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> Spain, Italy and Greece clearly have a worse healthcare system, and those are just three examples I can think of quickly. Surely lots of countries in eastern europe has it worse …

I lost faith in PIA caring about privacy of its customers when I noticed how they use unique tracking codes in their newsletter emails. I never received a response when I asked abo…

Lua means moon in Portuguese, not Spanish.

It is pretty pathetic to go to any coworking space in an Australian major city and realise that people there are just playing the 'startup game'. These people will typically spend …

Too bad the Internet in large parts of those cities belong to the last century.

I wonder why they do not user their own certificates? https://letsencrypt.org reports Identrust.

Why are you sure?

They are really excited people.

> Are you new here? I'm sure that next week it'll go back to the usual threads about Rust or Haskell, or someone will start a retro fad around Algol-68 or something. I just do not …

WTF? Some people are spending serious money on a PR campaign to promote Kotlin this week!

I feel your pain. It is extremely difficult in Australia to get interest in anything related to innovation. I have had surreal experiences when dealing with companies and particula…

E.g. it does not explicitly outline the right to freedom of expression. It is sort of implied within Government, but not necessarily.

Is it really 'superintelligence' if unable to deal with a simple concept such as time zones?

Exactly. It is baffling that to this day so many people believe the purpose of University is to provide some sort of vocational training.

Big revelation: Computer Science has very little to do with 'coding' Web pages using FrontPage.

Thanks for the suggestion. It is something I had considered; to replace the motherboard and the CPU with the new AMD Ryzen. But if I remember correctly, it is difficult to find mot…

I appreciate the advice. What would be the AMD equivalent to say a GeForce GTX950? Because this is the NVIDIA model that seems more than enough for my needs. Thanks.

I use Mint, where I have always been using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. I remember Radeon drivers used be pretty bad. But that was a few years ago. Has the situation changed? I …

Given this new model will push down prices of exiting models, what would be the cheapest currently available NVIDIA that includes a Display Port output and a resolution of 3440x144…

There does not seem to be much difference between the Nokia 3310 and the Nokia 220 / 215 / 108 that have been around for at least 2 years.

Do health professionals need college degrees? It depends, as it is not the same to be a first aid officer to a dentist, a physiotherapist or surgeon. In some cases you need a highe…

In the same way that orthopaedic surgery is glorified carpentry?

It looks like a rough attempt of scam.

Purely 'coding' should be learned at vocational school (e.g. technician level), not university (e.g. scientist or engineer level).