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by blockross 10y ago
Precisely. I wonder in which proportion this decision was made to prevent shop owners from using these small credit card readers connected to the audio port and push Apple Pay down their throat. That's the first thing I thought about a
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by blockross 10y ago
I doubt they will use our messages because you know, e2e encryption. This (very carefully worded) blog post only mentions using our phone numbers. Facebook has them, as well as a surprising number of advertisers and they'll be able to
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by blockross 10y ago
French is actually doing very well. First, using a lot of English words doesn't mean we can't speak real French anymore (we use a lot of English words in my group of friends when we speak, but our written conversations are much pu
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by blockross 10y ago
A hundred times this. I couldn't agree more. GMO is a very vague term, we can engineer plants to make them toxic in which case no, eating GMO would not be OK. We are also most probably able to engineer interesting new kinds of crop tha
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by blockross 10y ago
unfortunately you're part of a minority. The mere fact that the election will happen between Clinton and Trump makes me think that mass surveillance and lack of respect for other countries are going to continue and probably worsen. Cli
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by blockross 11y ago
That mostly sounds like your typical marketing statement to me though, which is of course the best available move in their situation. Sourcing every component for a manufacturing company's supply chain in a responsible way is hard. Esp
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by blockross 11y ago
Kinda of topic but from the PoV of a third-party developper who had to test a lot of workflows in this new Azure portal: it's indeed a nightmare. Why do I have to click so many times and watch so many panel opening/closing animati
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by blockross 11y ago
The force is strong in this Juan.
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by blockross 13y ago
True, but don't confuse iconography with brand marketing.