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Comment #30101977
Bullshit! Absolute utter woke bullshit! I don't have familial wealth and I can study for stuff. I happen to spend around an hour a day (most days) studying programming-related topi…
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Comment #30100990
You mentioned "minority candidates" twice there. Both times it was in reference to them being at a disadvantage. I read that to mean that the tests are geared towards white candida…
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Comment #29656578
Not US data but UK data backs it up: https://fullfact.org/health/dr-hilary-lorraine-kelly-90-perc...
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Comment #29485107
Ok, so that makes some sense to me. Thanks for explaining it.
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Comment #29484977
Perhaps I flew off the handle. Partly due to being flagged with no reply!
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Comment #29484952
I'm not. Taking the last available data point which is 24 Sep 21: Unvax 80+ - 28 deaths Double-vax 80+ - 243 deaths What does that mean? It lools like more die with a double-dose. …
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Comment #29484813
Not to hijack the thread: why is my post being flagged? I'm asking a genuine question! I was linking to UK Government data here [0] and asking about the numbers. They're not adding…
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Comment #29470739
I can't help but think that with the way modern languages/programming are going, we're making a rod for our own backs! Don't get me wrong, I've read about Rust and it's capabilitie…
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Comment #29421753
The daily death rate is at around 100 people per day and that's "100 people dying within 28 days of a positive COVID test" - a meaningless statistic that does not tell you a single…
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Comment #29421626
This is pure bullshit of the highest order. The science is crystal fucking clear: no one is dying from COVID![0] [0] - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=over.…
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Comment #29421595
> The point is vaccinating everyone, just like we did with Smallpox. Which is essentially dead because of vaccination. It has been shown time and again that the covid jag does not …
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Comment #29413758
> Wouldn't this imply that the vaccine is physically harmful to you? I have no evidence to say that the vaccine is physically harmful to me, personally, but there are plenty of sto…
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Comment #29406108
> Vaccines should not be a personal freedom choice. I don't do personal attacks but in your case I'll make an exception: you are a fucking psychopath if you think it's ok to tell p…
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Comment #29318574
I've long felt that WWIII will not be fought (initially, anyway) with tanks and bombs and such, but with computers. What could be more effective for your enemy than taking out all …
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Comment #29251196
It's funny you should talk about sleep deprivation messing with your mind... I once remember trying to program a for-loop in C# about 8 or 9 years ago (I've been programming since …
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Comment #29251158
I haven't read the whole doc but does it take into account stress or factors that lead to stress? For example, money problems, dangerous job, working in toxic environments etc. I r…
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Comment #29201573
> but a bigger danger is mobile phone use by cyclists. Or by pedestrians! My brother curses the number of pedestrians in Glasgow that cross the road while looking at their phones..…
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Comment #29139228
I've often wondered if Mark Zuckerberg has anyone in his inner corporate circle that is willing to say "no" to him. Meta seems like there was a wall of post-it notes in Zuck's offi…
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Comment #29133375
> It does not cost the users anything. It does: Try creating a a local account on the Home version! You can't. You must create a Microsoft account which ties you Microsoft. You may…
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Comment #29131708
> Most proeminent features for Windows 11 are an updated scheduler tailored to big.little architectures like the new Alder Lake from Intel and Direct Storage for games, a rebrandin…
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Comment #29131644
> They likely want laptops being sold running Win11 to have sane security capabilities for corporate use out of the box Corporate security has been fine for years: TPM 1.2 (if I re…
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Comment #29095928
Ok, ignore my comment: it appears that about 5 minutes ago, all the OP's comments were marked [dead]... but they're fine now.
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Comment #29095788
What's with all the downvotes for the OP?... has this been downvoted for a reason?
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Comment #29094993
> All your data from Photo Vault is always end-to-end encrypted Where are the keys? If they are on your servers then this is dead in the water. If they are in a secure vault on my …