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Comment · 7 years ago
Me too! I just picked off a couple of ticks this evening after woodland mushroom picking. My region is endemic for Lyme disease. I'm not concerned because the tick must be attached for 36-48 hours for Lyme disease to vector. Wash clothes immediately after being outdoors and have a shower check. Having a willing partner makes it more effective and fun.
Comment · 7 years ago
The Daily Mail is neither fake news, nor propaganda, nor a content farm. These are ludicrous suggestions. It's an unpleasant sensationalist tabloid, but it abides by the UK press standards authority. There are equivalents in every western country.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is an absurd comment. The rule of law works in the USA as much as it does in other developed countries. There is no such thing as "too large to take on". I note though that there is not yet any evidence of a crime having been committed.
Comment · 7 years ago
Daily Mail is a bad newspaper but it's nowhere near being "world's absolute shoddiest sensationalist tabloids". If you don't live in the UK then I think you have no idea how bad many newspapers are in other countries. Specifically the Daily Mail has to abide by the UK press regulation body, which limits its ability to publish fake stories. Try travelling abroad and seeing what some non-UK newspapers are like!
Comment · 7 years ago
GDPR applies to Norway, even if it's not in EU
Comment · 7 years ago
Bad. Wait 5 seconds between clicks to see a photo with everything whizzing about the screen giving you motion sickness. It's technically slick, but the number of people who will use it actually view lots of photos is basically zero, because the user-interface is so bad. Maybe that's not the point, maybe this is just a technical demo.
Comment · 7 years ago
Me too. I've had to start using DuckDuckGo, NOT for privacy reasons, but it get around Google's lunatic forced geolocated search.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ah that makes sense. I'll stop complaining about this now.
Comment · 7 years ago
"It's fairly established the NSA has everything tapped and collecting/storing all traffic."

That's nonsense though. Even a basic understanding of internet technology would show that such a thing is impossible.

Comment · 7 years ago
There are plenty of outer-fringe places on the Internet where this could be posted such as the politics section of Reddit.

Hope this low density stuff stays off HackerNews.

Comment · 7 years ago
I visit Hacker News to avoid dross comments such as these.
Comment · 7 years ago
"Non-vPro processor".

Can someone help with a (dumb) question?

Does this mean that you can't run VirtualBox on this laptop?

Comment · 7 years ago
Search on this page for the word "fraud". Here's what I'd do in your position: remove anything on the internet which personally identifies you as an employee of your company. Nobody knows what is going to happen next, but be prepared for it.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think this "growth hacking" will spectacularly backfire and destroy the company. It's 2018, this stuff doesn't fly anymore. And as the tweeter pointed out, it's breaks the GDPR in Europe. Disaster.

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