HalfwayToDice

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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Is this satire?
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
^ the original poster has made an absurd extreme claim, that Facebook listens to your microphone and serves adverts depending on what it hears. It's not up to me to disprove such an absurd extreme claim, it's up to the OP to prove
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Wait... I just confirmation biased myself by only concentrating on the replies which believed that Facebook listens via your microphone, and ignoring those that disagreed.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
I run a website that shows random images. I ALWAYS get emails asking why I have showed an image that relates to what they person was just talking about. But the images are random! It's the well understood concept of confirmation bias.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
No it wasn't. But even if was, then your logic would be absurd. You would be saying that every urban myth is true because a single example was true. That is nonsensical.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
This is a well known phenomenon that has been understood for thousands of years. It's called "coincidence". There are many books available on the topic if you wish to increase your knowledge of the concept. Meanwhile there is
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Google "confirmation bias".
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Have you considered wrapping your mobile phone in tinfoil?
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
This is an absurd urban myth, and it's embarrassing to see such nonsense on this website.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
The website crashes this Macbook Air Mavericks too. Absurd.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
"5,000 daily unique users, 70,000 daily page views, earns about $5 per day." If your traffic is mostly US/UK/EU, then you are doing something very very wrong to be only earning $5 per day.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
"Apple simply lets MacOS rot by not giving it any attention." It gets a major update every year?
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Screen readers and search engines haven't been confused by tables since last century.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
The "screen readers" argument is cargo cult in 2017.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
I have 30,000 unique visitors to my website every day. The number who care whether HTML tags are being outside their semantic purity is zero.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Screen readers haven't been confused by tables since about 1998.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
those puzzled me too
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Meanwhile, in the real world, bankers aren't moving from London. More Brexit hysterical fake news. Expect much more of this in 2017.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Yes I don't understand why more people aren't talking about this. The new left/right cursor layout is awful for me, I keep having to look down at the keyboard.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Exactly! I knew as soon as I saw the headline that the would be reducing storage costs (who cares????) and not reducing the bandwidth costs which have been stuck for years, which are price-fixed with the other providers, and which account f
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
Pro also means having an ESC key I think.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
I live in the UK so part of that is exchange rate UK Macbook Pros are the cheapest in Europe dollarwise, so that can't be true.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
I love Visual Studio Code for a strange reason: I don't actually use it , but by existing and being good, it should force Sublime Text to up its game!
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
"It has said it intends to be profitable, without tax-related expenses, by the end of next year." That's a bizarre interpretation of "profitable".
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
They got 15%, it was an easily predictable failure.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
You shouldn't, but they only got 15%, and that outcome was obvious. The newspaper articles were absurd wish fulfilment.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
And the price rose in every other country too. It's baffling how people are unable to grasp this.
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
The price of the Macbook Pro has risen in every country. This is an Apple price rise, not a UK exchange rate rise. I'm not sure what else there is to say? You are completely ignoring facts in front of you, and choosing single numbers t
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
But it's not due to Brexit because the prices rose in every country. I'm unsure why people are unable to grasp this simple fact. You political opinion is that the UK has an inflation shock coming, but it has no basis in facts in t
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by HalfwayToDice 10y ago
It's misleading because the Mac pricing has risen in EVERY country. HackerNews tends towards fact-based information, not politically biased stuff. The article was laughably trying to shoehorn in a Brexit narrative. And I'm already

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