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by mhurron 10y ago
> buy advice/services from an expert with similarly aligned interests. For most people, that's probably the walled gardens that people not on HN don't complain about.
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To start sequencing everyone's genome as they're born seems a little Gattaca. We might as well fingerprint everyone and submit them to a national database while we're at it.
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Did you upgrade from Windows 8 or install new? New installs of Windows 10 or upgrades from 7 won't have it installed. I'm talking about Reader btw, which would be analogous to macOS's Preview. Edge is like Firefox with PDF.js
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by mhurron 10y ago
There was one in Windows 8 (Windows Reader) but it was removed in Windows 10. It is still available for free in the Windows Store.
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That's what Bing is for.
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TCP was included by default with Windows 95 and NT 3.1.
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> not inheriting someone else's design decisions. It takes a day to paint a room, your not inheriting anyones paint job unless you want to.
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> It's costing you future money when you paint it a 'non-natural' color in the lost prospective buyers And how is that? No one is coming to buy it while it is my home. Oh, and it was painted not beige in the first place, s
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> it's hard to sell a home with rooms that are bright, unique colors I hate people that think like this. You are living in this house, correct? It is your home isn't it? Why are you so scared to make it yours. First thing I di
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Infosec isn't the ones doing the defending or guarding or any of that. They're typically working with the teams to do build and maintain to ensure their policies and procedures lead to and maintain a secure posture.
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Apple could make their employee onboarding look like their 1984 commercial.
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> They were using WhatsApp which promised to not send their data to Facebook. I've seen that mentioned before, but where does it say that? On WhatsApp's ToS it says they won't share WhatsApp data for others to see on Faceb
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> Is it practically impossible? Offer something people want that the others don't. It's not enough to just not be iOS or not Android, that only appeals to the small segment of people that HN appeals to. The selling point for Ub
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> This can't be entirely surprising given that Apple has lost it's focus on the desktop This really only means they don't add a lot of things to the desktop. macOS pretty much works the same between Snow Leopard on up.
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So many people need to have something like this personally slap them in the face before they realize how bad the healthcare system is in the US. Maybe some can learn from this instead.
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> The only way I could imagine being able to determine that is by looking at the vendor bits on the MAC addresses of the source. But being that IoT devices are generally on a LAN on with some RFC 1918 address you wouldn't have that
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> Perhaps SO will end up getting overtaken by a new similar site It will, and then in 5 or so years we'll be hearing the same complaints about that service. SO's problem is people, so unless you can come up with a service that
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Can't I be both? I am an introvert (personality type) but I am frequently rude to people I do not give much of a shit about (choice).
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So what's so special about doors in Germany?
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Most of the northern hemisphere. You know, all those places where nothing grows for 6 months out of the year where prior to shipping food we had to rely on canned and preserved foods.
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And leading us back to a time of poor nutrition for large parts of the world that currently rely on shipping to bring fresh and varied food.
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Ya, nextdoor is a haven for people scared of other races living in their neighbourhood.
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No, the issue in Newfoundland is the collapse of the fisheries, not because more kids went to college. This isn't towns having an issue because more kids don't want to do fishing, this is because there are no fish to bring in.
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The article is about the government wanting to close towns because it is too expensive to provide services that they must to citizens that live there. It's not about people moving from small towns to cities because they want different
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> Now people prefer the urban areas. That's not new. What also isn't new is that when those same people get married and have kids, they'll be looking to move out of that urban environment. And all of that is completely unr
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It would instantly be forked and have the payment nag removed within 24 hours of it being open sourced by someone who is not willing to pay for it but still wants that nag removed. And they wouldn't be the only person to use that fork.
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It's the patcher part that is untrustable here. Also, where does Apple make the hash of the legit installer available?
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> Hackintosh/"not quite supported Mac" realm that are supposed to be blindly trusted by users. That's pretty normal for the Apple user community. Not long after the release of Sierra, you had people on forums asking f
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No sync service is good for backing up. Delete it locally and it's deleted remotely, same with making edits to a file.
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Ads or oppressive government regime Tough call.

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