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akamel

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    Comment #41705808

    Sue for breaking the law that California just passed!

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    Comment #20489598

    And that order would be easily challenged.

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    Comment #19973260

    As I posted elsewhere in this thread; Lenovo charges 450$ retail and 250$ on special for a similar upgrade. https://imgur.com/a/ug87MaI

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    Comment #19973227

    You are moving the goal posts of the original comment. OP said it's a 50$ upgrade. It is not. It's a 450$ retail price and 250$ sale price for a slightly slower SSD. Yes, companies…

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    Comment #19973190

    That's not how much Lenovo actually charges. They charge 450$ retail and 250$ on special for a slightly slower SSD https://imgur.com/a/ug87MaI

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    Comment #19972944

    Here is what Lenevo charges for a similar upgrade using a slightly slower SSD https://imgur.com/a/ug87MaI That 250$ more to upgrade to the 1tb from the 512gb. the retail price of t…

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    Comment #19972800

    And in those workstation class laptops (that use NVMe PCIe SSD), do you only pay 50$ more to upgrade from 512gb to 1tb? No one is saying those SSDs are Apple exclusive, they are ho…

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    Comment #19972771

    They are not 'suspicious' they really are that fast compared to the standard cheap SSDs. It's the difference between cheap SATA SSDs and expensive NVMe PCIe SSDs. Search for comps …

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    Comment #19972529

    Because they don't use slow SSDs. The read / write speeds on the SSD in the Macbook Pro are insane. see: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/13/2018-macbook-pro-fastes... we are talk…

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    Comment #19187359

    You are comparing screen sizes; you should instead compare physical device sizes. iphone xs max: 6.20 x 3.05 x 0.30 in and 208g ipad mini: 8.0 x 5.3 x 0.24 in and 298g

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    Comment #19090818

    Holy Crap!

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    Comment #18679673

    it was a joke

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    Comment #18624863

    Use them only when you need them. I was really annoyed when my wife’s doctor freely prescribed her oxi after her delivery even though my wife never asked for it and never showed an…

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    Comment #16974351

    DocuSign | Seattle, WA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://docusign.com DocuSign is changing how business gets done by empowering hundreds of thousands of companies and tens of millions …

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    Comment #15579100

    As a new parent, this is the use case I investigated spectacles for. I enjoy sending pictures and videos to my new born's grandparents but the phone does distract him. It is unfort…

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    Comment #12249260

    So I can make a malicious module called expres and another one called expresss and screw with ppls machines?

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    Comment #11932682

    It's mostly tech money and foreign investors. In addition 15$ hasn't taken full effect yet, it is a steady increase to 15 and will only reach that target in a few years.

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    Comment #11228901

    I had to use various versions of Lync for 9 years... copy/paste never worked!

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    Comment #10583200

    > For example, music is strictly forbidden in Islam, except for the beat of a drum. o.0 and that's in the Quran where? You talk with such certainty; seems to me _you_ are also very…

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    Comment #10480217

    was increasing capacity; enjoy and feedback welcome

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    Comment #10479988

    https://TaskMill.io is in early open preview; free for all > TaskMill's extreme microservices OSS platform. Check-in your scripts to GitHub and we turn each into an HTTP endpoint. …

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    Comment #10396079

    This is very nice; and easy to read... one of my main qualms with Arabic fonts has been their jaggedness. The evenness of this font will not only make code and comments look beauti…

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    Comment #10132611

    when did the dumbing down of programming start? I'm all for code-reuse and componentization but common... recursion is programming 101!

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    Comment #10053137

    in the long run a few front runners will dominate; but right now diversity is good... it allows us to work out what works and what doesn't. the hardest part of making a framework i…

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    Comment #9049111

    Hey nickreese; the data is way off. not onlt is basing it on zip not sufficient; but the data is not consistant with actual provider data. I put in my zip; was told I have WAVE as …