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sawaruna

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    >People can already buy PC titles anywhere they like. EGS, direct purchase, steam, GOG, twitch, whatever. There's nothing to allow. This is unrelated to them supporting their 'dire…

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    Comment #24145098

    It's maybe my perception, but I don't know if 'is this cheaper form of payment directly to you less safe?' is a question many users would be having. To me anyway, it seems like an …

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    Comment #24144944

    Maybe you're thinking of FandangoNOW? AFAIK Fandango does not let you 'buy movies'.

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    Comment #24144927

    No, I'm asking if they will allow people to buy digital PC titles on EGS via direct purchase to the developer and bypass the percentage EGS takes. People are bringing up digital cu…

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    Comment #24144700

    >Does a new payment method on mobile mean purchases there are less safe? >No. Thousands of apps on the App Store approved by Apple accept direct payments, including commonly used a…

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    Comment #24140464

    Figures there would be some obstacle.

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    Comment #24139951

    >The vulnerable application is the interactive chat application that allows to send messages to other passengers. A bit of a side note here, but does anyone actually use this? I re…

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    Comment #24130251

    Buying an HHKB and typing 70-90 WPM does not make one an "Expert Typist"

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    Comment #24128383

    The lowering of the planet’s albedo through melting ice sounds like the most worrisome runaway effect.

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    Comment #24118379

    It's from April, but a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q_DDXpzQgw

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    Comment #24108517

    >Also important to remember is that GPS is not the same as location services. Even if GPS and cellular data are unavailable, a mobile device calculates location using Wi-Fi and/or …

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    Comment #24102259

    No doubt. Enjoying & (feeling like compared to others I was) excelling at finding information was what made me get interested in information science in the first place, but I often…

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    Comment #24102210

    > mac presentation: Prepare MAC for presentation: minimize all apps, close browsers, send files from desktop and downloads to trash and set not disturb mode This sounds like a terr…

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    Comment #24102098

    Might be my librarian career bias but I'm always surprised at how few people know about query operators. Ironically as Google search seems to be ignoring vital parts of people's qu…

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    Comment #24100581

    Antergos has been discontinued afaik. Might as well recommend Manjaro in addition to Arch instead. Surprised at no mention of Pop!_OS. Many people I know have recently switched to …

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    Comment #24100555

    Can you give a use case for this, or how one could have anticipated the Ideanomics surge you mention? Searching something like 'electric vehicle' will show many recent patents by T…

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    Comment #24098958

    Oh, explains it. Though they simply said the 'her' jumped out at them, not because they felt it was in error with the question, but maybe that was it. My mistake.

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    Comment #24098901

    If it said ‘he’ would you have gone to check for verification of this? The quote altering is odd but this ‘jumping out at you’ is also a bit weird.

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    Comment #24098394

    I noticed this lately, I think when getting a new OS installed and making the dictionary UK English instead of Canadian English, thinking there would be little difference. The main…

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    Comment #24097199

    I don't use it, but Cleanshot X can do this - https://cleanshot.com/

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    Comment #24097164

    Why do some submissions get auto flagged as duplicates but others don't? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=oatly+coke

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    Comment #24094127

    > With Ster’s new ad server, advertisers are blind—they receive no information on the user. Instead, they get information about what the user is looking at. Pages and videos are ta…

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