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by jbarberu 8y ago
I prefer being able to support websites by looking at ads. I prefer looking at relevant ads over Viagra or hot chicks in my area. I'm not willing to run 3rd party scripts in my browser I'm not willing to have my personal data coll
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by jbarberu 8y ago
No. For the EU parliament you vote for a representative (from your country, that usually belongs to some political party).
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Life quality for none-Swedes is anecdotally not that great, at least not according to the Americans I got to know in Sweden. Yes, the fact you won't be financially ruined by health issues is nice. The wait times and quality of care in
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by jbarberu 8y ago
My wife is American, she came to study in Sweden, I'm a native. She lived in Sweden for 7 years and was struggling to learn the language, people are very insistent on speaking English if they hear that's your native language. That
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by jbarberu 8y ago
>Sorry if this sounds rude It does, a little bit, but that's ok. No, it wasn't a surprise that it wasn't as bike friendly as Sweden. My comment was I was shocked at how extremely hostile Florida in particular was. I hadn&#
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by jbarberu 8y ago
I've also lived in Spain for a short time, which isn't exactly known for their great drivers. Central Florida is worse by miles. People stare at their phones while moving (at a light is bad enough, but at least you won't hit
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Having recently moved to Florida from Sweden, I was shocked at how biker/pedestrian hostile it is here. I naively thought I'd be able to live a more active lifestyle because of the nicer weather, but instead I'm driving a car
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by jbarberu 8y ago
As long as people don't point their cameras at public spaces, i.e. the streets, I don't see a problem with this. I wouldn't personally trust a company to handle my video feed, but that's just me.
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Or you could support a competitor that treats their employees well, giving them more business so they can expand their business and hire the people that eventually leave Walmart... This is why I avoid Walmart and Amazon, even if it hurts my
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Adjusted to inflation, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was over $9000. XR is $749(not 800 by the way). $8251 difference, not too bad considering the technology is superior in every way to the DynaTAC 8000X. As someone who used to like getting th
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Twist it the other way around. What used to get you the top of the line, now only gets you the lower-cost model.
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by jbarberu 8y ago
"also the fact that you need to check if dictionary key exists, else you get an exception when trying to get the keys value." dictionary.get(...) is specifically for avoiding the exception, you should just get None if the key does
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by jbarberu 10y ago
So, you leave your machine with BitLocker unlocked and unattended and people can gain admin privileges? I don't see how anyone would expect their data to be secured by disk encryption of the machine isn't powered down. Or am I mis