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Re:The lat/lon floating point delusion on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:57AM (#20654331)
When you completely run out of things to complain about.
Re:Is Ebola Evolving into a Deadlier Virus? on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:56AM (#20653830)
True. If you want modernisation from imperialism then you get top down governance. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I am from the EU and I've seen lots of Huawei mobiles. But what are they, apart from one of many Android OEMs that make no money?
Re:America’s social-media addiction is getting worse on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:04AM (#20653153)
Usage of social networks in India currently looks like what the usage of social networks in the US would've looked like ten years ago if smartphones would had been so widespread as they are today. (Now that was a hard sentence to type)
When the CEO of Apple says something, it happens.

Huawei have yet to prove themselves in this space.

Having a bug != being unable to deliver software
From the linked page in the blog of the late Michael Kaplan:

>I'd go look for it but I don't want to move off this page.

The dark days of not having browser tabs...

Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:13PM (#20649872)
Nowadays shadowbanning is so widespread that I wonder if it's useful at all.

It's the kind of thing that blows your mind the first time it happens to you, but then you learn to check for it everywhere.

Re:The market figured out Gitlab’s secret on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:37PM (#20649602)
How is this topic divisive? All comments here are shitting on gitlab
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:35PM (#20649589)
No, you have it always.
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:36PM (#20648430)
In fact, mods have no other option. If a mod deletes one of your comments, you won't know unless they tell you.
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:34PM (#20648410)
There's no second level I know of unless we consider automatically collapsed comments to be a second level.
The fact that our countries are good and wealthy is not a matter of luck though.
>The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic

For whom is open borders a dream?