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601.
by muro 8y ago
Or just making things up.
602.
by muro 8y ago
Marantz is regularly 50% off in Switzerland in major online stores.
603.
by muro 8y ago
+1, just shame about the bad trackpad. How is that still a thing in 2018 :(
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by muro 8y ago
Well done. Shame it's buried under N comments.
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by muro 8y ago
The book. Apologies, you are right, should have been clearer. I think the other comments at the time were also about the book, not the article.
606.
by muro 8y ago
tl;dr. Excellent first few chapters (which deserve the high praise and possibly are the cause of all the hype), gets less and less interesting. At some point, I dreaded returning to it and gave up.
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by muro 8y ago
Same thing used to happen on other Linux laptops too. I think it's fixed now.
608.
by muro 8y ago
Doh, that was the spurious zooming back when I had a xps15, I never figured out what the cause was. Thank you!
609.
by muro 8y ago
License plate scanners automatically raising the arm were in some Sydney supermarkets at least 3 years ago.
610.
by muro 8y ago
To see whether a new kernel, designed 25+ years after Linux, can do things better. Linux is already there, what insight would it bring to do the same thing again?
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by muro 8y ago
There is also "Normans" and "12 Byzantine Emperors".
612.
by muro 8y ago
That's not what the studies do. Some show A' < B', while others do A" > B". Both can be true yet both mislead about how A and B compare.
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by muro 8y ago
What ancient Egyptian lineages - she was Greek.
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by muro 8y ago
> I don’t want to end up being arrested for GDPR violations when I go on a holiday in Europe (yes, I really saw that one) The US did it recently: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/06/oliver
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by muro 8y ago
Yes it is - it's in the FAQ: https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html What constitutes personal data? Any information related to a natural person or ‘Data Subject’, that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the
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by muro 8y ago
The number of slaves steadily decreased as the Rome stopped expanding. Additionally, by the time Rome turned into an empire, freeing of slaves became a show of magnanimousity and so frequent, Augustus (= around 0AD) had to put extra laws li
617.
by muro 8y ago
Essential phone had a notch before the iPhone X :)
618.
by muro 8y ago
That was true only for the very old plasmas. Newer ones were comparable to same age LCDs.
619.
by muro 9y ago
And it's ugly as sin too!
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by muro 9y ago
It only partially covers Washington, but I found the revolutions podcast great: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ the American revolution starts here: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2014/02/017
621.
by muro 9y ago
Doh. You are right. Apologies for the snark.
622.
by muro 9y ago
Heh, funny. Unfortunately also nonsense. A CFO also exists and not because a company doesn't handle finances responsibly. Or a CEO implies no engineering?
623.
by muro 9y ago
Amadeus is ok, but Man on the Moon I never liked.
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by muro 9y ago
> The fact that every Android store—even including Google's own—are festering pits of malware and phishing attempts, is a sore spot for Google. Lol, citation needed.
625.
by muro 9y ago
In maps.google.com (just tried on phone), make sure you are logged in, then settings -> Google Location Settings. Then open "manage activity". I'm sure I get it by email approx once per month.
626.
by muro 9y ago
Ah, you are probably right. Is there by chance another one with location history or am I imagining things?
627.
by muro 9y ago
Why is he not rational? I like his highlighting of hidden risk. It's hard to make rational decisions if you don't have all/enough information and there are plenty recent examples of unbounded optimism ending badly.
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by muro 9y ago
Google tells you regularly that you have it enabled - you get emails with your full history. How would anyone not know it's recorded?
629.
by muro 9y ago
It's a guardian article :)
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by muro 9y ago
Why would it be rational for them to behave the same way?

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