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patmorgan23

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    Comment #49217861

    Do you have any citations, or just your assertions that this happens?

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    Comment #49113068

    "how do you enforce that kids connection always goes to the parents" That's the thing. You don't. It's the parents job to monitor how their children use the Internet.

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    Comment #49084746

    I believe the technical term for that is "big oof"

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    Comment #48992525

    He's only published blockbuster hits. But I'm sure he has lots of practice films that have never seen the light of day?

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    Comment #48987877

    Port it to PowerPoint!

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    Comment #48939475

    For the average American homeowner 25-50% of their wealth is in their home.

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    Comment #48919321

    There's two kinds of route hijacks. Origin or path based. RPKI addresses who is allowed to originate a prefix. There are other technical changes that need to be implemented to get …

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    Comment #48822800

    Lyft even pays people to contribute to OSM

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    Comment #48789104

    Orbital mechanics are pretty important when you're launching something that orbits the Earth.

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    Comment #48789088

    "All the large institutions are doing it" has never resulted in disaster (see the dot com bubble and the great financial crisis). It seems preposterous that building a data center …

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    Comment #48543041

    Kinda like how the aerospace industry basically shuts down for the month of December.

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    Comment #48464723

    Well good thing everyone using the provider is using an open protocol and it's stupid easy to switch

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    Comment #48414331

    Or you can just clear the cache!

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    Comment #48384911

    Yeah, any 8/16-bit pixel are t wasn't made to be viewed on a screen with that high a resolution. CRTs smoosh/blur the image a bit so you don't see all the hardlines.

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    Comment #48247349

    Why are we comparing a programing language and a GPU. This is a category error. Programing languages do not do any operations. They perform no FLOPs, they are the thing the FLOPs a…

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    Comment #48198646

    So why can't someone (probably the distro) build a utility that detects the hardware and installs the required kernal module? We can have security and convenience.

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    Comment #48117394

    It's absolutely brain dead that it applies to commercial and industrial property. (It's not good policy for residential either, but more understandable)

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    Comment #48055158

    Unless they pay for the express lanes

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    Comment #47975976

    Is your pricing on your website? That's a way to cut down on the wasted time

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    Comment #47827873

    You're being obtuse. Every point in the original comment is correct, you just disagree they're issues. The original comment also doesn't state they are issues just that they are di…

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    Comment #47820191

    Off grid doesn't make sense (computers ramp up and down extremely quickly which makes balancing an islanded DC challenging), DCs function a lot better if they can utilize the inert…

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    Comment #47820164

    If your local governments are funded by property taxes, Data centers can bring in new revenue while requiring few services. Which could be used to shore up stressed public budgets …

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    Comment #47796339

    A leading web browser can not be built and maintained by volunteers.

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    Comment #47772289

    Hosting cost and the network effects are the barriers