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dugluak
on Nov 27, 2017
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When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?
a kid asked me a similar question years ago - when you delete a file from the computer, where does it go?
gnu8
on Nov 27, 2017
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Most computers have a fan that blows the discarded bits out of the CPU. Some of them are built fanless though so the bits just radiate away...
y4mi
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how is that similar, considering that a deleted file just get deregistered in the catalog and not actually deleted?
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