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Comment · 7 years ago
It's an army we are talking about here; even if Switzerland is not expected to ever face a serious threat, let's be serious.
Comment · 7 years ago
Uh? And what's the difference between what you said and what he said? I mean it's expected that, if they refuse, they'd have to pay a fine. Otherwise nobody would go
Comment · 7 years ago
The other person being honest would have helped much more.
Comment · 7 years ago
When everybody has a degree the value of a degree plummets. It's... logic?
Comment · 7 years ago
I was under the impression that Firefox already shipped with an ad blocker by default?
Comment · 7 years ago
It's not 403, it is 401.

>But Firefox seems to be somewhere you get rewarded for introducing new features rather than fixing bugs.

Something else they are copying from Google!

Comment · 7 years ago
Seems like these scripts are triggered by malvertising -- if your ad blocker is properly configured this should never happen.
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Comment · 7 years ago
When I didn't have an SSD, I spent a lot of time configuring the system so it wouldn't do as much IO in the background. Lots of services, as you say, do that by default, and it's unbearable. You'd be using the computer normally and all of a sudden it would start crawling for no apparent reason.
Comment · 7 years ago
Windows XP running on the hardware of the time was much more responsive[] than 10 running on modern hardware.

[] if we don't count accesses to the disk, of course

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