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by babuskov 9y ago
> When was the last time you heard of Goldman Sachs begin hacked Goldman Sachs is not an exchange. > it has absolutely nothing to do with what we are talking about:) Exactly. You are confusing others by giving GS as an example, while
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Is anyone really using Terminal.app? Once I tried iTerm2 I never launched it again.
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> For whatever the reasons, Google has been pursuing the minimum viable user Probably because this covers 95% of the total user base. Most people are not developers and only get confused by extra features. In fact, most people I've
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No, it would be "would you expect the camera settings"
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> How would you respond? In these situations it's best to ask yourself a simple question: what would Coca-cola do if they asked to see the formula.
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Because moving USD across borders usually includes declaring the source and type of income and taxing it. Bitcoin looks like a big tax-evasion scheme at this moment because 1) laws aren't clearly defined and 2) governments are unable t
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This is interesting. Do you know who holds the patent?
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AFAIR, they changed communication model from Peer-to-peer to client-server and then it all started. Why did they need all conversations to pass through their servers...? Something is hinted in the last paragraph of this article though: htt
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> Don’t you find it a bit funny that Windows 95 is actually snappier than Windows 10? Comparing them on the same hardware?
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I notice when I leave a 2+ hour YouTube video playing in the background, Safari can play 10 of those in a row and still keep usage to 2-3% of CPU. With Firefox something just happens after some time and it starts to 100% one of CPU cores. N
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I'm possibly nitpicking here, but Chernobyl is not in Russia.
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> does not work for a few days after an upgrade "A few days" is an understatement. Extension developers have known for months that these changes would break. If they hadn't created compatible versions by now, they certainl
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And the fact that today was the first time I have seen Firefox crash after 3+ years of heavy everyday usage. Luckily I didn't "upgrade" Firefox on my main machine. I'm staying away from 57 until they get it together.
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> windows handles it in its stride Windows has serious bugs with multiple monitors as well. I switch the second monitor often (usually once or twice a day) and often it would have problems like blank screen on one (or sometimes two) moni
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> you can search Arch Isn't Arch specifically for users who don't mind things breaking and going deep into internals to fix it?
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Aren't all corporations listed in a public registry where it's easy to verify?
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> You dont need outside support to declare independence You don't. But you do need it for anyone in the world to accept is as a fact. A region like that cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world.
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> You need to read history to understand the situation. If the people read history the way you propose, USA would never be a free country.
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> Cuphead - which was funded by the developers remortgaging their houses Cuphead was funded by Microsoft. The whole "mortgaging the house" story is just a marketing stunt, same as "the guy who couldn't complete the tu
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Agreed. ISO-8601 is the way to go.
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A much better title would be: Post a boarding pass online, get your identity stolen.
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Just to clarify in case someone assumes the same thing I did from the headline: it isn't the Facebook account that gets stolen, but the airline website account.
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Think globally, act locally.
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> I believe Facebook/Google/et al can and do detect bot traffic, don't believe me? How? Clicking an ad would lead you to a CAPTCHA before going to the target site?
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> Games are some of the most complex and challenging kinds of software to write. Used to be. For many small devs/hobbyists, it's a matter of clicking in Unity and not actually "writing" anything. Writing your own game
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It actually starts here: https://youtu.be/1PhArSujR_A?t=2m7s
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It seems like a positive feedback loop to me. You would expect healthy people to be able and willing to keep working instead of retiring. Esp. if their work involves some physical activity it helps keeping them healthy.
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> until equality is the rule of the day But people aren't clones and we aren't all equal. Hey, I want to be equal to LeBron James. Please, give me the same salary. You want equality, there's communism for you. See how that
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Maybe they should add a popup dialog that shows up every 100th time you run the program and tell users about it. Something like "Hey, you started Krita for the 200th time. Please consider donating a small amount to help the further dev
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> on average You can "expect" but if you only have one lock to unlock, it can be anything from 1 to 1000 attempts. If you had 1000 locks, you can expect that the average would be 500 (if the numbers were truly random), but it s

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