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Sander Rossel wrote: won't because of the power these companies have.
It's ridiculous though, these pharmaceuticals are actual maffia.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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lopatir wrote: that 1T$, came from people that paid them, so obviously they have something that people want to buy.
Have you paid them anything recently? Probably not. Ad companies paid that 1T$ to Google for the profiling data they have on everyone. I'm not that convinced that's something to be celebrated.
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Dollars becoming cheap 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Are you kidding?
If someone tried to sell me printer paper at the price that a dollar bill costs (a dollar -- by pure coincidence, maybe), I'd laugh in their face!
A dollar for a tiny scrap of paper like that? I'd want at least 20 A3 sheets of baxter stock!
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gotta wonder with inflation and the actual price of making money when $1000 notes will make a comeback.
many countries have already dropped their 1 cent coins, too expensive, not that useful.
in fact even some banks complained, cost of counting, wrapping and storing them was more than their value - they could almost save money by throwing them away.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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lopatir wrote: many countries have already dropped their 1 cent coins, too expensive, not that useful.
Are you kidding?
The English half pence coin (as opposed to the old ha'penny) was immensely useful -- for plumbing!
It was precisely the right size for making a stop-end out of a simple compression fitting! That made it worth about 75x its value when using it to pay for stuff!
If some idiotic-list-making web-site were to make a list of the world's most useful coins, betcha it'd be right up there at the top!
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1914 dollars in 2018 | Inflation Calculator[^]
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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in the early 70's my father bought a brand new car for exactly $2500. (even had the optional AM radio!!)
being a salesman he clocked it in just over 2 years and traded to the new model.
about 15 years later he said he saw it on a used car lot for $2500.
yeah he had a good memory for the plate numbers, had a lot of cars, could recall every one
also had exactly 1 mobile phone, with a phone number he never remembered,
... then again that made sense: only ever had it's battery charged up exactly once 
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Sweet!!!. I still own some stock
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Let me know when you've got the beer and the barbie ready.
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So .NET uses 16bit unicode by default, and with the territory comes the possibility of 32 bit codes embedded as surrogate pairs.
That's all well and good even if it complicates things.
However, .NET provides no functions for operating on those 32-bit values.
No char.IsWhiteSpace(). No GetUnicodeCategory(), nada.
So what the hell are you supposed to do with these values?
*angery*
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Okay yes, but once i have that converted (either to a 32bit int, or a double-char string, i can't do anything with it.
I can't call char.IsWhiteSpace with it.
I can't do anything but print its value. Which is stupid
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ASCII FTW! 127 characters should be enough for anyone!
I'm not sure there are any whitespace characters that would be encoded as a surrogate pair:
Whitespace character - Wikipedia[^]
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- Homer
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And EBCDIC - everybody always forgets EBCDIC 
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And sixbit on DEC's PDP systems!
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I've encountered a weird one. But I don't remember if it was a surrogate or not. I just remember it didn't print to the console properly (it cooked it) or didn't save to source as a literal value or something.
It came up as whitespace, but only when I used these huge "not ranges" which are like [^a-z] (anything but a lower case letter)
that "anything" part created ranges all throughout the 16-bit unicode spectrum.
And that's when I ran into issues with one whitespace character.
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Actually Baudot it sufficient at 5 bits.
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Only works for 16 bit unicode values. Not these 32bit surrogates
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"So what the hell are you supposed to do with these values"
hope they never appear.
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Pretty much!
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idea: research using Unicode categories in your RegEx ? [^]
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I am using those.
The category for surrogates is surrogate. Not helpful.
Combining a hi and lo surrogate you get a 2 char string.
The 2 char string cannot be queried for its unicode category in .NET AFAIK
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