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by 659087 9y ago
I thought it would be pretty obvious that I wasn't talking about either of those. The dead give-away should have been the "poorly-understood" part.
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by 659087 9y ago
The most hilarious part about the "unfiltered water" fad, to me, is that it probably has a bunch of hipsters drinking industrial run-off and many of the same chemicals they rally against. That's not to say I disagree with the
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by 659087 9y ago
"At Amazon, a telescreen is known as an 'Echo Show'. Would you like 'free' 2-day shipping with that?"
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by 659087 9y ago
> if you're going to invade privacy on a massive scale, you better be ready for the consequences. Like a job at Google/Facebook, where you'll continue invading privacy on a massive scale?
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by 659087 9y ago
As a bonus, this press release will create a fresh wave of greater fools for him to sell into.
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by 659087 9y ago
Relationships (both romantic and otherwise) can become incredibly complicated when your wealth goes beyond comfortable. I'd say that's more than a minimal impact. Human nature tends to show its ugly side when you have a lot of s
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by 659087 9y ago
> Money isn't the key to happiness, however it lets you get rid of a lot of the bullshit of life. Wealth brings with it plenty of other bullshit to make up for the bullshit you lost when you first obtained it, though.
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by 659087 9y ago
I wasn't talking about the desk picture.
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by 659087 9y ago
Instagram bragging is so incredibly cliche at this point that it actually makes me sad for those who engage in or with it. It's like a race to see who can appear more desperate for the approval of strangers.
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by 659087 9y ago
This seems to be the case with pretty much every event I go to lately. Concerts, firework shows, etc. All being experienced through a phone display just so people can "show off" the fact that they were there and earn internet po
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by 659087 9y ago
> Far less intrusive. Then you must not have yet had the pleasure of being exposed to the massive, blindingly-bright displays playing animated ads near many major cities.
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by 659087 9y ago
I go out of my way to come up with particularly ridiculous answers to these questions in cases where I know someone might eventually want me to answer them over the phone. Birth city: Octopus Mainframe Z7X
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by 659087 9y ago
> MIT Just Created Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp The implications of this clickbait title don't match the reality of what MIT achieved at all.
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by 659087 9y ago
If I visit a site for the first time without any ad blocking enabled, and realize it provides no value, how do I reverse my exposure to those ads? How do I claw back whatever data their tracking scripts collected about me?
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by 659087 9y ago
> The day will come when we no longer can opt out. That day already came a long time ago. Even those of us who do everything we can to avoid the surveillance end up being sold out (often inadvertently) by those we know when they share i
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by 659087 9y ago
I don't want "big tech" anywhere near my doctor's office or anything else having to do with my health.
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by 659087 9y ago
If you provide value, people (myself included) will happily pay for it. People who go out of their way to optimize their websites for ad revenue are not among those "providing value" to anyone. Ads are psychological malware, even
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by 659087 9y ago
You think installing these products in your home and teaching your children to use them is "unavoidable"?
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by 659087 9y ago
It makes me want to ramp up my efforts to get my friends and family members to install ad blockers, and also makes me even happier about the piholes I gave to several people as gifts the other day.
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by 659087 9y ago
Just wait until they start using the voice data they've been collecting from millions of people via "OK <brandname>" enabled devices to imitate individual consumers' voices and use them to endorse products/bra
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by 659087 9y ago
> I have two kids. You should see how they use Alexa. A ton. Amazon thanks you for the data points they've been collecting on your children, and for teaching your children to tell Amazon all about themselves before they're even
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by 659087 9y ago
> the Chromecast / Home combo has made me consider what a life in the Google ecosystem would look like. Like living in a fish tank being filmed from all angles.
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by 659087 9y ago
The thought of millions of children growing up in "Google homes" being programmed to yell out a brand name constantly, is incredibly sad.
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by 659087 9y ago
> Why do you think millions of people bought an Echo Dot or a Google Home? Not from YOUR perspective, but from the perspective of millions of people that seem to see value in this product? Because it was the "hot new thing". O
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by 659087 9y ago
I don't want advertising companies anywhere near my medical records. If I was in a position where the NHS handed my data to Google, I'd be beyond pissed off.
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by 659087 9y ago
Tricks to make yourself look like a sleazy salesman to anyone who sees through your bullshit. It's like the "developing your 'personal brand'" concept those without personalities use on social media, but applied to
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by 659087 9y ago
The idea of "startup" business concepts being applied to that market is absolutely terrifying to me. Cannabis doesn't need any Kalanicks.
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by 659087 9y ago
See Zuckerberg buying the houses that surround his and building himself a massive walled-off privacy compound in Hawaii for examples. "Privacy is dead.. unless you're the one trying to destroy it"
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by 659087 9y ago
I'm sure Bitfinex would happily give him some "USD"* for it, just as soon as they fire the printing press up again. * Internet monopoly money
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by 659087 9y ago
> BTC will make a massive rebound in 2018 ... > I'm sure a lot of BTC bulls have full knowledge of this possibility

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