EB-Barrington

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   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   The first example has 4GB ram and 128GB SSD. Is that worthy of a "best" title in the $1000(ish) category?
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   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   Emphasis should be on the cessation of commenting, clicking like, or performing any other Facebook activity, or this process would seem to be in vain. (for sure, the process is only a "soft-delete")
3. 153.▲
   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   Yes, agree. So I should add, just for discussion: 1) I'm self employed. 2) I'm always connected via a VPN connected to a continent that isn't my home continent. 3) I haven't connected to the internet via a "company&
4. 154.▲
   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   FYI - I should have added, my name was never given, nor was any other "personal" information. Nothing more was provided other than a paragraph of text I had previously written, the contents of which had nothing to do with me perso
5. 155.▲
   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   I remember posting a random paragraph of text I had previously created into an "analyser" on the Cambridge Analytica website - as an alternative to giving Cambridge Analytica access to my FB profile. It then accurately deduced my
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   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   Oh yeah, I realise! (I bought an Amiga when I was studying Comp Sci at University, rather than the recommended PC - as the games were much better on the Amiga. Fortunately there was one unit with 68k assembly programming, ideally suited to
7. 157.▲
   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   My first full time job was at a store that sold Amiga's (and PC's). We had a very large range of software - including every game, constantly getting new stock. Once we convinced the boss to purchase a shrink-wrap machine to keep e
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   by EB-Barrington 9y ago

   Reading text, scrolling by using the down-arrow on the Amiga in 1988, was smoother than than the Windows 10 laptop I'm using to view this page, here in 2018. I can't imagine what personal computing would be like in 2018 if the Ami
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   WordPress now powers 30% of all websites(w3techs.com)

   3 points by EB-Barrington 9y ago|0 comments
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    by EB-Barrington 9y ago

    Detroit (Michigan State) - average monthly wage 2016, 3,210 EUR per month (source: bls.gov) EU/EEA countries, selected average monthly wages: Portugal : 1158 EUR Estonia : 1201 EUR Latvia : 925 EUR Lithuania : 851 EUR Poland : 1102 EUR
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    by EB-Barrington 9y ago

    For balance: in Ukraine, a population approximately five times larger than Austria - a grocery store worker would be considered lucky to make 4000 EUR per year. Further - for tens (hundreds?) of millions of people in Europe, in countries su
12. 162.▲
    by EB-Barrington 9y ago

    Albanians (like Bulgaria, Albania shares a border with Greece) also nod up and down for no, and turn their heads left-to-right for yes. As in Bulgaria, this is not universal throughout the populace - making it all the more confusing when yo