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scumbert

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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 …