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tcptomato··on How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming
3000 people died on 9/11 alone. Spreading it over 50 years, makes it 60/year. Where did you get the 4 from?
tcptomato··on Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
They weren't. They were reintroduced in Scotland in 2009.
tcptomato··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Why would it be worse?
tcptomato··on Using uv as your shebang line
Which also installs a complete JVM in it.
tcptomato··on Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman
> should of charged

what?

tcptomato··on New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups
must of?
tcptomato··on Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
"First world" doesn't mean developed, it means aligned with the US.
tcptomato··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
This isn't a First Amendment issue, it's regulating commerce with a foreign nation.
tcptomato··on ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet
You should google Wickard v. Filburn. The US Supreme Court ruled that the US government can regulate what you grow on your own land for your own consumption, because it affects inter-state trade.
tcptomato··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
What would be the right way to correct him?
tcptomato··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
> the first digital computer

Z3?

tcptomato··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
Berlin is one of the 16 federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
tcptomato··on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
What stop names are translated?
tcptomato··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
Where exactly are these mythical European "no-go zones"?
tcptomato··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
"He" won't. It's not like he'll bring money from home.
tcptomato··on Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies
Copyright infringement isn't theft.

And to say that it's just an ethics thing, is completely ignorant view. It's perfectly acceptable to torrent something when living in a country that wasn't deemed worthy by the rights holder to release their product there.

tcptomato··on The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking chats
> like Germany, with all due respect to the Germans who still care about their privacy

What are you talking about? The german speaking world cares (maybe a bit too much) about privacy. This is why google street view sucks in Germany. NOYB - European Center for Digital Rights is headquartered in Vienna.

tcptomato··on US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)
periscopes ...
tcptomato··on State lotteries transfer wealth out of needy communities, investigation finds
You say it like it's something bad. Or are you for the abolishment of the FDA?
tcptomato··on What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?
This is r/shitamericanssay material.
tcptomato··on Qualcomm is adding AV1 support, which could be huge for online video
Sorry, but what you say doesn't make any sense. You think that YouTube and Netflix will just sit by as precedent is decided next to them? And the right owners having already won in court would just ignore the biggest "offenders"?
tcptomato··on The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
So you started writing crappy apps because it was easier for you and now you want to be paid double to fix your shit?
tcptomato··on Let's code a TCP/IP stack (2016)
That version is abandoned and has quite a few severe bugs. There is a GPL fork which is maintained https://github.com/virtualsquare/picotcp
tcptomato··on Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
what's you definition of fair? What the market would bear?
tcptomato··on Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
the expenses paid by governments you mean?
tcptomato··on Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
Pied Piper?
tcptomato··on Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
Right, a port at the other end of Europe without good connections to the West, whose usage maybe makes sense only for ships passing through the Suez and Bosporus is a competitor to the ones sitting on the Atlantic.

And it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the Romanian coastal surveillance system was conveniently down when cocaine started to shop up on the beaches.

tcptomato··on Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
And you want the Romanian government to admit that? Of course it's the Dutch who are jealous of a port which couldn't we worse located/s
tcptomato··on Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns
The capital of West Germany was Bonn ...
tcptomato··on Open Location Code: Easier location encoding
How did you conclude from "The accuracy and length of the codes is similar" that it has increased precision?