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7y ago
Why does taking someone's bike home make you a hero? You could have just tipped off the police that someone left their bike in the field. It really sounds like you thought you gained a free bike until your mother in law got involved.
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7y ago
>But 30% is really, really high Interestingly, that's about the average income tax rate. I wonder if Apple and Uncle Sam both independently came to the same conclusion that that's the highest amount that they can get away with
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7y ago
Nothing says "friendly and empathetic" like talking to a robot to go through menu options, then being put on hold for 45 minutes listing to music being played through a tin can while waiting to be connected to some contracting cal
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7y ago
>In much of the world accessibility is a legal requirement This is very true for the USA, but not so much elsewhere. It's common in Europe for buildings to have no wheelchair access at all.
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7y ago
>So yeah, now R. Kelly somehow owns the rights to JonTron's Buying Things Online Wow, the whole Youtube system is a mess. I had no idea it was that bad
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7y ago
What are you gonna do about it? Switch to Libre Office? Mwuhahahaha
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7y ago
Read the thread again. It's pretty clearly anti-annexation
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7y ago
Hey, it happened before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas#Statehood
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7y ago
I'm pretty sure modern USA passports require fingerprint data. They at least have the pokeball symbol signaling that it contains biometrics.
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7y ago
You can say that about almost anything though. The top post on the front page right now is a system Mozilla developed to manage IoT devices from over the internet. That's probably much lower on the world priority list than this, but I
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7y ago
Many people consider IME a backdoor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
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>For Lydia’s, there are only two others in the entire world — one in Greece and one in England Both countries with socialized medicine and yet they still didn't come up with a cure. It happened in one of the most, if not the most,
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7y ago
There are several related to diet including obesity and xenoestrogens.
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7y ago
>Facebook must exercise greater oversight over third-party apps, including by terminating app developers that fail to certify that they are in compliance with Facebook’s platform policies or fail to justify their need for specific user d
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7y ago
It looks like this is not dependent on Gnome at all, it's simply pretending to be a Gnome shell extension in order to hide. I don't think disabling shell extensions will do anything at all.
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7y ago
>EvilGnome’s functionalities include desktop screenshots, file stealing, allowing capturing audio recording from the user’s microphone and the ability to download and execute further modules. I'm glad this is still considered malwar
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7y ago
>the global trend of 1:1.08 female to male ratio must be skewed in a similar way somewhere else? It's skewed everywhere simply by the fact that women live to be older. When looking at people under 30, the male skew is even worse. He
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7y ago
>I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability / uptime than Gitlab Why the hell would you think that after the Microsoft acquisition?
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7y ago
>Java and its license is also controlled by one of the most evil companies Does that have any affect on OpenJDK?
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7y ago
I'm pretty fond of Java (OpenJDK) since it also offers portability. Yes Java is much slower than Rust, but it's fine when high performance isn't necessary.
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7y ago
I'd say the majority of native English speakers not from a military background also make the same mistake.
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7y ago
You're half right. It's best to consider all sides of an argument, however the people that believe that there are only two sides are generally considered idiots. The fact that there are only two major political parties is just a m
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7y ago
They do in the second paragraph
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7y ago
>they're often paid on a per-frame basis rather than hourly pay That's interesting. Is there any in-depth source on how the anime industry operates?
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7y ago
Though chimpanzees have been known to wage war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
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7y ago
Sure, same with housing
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7y ago
Because then they could no longer collect money from people that forget that they're being automatically charged every month.
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7y ago
Probably some type of bacterium since they have the shortest generation age (~30 minutes) and there's likely to always be a pocket of them somewhere in an environment that forces them to adapt.
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7y ago
Perform a chargeback and leave a negative review on any app store you may have bought it from. Companies will just keep screwing people over if they never get punished for it.
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7y ago
>how absolutely bonkers it is that we see housing--a basic human need--as something to make a profit from The concept of restaurants must really blow your mind.
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