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waitwhat

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    Comment #44651727

    Aliexpress listings can have multiple different items, and the price displayed in the search results will be that of the first of those (in your case, probably just an antenna) rat…

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    Comment #44143469

    There is also the foreign policy based on threats and insults, increasing reports of hostile border experiences, reductions in non-tourist visas, US economic policy reducing consum…

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    Comment #35874951

    If you capitalise the first word (a signal to the algorithm to be more sentence-based than word-based, perhaps?) - Krya på dig Björn - Get over it Björn - Krya på dig Helga - Get o…

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    Comment #26564886

    The google translate integration.

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    Comment #8287744

    maybe the use of "sign"?

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    Comment #7845810

    The "bunch of assets" that the crown effectively surrendered in return for financial dependence on parliament is the Crown Estate, currently worth GBP 8.1 billion (USD 13.6 billion…

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    Comment #6039273

    One thing... Mobile Safari didn't use to cache anything over 15KB uncompressed. http://www.phpied.com/iphone-caching/ (No idea about more current versions of iOS or browser-caching…

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    Comment #5982812

    The "Reader" button in the address bar fixes it.

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    Comment #5764697

    I'm sorry, but describing homelessness as "a cool hack" is pretty twisted.

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    Comment #5739003

    http://chyrp.net/ -- PHP + MySql/Sqlite

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    Comment #5517293

    I did my own undergrad project on JPEG steganography, and I was surprised that section 2.6 accurately represents popular algorithms being implemented today. At the time it seemed t…

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    Comment #5442673

    Maybe it was just quicker/cheaper for Yahoo! to buy Summly and their license than to negotiate their own license off SRI?

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    Comment #5388408

    This tax works because it was a surprise. What do you think would have happened if, say, they gave 48 hours notice?

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    Comment #5346280

    Unfortunately you just dumped $400k of some bad guy's product, and he knows where you live...

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    Comment #5115736

    For the cheapo European carriers, you are generally billed for each leg seperately, and there is no discount for buying a return ticket. But the real reason for looking for a one-w…

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    Comment #5114955

    Odd, it works fine for me (and this exact feature was skyscanner's original USP.) e.g. http://www.skyscanner.net/flights/tll/lond/130215/airfares-f... Note that sometimes you have …

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    Comment #5114886

    Some more feedback: If I do a search for direct, one-way flights from Tallinn to anywhere next month, the experience is awful. "anywhere" appears to search a list of cities in sequ…

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    Comment #5114831

    No RyanAir is a bit of a problem, and I'm failing to get EasyJet results to show on some routes (e.g. LGW-TLL)

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    Comment #5114765

    Matrix (and Adioso, which I guess uses the same backend) appears to be missing at least RyanAir and EasyJet, and presumably other low-cost carriers. Honestly, if you don't include …

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    Comment #5091168

    Assuming the vulnerability scanner tries some basic login attacks (for example, trying default username/passwords), then it would be analogous to a landlord finding one of their te…

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    Comment #5045549

    From the Guidelines link at the bottom of every page: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."