CriticalCathed

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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
It's not exactly the same. You're using a google product while they harvest your data, which is different than a company or researcher buying that data from a broker. Though I suppose Google could also be buying information separa
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Ironically Google changing how it responds to my search queries, and me finally figuring out that's why my google experience has degraded, is what actually made me switch to DDG as my primary search engine.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
I'll take the hit and say it's bad. A great purpose of nation states is to enrich and protect the lives of those who are from those respective nations, often and usually at the cost of others. A bunch of non-governmental entities
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Did SETI@home accomplish anything useful with its 21 years of computing? Outside of the general "it's always good to do science, even with negative results" which I agree with. I ran a large cluster of university machines sur
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Does does security like that?
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
can you say for certain that home depot supplies the construction industry to such an extreme degree that it will be really bad? maybe for small businesses, but the bigger ones have independent suppliers that aren't home depot for thei
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Significantly doubt that is the real reason.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Disturbing? I don't think so. I subscribe to the_donald because I want to keep up with what the nutters are saying. Yesterday I reported a post where they had photshopped out the dots in the " i "s in all of Mike Bloomberg&#x
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
>Almost none of this thread should exist. There should have been zero response to my post. Not quite. Your post shouldn't exist at all. It's condescending tripe.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
This kind of quisling act is of little value.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
After finishing this article I can't help but think that he's writing about himself for himself than anyone else. Not everyone lives in Ivory Towers or is the partner at a prestigious law firm. I truly can't imagine this appl
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Paywall: https://pastebin.com/NxwFrYEg
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Why do we need to try to streamline C++ here? What's behind the urge to "cut out the fat"? Would doing this make C++ an even better performing language? What's the upside of gutting the language? I don't understand
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Well, there's one pre-print paper that goes as far as saying that because some segments of the RNA resemble, closely, parts of HIV, that those may have been inserted by human efforts. Of course, there's been a lot of pushback to t
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
I think that the bicameral mind hypothesis makes sense. Oh, and the phenomena wherein the disconnection of the hemispheres of the brain results in strange cognitive artifacts such as being able to give two different answers to one question,
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
As with the ostensible Aphantasia I believe that this is a problem with people being able to describe their inner experiences accurately. It makes way more sense to me that >99% of people fall into the behavior category that you describe
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
The ocean acidifying is perfectly fine terminology. You're looking at this through a politicized lens.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Are you claiming that your shit doesn't stink?
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
This is the first time I'm hearing that it was a hoax from the start. I've heard this study referenced more times than I can count in discussions on mental illness and mental hospitals. Could it really be that it was complete hors
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Priorities, right? I wonder what their business would be like if they had the foresight to not make the split so lopsided.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Elaborate. I was doing some deep searching in very specific date ranges with lots of modifiers and google gave me the "your query reminds us of bots or some shit try again later" and I had to stop because it wouldn't let the
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
I mirror your sentiment. It used to be that you could use your google fu and you'd be able to find a dozen relevant forum posts or mail chains in plain text. It's much, much, harder to get the same standard of results. "Pasti
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Does for me. USA. [0] https://i.imgur.com/S2rPywz.png Also, is this guy a Q follower or something? The favicon is a Q.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Wal-mart has a hideous reputation among the general public and that doesn't seem to stop them. Walmart grows YoY every quarter. I'm not certain their reputation will change much so long as they can still ship a product to my house
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
The other thing is that these services aren't even a good deal for the customers. I can order chinese from a local place by calling them and pay 30 instead of 20 w/ delivery, but with Doordash it ends up being almost double not in
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
I love Edge. It's very quick and feels super stable. However that new icon is terrible. It looks like laundry detergent branding and it only vaguely resembles an e.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
It does. It includes all publishers and academic journals. I would wager a huge portion of that 27 billion is textbooks in k-12 & university, and journals; though, I haven't been able to find the raw data. [0] https://ww
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
>I never see the Reddit mobile site and never need to tell the browser to request the desktop mode. There is a seemingly persistent bug where reddit fails to remember preferences surrounding mobile/desktop and old/redesign. Som
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Aside from Rich Integration (which is arguably also there if you include bots/scripting), most IRC clients have search, history, emoji, and reminders. What's missing I think is a pretty UI and lots of marketing.
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by CriticalCathed 7y ago
> Accidental moderates end up in the middle, on average, because they make up their own minds about each question, and the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong. I don't think I can take seriously an essay that so flatly

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