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by scholia 10y ago
Chrome gets free advertising on the world's most valuable website where you can't buy advertising for any price: the Google Search home page. Google also spends tons of money paying companies to stealth-install Chrome when users t
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by scholia 10y ago
What’s up with Mossberg, the pundit that time forgot? Until about four years ago, he used to get all these exclusives based on his position at the Wall Street Journal. But those days seem long ago. Mossberg is hardly discussed today, and hi
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes. BI ran a good story on this: http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...
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by scholia 10y ago
You can clear out memory use in Firefox by restarting it. It doesn't create a firestorm of reloads that cripple your PC because it only reloads tabs when you click on them.
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by scholia 10y ago
That's not what I find. How are you measuring memory use?
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by scholia 10y ago
I confess that I find Pence very scary as well, but he's not obviously mentally ill. [1] I assume the good old GOP will throw Trump under a bus when he has outlived his usefulness. However, as a non-American, I don't have a good u
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by scholia 10y ago
> and uses a quarter the memory somehow. I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. It consumes more RAM on my Windows PCs, though I confess I use more tabs than are viable in Chrome....
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by scholia 10y ago
Afghanistan was a sweep. Only one person -- Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) -- voted against it in Congress. Iraq was a Republican President's war. In Congress, the Republicans voted for the war by 48-1. The Dems voted for the war by 29-21. The
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by scholia 10y ago
Trump has reversed his 2014 position on sanctions against Russia, and how dangerous it is [1] It's a moot point whether Russia owns him or not, because he now behaves as you would expect if Russia did own him [2] [1] http://
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by scholia 10y ago
One of the first moves of any tin-pot dictator must be to suppress all sources of truth, and if that's not possible, discredit them. That is absolutely required if he is to lie with impunity, and Donald Trump has been a pathological li
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by scholia 10y ago
Much easier in Firefox since you just start typing the name of the site then choose to switch to that tab from the drop-down menu. Or you can pick it off the (down-arrow) drop-down list of your tabs, or just use the mouse-wheel to scroll qu
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by scholia 10y ago
A small gap, which is hardly unusual given that humans are not perfect. It's still not a fake news site. There are plenty of those, and telling lies about the Guardian doesn't help anyone.
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by scholia 10y ago
Rather old story. It was the Wakefield saga that kicked off the anti-vaxxing thing...
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by scholia 10y ago
Thanks for the info. What do they do instead?
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by scholia 10y ago
Andrew Wakefield's autism claims were not based on honest scientific research. Do you think that Tobias Boelter faked his research? That's what your comparison implies....
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by scholia 10y ago
The Guardian has trained and experienced reporters, a code of conduct to keep them honest, subeditors who are also fact checkers, and an ombudsman (Readers' editor) with independent power to cross check and correct mistakes. It's
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by scholia 10y ago
> decent 4 core Cherry Trail Z8300 CPU None of the Atom chips is decent for anything that requires heavy lifting. You really need a Core processor. > 4Gb of RAM, 64 Gb of ROM 4GB is workable but 8GB is obviously better. However, I
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by scholia 10y ago
All the Y chips are Core M chips, as used in the MacBook...
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by scholia 10y ago
Easier to read if you know it stands for Video Audio Integrated Operation
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by scholia 10y ago
I find Authority Nutrition a useful guide: https://authoritynutrition.com/foods/butter/
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by scholia 10y ago
I wish that page had mentioned that Bing is derived from "Bing is not Google" ... even if it isn't true ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
> convince themselves that this is what they actually wanted. Well, they don't have a choice of hardware suppliers, unless they are willing to take the Hackintosh route...
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by scholia 10y ago
Well, if there's no signal you won't get a result whether it's analogue or digital, In fact, digital works less well at low signal strengths: instead of a noisy, hissy FM radio you usually get nothing ;-) AM goes further, of
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by scholia 10y ago
I ask because FM waves are 2.8 to 3.4 metres long, so a quarter-wave FM aerial should be 70-86cm (28-33 inches) long....
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by scholia 10y ago
Well, there is a very good reason to use analogue: it's already in place and working, and there are hundreds of millions (maybe billions) of analogue radios. The problem is that attempts to introduce digital systems have generally not
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by scholia 10y ago
OK, where are they testing it?
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by scholia 10y ago
According to Wikipedia: "As of November 2013, Apple's online store was available in 39 countries, with physical Apple Stores numbering 444 in sixteen countries (263 US/181 elsewhere). The world has roughly 196 countries. I do
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by scholia 10y ago
See https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Methodology "The data is compiled from approximately 160 million unique visits per month. The information published on www.netmarketshare.com is an aggregation of the data fr
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by scholia 10y ago
> Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down to 6% within a single year. Agreed. And it's by no means the f
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by scholia 10y ago
That's because there are still a lot of XP users in SE Asia, and particularly in China. Netmarketshare doesn't divulge country numbers unless you are a paying customer. Netmarketshare also "balances" its numbers, so the

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