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profeta

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    Comment #12921631

    except for the last item, you pretty much described amazon.

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    Comment #12898113

    mame as javascript only worked because distribution of mame is garbage. go ahead. dont belive me? go on and try to install it now. you will waste days just trying to figure out whe…

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    Comment #12810958

    Sounds exactly like my unlimited data plan with AT&T.

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    Comment #12747872

    think a little harder. If you actually happen to NEED unlimited data, and someone offers you unlimited data at some speed, and when you go to use it it is not that speed. And now y…

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    Comment #12747710

    i've had phone (3g unlimited[0]); business DSL (connected 0.4miles from the trunk!); and Cable service from AT&T. I can say with 100% of confidence, they oversell like crazy and ar…

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    Comment #12679999

    it is a scam not associated with yahoo in any way, i heard. the credit card scammers just use the fact that almost everyone in the US has a yahoo email.

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    Comment #12632051

    you probably defended Bell's monopoly in the past? If not, you are being very inconsistent now.

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    Comment #12466829

    how can you loathe C++ without caming to loathe it? i mean, everyone is bound to hate it, but you have to try it first to be sure...

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    Comment #12466798

    the smoking gun graph[0] is missing how much of MX al is sold to the US. [0] well, they split them into several images http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-PS529_201609_G_.…

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    Comment #12456825

    well, at that time we had standards... and on the few places we still have, this is what google is doing with chrome on the w3c.

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    Comment #12439104

    anyone understand what exactly is the system broadcasting to the new DHCP server? I can't imagine any system is so bad to the point of sending anything more sensitive than a user n…

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    Comment #12348920

    because i may also come to the point where i am a direct competitor to google, but i will never get there because i can't scrap any site like they can. your next argument may very …

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    Comment #12294583

    why the heck even use openCL?! leave a openCL layer there for the unwashed masses, but provide a decent API for anyone wanting exactly what the product is.

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    Comment #12277597

    Summary: google is still google. It still have tons of heads and all the profit remained there (android, youtube, etc). Alphabet is just a place for the litigation-prone products, …

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    Comment #12264493

    the priv keyboard is nice, if you have the blackberry keyboard selected. But as soon as you close the physical keyboard, and get the blackberry soft keyboard, it is pure garbage! y…

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    Comment #12250836

    > main product appeal: choose what to watch. > free, ad-supported version: you can't choose what to watch. I may be wrong here, but why even call them by the same name?

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    Comment #12250531

    > BlackBerry Priv YES! i bought this phone only to "vote with my wallet" that more companies should make android phones with keyboards. It is pure garbage in any other aspect. It i…

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    Comment #12222731

    (paid) article just sugar coat the fact that those companies have devices that phone home for every user interaction.

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    Comment #12189537

    I will just leave this here http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ i put this hosts file on every device/router that i touch. It works fully local. So infinitely (and this is not even a…

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    Comment #12160616

    why do people keep bringing up the alibaba and other assets when discussing the market cap? this is like buying someone body shop, looking at the body shop revenue, and then subtra…

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    Comment #12104404

    Ads. Video ads are 99% flash still. even if your platform is html5, nobody will pay if you can't show their flash crap.

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    Comment #12104400

    "template literals" nowadays. Still no support on IE (desktop|mobile), Android, ios<9

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    Comment #11987961

    jokes on you for not using noscript and whitelisting domains as you need them.

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    Comment #11987912

    it is self serving on both ways. There's tons of ways they can make windows 7 continue to be safe. But pushing out w10 is easier/cheaper/more profitable for them.

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    Comment #11957477

    can't agree more. Feature with hundreds of requests gets shunned away. And things that people heavily opposes gets in just to be like chrome. All the last features on firefox were …