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wasimanitoba

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    I think the difference is that you can specify independently verifiable criteria for the selection process and require participants to decide based on those criteria alone without …

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    Comment #46459428

    Physical Health, mental health, the economy, social disorder, family; we can influence these things that cause stress but often we can't "control" them.

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    Comment #45241665

    I'm relieved to see another educated person doing this. It's gotten worse for me lately, where I keep mixing up train stations and locations with similar names or characteristics, …

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    Comment #44375245

    Meanwhile, they forced AI Copilot bloat into Notepad, whose singular use-case was supposed to be that it does one thing well without unnecessary features.

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    Comment #44249281

    I appreciate your response, even if the other poster doesn't.

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    Comment #43303767

    He was hilariously brazen in his attempt to sell a Senate seat. His attempt to claim it was all a conspiracy against him was even more hilarious.

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    Comment #42923685

    But that leg must weigh more than a person because their total biomass of 12 megatons is "more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together".

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    Comment #40556671

    Their answer to me is "but you called us ", which is fair, but they could just rephrase the message to "WE WILL NEVER CONTACT YOU TO ASK FOR THIS CODE"

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    Comment #39284615

    Assuming the drop in social program expenditure doesn't already compensate for the drop in tax revenue.

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    Comment #39167505

    You cannot give away some thing that doesn't belong to you. If I accept stolen property which I know to be ill-gotten, then I am as responsible as the thief. A Jewish state could'v…

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    Comment #39167444

    - The British offered land that didn't belong to them because of colonialism - They offered land to Zionists to further their imperialist goals - The British enabled Jewish immigra…

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    Comment #39167373

    No group would or should have to tolerate a foreign state being established on their soil at gunpoint by colonial powers. > the Arab countries decided to wage war in Israel after t…

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    Comment #39067018

    That isn't a very accurate characterization. At the time, there was no significant population of settlers in the area. Most people were either fully or at least partly Indigenous l…

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    Comment #36889208

    Only if we could restrict the questions to the facts of the case, but my phone has a lot of unrelated personal stuff on it and so does my brain.

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    Comment #36735513

    .... and once that problem starts injuring as many people as driverless cars, then we might start looking at it as a public policy issue.

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    Comment #36550239

    "Okay, but couldn't we at least make the game fun anyway?" "No! It has to be just barely fun. If the game was TOO FUN then there would be no reason to MICROPAY in order to make it …

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    Comment #36550210

    > Practically everybody against the idea confused a hash false positive with the system’s false positive. Doesn't the system output the result of the hash? What is the difference?

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    Comment #36532114

    The American and European auto, agriculture and aerospace sectors are all so dependent on subsidies that the same could be said for them as well, and yet those industries remain th…

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    Comment #36531689

    2/3 of Canadians living in a home their family owns is still far from a situation where a critical mass of voters are demanding pro-renter housing policies. Even those living at ho…

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    Comment #36531681

    National Geographic's audience might not tend toward the lowest denominator. There's a good chance that people who read that magazine have a higher average reading level.