thunfischbrot

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by thunfischbrot 14y ago
It seems interesting to me how you (as in you both) continue to argue different points in increasing force. That's not how a dialogue works. Argue based on issues. Clearly address each issue your 'opponent' raised. Substantiate it with fact
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by thunfischbrot 14y ago
> It maintains friendships > It resurrects old friendships > It sparks new friendships No. Facebook does none of those things. All these are activities which can be facilitated by using tools such as a telephone, face-to-face me
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by thunfischbrot 14y ago
Sometimes I feel the same way, though I recognize that this is a kind of 80/20 rule as well. While I could do without about 80% of spoken word I hear everyday, missing the other 20% would really throw me off. And this is just the hearing pa
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by thunfischbrot 14y ago
> This sounds like a classic case of premature optimisation. My thoughts exactly. Before I was forced to admit that I cuold use less technical terms when describing social or psychological phenomena ;)
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by thunfischbrot 15y ago
Similar experience here. Previously I logged into my Paypal from overseas and was subsequently blocked. No message as to what happened or why I could not log in. I worked out that it was probably because of the sudden change of location. Tr
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by thunfischbrot 15y ago
True. Doesn't necessarily make it less impressive if true :)
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by thunfischbrot 15y ago
At the same time you just pointed to one of the flaws in your argument that EC2 is overpriced: You are comparing two services which are very different. It's even right there in the name: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2 allows for elastici