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by oldcynic 8y ago
Where's the control in this "experiment"? Even just a colleague at the same location checking ads without uttering these ridiculously generic test phrases. Did he ensure his logged in account wasn't used to research some
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Thank you for linking that. I'd not known that Krick was quite so alternative in his beliefs!
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> Thrun hopes the training will eventually take about five minutes. I look forward to the many reports of controlled flight into terrain, and flying when the weather says don't fly. I'm actually astonished to learn the FAA will
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That was the RAF meteorologist, James Stagg, who persuaded Monty and Eisenhower to move the date from the 5th to the 6th. :) Famously if they had not gone on the 6th the next tide window would have seen the worst storms in years. The Met Of
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Need to be lawyers? Vast numbers of politicians nowadays have done nothing but be a professional politician. Many were lobbyists, or in PR before politics. In the UK under 15% have done any law. Not sure about Australia. The key point is re
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> Would it be asking too much for a highly paid minister of the crown, who supposedly is supposed to lead government policy in an area, to have substantial knowledge of it? Apparently yes, and it's not just Australia. When Amber Rud
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SO many comments missing the entire point in reply to this! It's like none have noticed all processors, even gaming centric ones, come with a bunch of cores these days. Athlon dual core is not exactly a recent innovation, it's a
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That was a fascinating distraction. :)
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Surprisingly similar story to my own, despite being the other side of the Atlantic and different hardware. School I went to was also piloting IT in schools, so we had a selection of 8 bit kit and an after hours club that was hugely popular.
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Authy want an email before you can do anything with it, and is cloud centred, so that's probably just sending your usage to someone else. Try OTP Auth[0] on iOS that fully respects privacy and security. It was Authy asking for email
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Even Amazon don't get this right and should have unbeatable knowledge of when the sale completes. Their helpful suggestions still only seem to work usefully for books and music.
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Then a bunch of drones fly out to repair the holes in the highway from the hose's high pressure jets?
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> Apple doesn't do it for the good of mankind, but to push their own ad channels This may be true. However it's also difficult to dispute that Apple has a far stronger and far more consistent stance on privacy than their compet
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You both seem to be enjoying the back and forth, so 'scuse me butting in :) > IIRC) much more dynamic memory management than Apple's The Amiga scatter loader that both dynamically loaded and minimised fragmentation. If you were
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> ms also helped democratise computing I find that laughable. Their client and processor licensing model is of the Oracle school. Large OEM's are still paying the MS tax on machines supplied are they not? (MS get fee on every OEM
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I can appreciate some of MS Research's papers and former personalities whilst still having zero trust in MS Corp.
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I see no evidence that they are a better company. They are currently embracing open source and Linux, very visibly. Phases two and three will be along soon enough. (Extend, Extinguish)
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Most eyeglasses cost under $10 to make, lens included. It's still an expensive item thanks to the near monopoly of both frame and lens production. Nearly every brand you know are owned by just two companies. Those two are now merging:
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> Everything we can do, helps make it less bad Well sometimes. Recycling turns out to be more energy intensive than deposit and reuse. All the moves to efficiency, LED and CCFL lighting, and can be offset by permitting a single additiona
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OK I'll avoid iterating the ludicrously long list of Microsoft acquisitions that immediately did go to shit. Often intentionally, like AutoRoute straight after purchase from Nextbase. All I need do to have concern about this acquis
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How many times did they try and publicly fail first? Two or three? Excellent validation for choosing FreeBSD and Apache for your 1999 startup. At least two announcements that it was "complete" turned out to be lies. Years later th
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I really hope this is delivered. I recall an old beta of iOS having a much reported preview of dark mode. Several versions later it's still not on actual phones. I want a dark mode on my iPhone far more than on my laptop!
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> no one knows what a typical fine looks like The EU has had data protection law for twenty years. The EU has enshrined proportionality of penalty in all EU law as a fundamental right. There is plenty of case law at the CJEU defining
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The old DPaint was a tough act to follow. I was disappointed in just about every graphics program I tried after my Amiga was consigned to history. Downloaded. Wow, isn't it small? Nostalgia on two fronts! :)
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> if the US and UK are your examples of "failed" democracies these experts obviously haven't considered the full range of how voting works. "Obviously?" Perhaps they have considered it properly and have reasona
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A common belief is that ABS always makes braking better. That ignores the situations where it can make things worse and you should probably turn it off. It's not simply a question of excess speed. One very common situation is where h
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Misprint? Commonly available ground source systems can save upto 75%. That's way ahead of the article's claimed 20%. At 20% it's simply not worth the cost of installation. Dandelion's website won't load to let me c
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It is one thing to disable cruise control if I've gently tapped the brake pedal to deactivate. With every cruise system I've encountered that happens well before the brakes bite. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't want emergency
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Not to forget the one fairly common circumstance where ABS hinders - packed snow and ice where you do need to think about it. ABS can significantly increase your stopping distance.
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> A lot of problem gamblers get in a bad way ... by continuing to play until they win The why does not matter. By removing that part of your text the behaviour applies equally to both. Whether it is about recouping losses, or desiring th

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