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Comment #41695729
on firefox
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Comment #41608695
assuming the guard node connects to the host when the host communicates with the client, this makes a little more sense. If I understand correctly you are saying that they did not …
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Comment #41593518
technicly this is the only comment in this chain that is relevant to the featured article, but it's technicly so incomplete that it's almost wrong, I can tell from having read the …
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Comment #41510331
you forgot to mention it should fit under a thumbnail, probably
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Comment #41510118
sounds like a spherical cow on a frictionless plane.
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Comment #40759101
You are missing that to drive one-self home is a metaphor, possibly a visual metaphor in this case, for DIY self-service in the private domain, as it were.
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Comment #40759077
there are no good examples. The basic premise in Linguistics these days seems tl be that all languages are potentially equally expressive. Trade-offs in one domain (grammar, lexico…
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Comment #40759020
However, Tsundoku hasn't caught on, at least not in English, except as a vain example of language fun facts. If there was a need, it would be borrowed eventually, perhaps as a sema…
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Comment #40750310
The characters aren't connected so the brush is lifted and a space left behind. Of course this also goes for the space between signs of a compound word, but this also holds for "co…
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Comment #40595754
we are opperating in a "breadboard"?
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Comment #39314765
Related to what, Frikandel ?
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Comment #39299676
gnash (one's teeth) and German knusen ("to chew") ought to be related with nosh and German naschen , seeing that snack in the same sense may be derived from some onomatopoeia meani…
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Comment #39298802
the invisible microbes of the appendix are shaping the reservoir effects for a reason
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Comment #39115669
what is "this"?
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Comment #39051078
Oh the frequency illusion. I read just today about a possible value of one sign. That's in Adams and Mallory's Encyclopedia from 1997!
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Comment #39051048
You misunderstand the problem. There's an 80 page article concerned with the spelling of one word and its inflections. The typical solution would be to squint at it and write down …
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Comment #39049014
Title could be read as exposing by means of an app dedicated to exposing said credentials. Hackernews suggests something else, but hasn't really outlined the expose-action. The tex…
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Comment #39048898
This deserves further commentary. In my humble opinion, what really grinds my gears is the abuse of the letter of the law, “circumventing the access protection”. If your fence has …
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Comment #39048151
It's rather different. Some time I saw my neighbour left the key sticking outside. Doesn't feel like an invitation to me. Also, garden doors aren't necessarily locked and I think t…
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Comment #38831786
I don't see how that would be any different from unprotected "high" voltage lines, or preferably protected ones for that matter. In house installations around 500V count as Low Vol…
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Comment #38558092
Piracy of 100 in 1 cartidges for Game Boy was a thing along with Adibas bootleg. Memory was limited and the games are simple because of it. I had a 1 in 4 with space invaders and t…
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Comment #38554459
> it's fair to say those bounds are not commercially reasonable in general for functional sites. QED the banners are de facto required. For all I care your site isn't required to b…
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Comment #38189040
> Sometimes they are literally an OCR of the print book! You can tell because of the symbol substitutions. Not really. TEX for example does a lot of weird character substitution be…
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Comment #38146126
it'll lead to more hidden advertisement