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by turboturbo 8y ago
If you’re in the market for this model, do yourself a favour and don’t buy the base configuration with the unusably slow 5400 rpm HDD. I bought the previous model with that hard drive and the startup performance is appalling
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by turboturbo 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question You seem to assume that the payment solution that will be offered won’t differ significantly from existing credit card solutions (from a business/technical point
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by turboturbo 8y ago
Flying at a lower speed than cruise speed will allow you to save fuel (per unit of time, not distance). The plane looks quite lightweight. Perhaps the plane was equipped with long-range fuel tanks? I agree that it sounds like a very long ti
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by turboturbo 8y ago
Off-topic: the website showed me (EU resident) an alert saying that they’re sorry that I don’t trust them with my personal data (because I unselected all data sharing in their GDPR consent screen on a previous visit). And then I got shown t
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by turboturbo 8y ago
I can see why your comment is being downvoted — the lack of explanation makes it seem more provocative — but I agree with your sentiment. Although a settlement was reached in the H&FJ lawsuit, which probably involved Tobias Frere-Jones
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by turboturbo 8y ago
I’m surprised that neither these questions nor those by U.S. Congress last month include a request to provide an exhaustive list of all types of data that Facebook has on its users, including data bought from third parties (e.g. credit scor
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by turboturbo 9y ago
If a company’s business model is aligned with statements by its CEO, I would consider those statements more valid, not less. Apple is putting its money where Tim Cook’s mouth is. That’s a good thing.
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by turboturbo 9y ago
This is only the case with `==` in JavaScript, not `===`. I think most would consider using `==` a bad practice these days. That said, I agree with your point