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rantallion

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    Comment #49068574

    Seeds are not gametes. While your dog may help spread the seeds, they are not assisting in the sexual reproduction itself.

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    Comment #46861900

    Don't forget about fire. Even the most boring of moves amaze crowds when half your equipment is burning.

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    Comment #46861876

    They're not wrong. Assuming alternating hands are doing the throwing (rather than both hands throwing a ball simultaneously), 4-ball patterns mean each ball is in the air for 4 bea…

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    Comment #46780238

    Isn't interoperability of messaging one of the goals of the Digital Markets Act?

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    Comment #46614677

    Given the environmental impact of disposable vapes (the littering was awful ), some places have already implemented bans. The UK's ban came into force June 2025.

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    Comment #46423649

    > They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business. This is what we've been told since time eternal but it seems more likely that those pirating are t…

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    Comment #46366066

    > direct costs of the exchange up front Isn't that fairly easy to estimate? If they're showing you a buy rate and a sell rate, you know the interbank rate is going to be pretty muc…

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    Comment #46332338

    > you will miss quite a lot of valuable things Arguably, the lack of medical evidence tells us that this is in fact not a valuable thing.

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    Comment #46090895

    > Let's say I have a religion that, as part of practicing it, restricts my diet. > If I try to make you - a non-practitioner - eat that diet, then your reply makes sense. It's a pe…

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    Comment #46079880

    > green card holders and H1B workers, who can still visit the national parks at the lower price But only until ICE detain them, right?

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    Comment #46069349

    Sheep on the Town Moor would be a new one. The Freeman of the city have herbage rights for cattle, which are a frequent sight. > "herbage right" means the full right and benefit of…

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    Comment #44970218

    > Paying with your phone is a massive improvement to convenience. And it only gets easier when you pay with a watch - you don't even have to pull your phone out of your pocket! My …

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    Comment #44837774

    If you're doing nothing in that 30-45 minutes other than stare at a loading screen, you're doing it wrong. I'm not sold on the efficacy of AI and I share your reservations about ha…

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    Comment #44722272

    Do you have a source to support that claim?

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    Comment #44709526

    Might be worth considering a different name before you get too big. There's already pact.io, which will be the first result any time anyone searches for pact testing.

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    Comment #44602066

    The best part is that you can do both. Give the agent a prompt, go for a walk, come back to see how well it did.

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    Comment #44553872

    You could probably calculate it based on how much ad revenue one can gain by having your own default search engine be the default in Firefox. At least, that's probably how Google d…

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    Comment #44494188

    If by "all these bands", you mean BTS and Blackpink, they do not exist only in fiction. They are flesh and blood entertainers.

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    Comment #44454157

    Indeed. GP needs to read "First They Came".

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    Comment #44452511

    On one side of the pond, we have the EU's Digital Markets Act to protect consumers. It has teeth and it's already being used to ensure consumers have choice.

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    Comment #44385078

    France is the odd one out, right? California and Britain having in common that they're each only a part of a country.

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    Comment #44327943

    > Things dont fall to the ground because the earth pulls on them. Earth is pulling in the space around it, and those things come with it. Gravity wells aren't pulling surrounding s…

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    Comment #44057033

    > What’s a “moon” versus a “planet”? Earth is a moon of Sol, is it not? Planets orbit stars. Moons orbit planets. That's a clear and easy distinction. Planet vs dwarf planet isn't …

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    Comment #43953090

    But surely it'll help in this case, where an article is being published in English and being shared on an English language forum.

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    Comment #42911928

    I'm with you. Looking at the way people respond online to things now since LLMs and GenAI went mainstream is baffling. So many comments along the lines of "this is AI" when there a…