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> that's easy For a tiny fraction of the population this might be true, for the rest of the population it definitely isn't true. I'm part of that tiny fraction, and pissed away hou…

Precisely because the average social media user is petty, insecure, and attention-seeking. Like shaming is a fabulous concept I for one could get behind. Next up do follows, replie…

I had pretty much the exact same experience as parent comment. There is no apologizing for software that can quickly and easily accept your credit card number, but drag its feet an…

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These licenses are totally meaningless when Google make anti-competitive threats to their partners for attempting to exercise that license. They benefit from all the marketing of t…

This is the correct answer. Do not allow a subtly different technical design distract you from the largest switcheroo here: this is a single-vendor enterprise OS delivered under th…

Adding an extra 50 yards to any single Ryanair flight would likely bankrupt the company

Most folk don't even know it exists because it's been the default option in their Internet banking for so long..

That's a highly optimistic read of it. China move fast and brutally when they decide to move, but often their motivations are approximately identical to what applies in the west, w…

I think US banking is the outlier here. I've never paid anything like this anywhere in Europe, the vast majority of transactions (for example SEPA) are free, or very close to free.…

honestly don't mind this one, worth it for the fairly awesome meta footnote

Any idea why the minimum plot size needs to be so damn huge? Really killed the attractiveness of the whole scheme for me

Speaking as an IRC lifer, every article I read about this fails to actually make any kind of cohesive point about what's going on and why it is bad. Explain like I'm 5 please? Who …

> The reason it's not generally done is because the select API has been effectively replaced with better things like kqueue and epoll and poll and ppoll. If you actually want to do…

Always wondered about this, can overlapping systems be used simultaneously for higher reliability or precision?

Artificial pricing is still possible in the blockchain world, it's just called staking over there

Came here to say this. It's a site designed for idiots not engineers. How does rendering work? Can't even tell if it's HTML based or some hipster immediate UI toolkit nobody's hear…

Am I correct in saying after one usage, the parachute system generally needs replaced? I think I read this about Cirrus planes anyway

It seems initial distribution was centrally managed in this coin. Needs much stronger proof of no foul play in this case than a shiny web site

> Numerous articles document Bitcoin's energy sources, which are Primarily based in a country which is also the world's largest consumer of coal > Its security model has yet to be …