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lurkerasdfh8

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    Comment #27478920

    this is just a convoluted way to access information. Imagine the use case you want to apply a filter to all your photos. Either you give service provider access to all your photos,…

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    Comment #27476194

    Even if the author assumptions are true and valid, this is like saying mirroring RAID is a safe backup option :) it is not. if you have 10 DB hosts with the same brand of nvme, and…

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    Comment #27463392

    "the only wining move is not to play" really, if you are in a point where you hunt for hidden settings to disable in your browser? why not just use firefox?

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    Comment #27442620

    you talk like either as if facetime is a good product, or as if you love anything from apple regardless. i think it is a closed solution that sucks just like all the others. i thin…

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    Comment #27430538

    > illegal besides being immoral and a literal F-U to your consumers, it can bring anti trust cases when you are as big as Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in But ot…

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    Comment #27429626

    apple PR is running around downvoting facts :D

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    Comment #27429467

    > I wonder what made them take this path? it was literally an email that surface on the Epic store litigation, where one Apple exec says (quote from memory) "We can't have facetime…

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    Comment #27429456

    Now one can only hope apple will add in code to run faceTime much slower on non-safari browsers, just like Google did with Firefox for meet. Ha. And then those practices will escal…

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    Comment #27428704

    so, my last suggestion + a perfect disposable anonymous pseudonyms system. infinite troll accounts would ideally be defeated by all the moderation being exposed and distributed. an…

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    Comment #27400626

    It almost feel like the only sane moderation system is to expose as much information as possible to all users? as much as the moderators have?

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    Comment #27400322

    honestly, anyone with half a brain do not see that cryptocurrencies are re-hashing (heh) every single scam from the unregulated investment market times? every single one of them. M…

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    Comment #27398587

    > one of the core libraries it used was GPLv3 licensed it's still untested in the real world if gplv3 "taints" derivative work that broadly. Would they had to open source the entir…

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    Comment #27398513

    I don't think anything :) just that the price, if it were reflecting existing revenue sources, would be much lower. The seller and buyer both agree that the promise of something el…

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    Comment #27398493

    They can say whatever they want. But they are not and never will be. Their community management tools are awful and the philosophy they and the moderators abide to is that question…

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    Comment #27370785

    SO will never be wikipedia and that is OK. What we miss the the middle ground. And that is open for the taking! (hint) SO is transient and disposable. It is about the error message…

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    Comment #27370755

    This is the only correct answer, IMO. all the other pundits miss that if the deal was for existing source of revenue, it would have been priced as modestly as those are.

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    Comment #27370732

    because common sense says that acquisitions result in attrition of key people, damaging layoffs, forced integrations, etc. nothing that helps the product/user base. Acquisition tha…

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    Comment #27361159

    > is very much embedded embedded is a term that means your code is closer to the discrete component analogy as possible, with all the same design and testing expected from the elec…

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    Comment #27358672

    It is the same problem all over again. embedded is tricky because you want to do too much with too little. Then every time there's advancements in what you have available, people a…

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    Comment #27239894

    > The lack of engine means ... This gives designers more wriggle room for pedestrian protection too. this is important. It is an option they DID IGNORE! for marketing. The thing th…

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    Comment #27239845

    yep, suspect how they never mix the two. Just like laptop reviews. - can carry X tons / X petaflops and ai engine! - can drive up to Y hours / last Y hours but never mention how lo…

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    Comment #27214875

    maybe off-topic but: interesting how any cryptocurrencies discussion have tons of comments repeating the same (flawed imo) arguments, while the older ones are both downvoted and ar…

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    Comment #27214836

    > real cash flows you keep using that word...

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    Comment #27203666

    Reminds? this is literally it! Also, microsoft did this a couple years ago, without fancy volumetric display, just face tracking on their expensive 8k(?) tv for meeting rooms, and …

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    Comment #27159844

    not the entire content, but a hash id is pretty common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme