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xarball
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Comment #39170338
50% of migrants can't find a job. Our banks are publishing papers that for every 1% our population increases, home prices appreciate 3% above the target CPI of 2%; AFTER accounting…
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Comment #34169582
Oh my goodness, I typed "My Butt", and then couldn't catch my breath laughing. A+, that was a journey I wasn't prepared for =P
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Comment #30951553
Did he say anywhere that he wasn't logging into them :)
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Comment #29944858
Wow I'd never have known the line between day and night ever had a name, before you used that word! :)
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Comment #29850626
This isn't really relevant to bring up in 2022. But this thread always brings a huge grin to my face. I'm probably one of the few that really likes watching the "Steve Jobs" level …
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Comment #28860124
I agree that your point on cloud gaming is probably valid for companies trying to maintain a rigid grip over software piracy when the companies still build things that can be stole…
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Comment #23817855
> Negative associations have been highlighted by virtue of the darkness and unilluminated things in general being traditionally considered negative. It really depends where you go.…
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Comment #19948705
I work in the auto industry in HMDs, and I think the last comment was somewhat on the right track, but perhaps missing bits of a larger issue at hand. We can get the impression tha…
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Comment #18071154
The ridiculous part is if you had once had location tracking on before, and had previously set your Home/Work address - Android Auto will still occasionally offer you directions to…
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Comment #18020248
Hiring discrimination is not the same thing as advertising/outreach. You are free to to apply to any company you want, and they are legally required to judge you on the basis of yo…
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Comment #17915524
You can even go the extra step and get them realistic noise-canceling ones for sleeping. They'll probably even thank you for it!
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Comment #17900983
Selenium sets up the browser profile for you, so you can disable images, videos, css, javascript, embeds, all to your heart's content. I've recently started using Selenium with the…
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Comment #17895224
Why would you switch from selenium to beautiful soup halfway through what you're trying to do, and force your program to re-request the same information from the web server? Seleni…
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Comment #17678041
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Comment #17677981
I don't think the video depicts any need for a new law. Harassment already has laws. But I think what happened in the video was clearly a step up from that, and would fall under cr…
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Comment #17282281
That sounds a lot more like what they should aim for: Formalizing algebra. It's probably a far safer bet that algebra won't be changing very often, much less so than any graphics p…
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Comment #17278758
I find fourth-wave feminist articles like this to be a complete sham, because they completely stop short of asking a far more constructive question: 'Why is this happening?' Is the…
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Comment #17190733
As a dead animal carcass whos insides are torn out and spewed out along the side of the road, I wish I could use reddit for similar, yet somewhat more distant categories too ^.^
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Comment #16938887
While I agree with the general thrust of this, and am perfectly fine with the consequences and outcomes that redpill might land you if you're showing responsibility and taking step…
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Comment #16893711
Metro's branding was a failure of imagination and a failure to properly capture and convey intent. There are many other options out there: | "Touch UI" | "Mobile UI" | "Everywhere …
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Comment #16609377
I think Microsoft is trying to fill in a meaningful, yet tentative part of the pie. It wouldn't be right for them to put forward the full cost of every cloud company's potential lo…
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Comment #15901090
This is where hardware signing comes into play.
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Comment #15526905
I followed a few links to Abseil: > Consisting of the foundational C++ and Python code at Google, Abseil includes libraries that will grow to underpin other Google-backed open sour…
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Comment #15427187
> machines are not submerged in an environment that effects them, giving them no merit to be intelligent about anything You're alluding to the problem of having to 'raise' a super-…
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