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qnaal

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    Comment #15668338

    What do they call it when a market increases demand for a resource in response to increased efficiency of exploitation?

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    Comment #13632629

    wintermute

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    Comment #11255373

    >I wish someone would come up with better filters for emulating CRT glow I'm a fan of Blargg's NTSC filter[a], included in snes9x-gtk. [a] http://slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html

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    Comment #11100395

    > Also the lacking a decent text-editor joke is just that, a joke well, noone's saying that viper-mode couldn't be improved

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    Comment #10845039

    the classic freecell game had the useful feature where you could play the entire game from the numpad, the new one sucks

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    Comment #10679575

    what's the deal with multicast?

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    Comment #10673299

    simply hack pixman and then most things that request gradients in linux (including cairo therefore inkscape) will generate flawlessly smooth color curves

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    Comment #10672049

    maybe for you

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    Comment #10659662

    "should have just used perl"

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    Comment #10623519

    guess it's a good thing then that society is crumbling

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    Comment #10531660

    they all have access to way better information than we can easily get

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    Comment #10504970

    aluminum is a known neurotoxin

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    Comment #10471556

    not all, that's a pretty broad category. just eg criminally insane and useless retards

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    Comment #10471507

    if a line of blocks are all close to the same color, should erase the divisions (draw 1*X blocks) like this it just seems like a simple imagemagick script

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    Comment #10385617

    that people would defend having to log into a social media account to read a tutorial on a database language made me physically ill I had to swallow it (just bile)

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    Comment #10302089

    > zir did you have a stroke?

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    Comment #10274560

    the only ones saying otherwise are strawmen

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    Comment #10274548

    > because things were so awesome back in the day...not are you trying to credit technological advance to democratic government? what are you talking about?

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    Comment #10274244

    why would they smash cabbages they already bought?

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    Comment #10274228

    from the perspective of drug trade, gangs exist to protect the distribution- that part could be much more decentralized if it were legal

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    Comment #10274192

    > fluid dynamics is hard, let's smash particles!

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    Comment #10273789

    > There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gai…

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    Comment #10273633

    perhaps one could alternatively say the violence is black market related

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    Comment #10273600

    "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -Thomas Sowell