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hnarn
10y ago
It makes a lot of sense if you know how perverse financial markets are. The difference between those millions and those billions is the perceived potential of the company. All you need is some investment banker becoming convinced that noo
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hnarn
10y ago
A lot of people here are talking about how 2G connections are "almost unusable" and how this should be optimized server-side and so on. I'd just like to point out that there are browser that cater to this specific demographic
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hnarn
10y ago
"I don't always upgrade my kernels, but when I do it's in production"
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hnarn
10y ago
When you say "these guys were in a position to win local and regional powerlifting competitions with basically no training at all", do you have any similar examples for things like chess tournaments? Because if not, you're ki
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hnarn
10y ago
The argument could be made that the 30% that did not vote deserve what they have coming for not bothering to take part in such a monumental national decision. Not voting means "I don't care", so you let other people decide an
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hnarn
11y ago
The best location for covering a large area of land for purposes of solar energy would arguably be a desert. "90% of the world’s population lives within range of a desert and could be supplied with solar electricity from there", s
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hnarn
11y ago
"People get angry because their mind, consciously or subconsciously, detects that anger will be beneficial to them" sounds like armchair science. Do you have anything to back up this claim?
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11y ago
1) He was not convicted merely for "driving the wrong way down a one way street", he was convicted for driving recklessly down a road with a lot of people on it. 2) He is not asking to be executed because the prison is horrible, b
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hnarn
12y ago
From reading the comments here, I keep thinking Stackexchange. A lot of people don't use SE this way, but it's possible to ask a question and right away answer it yourself, before submitting even. I do this sometimes when I learn
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hnarn
12y ago
>a CoinVault command-and-control server So, is there anything stopping them from setting up new servers with new keys and starting the goose chase all over again?
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hnarn
12y ago
Why assume that no-one who ever got caught by ransomware had any backups? As far as I know, the way most ransomware works is that it not only encrypts your entire drive, but also any network drives it has access to, any external drives, and
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hnarn
12y ago
As far as I know, ipredator is not a service to prevent logging, they're a service to prevent unauthorized surveillance.
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hnarn
12y ago
Why would they remove the $800 international roaming charge?
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hnarn
12y ago
"The paragraph mark ( ¶ ) is used when citing documents with sequentially numbered paragraphs (e.g., declarations or complaints). The section mark ( § ) is used when citing documents with numbered or lettered sections (e.g., statutes).
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hnarn
12y ago
As long as there are computer parts and open source software, you can still opt out if you want to.
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hnarn
12y ago
Works fine for me. Here's a PNG of the page: http://i.imgur.com/cjuWYuc.png
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hnarn
12y ago
The exact same file for Windows that is being fetched by Chocolatey is available here: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases
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hnarn
12y ago
Which noone claimed to begin with.
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hnarn
12y ago
I would appreciate something more advanced than a PIN though. I currently use TeamViewer and I use unique, randomly generated passwords for each node. Downgrading to 4-6 digits doesn't feel very comfortable. Or perhaps Google could mak
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hnarn
13y ago
This might just be me, but the very heavy demography targeting in the video kind of puts me off. I'm not a Mac user. I'm not an interior designer. Yes, I do like to save quotes and links, but I'm not all those other things. R
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hnarn
13y ago
Maybe you were thrown off because you failed to see the difference between simply copying copyrighted content without permission (filesharing), and copying something and claiming that you in fact created it yourself, explicitly (I made this