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by gnaffle 13y ago
If registering your religious affiliation in your identity papers was what everyone was doing, maybe it lowered social friction, but in the long run it caused huge problems for a certain group of people when the government suddenly started
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yep, that's the problem. As a general rule, driving without a seatbelt is also pretty safe.. until it's not. The question is whether the advantage you get from something is bigger than the potential consequences. I'd say, giv
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I don't really get the problem. While they have their priorities, Facebook IS important for many people, and might very well be in the future, so making sure to register the right usernames etc. in case is the right thing to do. Just l
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Agreed, but I doubt that Nokia execs knew it (or some knew, but weren't in the majority). I think Nokias biggest mistake was to commit to WP 100%, at a time when they didn't even have handsets ready. The completely silly estimate
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The only iPhone that really show scratches is the black iPhone 5. That said, I agree that hard polycarbonate plastic also has a good quality feel. Unfortunately, most phones made with plastic don't use hard polycarbonate, but soft plas
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Of course, it's not necessarily bad, and there's different types of plastic. Some kinds are very rugged. However, most plastic phones are made of plastic because it's a cheap material that doesn't require much in the way
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by gnaffle 13y ago
..and the same argument applies to being a Windows Phone vendor - if Nokia had great success with WP, others would have followed and they would have been in the same situation. However, Nokia actually has, and used to have lots of resources
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by gnaffle 13y ago
"There's no money in being an Android vendor if except if you're Samsung" is a silly statement. Nokia _could_ have done just like Amazon, and created their own platform based off Android, but with no ties to the Google e
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Actually I don't think that was intentional at all. Nokia failing so miserably with Windows Phone can't have been anyones plan. And if they had succeeded like expected, Nokia would still be worth too much for Microsoft to consider
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by gnaffle 13y ago
In the server space I agree. However, in the mobile space, ARM has a huge advantage of licensing their cores to dozens of SoC manufacturers that provide very appealing, integrated, low cost chips for mobile vendors to build products on. It&
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by gnaffle 13y ago
This is exactly the issue. And not only in the US, but elsewhere as well. In my country, you pretty much never see operators promote the iPhone, but you see constant TV advertising for Android phones. Carriers only carry the iPhone because
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Actually, it's very similar to the laptop market. A lot of people prefer Windows or Linux on Lenovo laptops, because they have some features that Macs don't have. Likewise, if you compare the hardware (build quality etc) I think m
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by gnaffle 13y ago
And, as a corrolary of this, you presently won't have much to fear if this break has happened, simply because the NSA would only use it _very_ sparingly, like how the allies used the Enigma break during WW2. Of course, if the cat ever
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Maybe there is a difference between parts of the world, but I would be surprised if airlines don't have some kind of routine to follow when an emergency is declared. And I would be even more surprised if airline pilots on Ryanair routi
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I'm not German, but I know from experience how many will not call you back if you just have a foreign sounding name. I really thought banks would be different though, I guess there must be many Syrian people in Germany and they all nee
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Did they give a reason (that she was Syrian)?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
While I don't like Ryanair, this scenario isn't very likely. There will always be lots of paperwork etc. after declaring an emergency, which ultimately could end up with the pilots losing their license if it was discovered that th
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It's not company-approved, it's regulator-approved, which is designed to be sufficient. Airlines have no reason to go above that, except for planning reasons (eg you might want to add some extra fuel to have the option to fly fast
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by gnaffle 13y ago
While I agree with you that some languages can be prettier than others, I don't really get why this would be a problem, if you're talking about syntax. You could say the same about Javascript, yet projects like Node.js are gaining
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The enterprise revenue is steady and stable because Windows and Office is entrenched. It will be for years to come, but if other platforms gain a strong foothold in enterprise (like iOS and Android seem to be doing now), that stable revenue
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by gnaffle 13y ago
WP7 was released in 2010. Three years later they now have an estimated 3.3% market share. If that's not a failure for company the size of Microsoft, and with the millions spent on marketing, I don't know what is. I'll never s
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I'd suggest that you try serving the same people freshly roasted and ground coffee from a clean french press and pass it off as cheap coffee. Afterwards, serve them the cheapest coffee you can find from dirty coffee equipment and tell
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Mid-air collisions are rare first and foremost because most flights happen in controlled airspace with assigned flight levels, routes and ATC monitoring the flights on radar (and TCAS as a last resort for collision avoidance). Mid-air colli
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by gnaffle 13y ago
In some cases (like avionics) you can't realistically implement hardware interlocks because you don't have many clear-set criteria to go on (eg. a control surface deflection might be OK at one airspeed, but cause serious aircraft
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It would absolutely make sense. However, my guess if the story is true would be that one (simpler, cheaper) device caused damage to other, more expensive equipment, in a way that was not foreseen. (Another similar scenario: A software contr
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Ubuntu, or Linux?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think DirectFB is a bad comparison, since AFAIK it was never used widely by any distro. I think people are right to worry that a new graphics engine will lead to loads of wasted work dealing with compatibility problems and other issues do
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I don't think the article was very good at explaining _why_ they've lost it. A lot of controversial decisions turn out to be good in the end. I think the biggest mistake has been to neglect Linux power users, which has been their
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I never claimed wouldn't spy is no one else spied. Of course they would. Of course the US isn't concerned with invasion, it's concerned with having an influence, and having democratic or at lest US-friendly trading partners.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, it _is_ their explicit purpose, or how else do you interpret their mission statement? Other governments doing the same is exactly why the NSA and the CIA can be justified. Not having them would put the US at a serious information disa

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