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Comment #29393635
The article is kinda weird. Author is most probably suffering from mouse but blames keyboard. As an argument article against modern keyboards describes physical parameters (like di…
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Comment #20982739
Why there are papers on the floor near each table on the photo in the article?
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Comment #20322843
I'd like to be devil's advocate here - in case of Orwell books, given that publisher had no rights for them, the situation is similar to the selling of stolen goods.
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Comment #20292139
I'd say it's just another iteration of "headphones will kill your ears". The same stuff was around when walkmans became a thing.
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Comment #19617451
Well, you see, this is about products from one brand being able to work as one ecosystem - what we had previously and what we've lost. Before I had to upgrade my work laptop, when …
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Comment #17972806
Same stick-out camera
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Comment #17945712
I am indeed surprised, thanks for the link. So, it's definitely doable. But still, it will require investments just to keep existing entries available.
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Comment #17925290
> I assume the original poster didn't mean "subsidies" as financial assistance I, obviously, have no idea what original poster meant but forcing streaming services to buy local tit…
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Comment #17925263
Well, he did become who he is exactly because of similar German regulations.
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Comment #17925215
Ok, let's say that any title made in EU will suffice for every EU member. Still, for every 100 non-EU (basically, US) titles Netflix would need to get 50 EU titles. And I don't thi…
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Comment #16874028
Well, I've actually faced an opposite situation. I have two Gmail accounts, main one gathers mail from the secondary, and I'm pretty sure that main address is set up as "recovery e…
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Comment #16873827
Well, they definitely do fail at the very core. For the non-enterprise Gmail accounts, there is basically no way for account owners to reattain control over an account if it was hi…
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Comment #16857879
Well, due to a huge ban of Amazon addresses Viber is currently experiencing some connectivity issues in Russia too.
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Comment #15321691
Huh, I was under impression that there are still some regulations regarding food imports/export within EU. Apparently, I was wrong.
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Comment #15320648
> Why wouldn't there be someone who would drive a truck across the border a few times a week, marking up his products say 5% Because that's illegal?
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Comment #15036884
> it's not clear that it has learned anything like "superhuman" levels of strategy But still, it's learned "human" levels of strategy, and that actually amazing. And let's not forg…
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Comment #14847714
Yeah, you're right, as the guy from Ukraine I'm probably preconceived quite a bit. But as an IT guy, I still do not believe that everything is clear with those 4 years and 9 millio…
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Comment #14840835
Depends on the country, I guess. Come visit Ukraine - there is almost nothing hidden regarding those agendas here. One question, tho - if they are so incompetent and mismanaged, ho…
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Comment #14840808
Wow, there is some really funny shit going on in your head behind that pink goggles of yours? We are trying to deal with that for several years now, still a lot of work to be done.…
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Comment #14837953
Yeah, right, because in countries with high corruption level elections are always work as they supposed to.
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Comment #14836397
That pretty easy. Let's say you're a government official who's in charge of a local subway. One of the stations is in need of renovation. You're opening a tender for that and got 3…
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Comment #14836247
Actually that is a critique of a problem. Because one of the biggest problem of Eastern Europe is corruption which leads to many different problems, that eventually result in such …
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Comment #14836025
TBH in Eastern Europe something being owned by government usually means that it's being ran (basically owned) by mafia.
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Comment #14067551
If I understood article correctly - problem was that there were 2 women renting his place. Afaik - prostitution is legal there, but brothels are not, and place with more than one "…