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781.
by mda 9y ago
I just explained when it happened because parents comment was ambiguous. As for your comments, i am not sure i take wikipedia seriously on historical matters, still, sure it was a different time.
782.
by mda 9y ago
If he really hates it so much why doesn't he stop selling it? Or he just wants us to know that he cries all the way to the bank?
783.
by mda 9y ago
Most Persians converted to islam by 10th century.
784.
by mda 9y ago
It is probably sometimes marginally faster and sometimes slower, same with memory use. Its security is still lacking compared to Chrome. Personally I don't see any pressing incentive to switch.
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by mda 9y ago
Oh hey maybe they use ECC? Are we really arguing this? Pedantry on a weird level.
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by mda 9y ago
For humans yes. For humans against machines? I don't think so. Can any human beat a modern chess computer? The chance is zero.
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by mda 9y ago
I don't think you can apply this to alphago. I think probability for a human to beat alphago now is zero. Lee Sedol's single victory is the first and the last.
788.
by mda 9y ago
Not by a margin that warrants the price difference. Tbh most are negligible and power consumption is worse as well.
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by mda 9y ago
Was this before Assange went full tinfoil hat lunatic and claimed Page & Brin were working for government from the government.
790.
by mda 9y ago
I don't understand this either, they could cut some corners and implement most promising ideas early. I think they delved too deep and it became too complex and alien. I would be surprised if there will be an actual mill cpu as describ
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by mda 9y ago
I know this is a matter of preference and habit, but I also cringe when I see this style, makes it less readable for me as well.
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by mda 9y ago
For that money you can go for 2xEpyc 7551 (64 cores, 128 threads ~$6K) and spend the rest of $7K on decent ECC Ram and big fat fast ssds.
793.
by mda 9y ago
The article does not give any context and I am not sure what they meant by that sentence. Is it because you can log in to Chrome with your Google account?
794.
by mda 9y ago
Are you sure it sells 'your' data? Or Chrome somehow acts as a tool for this purpose?
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by mda 9y ago
Serious question, you think firefox has any quantifiable privacy benefit over chrome?
796.
by mda 9y ago
Of course. My profiles were not corrupt, also tried with empty profiles, tbh firefox performance degraded much faster after profiles got heavier. This was some time ago though. To be honest it was impossible to not see the performance diffe
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by mda 9y ago
My experience is mostly on linux. Chrome was way better on all aspects i mentioned. It was like day and night.
798.
by mda 9y ago
Everything that pass through their servers? This Bs is thrown around so much, no one cares if it is true or not anymore.
799.
by mda 9y ago
It was slow, janky unresponsive compared to Chrome. Also security was much weaker. I think they addressed some of the issues now.
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by mda 9y ago
Fuck chrome? Whoa what did Chrome do?
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by mda 9y ago
DDG is not a search engine.
802.
by mda 9y ago
But it is not an actual search engine. We do not know the details of their agreements with the actual search engines they depend on.
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by mda 9y ago
Can you give us a breakdown of percentages of queries answered by each backend / source? Do you have specific contracts that allows you to use their indexes anonymously or are you at their mercy?
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by mda 9y ago
Second, they might crawl a few things, what percentage of the queries are answered by their index, that information they will probably not say.
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by mda 9y ago
Ahh. the uncomfortable truth that DDG is just a meta search engine with a few shortcuts.
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by mda 9y ago
Even the most basic life seems super complicated to me, I am not sure the first spark of life has that high probability of happening even under right conditions. But maybe I am over estimating its complexity.
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by mda 9y ago
The problem is, as you said, that it seems Drake and others like the sound of billions of stars in billion of galaxies, but when it comes to an unknown number for existence of life in a planet they pick a very optimistic number, to justify
808.
by mda 9y ago
In the video, she says "even if 0.1% of habitable planets have life, you would expect over a million planets with some form of life." Where do we get this 0.1%? why it is not 10^-20% and probability of life in the galaxy is imposs
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by mda 9y ago
Why? What is your problem with Dart language? Ever used it?
810.
by mda 9y ago
I agree, I would much prefer short but full names (lowercase). svc is especially cringy.

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