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Milder winters could be good. Snow is nice but gets old very fast. No more plowing, smaller heating bills...

Interesting, this was 2014, perhaps clerk did it to save me money for device registration. Now I just use my EU data plan, it has enough data for short stays.

Of course they will take your passport. First time I bought sim in store, it was illegal to use foreign phones, and shop owner had to fake his IMEI. Airports never had this restric…

Well, I am going to Turkey for couple of months this spring.

You have to buy sim at airport, there is an exception from this registration, it is easy.

First you buy a house and get established, then you start family. In Asian culture it is not even possible to get married without that.

I think that can be disabled, or encryption key exported for backup. Anyway, it is stupid argument. It is like saying car does not need spare tire, because wheels are welded to sav…

》The primary argument against soldering the SSD, or really any other part, down like this tends to be that "Oh, now you can't just save money by upgrading it yourself|replacing it …

Most countries have real safety concerns and their weapons are VERY effective.

Java has only single dominant JVM, but in several flavours. It is doing fine.

Mozilla may pivot to VPN and network privacy stuff. But that won't save Firefox. I would rather have independent party on Chromium source, to balance large corporations, than half …

》It’s not the group or the herd; it’s not even the individual. It’s the gene 》“Genetic evolution was merely a prelude. What’s coming next is memetic evolution.” And memes run on so…

Australia sorting algorithm: Stay at your index!!!

Please. Weather is a big issue. It is impossible to put kid into buggy/trolley in rain without it getting wet. 1 year old with pneumonia is a horrible thing. Add shopping in rain e…

I think mother of 3 years old and 1 year old may have different opinion :)

I think it is more about rhetoric, fear mongering and climate "fight". My government wants to ban cars. Transporting kids on bike in rain, wind and 40 degree F is somehow good thin…

You assume all people are well socialised and already understand non-verbal communication. Some people do not recognise different faces, let alone facial expressions. This sort of …

WiFi on phone sends periodic pings to discover new access points. MAC is unique...

Or electricity price raises so much people will stop using it. There is already CO2 tax, polution tax. My country even collects TV license fee from electricity. Rebuilding grid for…

5G will still be here in 10 maybe even 20 years.

You can completely remove Google packages with ADB. There are tools for that. I would be more concerned about vendor packages. For example stock weather widget uses GPS and pinks s…

This is crazy. Lightweight low emission cars are banned for strict limits, but supercars get exception?

In France it is illegal to have DNA paternity test, even in foreign country. I expect GoDaddy to take the same actions there and in other countries!