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throw-away_42

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    Comment #48250344

    Yes, it would be utterly absurd to decriminalize cannabis. Oh, wait...

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    Comment #46828940

    You've conveniently ignored not just one but two prior posts referencing it. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/27/ceo-captured https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/27/…

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    Comment #46157252

    Westworld... the show you can't watch on HBO anymore. Taste? Like what they just did to one of the best shows ever, Mad Men? HBO today (Or Max, or HBO Max, or whatever their brandi…

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    Comment #42695163

    light grey? If 808080 is neutral mid grey, how can 4A525A (32% lightness) be anything but a dark grey? The contrast seems quite readable to me, and seems to pass guidelines: https:…

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    Comment #41996772

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    Comment #41173893

    Maybe for you, but not for most of the rest of the universe. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/tech/twitter-public-access-re...

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    Comment #39282465

    Java in a 5x18mm device over 20 years ago: https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/cryptographic-modu...

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    Comment #39209539

    Looking at the page source, it's in /aaweb.bas

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    Comment #32702292

    > [would you be completely undisturbed] if a Jewish camp inmate in Schindler's list was portrayed as a black person? Why would you be disturbed in the slightest? Hitler hated black…

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    Comment #32298280

    From the opening paragraph of Edsger W. Dijkstra's letter to the CACM editor: More recently I discovered why the use of the go to statement has such disastrous effects, and I becam…

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    Comment #31622852

    Also disingenuous to claim they don't make that comparison when it's literally the sentence before the one you quoted.

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    Comment #31054262

    This video is how a lot of people first learned about Brendan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

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    Comment #28262876

    > Further: PCR tests are non-specific even when you keep the cycle count down - they show positive for BOTH Covid and Flu which is why flu "disappeared" in 2020: PCR tests were pos…

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    Comment #27521394

    So you'll have no objection to me publishing your exact location to the entire world at all times that I can see you from a public space? After all, you're opting in by being visib…

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    Comment #27453175

    > and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others More than "simply bundlin…

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    Comment #27362665

    2009 C6 Corvette ZR1: 0-60 in 3.3 seconds 2019 C7 Corvette ZR1: 0-60 in 3.2 seconds

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    Comment #26684923

    I just checked the top 50 live streams in English by viewer count. Exactly one of the fifty (it's not even in the top half) fits your characterization.

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    Comment #26528435

    Perhaps you're thinking of some other state? https://governors.library.ca.gov/36-wilson.html

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    Comment #26118988

    I've had a Matias Laptop Pro for Mac for years and I've been super-happy with it. Mechanical but very quiet. So it wasn't impossible for me, but you might have other criteria that …

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    Comment #25855693

    A masterpiece of programming comedy: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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    Comment #25591903

    https://uxmovement.com/content/how-margins-and-line-lengths-...

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    Comment #25390417

    Old people are just deadwood. Doesn't matter if they died five years early. Great analogy.

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    Comment #25369832

    No, he didn't apologize for the dismissal. Parse the sentence. The "this" in "I'm sorry for this" is not for the dismissal, but for the reaction to it: "I’ve heard the reaction to …

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    Comment #25353916

    Only if you're clueless about elections and probability.