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by pavs 9y ago
You don't have to be "frothing at the mouth" to be mentally unstable. I saw her videos on Dailymotion and I had the impression that something is not right with her, can't really pinpoint or explain what it is. but defini
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by pavs 9y ago
The link is not only factually wrong but also from a biased source. Mass shootings in the US: there have been 1,624 in 1,870 days https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/... See also:
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by pavs 9y ago
But I never said 100% of Google products exist to drive revenue to Ads, I said most do, ie, most free products. We are not talking about B2B or B2C products for obvious reasons. Outside of B2B and B2C offering (ie, Gsuite and Youtube RED),
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by pavs 9y ago
It's absolutely very likely that individual, well-respected developers, and engineers are working on cool things in the company that directly has nothing to do with ads. I have nothing against those individuals or those products or eve
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by pavs 9y ago
I understand what you are saying. But the issue is not so black or white. Google/Alphabet is not pouring billions of dollars on free products from the goodness of their heart, they are doing so increase their revenue from ADs. As matte
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by pavs 9y ago
I would hope so, considering they probably would be sharing patient personal information for relevant ads.
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by pavs 9y ago
I understand what you are trying to say. But all the products you mentioned generates revenue through ads, both directly and indirectly. Google still makes more than 90% of their revenue from ads. Yes, they are trying to diversify for some
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by pavs 9y ago
It was adjusted manually in the beginning of the month. In March it was all over the place. I think unofficial tracker like this, even with all the disclaimers, actually makes this worse.
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by pavs 9y ago
In case there is any confusion, Musk is not actually building flamethrowers and hats in person. His time is as wasted as saying "yes" to this ideas. Which is to say that not much at all.
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by pavs 9y ago
I think most people shouldn't take this tracker seriously as it was wildly off most of the time and was often manually adjusted.
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by pavs 9y ago
BIND is the industry standard - but insanely overkill for your use case. Unbound is very easy and lightweight. Dnsmasq is another option, but I don't think you can setup root server with it.
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by pavs 9y ago
You can query DNS root server. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers And use long TTL time with large cache size. Other than some small edge cases, this is pretty much the most secure and fastest DNS performan
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by pavs 9y ago
Yes, there are a lot of lighter image editing options out there, and most of them are even free. But at least my understanding is that GIMP is still predominantly used by amateurs. I didn't say it's the only option, it's one
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by pavs 9y ago
I really hope this is not the case. Apart from all the privacy problem, increasingly more people (outside the YC/Reddit eco-chamber) people relate FB as the "Internet", more so in developing world and kids in developed and de
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by pavs 9y ago
I think it's fair to assume that moving so many users to a new platform (new to the users) - will take some time and getting used to. Email being one of the biggest pain points. If anything, such a large migration from software suite t
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by pavs 9y ago
An alternative option for PS is not same as being feature parity replacement of PS. PS is a commercial image editor owned by a company with billions of dollars and many years worth of commercial development and improvements - it is used by
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by pavs 9y ago
Airbus with 130,000 employees is moving to gsuite. https://www.geekwire.com/2018/google-picks-another-win-g-sui...
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by pavs 9y ago
What happens when a third party does it?
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by pavs 9y ago
https://www.slashgeek.net/2017/10/23/online-privacy-doesnt-e...
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How not to store user passwords(slashgeek.net)
2 points by pavs 9y ago|0 comments
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5 Tips to Learn Any Programming Language(slashgeek.net)
2 points by pavs 9y ago|0 comments
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by pavs 9y ago
In some countries, there are "secret laws" (not the USA), where government body that controls ISP license and legalese issues can force ISPs to keep logs, not just metadata, of individual user browsing and share it with law enforc
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by pavs 9y ago
I think vivaldi is using Blink (fork of webkit) as a rendering engine - which both chrome and chromium also uses.
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5 features Opera Browser did first(slashgeek.net)
18 points by pavs 9y ago|8 comments
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Why wanting to learn programming can be so overwhelming(slashgeek.net)
2 points by pavs 9y ago|0 comments
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Why wanting to learn programming can be so overwhelming(slashgeek.net)
2 points by pavs 9y ago|0 comments
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by pavs 9y ago
Few things, There are limits on how long you can keep your generators running without causing mechanical damage - hence two generators. Redundant power company only charges for usage, there is a small recurring fee for connectivity. If Powe
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Starting an ISP is hard (2016)(slashgeek.net)
73 points by pavs 9y ago|32 comments
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by pavs 9y ago
Good theory, maybe that's why they push the "personalization" and localization of search engine so aggressively. I personally don't feel that Google search quality has degraded very much if at all. It's true that I
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by pavs 9y ago
If all the big players do it, you really don't have a choice.

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