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Comment #48457788
If you remember Windows Phone 8, it has already been tried and nobody (ahem, no company) wanted that. No company is stupid enough to give up their content and infra and get none of…
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Comment #48457743
You have to manually start the change, it doesn't do it continuously. For the vast majority of services, even if this action fails and the wrong password is saved (!?) you're still…
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Comment #48457709
> everything was fine Everything was fine best viewed in IE5.5 at 1024x768. Time has changed.
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Comment #48457706
If only you could add 500 bytes of CSS so the content fits the screen.
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Comment #48457699
> Does not require JavaScript Who mentioned JavaScript?
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Comment #48448240
Ew. I mean 500 bytes of CSS would make this so much better.
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Comment #48442216
I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical. The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"
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Comment #48441387
I'm surprised that they're working on HB cures since there's been an HB vaccine for 40 years. I'd love to see more work done towards other incurable viruses like HSV (no vaccine) a…
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Comment #48441364
Isn't half the selling point of antiretroviral therapy that you're no longer contagious? https://i-base.info/u-equals-u/ U=U probably does not apply to all diseases for the reasons…
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Comment #48432700
> without knowing how it was built It helps to understand the constraints of a medium, but you really don't need to know every level down to the electrons moving through the silico…
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Comment #48422424
People don't make a company. Stripe exists as is because it's not a EU company.
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Comment #48402387
This is why I love Apple's Hide My Email. I use it ALL the time and the unsubscribe button is always there. It's not the most polished interface, but it works perfectly. Also, for …
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Comment #48395519
Which it makes perfect since this it's the same company which "deprecated" MP4 support a long while ago in an effort to push to WebM.
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Comment #48395445
> 3. Time passes Correct, protectionism still saved the industry for years, it did its job perfectly. Look at the car makers in Europe, they had decades to produce affordable elect…
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Comment #48381135
Protectionism by who? By definition protectionism cannot kill your own country's car industry.
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Comment #48380750
I'm so addicted I'd find a way around. It's incredible how many times I type x[enter] in my browser even if I'm met with a login screen. Being logged out stops me from mindlessly s…
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Comment #48379936
In a few languages MAI means no/never, so it's an apt name for a Microsoft offering.
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Comment #48358935
> Not having a browser at all on your phone I would not last 5 minutes. I'm occasionally offline outside planes and the amount of times I pull out my phone to "google something rea…
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Comment #48358827
npm is so bad at everything it's insane. SIXTEEN YEARS of development and they can't even resolve a tree of dependencies in the correct manner unless you nuke the lockfile and node…
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Comment #48352413
Doesn't make it any less moronic. Next they're gonna arrest you for boarding the plane with Da Bomb hot sauce.
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Comment #48337665
Only the highest and lowest level jobs are available. Someone needs to report to shareholders and plan. If a PM can just write tickets and they get done, then you just need one PM.…
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Comment #48334459
I'm not buying this argument at all. What jobs are available to humans if AI can do it all? I foresee everyone paying Anthropic to do anything . The only jobs left are manual jobs …
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Comment #48326894
Yeah ok. First of all, just because it sucks now, it doesn't mean we're still safe in just 24 months. Everyone was mocking AI 24 months ago. Second, most of the work out there is n…
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Comment #48291613
My mind raced to the letter I instead