Drumlin

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by Drumlin 10y ago
Everyone wants an easy and stress free life. If you create a reputation for yourself of chasing competitors through the courts then you make yourself into a target. "Do to others as you would have them do to you".
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Impression ads are important for certain industries and bigger publications. I will agree that PPC ads are common in other areas and ad blocker users wouldn't click them. For impression advertising the ad blocker will result in lost in
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by Drumlin 10y ago
It sounds like the people behind the ad blocker broke Ajax for that website while trying to block the ads - that's the mistake I am referring to. You mention that native ads are gradually replacing direct ads as if it's a good thi
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Does it matter if they stop visiting the site? Considering that they are using resources without giving something back in return? I guess it could be argued that they might be promoting the site to other users. Other than that, they are ess
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by Drumlin 10y ago
You aren't looking this from a bigger picture. The more infrastructure that is put in place to protect single parents, the more infrastructure that gets in the way for standard families. Basic building blocks for society like marriage
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by Drumlin 10y ago
The most obvious example in the real world is those huge scientific projects like Cern's LHC, which requires the co-operation of multiple governments - no individual or team could attempt that. It's no surprise that the web came f
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by Drumlin 10y ago
To me, that would be a sign that you are winning the battle. If enough websites fight ad blockers, especially big sites, and the people behind those ad blockers make clumsy mistakes, then users will reach a point where they uninstall the bl
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by Drumlin 10y ago
It's called technical 'progress' - as technology progresses, you need bigger and more specialised teams of technicians. It reaches a point where huge entities like governments and corporates are the only groups with enough re
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by Drumlin 10y ago
> Maybe I am a linux hermit, but you guys really abide this shit? Didn't Ubuntu do something like this with search in the past? These companies love to cream off whatever extra income they can get. Turning operating systems into ser
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by Drumlin 10y ago
> Also, it appears that statistically, single mothers are much more likely to vote Left than Right. If you're married to the state, then you vote for more of the state. It's one of the many examples where liberty has been erode
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by Drumlin 10y ago
It somehow reminds me of those advert bars that people used to put on their desktops and be paid to view adverts in the late 90s - early 2000s. There was so much money in online advertising back then that businesses created referral pyramid
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by Drumlin 10y ago
I used to work with a programmer who literally did nothing for over a year - he came into the office and sat there browsing the web. He was the highest paid employee. Everyone knew it was happening (including the clients) but no one mention
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Private healthcare insurance is also offered as a benefit in places like the UK, but it tends to be the bigger companies that offer it. It means the employee can get their treatment weeks, even months before they would have otherwise - that
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Their high end market has also shifted from professional tools to fashion objects.
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by Drumlin 10y ago
> Are we drug dealers? Developers build the infrastructure that manufactures the drugs. The owners of that infrastructure are kingpins. The users of these platforms are drug dealers. Each follower or friend is an addict.
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by Drumlin 10y ago
One of the main problems with Twitter is people sign up and don't know what to do with it - except message famous people. If Twitter prevents the plebs from shouting at the intelligentsia then it will make the platform even more irrele
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by Drumlin 10y ago
I think counting it in decades rather than years is more realistic. So many major innovations are described as being in the next ten years. If you look at VR, which I think is simple in comparison, you could have experienced it in a high en
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Only reason I own a smartphone is to fit in while working - it was like being an outsider with everyone else getting information immediately via Trello and Slack. I would often miss last minute changes to meetings and stuff. Other than that
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by Drumlin 10y ago
When I say 'processed', I mean meat like ham or beef - stuff that I would expect to be real meat, but instead it's sliced from what I guess you could call a mold of reformed scraps. I have no real problem with it but it struc
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by Drumlin 10y ago
I've only been to a Subway outlet once and was amazed by how much of it was processed meat - a relative said the same recently. Go into a good independent sandwich shop and all the meat will be unprocessed (except where expected) and y
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by Drumlin 10y ago
It was an accidental pun. I noticed it before posting the comment and almost rewrote it. I'm not one of those people who say "no pun intended", so I just let the pun go free for others to discover.
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by Drumlin 10y ago
I see it as an antidote to the sort of mentally unhealthy information that society (such as TV, social media etc.) gives people. Stoicism makes people realise that they aren't the centre of the universe, that almost all people don&#x27
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by Drumlin 10y ago
It comes from the politics sub, which - to put it mildly - is one of the most suspect subs for manipulation on Reddit. They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spec
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Glad to help.
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by Drumlin 10y ago
As soon as I saw it was Aral, I knew the direction that the article was headed. He has good intentions, but humans are naturally hierarchical - from the family upwards. Fighting against hierarchical power is a losing battle.
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Another source that you might find interesting is Mark Blyth - a lecturer from Brown Uni. He looks at these topics from a long term economic viewpoint. He has a left wing academic perspective, which clouds his conclusions though. There are
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by Drumlin 10y ago
I suggest you read 'The Technological Society' by Jacques Ellul. It's not an easy read, the sort of book where you take lots of notes and then learn from the notes: https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Society
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Yes, news outlets that use terms like 'fake news' to shut down competitors should be treated with suspicion. The term went mainstream over a period of a few weeks due to it being pushed relentlessly by the media. It has the hallma
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by Drumlin 10y ago
Presumably chickens that are bred for meat live a different existence to those reared for eggs?
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by Drumlin 10y ago
It's hitting a load of third party services - for its own benefit - that were never intended for that purpose. I would hate to run a service and find some freely available script was letting anyone use it in an automated fashion. It&#x

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