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Express 99 2/3% as a fraction? No calculator
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Why should universal income be universal?
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Is there a benefit in compiling your code as you go along?
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What does "TTY" stand for?
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Why is consensus so controversial in Britain?
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Why are chemical weapons such a big deal?
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What sense does it make for "sharpness" to be adjustable on a monitor?
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In Germany, why does the burden of proof fall on authorities rather than the company or individual when it comes to possible illegal funds?
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When does bugfixing become overkill, if ever?
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Is the frontend or backend (API) responsible for formatting data in a specific locale?
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Is our outsourced software vendor "Agile" or do they just not want to plan things?
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Why do UK politicians seemingly ignore opinion polls on Brexit?
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Why did people still chant "Lock her up" at Trump rallies in 2019?
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Why are all my yellow 2V/20mA LEDs burning out with 330k Ohm resistor?
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Why does Uncle Bob suggest that coding standards shouldn't be written down if you can avoid it?
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Can a CPU function with nothing more than a power supply and a ROM, using only the internal cache as RAM?
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Can Northern Ireland's border issue be solved by repartition?
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Why is there no `nand` instruction in modern CPUs?
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What is the "type" of data that pointers hold in the C language?
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Why is it dangerous to open a suspicious email?
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Why doesn't the EU now just force the UK to choose between referendum and no-deal?
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Why is global state hard to test? Doesn't setting the global state at the beginning of each test solve the problem?
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How is the operating system able to know the battery level?
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Why does mount happen over an existing directory?
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Why is participating in the European Parliamentary elections used as a threat?
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Why are so many cities in the list of 50 most violent cities in the world located in South and Central America?
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On Unix systems, why do we have to explicitly `open()` and `close()` files to be able to `read()` or `write()` them?
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Why is int in C in practice at least a 32 bit type today, despite it being developed on/for the PDP-11, a 16 bit machine?
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Why is Boris Johnson visiting only Paris & Berlin if every member of the EU needs to agree on a withdrawal deal?
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How to ls using the long format (-l) while still following directory symlinks?
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