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zxcdw

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    Comment #13507831

    > From a quick check it seems Twitter is getting better at it. Prices used to be more like in the low $20/k range. Now the low end accounts are $45/k and if you want PVAd/profiled …

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    Comment #13500697

    > 8gb should be the norm even for cheap laptops... Why? For example, why now , why not two years ago, or in two years time?

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    Comment #12425350

    I fail to see what you're saying. Are you saying that because a simple neural network could behave the same, such behaviour can't thus be evidence of inner speech?

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    Comment #12173972

    Though unified virtual memory isn't limited to Pascal -- AMD's GCN architecture has supported it for years already, as do these products.

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    Comment #12121185

    I don't understand what you mean in this context. Elaborate please?

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    Comment #12104855

    > because long term, they will be better off. Because long term, they believe they will be better off. And really, many people cast their vote as a protest vote for the current pol…

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    Comment #11980968

    Does this reflect your view regarding development in C++ and Java and is your comment merely a lazy reflection of that?

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    Comment #11899478

    Link to a paper talking about this: http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/684.full

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    Comment #11824519

    Why do you suppose they left it out? Is it merely a matter of "cheap implementation" being purely subjective, and hence they might have thought it as cheap, while you seem to disag…

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    Comment #10729162

    > Then you don't really support property rights. Or we simply disagree what rights and liabilities the property owner should have in the context, which I define as business propert…

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    Comment #10728963

    > But you are. No, I am not. You're seeing binary where there is none. My point is not to abolish the notion of personal responsibility, but to acknowledge that there is more to hu…

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    Comment #10728776

    (Note that I am not the person you replied to.) I do honestly feel that there should be a law against that in the society which I live in, since I find such actions taken by the re…

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    Comment #10679792

    Is "Firefox mimicking Chrome" something you have an issue with for some reason, or what are you after?

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    Comment #10620056

    Not to nitpick, but yet another partial quote. Bravo.

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    Comment #10573174

    I do agree with you, though as a brief tangent (as if this horse wasn't beat badly enough here in HN during the past almost 30 months...), my personal concern is both political and…

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    Comment #10539281

    Aren't the design choices and intended use cases vastly different though? Could this explain some of the difference in traction you perceive?

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    Comment #10491697

    I suspect it's a mere challenge for the "troll" to see if they can beat the system. If not, they'll try harder until they can . The more challenge the more rewarding it is, thus th…

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    Comment #10491185

    Do you, or someone, have any data to back this up? Honest question, I don't use Facebook so I can't tell from experience.

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    Comment #10181716

    But isn't computer just the medium to access the real addiction-causing substance, whatever it may be? I mean, if you give person a computer of any kind without internet access, th…

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    Comment #10178186

    And I'd follow with creating incentives for people to actually pay for the content. Relying on charity isn't a sustainable source of income in general case.

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    Comment #8982492

    Have you, or someone else, got a source for this or articles/studies done? Not questioning it, just curious.

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    Comment #8982491

    This would benefit who exactly?

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    Comment #8956679

    Rust provides memory safety without VM to begin with. Although I do not like the comparison because it's not factually correct, Rust is like the "safe subset of C++". To write actu…

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    Comment #8879070

    > and that it's our own fault Whose fault exactly is it? Has anybody in HN worked with a company which does this crapware bundling, let alone creating? Or does anybody know anyone …