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happyopossum

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    Comment #49009245

    FTA: The extensions, each measuring several metres, will replicate a folding wing in the fully extended position during a flight So no, they are not foldable today - the headline s…

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    Comment #48972812

    -> and we are nowhere near a data center. Please square that with a rational argument against data centers then?

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    Comment #48950547

    Nobody wants to pay for a house that would take a year to build, with multiple 30 day work stoppages for concrete curing….

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    Comment #48950308

    That is highly location dependent. Many cities had/have large lots in older neighborhoods and have transitioned to zero-lot-line construction or smaller lots in the past 30-40 year…

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    Comment #48852030

    > Crucially, this is where, unlike with Apple’s standard child screen-time restrictions, you can choose to completely block internet browsing by simply not allowing Safari Very odd…

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    Comment #48754240

    Headline is absolute clickbait: please don't use quotation marks when you just make things up.

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    Comment #48721715

    Kids and convenience. 99% of the movies I’ve bought from iTunes are kids movies. Some of them were watched over and over and over. DVDs and Blu-rays I purchased from the same era r…

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    Comment #48668079

    > Healthy people spend roughly 15-25 days each year—about 5% of their lives—sick with respiratory infections like the common cold and influenza This seems completely unbelievable t…

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    Comment #48659985

    The difference is that with a slate you’re not limited to buying one of the versions of the modular platform - you can swap them out yourself. Want an open air 5 seater in the summ…

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    Comment #48659932

    So a disease that has killed 11,000 people in a country with a population of >200 million over 30 years is a ‘ginormous outbreak’? This kind of hyper-scary overreaction from the CD…

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    Comment #48659627

    > You can do a perfectly good, very efficient mini split for USD $5k That’s way high: You can buy 2 for that much if you want a big name brand that provides support for self-instal…

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    Comment #48522777

    > tax returns seem like an obvious alternative and they are already private and collected at a much more granular level. Plenty of people don’t file tax returns (legally even, ther…

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    Comment #48495317

    Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...

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    Comment #48495250

    >I wish the EU would regulate this kind of stuff. Regulate what exactly? Bugs? That's what this was...

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    Comment #48495238

    Then maybe a "lot of" you should not be buying Apple hardware?

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    Comment #48482473

    An N100 with no RAM is $100 less, but throw in 16GB of ram and now they’re $150+ more… Also you’re missing the point.

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    Comment #48479422

    > I don't understand how a product as popular as Tailscale can get this far while dropping certain ordinary types of packets. I’d venture to guess based on this outcome that fragme…

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    Comment #48477722

    Sure, but 20TB in “the only database you need” is mere hours or minutes worth of data for many workflows.

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    Comment #48474681

    A native replacement for docker came last year with Apple Containers- this extends that.

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    Comment #48474648

    Considering that this project was published less than 24 hours ago I’m guessing you assume it’s a different project.

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    Comment #48474442

    This is not the apple container framework / that’s the docker alternative. This is a project to easily run full Linux machines in macOS containers.