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by krn 7y ago
> How do you do that? For the last decade, 10-15% average annual return would have required keeping 70-90% of the funds invested in Nasdaq-100[1]. Also, Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VFIAX) currently has a 10-year average of 13.52%[2]. The ge
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> Which might be a reason there aren't any confirmed cases on the continent. There is not a single confirmed case of coronavirus in the entire Central and Eastern Europe, yet[1]. Most likely because there are almost no direct flight
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I know exactly how it feels. And that often nobody around can truly relate with this experience. It's like being thrown into a dark hole and being left there all by yourself, 24/7, for years. If you haven't seen it, Numb (200
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I maintain an empty inbox at Google (2018)(medium.com)
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> I have a SAAS that uses video chat for medical professionals and the #1 creator of support tickets for video problems are those with Lenovo. In fact, when someone has an audio of video problem, “Is this a Lenovo” is among the first que
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by krn 7y ago
> Please, more people switch to Firefox. Chrome is breaking the internet. I have tried to switch to Firefox multiple times, but I couldn't stand how much slower it felt than Brave, especially on Android. I also prefer the minimalist
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by krn 7y ago
As with probably all Android devices, unlocking the bootloader breaks the SafetyNet[1]. And any custom Android ROM requires drivers to be able to completely support the hardware of a particular device. [1] https://www.howtogeek.c
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For non-Apple consumers I see only two options now: to avoid consumer-level hardware (unless it runs something like Android One), or to replace the OS with an open-source alternative (Ubuntu and Fedora work pretty much out of the box on mos
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by krn 7y ago
That's not true for Lenovo Thinkpads, which is a separate business division from Lenovo consumer hardware, as far as I am aware. And subsidizing consumer hardware with spyware has, unfortunately, become a standard industry practice. Mo
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My point was, that we now have a long enough history of Apple's hardware failures, delayed admissions, and constrained repairability. Instead of pretending to be surprised by another of Apple's non-reactions, they should use this
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What you are saying is, that no matter how much one company keeps failing, they will never leave its ecosystem. What I am saying, is that it's never too late to begin considering it.
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> How can we move forward using Apple? And why should they? What's wrong with trying out something like Thinkpad X series[1] instead? Or Thinkpad P series, which can now come with Ubuntu LTS pre-installed. I wonder, if they would ha
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> Most Xiaomi devices have a custom UX and additional weirdness. That's true. Just like Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus, and any other Android manufacturer except Nokia, Xiaomi maintains its own Android ROM, called MIUI[1]. It's not a
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I would only buy a device running Android One, because they receive monthly security patches and new Android versions for up to 3 years. The current options include all Nokia smartphones, Motorola One line, and Xiaomi Mi A line. For the bes
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> eventually i provided enough dirt on file for them to force me to resign, so i'm now unemployed in my 30s with no references i have any confidence in and enough shame and guilt to put me in the ground should my extreme mental fog
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7761169/Jeffrey-Eps...
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> The fact that even after his life there aren't gobs of collaborators being arrested also leads me to think that he wasn't even in charge of the whole thing. There are enough reasons to believe that Jeffrey Epstein might have
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> It's up to each party to set the rules on how delegates can be selected, including time, place, and manner. It seems that Iowa chose both, the time and the manner, itself[1]: > Because Iowa had a complex process of precinct cau
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by krn 7y ago
> If the DNC decides Nevada would be first, what options does Iowa have? As I understand, it's up to each state to select the date.
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In other words, the Android app was delivered as an .apk file and not available on Google Play. That sounds like "security through obscurity". What about iOS devices then?
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> Why can’t we just count votes by hand? That's how the president, the parlament, and the local governments are elected in Lithuania, a country of the size of Iowa. It takes 10 minutes to set up a new private limited company online,
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by krn 7y ago
Could you recommend any other tool that would generate more sensible PostgreSQL configuration values given similar input? In other words: here is my PostgreSQL version, use case, OS, number of CPUs, available memory size, and storage type.
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As someone born in Eastern Europe, I also felt more at home living in Germany than in the UK, despite not knowing any German.
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by krn 7y ago
Another Indian-born tech CEO? It's incredible. IBM joins Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nokia, and Harman in this regard. Also, MasterCard and PepsiCo (until 2018). I wonder how much it's a cultural thing.
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And that shouldn't be far away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
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> They installed spyware. That is more than enough reason to lose trust. I agree on principle, but Lenovo is no less trustworthy than any Smart TV manufacturer, such as Samsung, Sony, or LG. It has become a common industry practice to su
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> it wouldn't surprise me that FSB finally found a way to hack proton mail Well, I certainly wouldn't consider that such a big achievement[1]: > German security expert Thomas Roth published a video over the weekend showing h
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> And there aren't enough NGOs and startups to absorb thousands of Amazon workers anyway... hence having to get the warehouse jobs in the first place. These climate protesters are not warehouse workers – they are Amazon's tec
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It's very different from the US, and that's probably the reason many of my comments were heavily downvoted in this thread. In the EU, it's very hard to lose the job. It's even harder to lose healthcare benefits. Therefor
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> This does confer some benefits with respect to safety net, etc. Sure, it does, but we are talking here about highly paid Amazon's tech employees, not about lowly paid warehouse workers: > More than 340 tech workers at Amazon us

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