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qawwads

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    Comment #37362388

    I like Win31 UI. Sure MDI was an error and hot corners would be very useful but I like how unclutered it looks and the absence of a taskbar and other always-there elements is posit…

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    Comment #37284352

    A few words toward the end for the ellusive ai menace, but zero word for the real, already existing, open source fonts. Nowaday I'll consider IBM Plex, Mozilla Fira or even Google …

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    Comment #37230951

    Let me rephrase it so the meaning of what you just said impregnate my mind: you were denier money because their records showed you badly needed it. Sound to me the credit agencies …

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    Comment #37200955

    A non profit is "trust us, we know what's best", while a cooperative is legally controlled by it's member on the basis of one member, one vote, and profits, if any, are distributed…

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    Comment #37195203

    leading cause of death in some African countries

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    Comment #37179510

    Jambo mouzugu. Mambo vipi!

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    Comment #37152211

    This is called "The great man theory": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory For another perspective, an iPhone looks a lot like a Newton with phone capabilities. Maybe wi…

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    Comment #36962875

    Everytime the subject come around, someone repeat this like it's a fact but nobody care to explain. Is criminalisation really the only hammer the gov has? What are the goods of sav…

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    Comment #36889261

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident

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    Comment #36888702

    Don't build this. Don't bring it to school. Don't show it to anyone. This is the kind of thing that get you expelled, jailed, or shot.

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    Comment #36886340

    An industrial revolution is not a single event but a journey. Somebody innovates, then somebody else get the innovation better, then yet somebody else innovates again using what pr…

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    Comment #36880353

    > illegal Seriously, stop using that word for things that aren't actually illegal.

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    Comment #36841472

    Until a country decides to use its own dns root. Then another. Then another.

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    Comment #36809927

    People don't have a clear concept of what life is and often don't separate life and sentience. Remember the movie Short Circuit: some military robot gains AGI then the machine and …

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    Comment #36805539

    Isn't this project ten years dead?

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    Comment #36780498

    If she was a dog, we would put it down and it would be a better outcome for the dog. Because she's human she'll suffer for as long as the doctors can keep her alive.

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    Comment #36780177

    >limited to suspects involved in terrorism, organized crime and other illegal activities punishable by five or more years in prison. Considering how high the bar is to consider som…

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    Comment #36774384

    Those lines weren't meant to help beginners but as a way to order statements in the absence of an editor.

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    Comment #36760577

    >Imagine discussing the politics of the penal system and someone butts in, "imprisoning people is bad by definition"... Ok man And that someone would be right and that's why it sho…

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    Comment #36751265

    I'd expect that information to come first from arXiv or Nature. Or even maybe The Daily Mirror. Why would a governments be involved?

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    Comment #36746440

    There are privacy issues with transmitting your print jobs to your nearby underground shopping mall.