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riscy

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About riscy

computers were a mistake

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    Comment #46773849

    Part of the motivation for these protests was the inflation making it hard to afford everyday living. Not working means even less money.

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    Comment #46773813

    Israel has killed more than double that in Gaza, and that’s only what’s been confirmed as many bodies are under rubble and millions are left living in tents: https://aje.io/5b4h1e

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    Comment #44675340

    Any failure that causes a loss of control or communication with the satellites, especially as a result of attack or software update rolled out to many of them that contains a laten…

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    Comment #44610202

    How do you convince those pre-diabetic people to use a GLP-1? There was quite a bit of backlash about the one-time injection COVID vaccine when it was mandated.

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    Comment #43163752

    For a simple version bump, I feel like brew is fine. Or do you have other tooling updates in mind?

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    Comment #42689562

    You should go to the casinos yourself and find out! As someone who's made it to late game Luck Be a Landlord, you will feel right at home!

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    Comment #42688318

    > I'm not trying to be mean here, but it feels like you have no idea how a slot machine works... It has every aspect of the slot machines I was playing just 2 weekends ago at casin…

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    Comment #42687926

    >The cost per spin is the thing that makes it gambling. The "landlord" aka casino is constantly requiring that you pay `X credits within N spins` or else it's game over. That is ju…

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    Comment #42686940

    > Walmart is selling one right now The ESRB and Walmart are OK with kids playing a casino gambling simulator, but that doesn’t mean Google or Apple should be too. For a parent who …

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    Comment #42684580

    That’s why replica guns are _required_ to have bright orange tips on the barrel: so other people (like police) know it’s not real. If this game is centered around a Vegas-style slo…

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    Comment #42322103

    There is iCloud for Windows: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/what-is-iclou...

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    Comment #41702238

    US tariffs were put in to prevent Chinese cars from competing here too.

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    Comment #41599300

    Yes, Hezbollah is a political party and militia rolled into one that uses terrorism achieve their goals. But there are no good guys here. Likud is a terrorist organization that kil…

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    Comment #41597497

    Hezbollah is a political party that holds seats in Lebanon’s parliament. It’s bizarre to paint them with a broad brush.

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    Comment #41597305

    The difference is that Western media only refers to the detonation of boobytrapped devices that have injured thousands of civilians as an “intelligence operation” rather than a ter…

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    Comment #41573628

    Can you explain how result builders are half-baked? They’ve been used for more than SwiftUI by now. The Regex support since 5.7 uses them: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/swift/5.…

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    Comment #41447818

    It’s not about size. Maximizing profit without losing too many customers is a major focus of business education.

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    Comment #41413780

    The plethora of crappy, bootleg cables with USB-C connectors that are single purpose (power only, low-speed data only, etc) has created plenty of e-waste, in addition to confusion.…

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    Comment #41168296

    Are Chrome plugins capable enough to sustain a paid store model? I thought they were becoming more restricted to stifle ad blockers.

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    Comment #41164677

    One missed jobs report is a convenient reason, but I don't think that's it. Investors were upset the Fed didn't cut rates just before that report dropped, so they're doing a collec…

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    Comment #40783587

    On the bright side, having only one browser to support makes life a lot easier, too.

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    Comment #40783583

    You don’t have to pay Apple a penny to run a website. I’m talking plain HTML5 / JavaScript and a URL. Perhaps you’re assuming I mean a PWA, Apple sign-in, or Apple Pay? I believe t…

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    Comment #40780180

    > I don't know why Apple should feel entitled to own the relationship with a businesses customers because they also use an iPhone when it's an ancillary part of the product. Apple …

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    Comment #40674245

    Google relies on power for their datacenters, so if they get into the generation of it, they'll further vertically integrate and save money. Once they dominate the power generation…