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by jankotek 8y ago
Next day on-site service is a standard for business laptops, I expect that. I was surprised it was for free, dirty keyboard is not usually covered in basic warranty. Apple is a joke because it sells 'premium' products, with low qu
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by jankotek 8y ago
Apple is a joke. My experience with Dell XPS 13: Keyboard failed, most likely some dirt or liquid. I was in foreign country so bad situation. Dell technician arrived next day to my hotel and changed keyboard in front of me. They even got co
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by jankotek 8y ago
Nice, but hard to read and compiler does it anyway.
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There is also gender equality. Women find it much easier to work from home!
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by jankotek 8y ago
I know many people who studied Marxism. We had entire university dedicated to Marxism. Trust me it causes brain damage :-)
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> The commemorations of Marx’s 200th birthday As someone from east Europe, I find this pretty funny. > Today, his most high-profile critics are ignorant gobshites. You must read 10k pages of related work, before you can criticize so
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by jankotek 8y ago
English alphabet comes from ancient Rome, there is a reason why it is called Latin script....
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by jankotek 8y ago
Title says Europe, not EU
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by jankotek 8y ago
To be fair most of those policies were introduced before Trump. USA is paranoid compared to other countries. For example I would love to visit Iran, but that would future visits in USA very difficult. https://www.lonelyplanet.com
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by jankotek 8y ago
Big part of Europe is missing (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kavkaz...). But for some reason it includes asian part of Turkey, islands, part of south america... ;-)
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by jankotek 9y ago
I think most people including journalist are basically computer illiterate. Facebook has web interface. Uninstall the app from phone, and login once a week to check messages and to plan events.
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by jankotek 9y ago
Hm, does that mean other IMs gave their encryption keys to Russian government? Also could someone from Russia confirm telegram/AWS are blocked?
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by jankotek 9y ago
Is it even possible to get rich in SV? Obscene cost, no housing, high taxes, life time alimony... It seems like the worst place to start the business.
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by jankotek 9y ago
Not really. Modern spring steel is far better and Roman concrete is unique because of materials, we know its composition.
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by jankotek 9y ago
Could someone post stats: mileage covered by self driving cars, mileage in bad weather, accidents per mile.... Also is it true it was going over speed limit? How is that even possible for self driving car?
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by jankotek 9y ago
Hm, I have worldwide (except US) medical insurance for 60euro/month. Your product seems just like regular travel insurance (evacuation only, no actual medical cover). Not sure what it offers compared to my insurance. So I want: - tabl
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by jankotek 9y ago
Electric motorbikes are very common outside US.
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by jankotek 9y ago
Title should be "Meltdown workaround...". It is workaround for buggy CPU, not problem in BSD itself.
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by jankotek 9y ago
Subsidized luxury cars....
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by jankotek 9y ago
> As if it being just an "animal" somehow means that it was less of a loss or tragedy. This is exactly what i am talking about. Highly disturbing.
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by jankotek 9y ago
> While 600,000 men lost their lives in the Civil War, some 1.5 million horses and mules also perished. Horse is an animal. I find it highly disturbing to compare their 'loses' to actual humans.
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by jankotek 9y ago
I thing we can agree that raising kids in SF is very expensive, and that there are more single moms than single fathers. > women are paid less for the same work Gender pay gap is generally accepted fact. > more expenses because the
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by jankotek 9y ago
> What's ping tax? Google that... > How is daycare more expensive for women? Surely, a man raising a child on their own will pay exactly the same amount Most primary care givers are women. Women are hurt by that more. > I
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by jankotek 9y ago
Not really. If woman gets high paying job, she makes less money for the same work. Also women have more expenses than men (ping tax, daycare...). Big cities are unaffordable even at the same salary.
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by jankotek 9y ago
Isaac Asimov wrote in The Caves of Steel, that human body could last 300 years. But on special diet, in sterile environment...
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by jankotek 9y ago
From my experience location dependence is the greatest obstacle for women to join high earning STEM jobs. With paygap women find it more difficult to live in expensive cities. Also remote work allows more life balance for care givers (who a
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by jankotek 9y ago
Not really, 4G is good now, local wifi is not needed
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by jankotek 9y ago
Conan 'Haiti' Brian is not even funny. But there are AI researchers who are 30x or even 1000x above average.
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by jankotek 9y ago
America needs good and enforced regulations. My country had nationalized network and it was a disaster.
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by jankotek 9y ago
My next laptop is a phone with bluetooth keyboard. I thing the idea of 'personal computer' you always carry with you is obsolete. Every geek has multiple laptops and workstations, just swap those as needed.

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