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wahsd
11y ago
So how secure is Telegram?
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11y ago
Usain Bolt does around 38 km/h
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11y ago
I'm going to lose it if Win10 does not integrate automatic time zone adjustment like OSX. What, does no one at MS mind having to manually change the time zone with 7 clicks every time they travel? Why is it not just two clicks to chang
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11y ago
It would absolutely not help with housing costs. What do you think will happen, all the sudden because some new building can be jammed into the space where a street used to be the prices will somehow come down? That never happens. In the bu
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wahsd
11y ago
In other words, humans aren't all that different than fish in that we respond to base stimulus.
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11y ago
I really like the free USB drive they give out at events.
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11y ago
Because everyone's freebasing and edging profits thinking they can get out quickly enough right before they loose consciousness.
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11y ago
I am guessing you don't mean that Gmail hasn't really progressed in many years now. Sure, they've bolted on features and functionality, but they have also probably intentionally delayed or been distracted from adding real val
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11y ago
I don't know what you mean by a typical American city. There is nothing remotely distinguishing enoughly similar to an American city in those pictures of boring and bland versions of the already insignificant Bauhaus architectural styl
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11y ago
It's such a sad shame that Germany has wiped any and all architectural detail or character from their buildings. It's really kind of sad looking at those boring, boorish buildings.
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11y ago
Sorry, but I think you have a slightly too naive perspective. I think the criticism of him and Facebook is valid front to back. Sure, some people move towards the rage range of the spectrum, but it is also warranted towards someone who open
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11y ago
I am not sure that it really is a teacher, let alone professor's professional responsibility to have to deal with the student's lack of basic human decency. I don't know what happened in that class and I also don't know
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11y ago
Not only that, but there is simply zero confidence in negotiation with the government and you are a fool to believe anything else. You don't even have to rely on echos and messages from ancestors and predecessors, with general warnings
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11y ago
I don't think our government is quite cognizant of the post-national undercurrent that is especially prevalent in the tech industry even if that community insists on clustering in specific places. I get a sense that especially in DC an
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11y ago
ProTip: Don't go to law school. Society is already awash with lawyers, who, beyond their functional purpose, quickly represent a corrosive and corrupting impact on society. Lawyers are like algae, if you don't make sure the condit
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12y ago
It has been. If I recall correctly it was revealed even years before Manning and Wikileaks. As a matter of observation, it is kind of amazing how short of a memory even the internet has. It seem to be a knowledge management issue, i.e., new
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12y ago
I know some people don't want to even think about it, but just as a thought exercise; where does the limit lie? How much and how long does society go on nicely asking the government to stop thrusting itself down the slope? Do we just k
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12y ago
Nice./s Next stage of terrorism infection is starting to set in; metastasis of turning on one's own. As someone with a more classic understanding of terrorism, it is both amazing and chilling seeing the social pathogen injected on
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12y ago
Was it a difficult thing to get that image into the broadcast? I am wondering if there were some limitations to why it couldn't be some cycling set of symbols that would change every day / week / month as a means for identify
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12y ago
You are not thinking objectively, it's quite obvious. Not only will weather impact the operation and speed of a maglev just as much if not more considering that high winds and / or blistering heat can significantly impact the trai
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12y ago
Either you are full of BS or have plain no idea what you are talking about. Did you ever look at your pay or earnings statements? I know what they are in both the USA, France, Germany, and the UK and I can assure you that income taxes for m
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12y ago
No, they didn't simply have to connect some disconnected lines. Not only did the eastern infrastructure, have to largely be rebuilt from the ground up, but even the western part was outdated and old and reunification meant that billion
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12y ago
Unfortunately, many people, including me, are called alarmist; until what they say or a variation thereof comes to fruition. And then its just too late. As you imply, a damning precedent has already been set that you do not own books and we
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12y ago
It's a perennial problem in development economics. Ignoring the reasons, the assistance that is intended to help usually does far more and even deeper fundamental damage than if nothing had been done at all outside of assisting in a ca
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12y ago
It's definitely complicated, which is probably why no one has wanted to address it. People in tech nowadays, because money is just sloshing around and there are plenty of low hanging fruit to pluck, are largely not interested in solvin
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12y ago
Ok, you go get right on that. I'll help you build that MagLev in our imagination. You are asking something that cannot be changed without drastic measures. You are asking American to not be the thing it is, a war mongering nation that
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12y ago
I used to be all about public transportation and trains, but I cannot reconcile that anymore with advancement in technology. It simply does not make sense to me anymore to try and build high speed rail on the ground, on fixed "rails&qu
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12y ago
That last sentence is rather valid. The US alone has been pumping trillions after trillions into the US and global economy, which has not resulted in general official inflation. But that money went somewhere, and it went into corporate coff
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12y ago
The whole push notification issue needs to be seen in context though even though most people consider it in a rather myopic and self-centered manner. Push notifications, in and of themselves are not all that bad of a thing; but push notific
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12y ago
Does it really matter? Learning is pretty much always mimicking others, whether it is you learning from others before you or our ancestors mimicking their predecessors like Australopithecus, Neanderthal or others. That's essentially wh
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