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No personally identifiable data is collected, so the option can be opt-out by default. Not sure about not being able to disable it though.
Re:Amazon expands its air cargo fleet on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:37PM (#20217457)
That's not an argument. People say the same thing about voting or polution, it adds up. Also, AWS is not a smart part of Amazon, AFAIK most of their profit comes from it. They sell products for cheap, so they can push competitors out to keep growing and then they balance the loss with AWS profits.
Re:Stadia Founder's Edition on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:12PM (#20118616)
I've bought google products before by shipping them to a middle man in Germany. I wonder if this would work with Stadia, as it requires recurrent payments and online activation.
Just a guess from my personal experience. Might probably be wrong.
Also body language and eye contact (or lack of it) is a very important part of the session which cannot be recreated online.
I notice this trend of not covering dentistry through many countries. I think the issue is that a lot of dentistry work tends to be aesthetic and because of that it's hard to draw the lines on what should be covered.
Re:Evernote also started recommending Chrome or Safari on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:32AM (#19681055)
Spent 30 minutes on your site. Feel pretty shitty about myself as a result. Thanks.
Re:SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:48AM (#19680848)
In 2040 after billions in investments.
Re:A fork() in the road on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:35AM (#19623973)
For me it was poll() due to it's simple and intuitive API. Also, it's much faster then select() when you have a large number of file descriptors being monitored.
Re:Fuchsia OS Introduction on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @03:44AM (#19489911)
It's becoming more and more important, especially in the embedded world, because a lot of hardware vendors are based in China.