Digit-Al

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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   From the article: > Though Poole did not immediately make special note of this, he would come to adopt a similar philosophy as the years went on, which included principles of anonymity that would also come to define 4chan. Poole believed
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   Does it strike anyone else as odd that a person who was so passionate about protecting people's privacy would end up joining Google - a company infamous for invading privacy?
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   This is only a guess, but from the context I would assume that he means that if you see someone posting racist or other discriminatory toots(?) that you should challenge them.
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   I have just had a look on Wikipedi for the list of road deaths by country [1]. The figures are from 2013, so very out of date, but for the UK (where I live) it is 5.1 road fatalaties per 100,000 motor vehicles. For the US it is 12.9, and fo
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   Which he then explicitly pointed out in the following sentence. > Case in point: did you catch the split infinitive in the previous sentence?
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   Let's face it, the tech industry is is not renowned for a lack of hubris.
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   Are there really companies that have alcohol available in the office? That seems very odd to me. I am English, which is very much a drinking culture, but every company I have worked at in the last 20 years has had an explicit policy on not
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   by Digit-Al 8y ago

   I still occasionally get ads for laser eye surgery, nine years after I had it done.
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Is the author aware of the other meaning of "pink trombone"?[1] [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink%20tromb...
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    I feel like you're misinterpreting the demonstration. It is not a test and there is no wrong or right answer. The whole point is to demonstrate that given different conditions, different people can interpret the same thing as being com
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Firstly, I think (though I could be wrong) that when they talk about privacy concerns they mean the sort of concerns the average person would have about having a camera about... I.e. naked or compromising pictures of themselves getting leak
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Do you know about the official GDS blog? https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    So then, is this a thought provoking article or is there no such thing?
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Weirdly I just get a blank page when I look at this.
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Shouldn't companies like that be forced to have insurance so if things go belly up customer's will at least be got home?
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    It's not the creator of the atomic bomb that's being criticised, it's the person who's using it to nuke innocent people.
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    I think this paragraph really sums up the whole article for me: > The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their vic
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Good point :-)
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Probably a better way, as I replied to a previous poster, is "you get what you pay for; so if you pay sweet FA why should you expect to get more than sweet FA?" I think most people would understand that :-)
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Sounds like an awful experience. Glad you did get successful resolution eventually. I was really talking about the likes of Facebook, Google, etc... I would say that you are a customer of eBay and PayPal (although the eBay case could be arg
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    You're welcome. I see you've changed it now. Glad to be of help :-)
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Not a question but a suggestion. I live in England and am very aware that the residents of Scotland and Wales don't like to be classed as "English". You might want to change the title to the more neutral (and correct) Britain
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    I'd have thought the real answer is that the people expecting customer support are under the delusion they are the customer when in reality they are the product.
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Thanks for all the comments. Very helpful.
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Thanks. That does make sense.
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    I am familiar with em thanks. I am a software developer and have done some web development in the past. Far be it from me to argue with professional typographers, but do you hear anyone saying "oh, the line lengths on paperbacks are fa
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Can a non-profit organisation be acquired by a 'for-profit' organisation? I've no idea on laws in this area, but it seems unlikely. I can't see any of the big four trying it anyway. Even if it was legal it looks like a m
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    buttbuttinate :-D
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    by Digit-Al 8y ago

    Great! Now I want my last words to be "I lost the game".