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>but it gave me a deep respect for helicopters You should check out Felix Baumgartner and Fred North on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/therealfelixbaumgartner/ https://www.instagram.com/fred_no
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PepsiCo seemed to have lost their collective minds in the 90's in their pursuit of fighting the Cola Wars, like it was some narco gang territory. This episode seems tame in comparison to the Pepsi Number Fever aka 349 incident, with a
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>On the other hand he was excited about Xbox that's why they invested much more effort and resources into gaming hardware than in mobile phone. There is a different story/side to this statement. https://news.ycombina
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Next month, when I am watching Tim Cook in a split diopter parasocial interaction, from somewhere inside the glass fronted circle of Apple Park, in-between drawling on about 'even x%/times faster' -- I want to hear an explici
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>My key question, though, is how would this affect the app-store-like world of game consoles? It'd be kind of neat to install Steam-for-Switch. I think this got played out with Apple v xCloud, although it is far from being over. You
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>That's why I use a utility called Shreddit I had to search for it, and assume that you are referring to this utility: http://apps.palmtronix.com/shreddit/android/ It makes claims of zeroing out the local
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>If you go for a thing directly you show your hand and get a lot of backlash. In this context, it is exactly how politics work, and you have described shifting the Overton window or even floating the Trial balloon. re: NHS. The case you
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>The headlines never tell the full story. The below links encapsulate some parts of why Apple cannot be continually trusted with customer data, or viewed as a paragon for privacy/security. There have been numerous examples, past and
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>I'm not sure what to do about it For starters, please give up the defeatist attitude. They deserve the frontlash; even if it serves no purpose, as you describe it. Apple have placed 'Privacy' at the core of their messagin
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Compared with the superhuman feats of athleticism reliably completed in virtually every other Olympic event, the runs felt too attainable, almost amateur—not too far removed from what you’d see at any urban skate park. I am not sure of th
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Thanks for the article. I use this extension (and the app) regularly, which activates as soon as I visit Amazon in a container tab. In addition to providing in-depth statistics, features like alerts via Telegram have helped me hunt down bar
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There are some countries, which reward their athletes handsomely, either financially or via some form of compensation through benefits. However, you will generally find that they don't have a comprehensive program or a support networ
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>In my company the only ones that want to go back to the office are those engineers and managers that spend most of their day just walking around, talking to everyone about non important stuff, inviting you to have a coffee, and making j
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>2. You can set conditions, such that delets can be ignored. Eg. I have a WhatsApp message+media backup going back almost 7 years now, ~65GiB. But I don't need all that on my phone. So I just disable syncing delets on my storage. No
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In the context of the article, a strategy of selectively doing nothing only works, where the usual behaviour is well known to support, devs, colleagues et al. in an organisation. It is more of an exercise in how to manage expectations, mi
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The parent is referencing r/restofthefuckingowl For tutorials and diagrams with a comical lack of instructions between the start and end.
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>You seem to be accusing the person you are responding to of being Brewdog? Or are you trying to promote Brewdog by publicising their deliberate controversies? There is no such implication on both counts. I am flabbergasted by how you ha
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>Defamation is a great way for those with money to silence dissent and avoid any consequences. Your comment seems to fit the profile of Brewdog, a UK based 'craft brewery'. They are known for deliberately courting controversy.
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You can bypass it by either turning off the network connection prior to a new/clean installation on 20H2/21H1. If you are stuck on the account screen during the installation process, then entering wrong credentials 3 times will pr
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I don't know why this is getting downvoted. The generally accepted colloquialism is 'across the pond', used by Brits to refer to America. It is possible that some of our cousins from over the pond, with whom we have a special
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>Not only don't the "tabs" look like tabs anymore, it's also very difficult to tell which one is actually selected, which can be very annoying depending on how you use tabs. I couldn't even tell which tabs were s
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>Depop has done a great job fostering a more human experience than other platforms. You paint a pretty picture; the camaraderie of buying, selling, haggling in an online cobbled internet town square, make for an idyllic setting. The tug-
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It was probably intended; I mistook the headline as a fast-track for 'Blue tick/checkmark' service. Regardless, it is not aimed at people like me, who are ambivalent about Twitter. I haven't tweeted a single thing from m
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>(I've had it disabled via pref since day 1, and then it started showing up on the new tab page regardless) I have done the same. You can use this add-on to remove it from your new tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
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Some accrued knowledge still survives, within a community, which is trying to keep it alive. I wish them all the luck. http://www.johnnylucky.org/power-supplies/psu-recommendation... https://hardforum.com&#x
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>I think the fact that they sell a simple and compact adapter which restores the functionality It does not restore the functionality. You cannot use the wired headphones via the adapter, and simultaneously charge the phone. The adapter w
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>It's a shame Vorbis support isn't widespread though, given that it's royalty-free. Spotify currently uses Ogg Vorbis on desktop and mobile, and AAC for the web player.
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>I'm in the UK, and I don't expect all 650 MPs to have a detailed understanding of 4 different pieces of legislation per day I respectfully disagree. The MPs (Members of Parliament) receive substantial remuneration to represent
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> NewNew is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Courtne Smith. The app, which is still in its "beta" or pre-full release stage, describes itself as "a human stock market where you buy shares in the lives of re
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>The benefit for people is that they can get Wi-fi in many places — free for BT customers, and a small fee for others. I subscribed to a BT Openreach broadband product, a few years ago, in personal capacity. The service you are describin
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