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by scholia 7y ago
The problem is that multinational corporations can devise complicated ways to avoid paying taxes in the countries where they do business by exploiting tax havens, as Apple did in Ireland. Amazon has a huge business in the UK with offices, s
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by scholia 7y ago
You can be infected without having a fever. That's one of the problems with coronavirus. Knowing you have the virus won't save you, of course, but you will be able to react accordingly. That will include trying not to infect anyon
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by scholia 7y ago
Agreed, but unless you can self-isolate, it's not going to last very long. If you got tested weekly, the costs would soon mount up.....
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by scholia 7y ago
The marginal cost of verification could be zero. All Twitter has to do is to get together with Facebook, Google et al and agree to support a number of approved independent identity systems such as Yoti [1]. That uses a combination of govern
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by scholia 7y ago
In the EU, free (at point of use) healthcare is available to all residents, including the unemployed. In several countries, you can get free treatment immediately even if you are not a resident. That's a lot different from the USA, whe
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by scholia 7y ago
If the "known eugenicist" is who I think it is, then he isn't. The general idea, as explained by the late Hans Rosling, is that if you educate people (including girls) and help them to lead better lives then they will natural
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by scholia 7y ago
One of the nice things was that you could run Windows NT on a DUAL PROCESSOR PC with two Alpha chips. This was such an attractive idea I thought of buying one. However, when I did a very quick trial, it didn't make any noticeable diffe
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by scholia 7y ago
DEC sold its StrongARM (ARM-based) business to Intel in 1997, before DEC was taken over by Compaq in 1998. It resulted in Intel's XScale business, which it later sold to Marvell. Compaq abandoned DEC's Alpha for the HP/Intel
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by scholia 7y ago
> When it launched in 2001...the idea that a massive array of cheap x86 processors will outperform enterprise-class servers simply hadn't occurred to most people yet The idea was certainly around in the early-to-mid 1980s, when so
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by scholia 7y ago
Belated reply (Christmas!) > the failure was not necessarily technical Well, that was exactly my point ;-) If you only look at the technical issues, ur doin it rong.
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by scholia 7y ago
I use Everything all day every day and it's brilliant at what it does. However, it's not Google Desktop Search, which I sorely miss...
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by scholia 7y ago
(1) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of employing the people who use it. (2) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of retraining staff and changing business workflows and processes to cope wi
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by scholia 7y ago
> They both got ones with 128GB drives which has turned into massive frustration. But we will ignore that for now. Please can you un-ignore that in one sentence? ;-)
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by scholia 7y ago
From a polemic in The Spectator: "There is a huge cast of well-paid people, from management consultants to economic advisers, whose entire salaries are earned by ripping out Chesterton’s fences. Interestingly, these are mostly male-dom
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by scholia 7y ago
Search the page and you'll find several mentions of Brave. What I want to know is why someone would pick Brave instead of the Epic Privacy Browser... ... though personally, I think it's far better to support Firefox as it's n
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by scholia 7y ago
Why Brave rather than the Epic Privacy Browser? (They are both based on Chromium....)
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by scholia 7y ago
No. Google's OneBox, Ask’s Smart Answers, Microsoft’s Instant Answers, and Yahoo Shortcuts all existed at least two years before DDG was even founded in 2008. Also, DDG's "Instant Answers are open source and are maintained on
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by scholia 7y ago
No, uBlock is not the same as uBlock Origin. Quote: In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock,[19] and began allowing "Acceptable Ads",[20] a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed "acceptabl
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by scholia 7y ago
From Wikipedia: So, as of May 2019, in the 34 states that have set a marriage age by statute, the lower minimum marriage age when all exceptions are taken into account, are: 2 states have a minimum age of 14: Alaska and North Carolina
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by scholia 7y ago
Let all your colleagues know that you only ready emails at specific times, eg start of day, after lunch, end of day (replace with actual hours if possible). And if there's something urgent inbetween times, they have to call you. It wor
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by scholia 8y ago
True, but the browser brought a GUI and ease of use. More people could use a browser to run ftp than could -- or at least, would -- run ftp.
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by scholia 8y ago
Seconded. Everything is brilliant if you need to find files by name, not contents....
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by scholia 8y ago
He's CTO of Azure and therefore a VIP at Microsoft... In his spare time he's also managed to write three novels.
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by scholia 8y ago
> Without giving them plenty of time to pullout? These things take a long time. Google was abusing its search monopoly before the EU started a seven-year investigation that resuled in a $2.7 billion fine ... which it is now appealing.
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by scholia 8y ago
That's not what's happening. A decade ago, IBM had 130,00 staff in the USA and very few in India. Today, IBM has 130,00 staff in India and it refuses to say how many are left in the USA. It's not really a question of saving a
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by scholia 8y ago
IBM is just getting rid of Americans with high salaries, health insurance and pensions and replacing them with much cheaper workers in India. It now has far more workers in India than it does in the USA. Of course, IBM is also destroying th
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by scholia 9y ago
PCs often (mostly?) ship with third-party anti-virus software because AV companies pay them to install it.
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by scholia 9y ago
I've never heard a Sony audio product that actually sounded bad, and I've owned a lot of them, including earbuds, headphones, MP3 players, cassette players, audio systems, Blu-ray, SACD and MiniDisc ;-) They haven't all been
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by scholia 9y ago
There's a much better framework for understanding this stuff in the concept of the Whole Product. The Whole Product is not just the core product. You have to add on all the things like reliability, service and support (the expected pro
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by scholia 9y ago
Also because Microsoft licensed the OS to hundreds of PC clone manufacturers. Amiga was a closed proprietary system.

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