samsari

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by samsari 7y ago
Indeed. For all we know he only watched it to "give some notes" because he was actually invited to do so by the producers.
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by samsari 7y ago
So if the subject on the story was a Swedish company you'd presumably be up here arguing that people who participate should use the correct Swedish spelling?
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by samsari 7y ago
>Err...do you have that right? In the EU, yes you do. >Like, if I want the library to erase all records of me checking out books, they probably just aren't going to do it, and I don't see how I have a right to force them to.
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by samsari 7y ago
Until you're selected for a random audit and quickly get charged with tax fraud.
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by samsari 7y ago
Well, the High Court in England ruled it was not justiciable since it does not have the authority to do otherwise.
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by samsari 7y ago
Quelle surprise! You read my mind.
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by samsari 7y ago
Microsoft sucks at the desktop, but there's more to their userspace than that. If you want to play the latest games or use a lot of other applications, it's the only game in town* pretty much. *Obviously, there's Wine and OSX
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by samsari 7y ago
This essential phenomenon is nothing new, of course. In the UK, it's just as fashionable and pretty much always has been to borrow words and phrases from other more exotic languages. But I do agree that some languages are more inured t
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by samsari 7y ago
Maybe they just don't want to. The Fermi Paradox requires that aliens think and behave like late-20th century humans. But early-21st century humans already exhibit slightly different motivations and behaviours. So it's really hard
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by samsari 7y ago
Unfortunately not something that's within the power of the Scottish Government to enact, as it is a "reserved" matter - a legal power not devolved to the Scottish executive. There is a strong desire for "shooting galleri
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by samsari 7y ago
This is not a new fantasy, I've heard exactly this same theory mooted several years ago. It's obviously a very compelling one. Who wouldn't love it if Microsoft did an Apple and wrote the userspace on top of the Linux kernel?
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by samsari 8y ago
Shouldn't there be some sort of "lagrange-like" point where the sun's gravitational pull balances out the push of the solar wind?
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by samsari 8y ago
It's not a very convincing argument because there's absolutely zero actual evidence to back the argument up, and absolutely zero reason to even accept the axioms the argument is based on.
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by samsari 8y ago
Free market think-tank says free market is good. More on this breaking story as it happens.
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by samsari 9y ago
My understanding, as someone implementing the GDPR-compliance for my company right now, is that if you could produce the same one-way hash a second time from the same input email address then the hash is still considered PI.
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by samsari 9y ago
I think that would work, but the challenge would be in finding a denser liquid than water in quantities that would make it useful - and cost effective.
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by samsari 9y ago
They don't. Compound words in Germanic languages are basically always nouns. So you'd have to rephrase your example a bit to make a German (or Swedish, etc) word out of it.
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by samsari 9y ago
Betteridge's Law lives to fight another day.
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by samsari 10y ago
No, it's actually in the corporation's best interests to have customers who want whatever is most profitable for the corporation to produce. In many many cases, it's more cost effective to modify the customer's wishe
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by samsari 10y ago
Diagrams are occasionally labelled "click to explode".