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Comment #10698158
In the 1980s and 90s, knowing about computers was also a way for kids to "rebel against old people". It was us who could teach our teachers how to use and program a computer, not t…
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Comment #7678837
Not having useful drugs against bacterial infections has killed many more people in the past than all violent governments combinded. Because bacteria infections where the number on…
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Comment #7678826
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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Comment #7678808
Its a giude about web UI best practices, and the icons symbolizing the different topics are not clickable? Besides, I didn't even notice that some of the headlines/h2s in the subse…
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Comment #7678775
This seems like some guy who's AdSense account got banned and now he's trying to take his revenge. If there is any proof, just go to some good journalist, like Snowden did. The jou…
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Comment #7655846
So, table tennis table? Chess board?
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Comment #7655830
Yep. Problem is, there are no schools around.
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Comment #7514868
Just back from East Africa, and plain HTML is really useful there. Never was able to open G+ and always used the offline version of Gmail.
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Comment #7452968
Very true.
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Comment #7346507
Don't judges feel somewhat stupid sentencing people to "100 years" of something?
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Comment #7304946
> THE PROBLEM WITH LITTLE WHITE GIRLS After a year in East Africa, that was one of the things I noticed here: they always come in pairs of 20-year-old white girls. Except for South…
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Comment #7195435
I thought Google+ was proof of that.
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Comment #7195429
Comparing it to the GDR ("East Germany") would be more apropriate, I guess. And you'd avoid Godwin.
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Comment #7063030
> but it will make men much more considerate Yey, the sexism here.
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Comment #7063015
Why didn't he just click "block" and wait for normal people to contact him? There are probably some idiots who jump onto every new profile that pops up. Once blocked, it will becom…
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Comment #7062901
> Chinese people The only "proper" enemy would be Russia, and therefore China signed a border agreement with Russia, basically giving up their claims. Because Russia is stong enoug…
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Comment #7062888
Its China who is heating the issue time and time again. With Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam. They even sent troops into India last year. Its only with Russia that they signed a pe…
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Comment #7050438
They are called the Pagasa Island by everybody but the Chinese propaganda ministry. Anyway, I think this is all more Chinese interior policy, to divert public attention in China fr…
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Comment #6853295
> The massive data breach was a result of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of computers around the world Is that a Windows only issue or are other OSes…
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Comment #6853246
That would be much more useful. My password is strong enough, but I would never use an computer other than my own to log into Gmail or any other important account. One-time passwor…
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Comment #6823737
> How can they 'scam' people on match.com by creating fake profiles? Getting invited to some developed country by some lonely soul. Get that person to come to their country and the…
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Comment #6818680
The current price hike is made in China. Better to look there for hints as to when the bubble will burst.
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Comment #6774996
I appreciate it when the top-voted comment tells me the bullshit level of the linked article, so I can decide if it is worth to actually click through. In this care it seems that i…
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Comment #6767258
> In the Philippines I had to bribe someone in order to get my visa extended for a few days. No you don't! I have been asked for "visa extention bribes" in many countries. Do not p…
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Comment #6767205
My guess is that a sufficient number of people found it sufficiently interesting.