4 hosts can have a v4 address without having to purchase limited public address space…
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Comment #46475647
I tend to despise senders that believe email is always an effective real-time channel. Delays happen for all sorts of reasons, ranging from massive outages to scanning incoming ema…
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Comment #46471476
We replaced VHS with DVDs. It took 42 years before we gave up on VHS. DVDs have been around for 29 years but were mostly replaced with BDs before disappearing off the shelves in fa…
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Comment #46471141
I don't think they are arguing for a decrease. I took flatline and peter out to mean stabilize.
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Comment #46471063
The problem of IPv6 adoption in the US was largely engineered by major ISPs not caring while hardware manufacturers take their cues from major ISPs.
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Comment #46471013
Why would CGNAT be deployed as a response to IPv6 on mobile? I don't understand the logic there. CGNAT is deployed due to a shortage of publicly routable IPv4 addresses. IPv6 was i…
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Comment #46435859
I would hazard a guess that most of those apps are garbage on Windows, too.
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Comment #46417325
It's not that much headache, and this isn't necessarily about public-facing sites and apps. Take file storage: Some folks find Google Drive and similar services unpalatable because…
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Comment #46254707
> ...nor do they provide a way to send encrypted mail to their users' accounts without using their official apps. I'm confused by this complaint. Sending encrypted mail is the job …
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Comment #46244758
If it's really that difficult for parents to engage their children and parent them, maybe that says more about a society that doesn't prepare parents for parenthood than it does ab…
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Comment #46244720
> This take is really detached from reality, I get down voted for this whenever I ask, but do you have kids? If not sorry, but your opinion means nothing. The reason you get down v…
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Comment #46003990
> Credit card transactions cannot check for name or billing a part from the zip code. This is not true. Name and address verification is common. https://corporate.visa.com/en/solut…
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Comment #45603866
I used Free Fill Fillable Forms last year for both federal and state. I honestly don't know why I didn't try them sooner. It sounds daunting, filling out your own returns, but it w…
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Comment #45507849
I don't know why this was flagged. It may be wrong, but I think it worth discussing to correct. Not all of Federal law supersedes state law. The Tenth Amendment clarifies: > The po…
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Comment #45507611
But, isn't intercepting communications using a fake cell tower a wiretap?
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Comment #45441217
Gmail regularly lets through spam, including backscatter spam from mail sent to the google.com domain spoofing Gmail users. Industry-leading is not the term I would use to describe…
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Comment #45381072
I remember the days when things didn't arrive immediately. I miss them. We were more patient back then.
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Comment #45381033
There have been places that host personal and hobby websites for free for at least the last 30 years. Some older ones have left, and newer ones keep coming along. Cloudflare didn't…
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