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  2. Discards - Wikipedia

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    Discards. Discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea. The practice of discarding is driven by economic and political factors; fish which are discarded are often unmarketable species, individuals which are below minimum landing ...

  3. Discard Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The Discard Protocol is a service in the Internet Protocol Suite defined in RFC 863. It was designed for testing, debugging, measurement, and host-management purposes. A host may send data to a host that supports the Discard Protocol on either Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port number 9. The data sent to ...

  4. Discord - Wikipedia

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    History. The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, [13] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, [14] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio ...

  5. Rummy - Wikipedia

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    Rummy games are popular in India, and it is likely that Indian rummy is an extension of gin rummy and 500 rum, which originated from the United States. Several theories about the origin of the name "rummy" exist. [5] Some attribute it to the British slang word rum, meaning odd, strange, or queer. Others say the origin lies in the game Rum Poker ...

  6. Compulsive decluttering - Wikipedia

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    Compulsive decluttering is a type of disorder that is classified within a broad name, obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. Compulsive decluttering is the act of throwing items, or clutter, away, or getting rid of them in an attempt to "clean up" what one with the disorder may think is cluttered. Even though it is the polar opposite of ...

  7. Signal (bridge) - Wikipedia

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    A (bridge) signal is a move in the card game of contract bridge in which partners defending against a contract play particular cards in a manner which gives a coded meaning or signal to guide their subsequent card play. This may also be referred to as carding. Signals are usually given with the cards from the two-spot to the nine-spot.

  8. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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    TRIM is an ATA command (Advanced Technology Attachment Command) that allows an OS to inform SSD about the blocks of data no longer in use. The SSD then deletes such blocks of data to make a way for newer blocks of data. TRIM is basically used for enhancing the performance and life span of the SSD.

  9. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Shoes on a table. Placing a hat on a bed [20] Three on a match [12] : 292. Tipping a salt shaker over [12] : 188. Viewing one's doppelgänger may be considered a harbinger of bad luck [citation needed] Killing a ladybug [21] [22] Walking under a ladder [23] [24] Black cat crossing one's path [12] : 294.