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by phatfish 6y ago
Dyson the person had one very successful idea (the bagless vacuum) and brought it to market himself after being ignored by the then-incumbent manufactures of existing models. Dyson the company has been riding that one idea since, and I agre
902.
by phatfish 6y ago
Hasn't Wikileaks published crypto addresses for a long time? You can send directly to them right now. I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a porn site out there taking payment directly though a Bitcoin address too.
903.
by phatfish 6y ago
If your company is not clogging up their community support forums then you are not the intended audience for this. The project provides an open source MS Office replacement for free, not an IT department. Their community support forums are
904.
by phatfish 6y ago
I think this is fine as long a those who decide to risk their life do not put others at risk without their consent, and there are equivalent remote or socially distanced alternatives for all activities. For example, anyone who decides they
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by phatfish 6y ago
It's not a hit piece. There was a mistake during the trial with dosage, and instead of coming clean in their main announcement and explaining what happened it was obfuscated by the "half dose" story. This just caused confusio
906.
by phatfish 6y ago
To produce the vaccine so fast that had to be done. The issues European production partners (one in Belgium I think) are suffering with the AstraZeneca vaccine are similar to those already solved at the UK production sites months ago becaus
907.
by phatfish 6y ago
Yup, messing up both would have been catastrophic. Just a shame it took so many deaths for the UK government to wake up. If saving lives is the end goal then countries that took it seriously from the start and had a competent strategy for s
908.
by phatfish 6y ago
Who enforces anything? The government. Something similar to health records is the usual example. I suppose coordinated action by citizens would have the same effect, but online privacy is such a complicated obfuscated issue that will never
909.
by phatfish 6y ago
Maybe if you name/link them we can decide if it was reasonable or not.
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by phatfish 6y ago
Yes, I recommend MikroTik as well. Got two of their cAP wireless access points. All the features you would expect on enterprise level kit at 1/4 the price easily. Because there are so many features the setup is not as easy as some alte
911.
by phatfish 6y ago
The American dedication to free speech only functions when people -- especially those in power -- are acting in good faith. Trump took the pseudonymous troll culture of the internet to the highest office of government, and this is the resul
912.
by phatfish 6y ago
Yes, finally in 2020 Dolphin can open a file from an SMB shared folder without making a local copy, which basically made KDE unusable in any environment that involved editing files on a Windows share. Took a while but it does work, bar a fe
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by phatfish 6y ago
It's because Hacker News is very anti-privacy, unless it's their own data. You should only be allowed to control your own PII if you can afford a $1000 Apple product. Everyone else is fair game.
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by phatfish 6y ago
Maybe its a clever tactic to reduce usage at companies that are controlled by non-technical people that are more worried about the name than the technology. Probably has a notable effect on the number of demanding/misinformed issues th
915.
by phatfish 6y ago
There are also examples of when ignoring addictive behaviour -- or just pretending there isn't a problem -- leads to disaster. The world wide web was the new medium, social media is the attention grabbing (and addictive for some) hook
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by phatfish 6y ago
The distraction aspect is due primarily to having so much information available instantly. That is a result of the internet, but smartphones supercharged it as they add constant availability to the mix. The issue with social media is that i
917.
by phatfish 6y ago
I don't see how Ethereum or any "digital currency" solve the real world problems that will still exist. Sure, the big players in the recording industry can treat artists badly. But a service is provided, which is doing all bu
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by phatfish 6y ago
There is no getting around the fact Bitcoin is distributed in a fabulously unequal manner. The rest of the world is going mint a set of new global elite because they mined a stack a coins when the computational cost was tiny? If crypto drea
919.
by phatfish 6y ago
Germany has the right idea. All countries should ensure data and operational sovereignty of critical tech companies. Then when one of them misbehaves a leaf can be taken from the American play book, and said company will simply be seized by
920.
by phatfish 6y ago
All the low budget productions that used to fill out Blockbuster Video are now filling out Netflix and Amazon. I always wondered who actually rented those movies and how they made money. I guess the formula still works because people must b
921.
by phatfish 6y ago
I pay for one (so i don't feel too guilty), torrent what is exclusive to the others and buy Blu-Ray for the content that is genuinely good. Currently Netfix gets some cash out of me because i have no interest in giving Amazon or Disney
922.
by phatfish 6y ago
I got that same card (8800GT) and used it for many years, mainly because it was under £200. I think it was just a great deal at the time. Very likely prices pushed back up after Nvidia grabbed any market share they lost to ATI that caused t
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by phatfish 6y ago
In Europe at least the PIN for making payments on your "Chip & PIN" card is to NEVER be given to anyone (or typed on a phone call). Banks will make this very clear. A security "password" for doing phone banking is di
924.
by phatfish 6y ago
I think the OP means like Windows now. My laptop doesn't get Windows updates held back because Dell wants to sell me the latest model. Drivers are also much better with the original vendors version most likely working fine even if it&#
925.
by phatfish 6y ago
I think we have found the reason for all the credit card fraud in the US ;)
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by phatfish 6y ago
More people working from home maybe have a small impact for local restaurant/pubs etc. but i doubt it will be significant enough to revive somewhere with a "non-existent" local community. The reason food/drink service do
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by phatfish 6y ago
Traction control was banned quite a while ago from what i remember. That really did take away the skill from driving and make it technical arms race. There is still skill required now. I do agree rules have killed some of the fun, it seems
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by phatfish 6y ago
Yes you are right, taxing global companies effectively would help greatly. There seems to be no will (in the West at least) to do anything about it though. Closing loopholes is a problem and it just becomes a war of attrition with accountan
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by phatfish 6y ago
If your uncle works at the right level in Google or Apple I expect this works already.
930.
by phatfish 6y ago
I'm not happy with governments taking such an active role. Ideally they help home-grown alternatives and push out American/Chinese corporations to give them space. That is probably too little too late at this point though. Google,

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