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by lozenge 2y ago
China's vacant homes are new builds. "Since the 1980s, China has built enough new housing to re-house the entire population but the construction boom has become a self-sustaining, perpetual engine of construction for the sake of c
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by lozenge 2y ago
Great article, did New Yorker abandon its rambling house style?
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by lozenge 2y ago
I think developer experience was bad all round "back in the day". Eg PHP didn't have stack traces, query parameters were automatically set as variables (and quotes escaped with backslashes... Depending on your sysadmin's
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by lozenge 2y ago
So is a lot of other messaging. An overwhelming amount for a lot of people.
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by lozenge 2y ago
You can buy an Oyster RFID card at the machine for any travellers that don't have bank cards. The fare is the same.
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by lozenge 2y ago
There isn't anywhere within driving distance of the US or Canada that you can legally dump medical waste in a sewer...
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by lozenge 2y ago
History. It was a way of letting people who don't have TVs not pay a license. There was also an extra charge for colour TVs. Edit: Oh, the BBC isn't a government agency, it's operationally independent. But always becoming les
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by lozenge 3y ago
That is experience! There is a saying - some people have 10 years of experience, some people have 1 year of experience 10 times.
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by lozenge 3y ago
I mean... the article goes on to explain all their value add... which of course can be replicated, but it's not as if you can just grab an API key and do the same.
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by lozenge 3y ago
Intentional doesn't mean Apple approved. It could be a couple of compromised employees on the right teams.
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by lozenge 3y ago
Ooh, they're offering extended support to consumers now - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/windows That's exciting.
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by lozenge 3y ago
You could also consider games which have the mechanics of MtG without being collectible, such as Epic. It still has plenty of depth.
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by lozenge 3y ago
The median age in Gaza in 2014 was 18. According to researchers in the US, 50%-61% of buildings have been damaged or destroyed. If Israel didn't kill tens of thousands of children it would be a statistical miracle.
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by lozenge 3y ago
I think 90 percent accuracy in this case means 10 percent of "suggested terrorists" were overturned with detailed human review. There's no way the Israelis were actually able to reliably question the Gazans about whether they
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by lozenge 3y ago
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” - Israel defence minister
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by lozenge 3y ago
"I'm sure that's what was intended" Intended by who? You don't kill 13,000 children by accident.
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by lozenge 3y ago
'Olson noted that she always knew that this change was a possibility and well within the rights of the BSD license. “I’m more just disappointed than anything else. [Redis] had been a good steward in the past, and I think community is k
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by lozenge 3y ago
Betteridge's law works here... they don't!
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by lozenge 3y ago
Delivery date is part of the implied contract. They would be fine if they just called it an estimated delivery time, but they didn't. Of course if there was a road closure or something like that then the consequences would be minimal,
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by lozenge 3y ago
> however with software nobody dies Eh, not a good hard-and-fast rule. Fujitsu's Horizon software drove some of its users to suicide.
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by lozenge 3y ago
And to compete against them Apple would need to make a separate GPU, not an integrated GPU. The claim isn't plausible anyway. A single chip can't expend as much energy as a flagship desktop GPU, and Apple doesn't have some 1
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by lozenge 3y ago
There's accusations they have biased their site based on how much they need to pay their artists. They've started commissioning mood music using session musicians. The only way to avoid it is to search for the exact artist/al
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by lozenge 3y ago
You often can actually. Unless the country you're trying to ignore is the US.
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by lozenge 3y ago
Eh, if you fit Mark Shuttleworth's template you probably fly through with barely a care in the world. Meaning you had resourceful parents, went to a good school, tuned your high school life for college applications, and etc. Who wouldn
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by lozenge 3y ago
Take a look at page 79 of the first 'key document' https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/class-actions/join-a-cla... The law said you need a license to provide taxi services. Uber and its drivers didn't ha
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by lozenge 3y ago
It feels like they could just use something like the Google Ngram viewer to filter the words.
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by lozenge 3y ago
"It honestly sounds like a made up concern from people who've never actually lived in a developing country." You mean, the one developing country you live in. You are also missing the full spectrum of users. People don't
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by lozenge 3y ago
"No one in their right mind is suggesting Samsung. Heck, similar to Apple, you have swaths of people warning you about Samsung." Apple and Samsung are the two most popular phone brands in the world, so it's not like "eve
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by lozenge 3y ago
Only if the use of a stupid editor is saving you time.
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by lozenge 3y ago
LTSC/LTSB has or had a lot of stuff removed, like Bing on the Start bar search

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