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thomquaid

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    Comment #47143149

    Couldnt they create value by saving people's time? Like a shovel, or a bulldozer.

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    Comment #47081065

    This isnt a vaccine against suicide.

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    Comment #47081047

    Hard to beat a half million years of evolution with a nasal spray from last year.

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    Comment #44476798

    Yes the idea is that birds that recover from bird flu will keep producing. You end up with more live birds than culling entire flocks. Some of the birds survive, because of their g…

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    Comment #44476779

    The culled birds definitely arent producing. The proposal here is to let sick birds recover from their flu instead of being killed. True, you can effectively stop the spread of the…

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    Comment #44469803

    https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/yearlycompari... It does seem like things are trending toward less public laws passing over the last decade, as well as record low ti…

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    Comment #44266210

    Approximately $200/month apparently.

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    Comment #43935488

    "By searching for his personal Gmail address (which I'm not sharing) in Have I Been Pwned, he appears in 51 data breaches and in 5 pastes. These include a 2013 breach of 153 millio…

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    Comment #43933672

    I think it is about that. Many of the social behaviors didnt evolve individually, and the social behaviors that end up selected for produced tribes. The group can be more fit than …

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    Comment #43914728

    Nonsense. Trump led in every swing state prior to election in aggregate poll analysis. Each swing state may have had an outlier Harris poll, but to say no polls existed with Trump …

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    Comment #43911882

    The StubHub example is the abuse that is being banned. Yes, you can bait and switch people and take more of their money than they are otherwise willing to spend if you deceive, man…

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    Comment #43478631

    The hearing today said the messages are not classified, and wouldnt be, given it is a cabinet meeting convo. They said what was withheld by the journalist was sensative information…

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    Comment #43478596

    CIA director explained that nothing could have been classified because classification authority rests with the secretaries involved themselves. In the journalists opinion, war plan…

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    Comment #43478539

    He never said he had classified information. He said he witheld sensitive information which is related to an ongoing investigation (and not related to Houthi airstrikes).

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    Comment #43478529

    That is not true. Today at the hearing, the CIA director said there was no classified material. He was questioned if the event was a "huge mistake", and answered "No." The journali…

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    Comment #42988214

    The motive is Boeing didnt deliver, doesnt deliver, and cannot deliver.

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    Comment #42914506

    well, nothing is really ever lost

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    Comment #42897792

    I appreciate both of these comments, thank you both.

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    Comment #42897736

    True, but 4.25 is the number we all want to know.

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    Comment #42897721

    4.25 is enough tps for a lot of use cases.

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    Comment #42897693

    It says 4.25 TPS in the first para.

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    Comment #42866019

    Sticky keys into SYSTEM console; same as always.

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    Comment #42849298

    Thats because Youtube doesnt want to broadcast copyright work in any way as a courtesy for rights holders' trade groups that have asked, not because of regulatory or legal conseque…

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    Comment #42825478

    By that logic all money is waste. The money isnt destroyed when it is spent. It is transferred into someone else's bank account only. This process repeats recursively until taxatio…