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by scholia 10y ago
No, it isn't. Its news is mainstream, and not consistently more left wing than the New York Times, LA Times or the Boston Globe. (All the mainstream news sources include stories that trend both left and right.) Infowars is rabid right
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It's really not hard to identify partizan news sources , which is what this is based on. They often self-identify themselves. It's really not hard for professional journalists to fact-check partizan articles, and I'd assume
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by scholia 10y ago
Fake news sites often have no "facts" at all. That's why people don't bother fact checking them. At worst, they'll crop up when somebody uses fake news for political purposes, example being Trump's racist birth
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by scholia 10y ago
Fake news started with the Tea Party, "shock jocks" and other right-wing conservative attempts to discredit reality-based news media. Blaming the DNC is a good example of fake news lies in action.
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by scholia 10y ago
Reputable news sources cross-check and criticize other reputable sources, and reputable sources publish corrections and retractions. They may be imperfect but they are trying to tell the truth. Reputable news sources generally don't bo
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by scholia 10y ago
Attacking reputable sources -- which Trump does all the time -- is the main way to con supporters so they'll keep believing their #fakenews lies.
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by scholia 10y ago
Sounds like you're a source of fake news, or a victim of conservative media lies. The media nowadays covers a very wide spectrum from honest mainstream media (NYT, WP, BBC etc) to partizan sources that include a high proportion of lies
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by scholia 10y ago
Unlike Obama, Trump is a pathological liar. He peaked at 40 lies in a single day, his diatribe against mainstream media included 17 lies, and he's managed at least 80 lies as so called president. As a matter of fact, Trump built his po
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by scholia 10y ago
More comments are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13663737
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Specifically, someone on $50,000 a year is earning roughly $25 per hour. Putting them through the painful time-wasting problems of dangerously semi-compatible software is a huge waste of money. Office 365 easily pays for itself in saving a
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by scholia 10y ago
My apologies for mis-reading you. I have a bee in my bonnet about (PR) people who send me images of things when I have to retype the contents ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Oddly enough, I regularly use three versions of Office -- 2007, 2010 and 2016 -- with zero problems.
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> some documents she received wasn't readable, then they couldn't read some document she sent them Which is survivable if your time has no value. If you're paying people serious wages to do this stuff, the costs are dram
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That seems a rather narrow way for Munich to operate. The world has changed since they made their decision a decade or so ago. Microsoft now offers on-premise and cloud versions of all its main programs, with companion apps that also run on
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by scholia 10y ago
That's inevitable when you're going against standard practice in the industry, and refusing to fit in with everybody else. Try the same thing in any other industry and you'll get the same result. "You created the problem
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by scholia 10y ago
> This is an excellent story Agreed: I highly recommend it. > there's usually one glaringly obvious mistake in nearly every single article An actual mistake or a typographical error? It compares very favorably to the error ra
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by scholia 10y ago
Possibly this article, or one based on it? After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig... Quote: It has to do with restin
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by scholia 10y ago
Lenovo also makes not-cheap ThinkPads and not-cheap Motorola smartphones for Google ;-)
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They'd be a lot better if they just made the phone 1mm thicker ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Have you looked under Settings then Battery? Tells you which things are using the battery (%) and approx how much time you have left. I usually get 3 days from a Nexus 6, and the biggest battery user is "Mobile standby" (5%).
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by scholia 10y ago
Didn't some early Android apps poll? I remember complaints about Android phones using up people's monthly data allowance in the first week or so... I had to turn data off completely just to run the phone.
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by scholia 10y ago
Thanks!
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by scholia 10y ago
If you can't use your phone number for password recovery or SMS to your phone number as the 2FA, what do you use instead?
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Mine too ;-)
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The Chromebook is pretty much failing outside the US education market, where there were non-technical reasons behind its success. Also, schools don't buy them retail. The OEM trend is to design for Windows 10 and then offer a version o
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by scholia 10y ago
> So I still have some (tiny) hope of them succeeding with phablets with SIM card on them. Coming later this year, with SnapDragon ARM chips inside, and the ability to run x86 desktop programs if necessary. There will be tablets and 2-
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by scholia 10y ago
Windows 3.x was wonderful if you had DOS, which was almost everyone did. DOS, WordStar (or Word Perfect) and Lotus 1-2-3. It was really cheap [1], and it ran on top of DOS, so you didn't lose anything you already had. The big advantage
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People like stories. They don't like details. This is why we have HN ;-)
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Do you avoid using websites that have built-in telemetry as well? How does Google reading your email compare with Microsoft knowing how often you ran Notepad? One of the main points of Windows 10 is that it's maintained and updated fro
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Apple supported Blu-ray and even took a seat on the Blu-ray board. How many Blu-ray drives did Apple ship?

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