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That's not how I recall it. > The first version of Compiz was released as free software by Novell (SUSE) in January 2006 > Build 5048 (built on April 1, 2005) was the official WinHEC 2005 preview build, ... The Aero visual sty
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By your definition Subways aren't sandwiches.
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One cell type (prokaryote, tiny) is not like the other (eukaryote, huge)
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In the past it was acceptable to lose thousands of soldiers in a battle. So nobody cared if some guerilla ambushed and killed a squadron. Today if you lose 10 soldiers in a day the President is on TV.
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> why are the particle counts about an order-of-magnitude higher for Voyager 2 then they were for Voyager 1 in interstellar space Better detector? Those are detected particle counts
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Why is it that when the right wants to reduce taxes, which is a popular move, they are called "populists", but when the left wants to increase social spending, which is also a popular move, they are not? Wikipedia definition: >
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Many are switching from the Sublime Text they paid for to the free VS Code.
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Not an expert, but if it were cheaper, some other company would appear which would buy from the US exporter and sell back to the US importer, avoiding oil going outside the country. The oil markets are some of the biggest and most efficient
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Just try to enable Do Not Track in Chrome. See the scary long warning you need to accept. It makes you think you are going to get hacked or something if you accept it. You also need to click the "Confirm" button, which typically i
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Yeah, because we all know that your average user default position is "sure, track me however you want". Just like their default is "sure, scam me however you want", because they didn't explicitly check a "Do No
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You are 0.0001% representative of the population. You will be tracked by metadata absence. There are a couple articles about terrorists/spies tracked through data patterns generated when the closed their usual phone and switched to a b
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> everybody should have a right to wear a mask everywhere without getting discriminated. It's a losing game. They will track you with your mask on from the moment you leave your house, your phone, your credit card, your gait, you
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> If consent is not given then that can not bar you from service. But they probably can increase the price to cover "administrative costs/..."
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In airplanes the pilot is never watching a movie on the phone while the autopilot is engaged.
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Do you think it's a coincidence that some of the most used and loved desktop applications lately are written in JS/HTML? import_pkt_ws_btc_deribit_v2.py Could it be that it's extremely hard to do these kind of applications in
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What is better? Having GCC/Clang/MSVC or having a single C/C++ compiler people/companies contribute to?
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This work is unethical. Those people never approved for their privacy to be violated in such a flagrant way. Would you approve researchers from 100 years in the future using facial recognition to identify and shame meat-eating bastards from
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> I paid for sublime so i will use it -- and multiple cursors everywhere is a boon for quick and dirty data munging These days pretty much every serious editor has multiple cursors, including Visual Studio Code.
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This article is great in explaining why modern javascript development is so complicated, with so many tools (webpack, babel, ...), and why it all makes sense: https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-
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DO they also inspect the hundreds of npm packages an extension might use?
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WPF is dead. Microsoft is rewriting some of it's apps which used to be native in Electron - OneDrive, Visual Studio Installer,...
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We would also stop having any new software. Do you really want all software to cost $1 million per line like NASA software? Do you want the high school kid in his bedroom to go to prison because he wrote a "site" and his friends d
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Does anybody buy a phone/car/... based on manufacturer ads? In a sense this is a self-selecting scam. If you don't check 3rd party reviews, then well, you get "advertised"
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> The legionnaire's daily ration consisted of 78% carbohydrates, mainly from wheat or barley While calling that "vegetarian" is technically correct, it's not really what people understand by "vegetarian".
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Like? If true it means that either the futures market are tiny or that there is a barrier to efficient arbitrage.
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There is only so much you can buy in a futures market before it starts pulling the spot market up.
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> As I argued, once Bitcoin’s price falls below its cost of mining, the incentive to mine will deteriorate, thrusting bitcoin into a death spiral. When bitcoin appeared it's price was zero, yet people still mined it despite being
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Isn't injecting cement under the city massively more damaging to the environment (carbon emissions)?
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> Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas. > They still think they can write softwar
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> Lieutenants gain authority based on the merit of their contributions Meritocracy is an outdated discriminatory practice. https://postmeritocracy.org/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/20

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