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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
I think it would be pretty hard to argue that you serve a "unified offer" (at the moment at least). The user requests the content without any promise of downloading and rendering all of the content linked, and the server happily s
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
The problem is: There is a market for it because the average Joe and Jane are pretty lazy and would rather touch something to unlock it than having to go through the hassle of typing and remembering (forgetting) a password. They probably do
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
The way I see it, this looks more like an attempt by the video game industry to pass the cost of preventing cheating to the taxpayers.
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
tl;dr: Celecoxib is safer than previously thought for people with heart problems.
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
GMT doesn't change throughout the year. Birtain uses GMT during winter and BST(UTC+1) during summer though. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
“The complexity of life” is really ambiguous. The actual headline, “Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being”, is much more descriptive.
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
Alcohol isn't very carcinogenic, but I think it's been estimated that it's the cause in a few percent of cancer cases.
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
From what I found, Apple's laptops are sligthly above average in terms of reliability [0]. Sqaretrade sells warranties though, so there might be some selection bias, but I'm not sure if it would benefit Apple or not. [0] https:&#
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
> And as IBM reported a couple weeks ago, even at higher prices, Macs tend to be cheaper to own. I’m writing this on a mid-2010 non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro I bought six years ago last June. Yes, over time I increased the memory to fro
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
Sounds like we have a serious case of in-group favouritism and with a hint of bandwagon effect
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by a_plastic_bag 10y ago
> You wouldn't have a cell phone, and especially a data connection, if not for the space program. And so on. Given enough time, it would've been invented regardless. You are right that we probably would be further behind techno