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As much as I don't like Firefox with each new release, the alternatives are worse. So I've settled for FF until it falls far enough to lose the title of "least worst browser". But I've quit suggesting it to others.
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The Netherlands may be considered a tax haven colloquially, but they're not blacklisted as one.
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So you can sue Google on your own and not as part of the class action.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bsdgames/+bug/7253...
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They don't want their food to be too ugly. Ugly means there's something wrong with it, and if there's something wrong with it, they won't want to eat it. It's why most people gag when they think about eating bugs, b
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It's probably for the best since there are things far worse on that list than Hackers.
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Packaging food in plastic containers provides easier access to snackfoods, and allows you to carry them in more places to allow opportunistic snacking. While the plastic itself may not be directly causing diabetes, the increased availabilit
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>The underlying paradigms aren't that terribly different, but the actual terminology for expressing ideas idiomatically is wildly different, and represents an unusual obstacle. Haskell uses a lot of terminology that's familiar
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The song is just ambiguous enough to leave you wondering if there's a dual meaning to it. She's clearly out for a one night stand, but maybe she wants an actual baby out of the deal. And leaving you thinking about it is a neat tri
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While leeches have an actual medical use, historical usage of leeches was cargo culting and not science.
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The dictionaries seem to attribute the words to Latin, while the -oo sound seems to come from Greek. The root word of both coming from a word for fold, "-plus" in Latin and "-plos" or "-ploos" in Greek. Greek a
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Tuple, duple, and Quadruple sounds like "oo-ple." Triple has a short "i" sound. Every-other "-ple" sounds like "tuh-ple"
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The Nintendo Famicom is an abbreviation of Family Computer. You could get a keyboard and BASIC as an accessory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC
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Not in Australia. But in the state of New York, (relevant since it's a New York Times article) it could be.
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Tequila is made specifically from blue agave so they can't use other types of agave to produce it and still call it tequila.
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It probably stays Tesla, like the unit of measurement does.
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Wiring the horn to the brake lights was supposed to be a prank. But if the driver doesn't acknowledge that it's happening, the prank backfires on the prankster.
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They'll only have to fix the few thousand that still have the emissions equipment installed.
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That's not what the case in NH was about. It was already possible to collect the winnings through an anonymous trust, but the winner didn't know about that before signing their own name on the ticket. The ruling let the winner do
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Not you, you're part of the simulation. It's just superasn, Elon Musk, and a bunch of goldfish used to generate entropy.
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When you skim headlines instead of reading them, your brain makes guesses at the words instead of actually reading each letter, as a speed hack. It's also used as a crutch when your eyesight slowly degrades over the years. Sometimes it
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The problem with just having liability is that it greatly reduces the responsibility of others to repair or replace your car if they hit it. Depending on where you live, you might only get a few hundred dollars from them if they total your
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You don't need to go back to 4:3, just turn your widescreen monitor sideways and there's even less evil horizontal space.
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Because you built the army properly and instilled that loyalty in your troops before needing to test it.
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YouTube's plan is going to backfire once church groups start campaigning for representation of the truth on videos discussing abortion or evolution or other religions.
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>this shit is wayyy too fucking cool....next snapchat! >-8 sentiment, gailees 5 years ago in reply to "Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets" Like that?
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They can use violence too. And since you okayed, it. They're justified in posting pictures of you lying bloodied in the street, saying karma's a bitch.
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They lack a proper frame of reference, being born too late to experience a pre-Windows world.
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Let them buy credits which can be used to pass the chore to someone else, or get better odds of a preferred chore. Or just make it ad supported. If you know someone's going to be doing the dishes, what better time to sell them dish soa
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>Here's a thought exercise: Imagine the time when the first jobs for hourly pay came into existence. What advice was the older generation giving to the youth of that time? (I can imagine my elders telling me that it'd be import

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