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781.
by gcb0 8y ago
thought genetics and the BG religion is more a deus exmachine than the main plot. the main plot is an alegory of all the wars USA entered so oil prices remained under control. the oil must flow.
782.
by gcb0 8y ago
> HP’s own LEDs [...] the calculator needed 15 of them > Osborne was able to get the price down to a dollar each > HP typically priced their equipment at the cost of the material list × π [...] the LED display around 20 dollars uh?
783.
by gcb0 8y ago
> battery for 3 hours Wow. How often people would replace batteries on this?
784.
by gcb0 8y ago
yeah, no. in sf, 2008 saw houses back to 2004 prices, just to skyrocket above the record a year later.
785.
by gcb0 8y ago
so btc was part of this crazy fake news narrative all along or is this just being made up on the fly and this is your regular click bait churn that is the new norm in journalism? the writing on this has all the telltales of a unresearched f
786.
by gcb0 8y ago
it is NOT about law enforcement. Law enforcement could get this before 1 week (NSA) or force the company to add a backdoor (FBI) This is more likely about reducing the market for stolen phones.
787.
by gcb0 8y ago
linux -> android -> browser -> linux -> browser -> VS
788.
by gcb0 8y ago
> Google hardware with Microsoft software praised on HN :)
789.
by gcb0 8y ago
all youtube domains are whitelisted, and there's no way to remove. only add. summary is very relevant still.
790.
by gcb0 8y ago
if this is legal, what prevents google from reading emails and investing on the same stocks as one economist that happens to use gmail?
791.
by gcb0 8y ago
tig
792.
by gcb0 8y ago
hi, it looks like you are writing a web browser. I can help with it. (hope kids still remember clippy)
793.
by gcb0 8y ago
summary: google allow 800 of the international youtube domains to autoplay, plus some 200 other publishers to pretend they are neutral.
794.
by gcb0 8y ago
Is this a paid advert? the article has more adjectives and unbased grandeur i care to count. Almost look like a Wired puff piece.
795.
by gcb0 8y ago
instead of readily usable voltage/current changes, you get (so far) useless, probably cased by the measurements, electron spin in one direction or another flipping over time.
796.
by gcb0 8y ago
you're missing the main difference. I dont trust anyone working with debian or google. but debian I can be sure if someone saw a bug/malware happening or in the source, I'd benefit from that. with closed systems the source op
797.
by gcb0 8y ago
I bet that this isonly possible because someone got the drivers for display, touch, camera, radios, etc, ...in binary form from the last oem image and put in the new one. sometimes they will backport the last kernel from android 5.1 into a
798.
by gcb0 8y ago
who still call a log significand a "mantissa"? specially in a easy to understand the basics kind of article.
799.
by gcb0 8y ago
I'm a sucker who bought from nexus one to moto x dev edition (during google ownership of motorola), and all in between... all promised continuous android updates. all had a SINGLE major version update, just like any other flagship phon
800.
by gcb0 8y ago
drivers. really. we are back to being limited to one OS because of drivers. this is also the reason lineageOS and other android roms can't just keep updating older phones to new releases. they need the oem to upgrade so they can extrac
801.
by gcb0 8y ago
that's a big falacy, akin to saying "you might now those debian people, but it's safer to just use windows"
802.
by gcb0 8y ago
its only slowing being invaded by china :)
803.
by gcb0 8y ago
Am I reading this right? over 1/4 of revenue attributed to customer deposit?
804.
by gcb0 8y ago
why would you trust random people more or less than other random people? That's crazy talk.
805.
by gcb0 8y ago
Several over time. The last one is the beloved AMP. which have AMP Ads. Which block all intrusive and spying scripts, besides google's.
806.
by gcb0 8y ago
not trying to sound like an ass, but that means nothing. Every company selling ad is on that list. If the company follows standards or not, is another history. On the other hand, one of my clients dropped the membership (cutting all expense
807.
by gcb0 8y ago
most modern linux distros regular `ping` will work for ipv6. (US based) frontier, vz, and spectrum all can ping that ipv6 address (though all have way over 10ms latency)
808.
by gcb0 8y ago
as a non native speaker, I feel extremely uneasy every time I get myself saying "I'd like some silverware" in a fast food joint.
809.
by gcb0 8y ago
iab is the "thing" that somehow standardized banner dimensions and file sizes in the 90s. they do have some good standards, that focused on user privacy, which are abandoned by now. mostly they spend the 2000s trying to standardis
810.
by gcb0 8y ago
its not about laws or health. it's the american dream. hospitals and doctors are in it for the money. so anything that forces you to pay, they will make you pay, because they will get money and that's the American dream. the incen

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