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Comment · 8 years ago
The ones I have used on Android just use the /etc/hosts file.
Comment · 8 years ago
There is no hard-and-fast rule to determine if something is vegan or not. You could just as easily argue that figs are vegan because the figs do not suffer.
Comment · 8 years ago
> As a hack for existing CPUs, it's just about tolerable â as long as it > can die entirely by the next generation.

> Certainly it's a nasty hack, but hey â the world was on fire and in the > end we didn't have to just turn the datacentres off and go back to goat > farming, so it's not all bad.

Off-topic, but what is with the "â" in these sentences? Is that just some weird encoding error, or does it actually have meaning?

Comment · 9 years ago
Article is from June 20, 2017.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've yet to find any. If you look at attendance for the last decade there seems to be no indication that it is actually declining.
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There are a few exchanges that let you short sell.
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Comment · 9 years ago
I find it fascinating that the packets per second chart resembles an RC circuit's step response. I wonder if there is a good electrical circuit analogy for packets, packet size, and bandwidth.

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