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Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation on its platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/facebook-admits-it-must-do...

AFAIK, the Irish price difference is due to VAT charged at 23% as opposed to 19% & 20% for DE & FR.

The Ex VAT prices are: IE - €2682 DE - €2688 FR - €2665

Poland also charge VAT @ 23%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax...

Thanks dysfunction, good tip. I haven't looked at Alfred in a long time. Out of interest, for you, what differentiates Alfred from Spotlight in Yosemite? Having a quick look, Alfred having 1Password is excellent. Spotlight though is great for an instant Calculator and Currency conversion. Does Alfred support these OOTB? It looks pretty flexible, could I write something to integrate these?

Do you have the powerpack? Is it useful?

Some general tips for OS X (subjective of course)

- Spaces are akin to Workspaces (Three finger left/right swipe) and are great for running VM's fullscreen.

- Use gestures (Two finger/Three finger Left/Right/Up/Down swipe or grab/spread)

- Spotlight (Command-Space) is handy

- Give Safari a fair try but you mightn't like it (I switched from Chrome last year and am loving it)

- I never use Launchpad (Grab gesture)

+1 for running dev environments in virtual machines.

I tend to run them headless (Shift-Click in VirtualBox) mapping my dev folder using samba (Command-K in Finder maps to a samba drive) and ssh into the VM's CLI using iTerm.

It's a great way to retain environments at the end of projects.

Would love to hear your thoughts after a month? The good and bad obviously...

Interested to find out the same. I recently got thermal solar panels for heating and they're working great but coming into summer, I'm wondering if there's a way to convert the captured energy into electricity.

They generate 130C+ on clear days, which in my mind could be used to generate some sort of steam powered generator.

Has anyone ever done similar?

While other comments about security may be right, it probably isn't a reason not to pursue this. It's a great idea and very worthwhile pursuing.

My main concern is over using hashes as an address. A hash isn't a unique address but I haven't seen any mention of protections being built in to protect against the risks of downloading different files with the same hashes.

Can you name any Open Source programmes created by any other large tech company that have gained such widespread adoption?

It surprises me when people claim Apple is not a good Open Source candidate.

As an example, think of Android. Google used Apple's Open Source LLVM to port Linux to an ARM architecture, then used Apple's Open Source CUPS as the print system (as do most Linux distros) and used Apple's Open Source WebKit to run the browser. Google also used WebKit in Chrome until they forked it.

Can you name any Open Source programmes created by any other large tech company that have gained such widespread adoption?

I ask you this question because you seem to know what you're talking about, whereas I simply don't.

Watching the launch today, I couldn't help wonder why they don't use standard jets to get the vehicle to a height where a rocket could take over.

The highest a jet has flown is about 37km and LEO is considered to start at about 160km. That 37km though in my mind would be the toughest and most fuel costly to ascend.

Would it not save both weight and money to use jets and fixed wings up through the low altitudes before turning to rockets for the higher altitude ascent?