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Markoff
2,756karma·3,266submissions·December 31, 2016
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I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
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i am in a bit similar position, phone calendar reminders dating back to 90s ruined my short term memory (by effectively using them fo everything) to that effect that if I plan to open some website I m…
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you can unfollow all your contacts (your wall will be empty), post nothing and use Facebook purely as contact list, that's how i used it before i ditched it completely i will be actually surprise…
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it's not about height, it's about age
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he could sign new fixed term contract if they really wanted to avoid laying off
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why not use disappearing messages in Signal instead of Snapchat if you don't want to give your data to some corporation?
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i use only signal and Skype lite, sharing photos with family in Google photos, not sure why would i need social network for that
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dunno about us, but in Europe everyone has either WhatsApp, Viber or Skype, so even if you leave Facebook there is always alternative to reach someone, if it's really extreme email or SMS work i …
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isn't stressing cable actually healthier than leaving it without any movement long-term and then suddenly rolling it and breaking inside? BTW why not just forget about connectors and cables and g…
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and now only if China wish to join a party and went full pinyin with accents like in Vietnam, that would make life in China and tourism much easier for everyone, after all they already simplified char…
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and what exactly has Ukraine to do with Russian language? it may come to you as surprise but Ukrainians speak Ukrainian, not Russian
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just use accents like most of Slavic languages do or Vietnamese as well
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but you can still just use regular O and any Hungarian will understand what you wrote, so i don't see accents as big issue, China should take lesson from Vietnam where anyone visiting can read th…
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i would say phone camera would be good enough for everything unless you need to shoot in low light and more importantly with zoom, digital zoom hit limits very fast though personally i just gave up on…
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then why not just import chips? even the regular price 2$ pretty package seen extremely high, i am buying 150g back of supermarket brand chips for 0.5€ here, so even with transportation doubling the p…
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no, not really, when they launched QQ was big and I was just surprised why some people have different status to find out it's wechat, but anyway QQ was dominating markets, everything else includi…
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i guess they don't trust Russians since then Russian gov would have easy access to those days
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why secret? sounds like ordinary B2B/wholesale bakery to me
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you can find dark/black bread (not that white American/English sweet sponge) in most of continental Europe, especially in countries influenced by German and Russian cuisine
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i am from continental Europe and by my memory best bread I ate was in Turkey, while I have great memories about Filipino cakes available from small bakeries on every corner almost for free, was seriou…
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you answered your own question, it's not religion but philosophy, similar to Buddhism which ain't religion too, depending on definition
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it's funny considering face stuff works pretty much same in West, just not to that extent as in China, yeah people will admit they don't know something unlike China, but still don't dar…
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this is truth only regarding official ROMs if you choose the right device
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i am aware it's not so expensive, but compared to current value of computer is also not negligible amount anymore, thus i would not mind spending more money and have something more suitable for h…
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the problem is not really Windows, but hardware abandoned by manufacturers, my mother has perfectly good/sufficient computer for her needs running Win7, which can't be upgraded any further (…
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lived years in China, not a single time I saw advertised IDN domain, they always use regular latin domains, number domains are particularly popular, so don't really understand what's point o…
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so teleconference is social network?
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what? just put bottles on tables and let guests manage sharing it and when they run out of bottles bad luck
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is there any reason to believe it could be worse than status quo?
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so by your definition any messenger is social network, any network carrier is actually social network, I think you got your definition wrong compared to what people understand under term social networ…