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prego_xo

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    Comment #34368331

    Fear-mongering at it's best. The article's main intent is to scare into thinking that genetic problems are because of the cold that you had when you were little so that you might s…

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    Comment #33957034

    That's true, but I just think it doesn't have to be that way. The only thing politicians care about more than money is being re-elected, so perhaps if more people took note of the …

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    Comment #33956757

    I see a lot of people calling BS on the basis that you can't properly analyse dreams through a computer, or that dreams don't have value to begin with. We know. Or really, we don't…

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    Comment #33956452

    In the end, even if companies made their deceptive/evil practices abundantly clear, I'm not sure it would stop many people. If Microsoft told people setting up Windows 11 that ever…

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    Comment #33956357

    This cynicism is justified, but maybe if we weren't so quick to dismiss good things they'd happen more often.

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    Comment #33817959

    "Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture." A security breach memo is not the place to advertise how great your security is.

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    Comment #33802291

    I do hope that you're learning good habits in tandem with your medicine. Stress-management and self-control habits start small but end up being just as effective, if not more than …

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    Comment #33789556

    I know, right? I heard Americans are born without half of their brain.

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    Comment #33789487

    In my experience, elder folks prefer familiarity and convenience above all else. My parents were born in the '50s and hate to relearn their phones.

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    Comment #33789442

    I've only seen QR code menus in big cities and the southwest U.S.

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    Comment #33775322

    As with any art form, it takes getting creative to make something amazing. It's super helpful to know what each part of the camera does, but also what you can do in spite of them. …

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    Comment #33707401

    Meteorites this large are rare, and extremely helpful to the scientific community, considering that going straight to the source is the only other way to retrieve samples. It's spo…

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    Comment #33707370

    "The meteorite broke up over Kentucky and passed over West Virginia and Pennsylvania on its north-northeast trajectory before striking a parked 1980 red Chevy Malibu at approximate…

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    Comment #33706525

    It's kind of spooky to think that meteorites this large could've landed in someone's backyard and been forgotten, or worse yet, taken in and kept.

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    Comment #33615187

    If I had to guess, it's probably because most people love a cute easter-egg and this story was someone excited to have had their project noticed and implemented by Microsoft, off w…

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    Comment #33615020

    With both the 16 billion figure being preceded by the U.S dollar sign, and FTX being an exchange for many different cryptocurrencies at drastically different values, they were prob…

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    Comment #33611249

    Considering that "pretend money" is purchased with "real money", this distinction doesn't matter much. I guess it just depends on if you consider property valuable despite not havi…

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    Comment #33436845

    We can always rely on Vice to find our dystopias.

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    Comment #33421963

    Imagine the anger as some 18 year-old from the U.S dropshots your best friend.

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    Comment #33421923

    I think walls that are made with racecars hitting them at top speed in mind would be able to handle a distributed stress.

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    Comment #33347299

    after you bounce is a terrifying concept.

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    Comment #33331558

    And they've been dumped all over city sidewalks in California because it's a legal grey-area.

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    Comment #33331453

    With all of the extra power we have in our components these days, companies feel like they need to utilize all of it, otherwise it's wasted. Thus the suite of horrible programs req…

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    Comment #33331358

    Perhaps the 3DS was on to something with those tiny IR sensors on the front.

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    Comment #33289320

    This story isn't a very new one, and overall repeats the same dated philosophical standpoints about both art and privacy, but man is the author's storytelling gripping. It was inte…