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wildfire
6y ago
First you say: > The economic churn. More churn, > more prosperity because we are > creating movement of spending > money that came from capital to > keep alive a thriving economy. And then you claim that taxing the rich will
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wildfire
6y ago
The world would be a better place if voting was mandatory ( like it is in Australia ).
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wildfire
6y ago
Odd. I have had precisely the opposite. Junior Devs using the GUI ( in VSCode ) but breaking things badly. And then I have to help them out using the command-line
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wildfire
6y ago
Sideloading is totally possible. It is just ordinary customers don't have the right to do so.
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wildfire
6y ago
Like the server market; high bandwidth, always on and likely running and endpoint for z mobile service.
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wildfire
6y ago
Yes. How long until we can get to 100%? Hopefully valuing life and allowing people to choose will become just the default.
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wildfire
6y ago
Given that this is the United Nation definition of Genocide, why do you think this is Western in any way? Remember China had a hand in crafting this definition.
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wildfire
6y ago
I doubt it, otherwise you would name it.
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wildfire
6y ago
A metre divided by 10 is 10cm. A foot divided by 10 is 0.1feet = 1 13/64 inches. Contrived examples are easy.
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wildfire
6y ago
Those engineers enabled this outcome. It is perfectly reasonable to ask why they facilitated immoral actions. There is a code of ethics all computing professionals should use to consider their actions. https://www.acm.org/co
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wildfire
7y ago
Yup. Clearly no one is going to be able to convince you otherwise, so is there much point in you continuing to read this thread?
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7y ago
I actually used this personally (Jan 2019) You'll get supplied (at least) two SSDs. With instructions for how to use in both Windows and Linux. Unfortunately even though it was "GA", it appears that they never really actually
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7y ago
That product looks exactly like AWS Direct Connect Also, when I go to: https://www.infrastructure.aws/ (annoyingly I can't link to the network) it says 100Gbps of WAN capacity around the AWS global network. I did a qui
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7y ago
> With E2EE enabled he would > not have been identified at > that time. What is the source for this? Do you have a link for more context?
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wildfire
7y ago
Do you have a link which might give further information about how the sandboxing that Firefox offers and the one that Chrome offers are different? I was under the impression that they were very similar.
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wildfire
7y ago
Like many others, I have used CityMapper extensively in London, Berlin, Paris, Sydney, etc. With public transport, and using the same data Google Maps has access to, it just gives better results except for walking. I don't quite unde
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wildfire
7y ago
Governance doesn't preclude the organisation which pays for the developers to have them do something else. Goverance: We should complete the async work before we do X Pay master: We need X done. Do the async work later. i.e. the person
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7y ago
> Publicly bad mouthing the > company you work for > is definitely grounds > for termination Having not read any of the tweets in question, I can not say what the content is about. However, according to https://www
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7y ago
Do you know of any court case testing this? My contract with a German company, specifically had clauses saying that anything on their systems is something that can inspect and/or look at. We aren't talking a small company here, bu
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7y ago
> UEFI standard supports > loading from FAT. Actually UEFI REQUIRES the bootable partition to be FAT (not not exFAT). UEFI also requires the executables to be in the COFF format ( instead of the normal ELF one ) too.
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7y ago
> Eventually they had NO CHOICE > but to evolve or die. So, really they haven't done anyone any favours then? Why do you think so many people look upon their acts as something with good intentions? Just better marketing spin?
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7y ago
> you're talking about them > investing tens of millions > minimum into the development Do you have a source for this hyperbole??
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wildfire
7y ago
In some cases yes, but the majority of jobs are never formally advertised. Where do you think MD (Managing Directors), CxOs and other high level people go for jobs? The majority of them will get their next position through who they know,
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7y ago
Yes very responsive. I've pointed out a number of errors in their FAQs, some technical and some spelling and grammar related. They have always acknowledged the issue. 3 months later, the issues still remain. Oh well.
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7y ago
You get decent response. There is someone on the line and follow-up emails too. But actually fixing things is a crap-shoot. I've had an issue with Google One family accounts for a month now. I can not invite anyone into my family, so f
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7y ago
Odd. I've paid about £100 so far for a subscription and other gamification things. I don't regret the money, and believe it was worthwhile. But Duolingo isn't free.
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7y ago
Which, of course, makes it perfectly acceptable?
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8y ago
Are you intentionally unaware that they have been doing this ( C.f. webpayments API)? Or is this work going to be a complete surprise to you? I know https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Web_Payments only ment
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8y ago
Yes. You are only asking to have people point out possibilities that you didn't. But in your heart of hearts, you know you did. That doesn't mean you didn't have fun. I suspect you need to revisit what 'waste' reall
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8y ago
Having never heard of goldseek.com, and there being no links (I could perceive) to any authoritative source: 1. Is this actually true? 2. Why should this actually matter? Aren't reserve banks (or central banks) supposed to hold a baske
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