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tomflack

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    Comment #6663067

    Hah, my first thought is "humans also make the government" and I know which one I'd optimize first... sorry about the snark though.

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    Comment #6662598

    > Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not…

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    Comment #6662557

    No, because working schedules are based on the clock face.

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    Comment #6662416

    Looks like a standard catalogue photograph to me. Opportunity wasted.

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    Comment #6616540

    Is there a way, given consensus among the bitcoin community, to mark these coins as "bad" and effectively destroy their value?

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    Comment #6604853

    Right now I'm listening to "Chronojigga" a Jay-Z/Chronotrigger mix. IT's great.

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    Comment #6604771

    This occidental fascination with Japanese sex is embarrassing. Or perhaps I just feel that these "reports" don't lend enough academic gravitas to the subject and end up being weird…

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    Comment #6596604

    If there is one argument it's impossible to win, it's an argument with people trying to impose their own "original" or "traditional" word usage over the more colloquial understandi…

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    Comment #6589144

    While I appreciate what you're trying to say, it seems obvious that "viewing" and "editing the content of" a website are quite different concepts. If you've been told to no longer …

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    Comment #6565046

    I had registered with Microsoft my copy of Windows 98, and they mailed me a CD with an upgrade to SE for free when it was released.

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    Comment #6557634

    > And setting up transcoding to mp4 just made me realize that there are better uses of my time than dealing with such piddly issues. I'd rather be learning rust for example than de…

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    Comment #6551952

    World first? I've seen a cake delivery company by drone in Shanghai months ago. http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/shanghai-company-claims-... Then it seems they were grounded htt…

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    Comment #6541972

    Perhaps he means used these systems through upgrade/transfer installs via a firewire system transfer or similar

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    Comment #6513218

    Partially related: Is it technically possible to "blacklist" the bitcoins that the FBI seized given a great enough consensus, to make their value effectively worthless?

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    Comment #6500694

    OP's logic I presume, is that certain government services aren't available for that time so why is he being asked to pay for them?

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    Comment #6436132

    They don't need to pull anything, just have their lawyers tell Google's lawyers that their iMessage trademark is being infringed. Gone.

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    Comment #6364988

    They collect them in OK, CA and GA. Probably more. I'm not even American and that took four seconds to find on Google.

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    Comment #6358104

    I'm not sure what you're asking here? The articles are sinocentric in the same manner Medium articles are typically occidental in nature.

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    Comment #6352799

    > And the government has announced they will rip up the cable and give everyone 25-50Mbps down and 4-5Mbps up. The government needs to re-negotiate it's deal with Telstra, and I ex…

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    Comment #6352791

    I can only think to keep costs down. But it does seem odd.

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    Comment #6333227

    It's indeed VERY different to "opt-out" as they had stated. What a mistake!

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    Comment #6333186

    Breaking news: on ABC News 24 right now Abbott just said he doesn't support a filter and got the policy wrong.

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    Comment #6332757

    He's referring to the AMCA blacklist, which while not a filter in the sense we usually discuss is a kind of internet censorship.

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    Comment #6332728

    If the Liberal/National Coalition manages to achieve a majority in the Senate, I think this will be the time we see a filter become law.

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    Comment #6332602

    How long until their regional affiliates update their design? For example: http://au.yahoo.com (Yahoo! 7) http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ (Yahoo Japan) I really feel that while these spino…