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randomb_1979

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    Comment #21684266

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    Comment #21571148

    "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers…

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    Comment #21562109

    >>I am more than happy to leave their shitty website and never come back. Unfortunately, if this is actually true, then you are the exception which proves the rule. That's precisel…

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    Comment #21561738

    Too bad there is no way to make a blocklist to block all freeloaders from visiting websites. The person who actually owns anything at all (the website owner) is somehow expected to…

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    Comment #21547392

    Governments around the world should demand Facebook either place a permanent ad banner promoting WT:Social front and center on their website for everyone from that country, or they…

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    Comment #21491262

    Given how far computer vision has advanced nowadays, I would be interested to know if anyone has done an analysis of the frequency and delta of over-speeding vs the make of the car…

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    Comment #21490111

    But I would still endorse Apple over Microsoft until MS shows that it cares about user privacy by publicly distancing themselves from Facebook. Plus, Apple stuff just works. You st…

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    Comment #21475972

    I would be much more interested in email leaks about the "friendly fraud" case [1], because I think Facebook actually broke the law on that one. [1] https://www.revealnews.org/arti…

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    Comment #21472741

    >>Doesn't this kind of argument work for almost every type of fraud though? "The customers were paying for the fraud, not what was advertised." Duh... why else would people still b…

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    Comment #21460487

    The key word, of course, is "often" and not "always". How would you know the difference?

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    Comment #21460468

    I have never seen a comment which is so ignorant of Facebook's past behavior. Are you aware that Facebook at one point unilaterally decided to allow people to see and comment on ph…

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    Comment #21460393

    >>I don't know what goes into running this site, but personally, if I know I'm guaranteed to get a totally one-sided take, I'd rather have the one from the people who actually know…

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    Comment #21420743

    >> "It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster." F…