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by colinb 6y ago
Is this US-only thing? I have an LG and a Samsung TV, both less than 4 years old. Neither do this. I'm inside the EU, so I wonder if GDPR is protecting me from the misbehavior. Failing that, I guess, there's always the PiHole DNS
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by colinb 6y ago
Oh for goodness sakes. I don't know where you're writing this from, but Europe a is a big place. And lots of it is doing reasonably well - modulo lock-downs. I'm not convinced at all that Europe is declining, though I am conv
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by colinb 6y ago
Two things struck me about this. First, the numbers being thrown around remind me strongly of the red-baiting father/politician in the original Manchurian Candidate. Second, the way the various execs are reportedly wrestling to throw e
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by colinb 6y ago
TFA mentions that such newly formed county-like local governments would have courthouses. It doesn't talk about police, sheriffs, boys-in-blue. Does the first imply the second? Is this William Gibson's future of HR with guns?
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by colinb 6y ago
What? You mean like nearly everyone does all the time? I guess the exceptions being those with mental illness.
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by colinb 6y ago
Tell that to the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. Oh, I don't doubt that the FBI get up to their share of shenanigans. But that doesn't mean that there aren't real people who really hate other people for reason
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by colinb 6y ago
Parodied rather brilliantly by Myles na cCopaleen/Flann O'Brien in 1941. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cruiskeen-lawn-november-10th...
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by colinb 6y ago
Tries are useful for IPv4 prefix lookup. Routers that don't have hardware acceleration use them. Indeed, some hardware devices map a s/w trie to analogous h/w structures (some use TCAMs). Also interviews...
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by colinb 6y ago
Your last paragraph caught my interest. Can you point me at countries that are widely accepted to have done a better job? My own experience of the NHS (as a non-Brit who lived in the UK for more than a decade) is that it is inefficient at t
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by colinb 6y ago
I was going to pick a fight with what I take to be your assumptions, then realised that I was basing it on my assumptions. So I'll instead point out my own anecdata and let you do what you will. My (((own))) family in the UK are all ha
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by colinb 6y ago
I’ll confused. What has San Francisco got to do with this?
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by colinb 6y ago
is there some cunning (but permitted) trick to avoid paying tax on ESPP gain, and sale of RSUs?
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by colinb 6y ago
If you haven't read it already, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams... is a lot of fun.
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by colinb 6y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure the Chinese government would agree with your first statement. They seem to be getting significant US opposition to their technology advancement. Yes, I'm aware of some of the issues surrounding IP copying. I won&
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by colinb 6y ago
Is your real name Lillian Hellman? Regrettably, in this instance, I am not Mary McCarthy.
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by colinb 6y ago
Really? Please tell me more.
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by colinb 6y ago
is this trolling? I think this is trolling.
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by colinb 6y ago
We asked them to . I was in the room. They said no. TBF, we asked them to let us use the protocol, or make it part of IMPP, or get actively involved in IMPP.
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by colinb 6y ago
Do you mean the Americans who were in the German American Bund? Or the Americans who went to Britain to join the Royal Air Force? Or the American's who campaigned for years to stay out of the war? Or the Americans who campaigned to pro
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by colinb 6y ago
Our Dualit two slice toaster is ~15 years old. It has a touch of Trigger's Broom because I've replaced the central heating elements once, and will do the same with the side elements soon. I know Dualit sell replacements for the ti
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by colinb 7y ago
In my own case, TM lost the ability to make new backups to an USB-connected HD. It doesn't report errors. It doesn't explain. Trying to find something useful in Console is a PITA. The only visible symptom is that a few minutes aft
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by colinb 7y ago
People of a certain group are already in positions of power and influence. The goal is to ensure that people from all groups get a slice of the power and influence. Why would you (or anybody?) not want that?
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by colinb 7y ago
What would it take to persuade you that chemical weapons attacks were made? What would it take to persuade you that the government of Syria wanted/controlled/launched those attacks? There seems to be lots of sources that think the
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by colinb 7y ago
maybe if you got less angry, you wouldn't have spend so much time searching for forgiveness. The GP's comment opened with `I voted leave because I was dubious about the control the elected and unelected officials and secretaries i
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by colinb 7y ago
"often" is a weasel word here. How about "sometimes"? Sometimes good questions come from outside a field. Nevertheless, when I'm suffering from a serious medical condition, I prefer to see a medical doctor. When my
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by colinb 7y ago
A fictional take on this that’s moderately entertaining is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin. It’s a sequel to Children of Time which I liked a lot.
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by colinb 7y ago
I don't think your first sentence is true [1]. Though I admit that there's no such thing as unbiased reporting. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612473
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by colinb 7y ago
I know with some certainty that US based companies provide source for communications software to US three letter agencies. I think it's strange to expect that a Chinese company would refuse to render the same services to analogous age
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by colinb 7y ago
Do you happen to have any references for that? I in no way doubt you, but I hope to use this fact to dazzle a child when I get home; and maybe persuade her to read some top class sci-fi.
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by colinb 8y ago
I once had an embarrassing post-concert-in-the-pub conversation with PH in which I confidently asserted that he didn’t understand polymorphism. “Yes I do. I wrote N chapters of a book about it”. I call BS and demand name of book. He names b

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