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oliveoil

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    Comment #24553855

    Was I the only one to ever hit that bug where on some missions you randomly found so much Elerium-115 so that you no longer had to worry about depleting it as a resource? That made…

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    Comment #11887996

    am I naive to think we all would get spied on a lot less if we cleared our browser cookies every couple of hours or at least daily?

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    Comment #7639213

    building whole cities and landscapes by putting together small bricks piece by piece? would be surprised if they were not all over it in DK, the land of lego.

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    Comment #6840191

    Same here, stopped watching around 1998. I though it's mostly about the car (which is largely random per-season, yes) and instead of celebrating the design/engineering behind the o…

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    Comment #4942976

    I think Facebook is not after FB Purity. They are after anyone who could come up with a plugin that scrapes the content and stores it to a db. People using the plugin would get acc…

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    Comment #4706895

    https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/

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    Comment #4539886

    can someone explain to me how you can make money on a game like Rochard (one of the games in the bundle)? There is such an incredible amount of detail in the background in each sce…

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    Comment #3556579

    Wouldn't it be enough to just move sites like this to for instance Russia?

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    Comment #3488711

    yum update xkeyboard-config with the Fedora repos enabled fixes the issue now (the fixed in version is xkeyboard-config-2.3-3.fc16.noarch).

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    Comment #3333320

    We are very sorry, but also very excited! Damage controlling like a ninja.

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    Comment #2698128

    But I said 'better enough'. There are of course investors that can legally get above the index.

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    Comment #2697604

    One day, mathematicians will prove that any fund doing better enough than the index must be insider trading. All those people from the 90s and 2000s, long retired by then, will be …

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    Comment #2666776

    This thing must be fake. I thought they were doing it for the lulz.

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    Comment #2596710

    > Such rapid inflation will not go on forever. Isn't it deflation if you can buy more with the same amount of the currency?

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    Comment #2533289

    got to keep those top level text files up to date.

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    Comment #2505810

    53 people recommended this.

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    Comment #1877928

    just a smuggling idea: why don't they build an unmanned sub to shuttle the drugs around the border? it could go much deeper (no air needed), move real slowly, stay submerged for a …

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    Comment #1668195

    hmm.. a clever trick for non-chrome users to realize how slow the javascript in their browser is?

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    Comment #1643678

    hmm two things come to mind: 1) finally something that would make me switch for a 'wide-screen' lcd. 2) if you can resize the bar then all of the webdesigners' estimates about "thi…

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    Comment #1538745

    is it a design pattern or an antipattern to call the main page just "Home"?

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    Comment #1532518

    uhh, what is that disgusting thing on the picture near the top?

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    Comment #1495331

    that's the thing with assembly, you can't port it that easily.