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by wlll 8y ago
> As pointed out before, there is no way to stop catastrophic climate change I don't see where you've said that, so you might want to cite something here. > so no action there will be effective. Again, I can't see where
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by wlll 8y ago
> it's about preemptively conditioning the west Who is doing this pre-conditioning? > into accepting the mass arrival of "climate refugees" that's going to happen no matter what. So, either climate change exists, a
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by wlll 8y ago
That's not what I read into the response at all. What good_gnu did was point out the logical fallacy commonly used by climate change deniers: "something is false simply because a proof or argument that someone has offered for it i
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by wlll 8y ago
As someone else pointed out, "the evidence is that the earth is warming": https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding
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by wlll 8y ago
> Do you know how many updates have deleted some people's data permanently? One more than should have happened? > It was one of the top call drivers almost every update back in windows XP days. So you're saying that Microsof
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by wlll 8y ago
> minor gripes. This last update deleted people's data. Permanently. I have a windows 10 machine (for games), I installed it myself so it's got no pre-loaded shit, and yet it still bothers me about stuff. Onedrive, cortana, e
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by wlll 8y ago
"Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server." According to Apple. If I were cynical, and I am, I could see that Apple aren't telling the whole truth here
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by wlll 8y ago
I'd love to be able to replace the storage in this Mid 2014 Macbook Pro, I'm pretty sure it's on its way out (about every 2 weeks the filesystem and finder completely hang). I can buy an SSD for a couple of hundred £, and I h
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by wlll 8y ago
FWIW my experience has been mostly ok, there have been highlights and one pretty major let down. This comment copied from elsewhere in this comment section: edit : I should also point out, I've never bought AppleCare. I have had a few
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by wlll 8y ago
I have had a few run-ins with Apple over the years. Mostly semi-positive. These have been where I've had to take my main work machine in for repair and they've quoted me 14 days, but then turned the repair around in a few days. Th
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by wlll 8y ago
I've dumped Chrome over Firefox now. First time I've changed browser in about 10 years.
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by wlll 8y ago
Thanks!
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by wlll 8y ago
I can't read the article becaue their GDPR opt out is (perhaps deliberately) broken, is there a summary?
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by wlll 8y ago
Tested this, my mac still does this on Mojave.
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by wlll 8y ago
> It's not clear to me how DHH gets the money for his auto racing hobby. He's a partner, the company makes a lot of $ so he makes a lot of $, go and look at his instagram feed :) The company is well enough off that the regular
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by wlll 8y ago
ISTR (I worked there over three years ago) Growth rate spikes after new versions are released, The 2012 jump is Basecamp 2 and that really moved the needle, and late 2015 is Basecamp 3. There's interest and publicity and articles and s
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by wlll 8y ago
My mac does that. I've not tested it on Mojave, but it did it every time without fail on High Sierra.
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by wlll 8y ago
That's an interesting read, in summary it seems that rises in the minimum wage have a small negative impact, mostly for low paid young people. That makes sense, there's going to be jobs that just aren't profitable when the wa
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by wlll 8y ago
I don't think that's how employment pools work. Sure, there's an element of "this job is only worth $7.5/hour, so if we have to pay someone $15/hour we won't do it", but I'd suggest that those jo
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by wlll 8y ago
> $15 an hour will push a lot of people out of being employable. There is a greater tolerance for whom you will accept at current wage points. I don't believe that. People aren't going to dig the ditches and flip the burgers th
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by wlll 8y ago
This works as long as you're not talking to the scammers who themselves made the fraudulent transactions (which would be why they knew the times, locations and amounts involved). A bit of a stretch perhaps :)
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by wlll 8y ago
> For another thing, it conflates economic disalignment with having a hard border, the whole argument of the UK government is that you don't have to do that. This pretty much the case in the entire rest of the world. Political or ec
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by wlll 8y ago
> It wouldn't really be a 'new' border though No, I meant "new" as in, "it wasn't there last year" :) I'm old enough to remember the border, and "the troubles" too. I also believe th
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by wlll 8y ago
> Because Kaliningrad Oblast is small, homogeneous and an exclave within the European Union, in 2011 the whole Oblast was granted the status of border area eligible to local border traffic rules. - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by wlll 8y ago
Most countries have laws limiting the scope of the activity of it's spies. In this case the headline covers wether this latest activity did break one of those laws: > UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy Intern
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by wlll 8y ago
> Because Kaliningrad Oblast is small, homogeneous and an exclave within the European Union That's not the same situation as NI.
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by wlll 8y ago
> If the UK doesn't put up a border then it is the EU that is causing a problem. The UK is leaving the EU, borders are implicit in that, and bi-directional. You don't get to leave the EU and not leave the EU. Can you cite the P
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by wlll 8y ago
> It doesn't take into account that the Northern Ireland is really a problem of the EU. As somoene who grew up in the UK with the IRA blowing up bits of the country, some rather close to me, I disagree. It's likely that the com
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by wlll 8y ago
Somewhat OT, but reminded me of this classic: "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.” https://www.goodreads.com/quo
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by wlll 8y ago
I got hit by this. As soon as I reloaded Mail.app after installing the last update I was presented with two options, "Start trial" or "Buy now", neither of which I want. If they did mention mandatory registration in the

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