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disgusting_guy

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    Comment #15950705

    That's an incredibly broad statement; we are talking about what movies people have watched on netflix. What possible non-anonymous dataset could you be cross referencing to de-anon…

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    Comment #15602739

    >which assumes you know what you're doing This is exactly my point, there should be no autovivification - I'd wager most people using perl these days don't know what they're doing,…

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    Comment #15600099

    Agreed -- there are far too many pitfalls that you only really learn through debugging strange behaviour. Autovivication is a perfect example of this: perl -wE 'my @test; say $test…

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    Comment #15090655

    Money kept in the bank is guaranteed by your government to retain (some) value; it is backed by the economy of your country. Bitcoin is not backed by anything other than speculatio…

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    Comment #14182838

    You can send it as a gif in whatsapp.

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    Comment #14105170

    In the kitchen they are particularly useful, or any time you don't have your hands free: "Alexa, play some soft rock" "Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes" "Alexa, skip this track" "…

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    Comment #13597248

    You describe it like it is simple but that is ridiculous number of steps to simply check your data was actually written to the database. >that's as reliable as it gets when inserti…

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    Comment #13391851

    No, all messages cannot be recovered by Facebook. Read the article - messages that are not yet delivered can potentially be read; if it has been delivered it cannot be retrieved.

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    Comment #13317066

    I disagree - a simple solution exists, which means you cannot use the mic and a button at the same time. Apple invested time and money to solve this problem in a non-trivial way; i…

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    Comment #13210429

    The court case documents are worth looking at before forming any opinions: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/nysd/463894/ (specifically https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/…