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by swang 10y ago
I am both a MacOS and Windows user, I have trouble completely recommending Windows 10 to anyone solely on the basis of Microsoft's invasive telemetry services. That and the catastrophically anti-consumer upgrade paths they forced on pe
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by swang 10y ago
this does not seem to be the same thing. specificially the articles cited says obama says banned only iraqi refugees for 6 months, not syrian, nor just immigrants. specifically it would have to be an order coming from USRAP or the State Dep
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by swang 10y ago
> "same stunt in 2011" i tried to find out where the source of this information came from. all i could find were far-right blogs reposting the same story from thefederalist, whose source was this ABCNEWS article[0] Other than t
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by swang 10y ago
i would not trust any apple service to host/preserve my images. just have had way too many instances where images just disappear. and afaik they still haven't really explained the connection between all the celebrity phones being
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by swang 10y ago
Anyone else besides Haley, who considers herself white?
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by swang 10y ago
i think what your parent post refers to is, sometimes searching for <term1> <term2> <term3> <term4> google will instead just try <term1> <something that may be a synonym for term 2> and no <term3> o
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by swang 10y ago
just a guess... google does not hold a monopoly over app selling in the android program space. there's the amazon store and i'm pretty sure one of the chinese hardware android companies have one.
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by swang 10y ago
so let me get this straight: receive controlling interest of a company with $33million in cash reserves by using a $10million promisory note to gain shares. proceed to spend $18million in cash, some of which is spent to pay your buddies. wh
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by swang 10y ago
You are right. I was sure that I paid less than $2 when I first moved into the city but I looked it up and apparently it was $2 for a while before the hike.
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by swang 10y ago
One of my lines I can ride into work is the N-Judah line. This line is the busiest MUNI line. It is faster to get to my work because it goes underground and the MUNI buses I have to ride go slower, especially when there are a lot of pickups
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by swang 10y ago
> I think a lot of the uproar this year will subside over the next 1-2 years and the decisions Apple made will make sense. Uh, they subside because people don't want to argue over stuff that happened 1-2 years ago... do you still ar
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by swang 10y ago
everyone keeps saying it's only HN commenters, r/apple techies that are complaining about Apple's new changes. calling us/these people "fringe" users. let's talk about what a "normal" user needs:
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by swang 10y ago
What does this even mean? You realize people of Asian descent can be born in here in the U.S. right?
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by swang 10y ago
how can you work in tech and not have "a connection" to yahoo? also how is your comment not an attack? you're saying his opinion is tainted... because he knows people who work at yahoo? does that mean no one can have a fair o
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by swang 10y ago
unsure if the dmv requires a human operator since uber's argument for not needing dmv's permission is there is a human operator in the car, and therefore it's not a self-driving car.
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by swang 10y ago
thanks for this. i don't have a 6s. either that or it thinks i've already had a battery replacement. which could be true? this is my third 6 plus. my original's lcd screen had the touch disease, since it was just inside warra
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by swang 10y ago
im using the previous version of ios 10 (one before current) and it has some weird battery draining bug and will shut off my iphone 6 plus at 30% and it's very hard to repower on without a charge source (e.g. ext charging battery). it
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by swang 10y ago
calm down. how is this being "politically correct"? the name was most likely changed because the connotation of a "god view" means its omnipotent or at the very least omniscient. aka, it knows everything about you. so it
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by swang 10y ago
does this honor typos? i like spellcorrect changes but i hate all the other assumptions they make about my search terms.
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by swang 10y ago
we can start off by calling them white supremacists rather than alt-right.
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by swang 10y ago
the person whose tweet is in the news article had to protect her* tweet because people were sending her hate mail. what the hell.
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by swang 10y ago
Who watches the wikileaks?
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by swang 10y ago
> Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. I thought they unbanned most of the actual people. a large majority were just bot accounts used to buy up the pixel.
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by swang 10y ago
right before the election, /r/the_donald were constantly posting that podesta was the one who abducted madeleine mccann.[0] their "proof" were released sketches that looked a lot like podesta and his brother. only proble
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by swang 10y ago
i don't think he called torvalds the father of dvcs, merely he was the one who came up with the simplest and correct solution to handling merges (which is to let the user resolve most of the complex ones) and what about this line on th
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by swang 10y ago
What does Backblaze do with all the removed HD that still work but maybe have a ton of cycles on them? Are they just recycled, or resold?
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by swang 10y ago
When I was little, back in the 90s, I ran a Star Wars fan site on my AOL account. This was a time where you could still count on your hand the number of "popular" sites for Star Wars and if you knew how to remove the border from a
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by swang 10y ago
sorry to attach this to the top post, but how do you actually pronounce moissanite? "moist"(sans 't') + "a" + "night"?
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by swang 10y ago
i continuously got an empty shopping cart everytime i tried to add it. i am pretty sure the site was hit so hard they just 404'd the URL so it wouldn't load anything. for a while the item page was blank while amazon.com continued
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by swang 10y ago
do you think no one in germany opposed hitler? hitler was seen to be pretty crazy to most "moderate" germans too and he wasn't voted in as the führer with absolute power. he slowly worked his way up in popularity until he bec

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