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by ta1243 2y ago
In practice in the 80s you could do a name->address or name->phone lookup You couldn't do a phone->name or address->name lookup
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by ta1243 2y ago
That link proves you wrong
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The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow
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by ta1243 2y ago
So it's not just a meme that Americans like to slap a flag on everything they import from China, it's the reality. How imaginative, the marketing departments who come up with these names must be making bank.
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by ta1243 2y ago
They wouldn't be able to tap those databases if those private companies didn't make them in the first place.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Private information gathered, processed and stored by private companies There are large numbers of laws about the data that my government can gather, hold and use on me. No they aren't perfect. There are pretty much zero laws about wha
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by ta1243 2y ago
You might think you're safe because you don't carry a phone, never upload a photo, etc. You drove across the country in a car you paid cash for while bemoaning cameras that catch you speeding, in the name of "privacy". M
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by ta1243 2y ago
I can hold my government accountable via the polling booth I have no control over Apple or Amazon or Alphabet. I can petition the government through the court system if it tries to put me in jail, the government functions with a massive ser
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> An investigation by VAC found four cases “isolated to a single employee who is no longer an employee of the Department” of assisted dying being brought up inappropriately to veterans.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Those are "Death Panels", and only exist in places like the US where commercial needs run your health care
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Businessmen have been far more powerful than states for at least the last 20 years
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But the Belgians are French, especially Poirot.
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by ta1243 2y ago
A model 3 battery is at least 57.5kWh. That's 4.6kWh a day when idle, or a constant draw of 200W. That's a lot of power, and a lot of money.
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by ta1243 2y ago
A 20 year old Clio costs €6,600? Seems somewhat steep - I'd expect nearer to €660! I'm not sure why he's got problems returning, I'd expect Dutch consumer protection laws to make this an open and shut case.
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The people living in the Falklands are descendents of the first gorup of people to settle that territory. After Argentina did a Russia and decided they wanted the people who had lived there for generations to leave, the UK added a military
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by ta1243 2y ago
The people living in the Falklands want the islands. While some countries look at land like the Falklands, or Ukraine, or Taiwan, or Greenland, and think "That's Mine", Britain doesn't do that (any more), and instead say
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by ta1243 2y ago
EU should have just banned all collection. You give an inch and the parasites take a mile. If given an active choice nobody* would ever go "yes I want you to sell my data to your 1,414 carefully selected partners". Maybe they want
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by ta1243 2y ago
Deliberate choice by the company trying to take your data. They don't have to do that, they want you to be pissed off with the wrong people.
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by ta1243 2y ago
The reason I chose debian in the first place was because of the superiority of apt-get and debian/rules over getting random things from rpmfind.net I thought redhat distros later introduced yum as the "apt" equivalent?
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I moved from debian to ubuntu because stable was too slow and testing was too unstable. Been on ubuntu on my laptop for 15 years, just seems like a hassle to move now, despite the straws (snaps etc)
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by ta1243 2y ago
> In the 1900s the USA took that crown. Most things became manufactured there. A lot thanks to Britain bankrupting itself to defeat Germany in WW1. Throw in the massive loss of manpower both from the war and from Spanish flu, then the da
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by ta1243 2y ago
Best engineers are working at shoveling more adverts down our throats, tracking our every thought to maximise the value they can extract for us. The goal isn't to have 50 people selling a batch of capacitors for $10, it's to sell
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by ta1243 2y ago
> they continue to get it wrong for live event streaming And truly live (which means probably under 10 seconds from lens to viewer - i.e. the time it takes for the "X win" notification to pop up on your phone) is even harder th
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by ta1243 2y ago
> a really long time ago. 2009. Why do I think that Spiderman has just schooled me on my age.
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by ta1243 2y ago
I've been using Linux for 25 years, there were file browsers and I believe F2 did rename. I rarely use them, but then it's rare I want to rename a file. If I want to do something larger, it tends to be using things like "find
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When did you start using linux?
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In the 1880s, Vanderbilt was worth $230m, or $7b today 1910s Rockerfeller peaked at nearly $1b. That's $33b today, or chump change. He, like Gates after him, gave away a lot of wealth. Come 1995, Bill Gates took the mantle with a net w
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by ta1243 2y ago
You can claim pretty much any tool is misleading then. If you don't know how curl works, with say following links, it's "misleading".
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by ta1243 2y ago
Also you can easily have the TTL expired message going via a different route on the return path (and indeed the same applies with your normal connections, asymetric routing can be a pain - especially in networks with rpf issues (multicast o
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by ta1243 2y ago
The results aren't misleading, shockingly large numbers of "computer professionals" have no idea how networks work, but that's because they can't use the tools rather than the tools being misleading

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