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Comment #24318634
There aren't quite as many thriving former industrial buildings as there are rusted hulks strewn about.
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Comment #24318419
I am talking about developers here, not Joe Schmo who lives his life in one ecosystem or the other.
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Comment #24318267
The free market is your ability to pick up your toys and focus on Android. That's not a commentary on whether Apple is right or wrong, mind you, but there's no questioning it's the…
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Comment #24237271
Which is it, detractors-- Palantir's products are smoke and mirrors, or they are effectual at making society less free?
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Comment #22961332
China has it under control. It will not become a pandemic. It doesn't transmit between humans. Who is Taiwan? Wouldn't dare contradict the WHO...
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Comment #22737104
Underrated take. They shouldn't be able to do this. This should flag Zoom as PUP for malware removal, if it weren't the new go-to.
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Comment #22556110
Slams is way too common. It's very hard to read the news without seeing "slams" somewhere.
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Comment #22525170
And (lack of) proper pilot training
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Comment #22503656
Even funnier, forks over social identity/ideological differences
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Comment #22435179
or Microsoft Silverlight, and soon Flash will be finally deprecated too, and I'm sure it will still be present in enterprise training modules and other nonsense
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Comment #22434551
Is it not ostensibly the same company, just with a new owner...?
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Comment #22424534
They shouldn't be blocking Firefox either, but let's be clear-- Chromium Edge makes even less sense given it's a "cousin" of Google Chrome.
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Comment #22424524
Non-Chromium derivatives are blocked as well, yes, but neo-Edge is a Chromium derivative.
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Comment #22422735
The sad thing is when Google websites refuse to work on Edge Chromium. Switch your user agent to match Chrome's, you're all set.
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Comment #22403752
Yes, European Commission, continuing to sell yourselves and democracy out to China is something you'd better take great care in keeping private.
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Comment #22378240
Yes, let's not lump the CDC in with the WHO. The two organizations have struck entirely different paths.
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Comment #22290025
Google lives in a browser. Your average consumer's computing rarely leaves the browser today. Apples to oranges.
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Comment #22226147
Can confirm it worked as of January
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Comment #22109393
The bookmark manager built into the latest version of Microsoft Edge is adequate and inoffensive My philosophy is that the bookmarks toolbar is for "tools" and things I want myself…
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Comment #22109275
Unironically switch to Bing
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Comment #22064271
They have a court order to access the data, similarly, you're not burglarizing a house you have a warrant to enter doesn't mean Apple has to accommodate
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Comment #22058112
"The bug was first discovered by us in August 2015" - China, probably
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Comment #21981478
AMD is cooperating closely with Chinese firms and has them to thank in part for its resurgence in the desktop die space. I wouldn't be surprised if these partnerships lead to more …