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throwaway932489

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    Comment #33576975

    Good thing we create things like "forever chemicals", nuclear waste, single-use plastics then I guess ;)

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    Comment #33568402

    Wikipedia has an interesting note "Cultural influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years" I think I've …

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    Comment #33051566

    Google did it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_KitKat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Oreo

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    Comment #32818937

    Can't tell which side you're on based on this comment... is the number of potentially offended people greater and so it's a worse crime or is it more of a public event where the pu…

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    Comment #30352206

    Good timing given Windows 11 dropping support for all sorts of hardware

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    Comment #30351072

    "New dependencies need to be approved by xyz" "Ok" if(userAgent.includes("Chrome") && userAgent[whatever] >= 4)

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    Comment #30327257

    Opt-out means on by default, opt-in is off by default (sorry to state the obvious). The users above are referring to opting in/out of the tracking rather than the blocking of the t…

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    Comment #30294170

    i.e. completely stop or just reduce? Because I was going to say it would make sense for the "threat model" to go beyond "traditional" stalking to domestic abuse etc.

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    Comment #30238761

    I'm sure every culture, including Western ones, has some kind(s) of food everywhere along the "healthy" to "medicinal" scale. Everyone agrees what you eat is important, nobody can …

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    Comment #30232140

    I get the desire for the clear binary answer from seeing lots of similar problems with COVID tests. But if I bought this test I'd feel a bit scammed, I'd expect some magical fully …

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    Comment #30228296

    It's a nice thing to do on the individual level but I don't think it's right to coerce people into the vaccine on this basis. An interesting reversal of this: https://www.nhs.uk/co…

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    Comment #30228205

    Not from the US but similar: http://www.timcrane.com/jaffa-cakes.html