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switch007

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    Comment #43904687

    How do the evade accountability so often and so deeply? It's bizarre.

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    Comment #43904548

    FWIW I do more than "hear" about these "stories". My figures weren't just made up. Personal experience but I'm not saying more than that

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    Comment #43903345

    For every story about it being difficult to claim, there are plenty about people who haven't worked for 20 years who have received over £400,000 in welfare, who could have worked, …

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    Comment #43889322

    I seem to recall way more thunderstorms when I was younger. Turns out there was a peak during my childhood and we're now on the decline: > "Overall, there was a reduction in the nu…

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    Comment #43889024

    When not even 1.x?

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    Comment #43889017

    lol and next year it'll be something else. Drizzle isn't even 1.x

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    Comment #43889009

    Very lucky to not have encountered one of the 500 open and confirmed bugs!

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    Comment #43883168

    I've definitely spammed some long AI responses to generic questions in DMs that can easily be googled or punched into the many AI tools we have!

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    Comment #43883142

    My company would have spun that like "We are excited to announce we are supporting our family in their health kick journey. To support them, we have taken the difficult decision to…

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    Comment #43877888

    > There was no way I could convince her that it wasn't my fault. Perhaps there was a rigid process in place that disallowed her from helping, even though I'd make it to the second …

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    Comment #43875031

    Exactly. A lot of the EU is just performative blustering, making the populations think they're the lord their saviour. Incredible PR and marketing. That fine got an incredible amou…

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    Comment #43871098

    Released a week ago? Aren't IMDB ratings high in the first few weeks/months too, because of screenings/film festivals/devout followers etc? Talk about hyperbole

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    Comment #43870016

    I've tried this recently and I found it very difficult. Cloudflare bot protection is everywhere, other anti-scrape protections, many 'document' sites using JS to render with no fal…

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    Comment #43868797

    Does that confirm that a fine payment was made?

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    Comment #43868747

    Not universally > Placement of the sign varies. Countries have generally continued the style used for their former currencies. In those countries where previous convention was to p…

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    Comment #43868000

    Indeed. Microservice zealot 'architects' love to ignore the work that has to into each microservice and the overhead of collaboration between services. They'll spend a couple of ye…

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    Comment #43857306

    Don't get me started on eco! Now with heat pump dryers barely heating to 45c only your washing machine can do the job now. And you need a specific function to hold a higher tempera…

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    Comment #43850864

    It really has. I had to disable the GitHub plugin to get rid of a PR comment box that wouldn't disappear. Junit test runs say No tests available about 50% of the time It feels slow…

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    Comment #43841815

    Neither of you wish to link to what you're referencing?

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    Comment #43838218

    No thanks. I'm not sending money and traffic to Yandex. I'm going to give Qwant a go (French company, headquartered in Paris)