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Which shows how lucky we were that WhatsApp got such widespread adaption.

FBI complaints are the best publicity for iPhone security Apple could wish for.

You can't declare failure before a game is even released.

Or with other people in general.

"To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in."

Piketty T. "Capital in the 21st century", p. 36.

Even before the Weimar Republic Germany already had many democratic elements. There were political parties, a constitution, checks and balances for governing officers and a somewhat free press. The Kaiser could not rule despotically and had to take public opinion into account.

This is my favorite argument against economic sanctions. Ruining the economy of a country only pushes society into dependence of the political clique that controls the state. On the other hand, economic growth and an abundance of goods breeds individualism and that is one of the incubators of democracy.

The desire for a trade war with the UK is not exactly high on the continent, especially considering the debt crisis is still looming over Brussels.

The UK will probably get a deal like Norway and will be better off without Brussels.

But then many other EU countries will ask: Who actually needs the political union?

This sounds more dramatic than what it actually is, a merge of two CryEngine forks.

The anandtech forum is terrible. So much half knowledge and toxicity that even your average tech subreddit is a better choice.

The ultra shallow keyboard. I don't get how people would use that willingly for coding.

I see great synergies in user surveillance.

In best Orwellian doublespeak he is selling his police state tools as a way to preserve liberty: “I defined the problem as needing to reduce terrorism while preserving civil liberties.”

A classic case of opportunism wrapped in the "someone had to do it" excuse.

Anyone who did an economics 101 class could predict that forcing such diverse economies with populations reluctant to move to richer parts of the union into a single currency would result in net wealth reduction. [1]

Even the bureaucrats in Brussels knew about this. It was still pushed through because they wanted to accelerate the political union via the currency union, ignoring the financial costs. What they did not expect was the US subprime crisis to hit europe that hard and that early.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area

More likely he hasn't received the relevant update yet.

Does Telegram use E2E encryption by default now, yes or no?

If we assume that the code really comes from a member of the "Equation Team" and we trust the conclusion from Kaspersky that those people are among the upper echelons of NSA hacker groups it is maybe a good point in time that we give our expectations a reality check.

What counts in the real world is that it gets the job done, unfortunately no time for fancy pythonic delicacies or experiments in functional coding paradigms.

Sorry for the little rant and nothing personal, I just find critizicing other people's code without considering the constraints under it was created an extremely annoying habit among my fellow coders.

Who would have thought that the FSB had such a sense of humour?

I had that very experience a few days ago, after the first round of the Austrian presidential elections my facebook wall exploded. Marked several friends for "don't show messages, but stay friends", because I am not interested in political opportunism, no matter which side they are on.

Original text in spanish: http://pastebin.com/raw/GPSHF04A

That is only the case if you set the telemetry settings to "Full".

As always in history it's about the question where do your rights get violated the least and Germany is among those places at the moment. Long time data retention is unfortunately very common in Europe.

It opens with the extreme-left's point of view on Greece. That should give you an idea about the article's reliability and unbiasedness.

That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software.

Let's hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.

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They are popular in some parts of Europe because of the Lumia (Nokia) brand, not because of Windows phone.

If you have to carry around your laptop in a messenger bag all day, going from 1.6kg to 0.9kg makes a huge difference.

A x86 laptop with a retina screen and 8 hours battery life, in a package that weighs in at 920grams, I find that more exciting than the Apple watch. That is the kind of progress that made me fell in love with tech.

The keyboard seems to be good enough to do coding and other productive work. This MacBook might be the perfect little mobile machine to do some coding on the go.

Which is probably what the average user does, if I extrapolate the data from friends and family.

Installing adware with security updates is just so wrong on several points. It is difficult enough to get non-techies to install security updates and now you additionally have to teach them to watch out for crapware that someone sneaks in there.

I'm choosing C# over Java whenever I can, just because of the ask.com toolbar, seriously I find it that annoying.

There is just way more money in the business than in the 80s and the internet and smartphones made using a computer way more mainstream.