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by bb101 9y ago
I wonder how this could work when Whatsapp advertises that conversations are encrypted end-to-end.
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by bb101 9y ago
I can see how using multiprocessing trumps threads for smaller programs. However it can become memory inefficient to have larger programs running in multiple processes, especially on servers with less resources.
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by bb101 9y ago
"Nix [Cambridge Analytica] has frequently talked about the number of individual data-points Cambridge holds on people: factual, attitudinal and behavioural. "We have somewhere close to four or five thousand data points on every ad
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What that Facebook quiz is doing to your privacy(watoday.com.au)
2 points by bb101 9y ago|1 comments
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by bb101 9y ago
The Times is also reporting that "Porn sites will take card details to protect children". Pornography websites will be required to install age-verification software to help to prevent children from being exposed to hardcore
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Porn websites must prove users are 18 or risk being banned in UK(independent.co.uk)
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by bb101 9y ago
Out of pure interest, how would you describe winters in Edmonton?
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by bb101 9y ago
Sweden has an extradition treaty with the US. Also, the Swedes are unlike Germans, in that they are more eager to be seen to be doing the right thing and helping other countries than upholding principles. So it's quite likely they woul
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by bb101 9y ago
sigh Polycom - such good hardware with such awful software. We have Polycom VVX VOIP phones, and the call quality blows the socks off any of the competition. However, we also have to maintain a TFTP provisioning server that feels like it
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by bb101 9y ago
Try a Blackberry KeyOne when it's released in May. It runs the latest version of Android without any lags, has a physical keyboard for simple use (shortcuts for everything), has the same camera as the Google Pixel (v.good) and packs a
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by bb101 9y ago
There is no such entity as a business. Every business is a collection of individuals and I have trouble believing that every one of those individuals holds only profit, and the consequent race to the bottom, as a favourable outcome. It&#x27
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by bb101 9y ago
Slide 123 is hilarious! It's exactly how I feel after I've lost pages of information due to a badly-designed flow. http://www.useronboard.com/how-united-onboards-new-users/?sl...
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Using a web ad blocker may identify you – to advertisers(theregister.co.uk)
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by bb101 10y ago
Here in the UK, we have the Spectator magazine, whose writers are very professional and generally support a conservative position.
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by bb101 10y ago
Incredible. At what point in time did the land of the free become the land of undisguised fascist corporatism? Does John Deere actually think they are achieving something positive with their behavior? First they came for the farmers, and I
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by bb101 10y ago
I agree. I am in the UK as an EU national, and I am not worried about my residency situation. We have a moderate government who I am confident will not make rash decisions and I am intelligent enough not to equate Europe or European civilis
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by bb101 10y ago
That gave me a chuckle. Safe to say they would be post-React by now, but probably still pre-SingularityJS.
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by bb101 10y ago
If anyone is interested in kinetic bombardment, read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Much like how the Fosterites in his "Stranger in a Strange Land" were a blueprint for Scientology, TMiaHM is a guide on
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by bb101 10y ago
When our cleaning lady started with us, she requested we get rid of our Dyson vacuum cleaner and get a Miele. Says it all really.
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by bb101 10y ago
I wonder how much of the performance issues are related to Android being Java vs iOS being C? The old Blackberry OS was also implemented in Java and I remember well the spinning hourglass and the odd pauses in its UI.
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by bb101 10y ago
Palau looks - from pictures and travel brochures - to be incredible. Why did you leave?
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by bb101 10y ago
Who knows? Your private backups might even end up being conveniently available test data for nascent quantum decryption software.
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by bb101 10y ago
This has to be a joke, surely? A good example of the Tragedy of the Commons... As ProfessorGuy succinctly commented: > Why not an article on how you can get a bed for yourself in the local hospital so you won't have to pay rent? Hey
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by bb101 10y ago
You may want to consider the Blackberry Mercury when it's released in late February. It can be used with one hand (due to its keyboard) and Blackberry have been excellent in releasing Android security fixes -- sometimes even before Goo
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by bb101 10y ago
Last time I joined the Android Beta Program (for 7.1.1), Google removed the the Night mode feature. No thanks, I'm done with early releases removing features that were otherwise working well in previous versions.
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by bb101 10y ago
I can confirm this. Oracle goes out of their way to make senior and upper-mid management feel like rockstars. All expenses paid meetings in attractive overseas destinations, start to finish hand holding on multi-million dollar engagements,
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by bb101 10y ago
Yes, I am speaking from experience. Budapest is not as multicultural as London, Paris or Berlin (make of that what you will), but it is nowhere near as ethnically or culturally homogenous as Japan or China.
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by bb101 10y ago
Yes, but any new arrivals would benefit from the same advantages as long as they were willing to learn Hungarian and behave in a fashion compatible with Christian/secular cultural values. I think Hungarians are quite a bit more world-s
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by bb101 10y ago
I have to disagree. I know people who passed over good job offers overseas in order to remain in Budapest and raise their children. Good schools, affordable housing, a cheap & heavily utilized public transport system, respect for histor
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by bb101 10y ago
The weather is truly the #1 icebreaker here in the UK. However, if you've spoken to someone at least twice before and still only keep talking about the weather then you start to look dim. Amongst the upper and upper-middle classes, the

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