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pbtflakes

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    Comment #14035735

    Other instances of Mastodon can make their own decisions in terms of banned content, and other instances can choose to not federate with them.

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    Comment #14034928

    Mastodon.social would ban them, and if other instances don't police content sufficiently then Mastodon.social doesn't have to federate with them.

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    Comment #14031956

    Unintended behavior would be more accurate.

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    Comment #14025017

    That's not how the math works out, according to Nasdaq.com Tesla's P/E was -53.63 for 2016 and estimated -103.48 for 2017.

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    Comment #13789579

    The appendix to this video [0] goes into the specific operation of the Whiffletree mechanism. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SC7oWL78A

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    Comment #13696036

    Whoops, hadn't heard about that case. Nice to hear the FCC is addressing deceptive marketing/contracts.

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    Comment #13695818

    This being distinct from that by being entirely undocumented, instead of burying the data limitations somewhere deep in the contract.

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    Comment #13625092

    If you're converting Org documents to PDF, you can use Pandoc ( http://pandoc.org/ ) to automatically convert & send through pdfLaTeX.

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    Comment #13581019

    I believe the English-language term is "letter of the law" for literal interpretations and "spirit of the law" for interpretations based on what something is meant to do.

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    Comment #12911950

    It's right there in the 13th Amendment. Just look at FPI/UNICOR, a government-owned corporation founded in order to exploit prison labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Pris…

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    Comment #11869260

    The stock character set is modified code page 437. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

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    Comment #11754893

    From what I recall, videos that are long enough (such as NASCAR replays) require the flash player.

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    Comment #11644449

    Not even that they're unable, there's a valid certificate & they're deliberately not using it for the site.

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    Comment #11556982

    Created an account because my friends use it and I'm getting more involved with programming, no plans to astroturf involved. Though I have been thinking about a part-time job over …

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    Comment #11556411

    Reason being it's a semi-private beta, not public release. Invite-only lets them ease into managing a larger userbase and the associated content.