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To be fair, the Pixel 1st Gen has a headphone jack. And the Pixel 2 has bluetooth 5.0 (compared to bluetooth 4.2 for the Pixel 1st Gen), which has significantly better range, reliability, speed, message capacity and data throughput. Google
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Teen suicide isn't going up in Europe generally or specifically in the UK. It seems more likely to me that the uptick is due to a 2004 FDA black-box warning on antidepressants indicating that they were associated with an increased risk
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Vitamin D deficiency is common in Saudi Arabia, especially among women - factors include traditional clothes, avoidance of sun, and inadequate dietary intake
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He used to federate, he said he reckons he lost a year of development in the attempt. His argument is federation makes change difficult - and a private company can centralise the protocol (like Slack or WhatsApp) leading to a better user ex
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Just a reminder that most software engineers don't work for one of the big five, and don't get compensated in the region of 300k.
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Rat Park can only sometimes be replicated: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292?dopt=Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
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A casual look shows they're also loading JavaScript via bootstrapcdn.com and googleapis.com. Security is also about attack surface reduction.
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It's ludicrous that you need javascript enabled to download a secure messaging app.
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Ironically, you could always claim that acceptance of responsibility was written by someone else (and perhaps it was).
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The vanilla solution doesn't offer as many features: * With the vanilla solution, the user can check a box that says 'Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs' (which can break the site). With a non-vanilla solution
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I assume you take the preventative measures for SIDS? http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Sudden-infant-death-syndrome/Pa...
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Bear in mind that people tend to live near family and near people of the same ethnic group as them. So not only does zipcodes include info on how rich you are, and therefore your access to healthcare and good nutrition, it also contains som
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You could say the same about many other public institutions. To demonstrate: The media seems more interested in sensationalist irrelevant news than informing the public (it pays better). Until the media can once again demonstrate openly and
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There's also NVD3 - http://nvd3.org/ - https://github.com/novus/nvd3 . And there's a product based off NVD3 called sucrose - http://sucrose.io/ and https://github.c
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A subpoena is not the only way the government collects evidence of wrongdoing.
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So suitecrm want people to migrate to their product and claim to have superior security? That's hardly surprising.
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There's no unseating Corbyn before the election. He's already faced a leadership election just last year, and there is simply not enough time. It would be political suicide for whoever challenged him. The best hope for Labour is i
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If there's a financial crisis: * You're more likely to lose your job or find it difficult to switch jobs, which will impact your earnings * Banks are less likely to give easy lines of credit, making it difficult to get a mortgage
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Maybe it was one of those 'electronic signatures' - they're simply a scribble on an electronic device.
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Security through obscurity isn't a bad thing. The army uses security through obscurity by using camouflage. The only issue with it is when it is only 'security through obscurity'. For example, the National Institute of Stan
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Just because you got unlucky by being responsible doesn't mean everyone does or will. I've known people in places where the property market collapsed and its ugly. And I know people think it can't happen in London, but '
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I don't agree with the notion that if the UK opens its borders it'll be flooded. They said that about the EU, and it didn't exactly pan out like that. Sure, there's immigration, but it's not like we all speak Polish
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That poll only surveyed areas where at least a fifth of the population was Muslim. From my experience growing up as an Orthodox Jew, areas with a higher concentration of an ethnicity also tend to harbour the more extreme views. Whether that
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The question also has a ham-fisted phrasing: > Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associat
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While some of these 'legal conspiracy theories' are undoubtedly ridiculous (e.g. the people who think invoking 'sovereign citizen' will make an iota of difference). But I have some sympathy for these beliefs - there'
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Odd, I moved into the opposite direction. But now I'm using git bash.
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I found the Nexus 5 (not the 5x) had poor build quality - it was plasticy, and mine fell to pieces after 18 months - the battery started to run out early, then the microphone, and eventually it just stopped working at all. It had a nice int
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There have been bugs in open source cryptography. E.G. Heartbleed, shellshock, etc. There are state actors that will pay to find the bugs, or put the bugs there (and the underhand C contest shows how hard it is to find the bugs). Open sourc
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"But most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility." -Silicon Valley, Season 1, Episode 1
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> there's no better and worse sous vide, all sous vide machines produce the exact identical quality outcome When I was planning to buy a sous vide machine, people had complaints about certain machines - e.g. that it only had a four
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