Jordrok

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by Jordrok 8y ago
> its interesting to note, that the concept of morality, is in fact, moored as a consensual hallucination as to what is good. Says who? You? > therefore, as an atheist, you might mimic a "cultural" sense of goodness; but
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by Jordrok 8y ago
Two words: Donald Trump
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by Jordrok 8y ago
I think what made those 'work' wasn't that 'good people turned bad' or 'a few bad apples abused the mechanism', but rather that everyone involved just went along with the prank to an irresponsible degree.
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by Jordrok 8y ago
Firefox for Android definitely has some rough edges compared to Chrome, but it is also one of the very few mobile browsers which supports extensions I really hope that whatever they've got coming down the pipeline is up to the task, b
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by Jordrok 8y ago
What kind of person deliberately goes out of their way to discard that supposed intelligence and reasonability and replace it with such poisonous, hateful vitriol?
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by Jordrok 8y ago
Love them or hate them, they are a news source No, they really aren't.
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by Jordrok 8y ago
Same here, as long as you aqvoid the "Spotlight" section. Nothing but garbage in there, but everything else seems fine. Incidentally, I have my Google search/activity history turned off and often browse while not logged in.
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by Jordrok 9y ago
It all starts to make so much more sense once you start mentally replacing the words "marketing" and "advertising" with the end result they're both trying to achieve: Mind Control. There are varying levels of insid
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by Jordrok 9y ago
If only there were some sort of safety harness system installed in the car to prevent that sort of thing... (Yeah, I get what you're trying to say, but I couldn't resist.)
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by Jordrok 9y ago
Speak for yourself. Trump acts almost entirely on impulse which is close enough to random. In fact, he described his own thought processes perfectly in the quote: "I don't stand by anything." [1] [1] https://www.w
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by Jordrok 9y ago
Huh... Am I the only right handed person who usually uses the phone with my left hand/thumb? I've never really given it much thought before but I think I do it so that my right hand can be free for any other actions or for preci
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by Jordrok 9y ago
Same here. I do most of my browsing in an incognito mode-like environment (so no persistent cookies or sign in to my Google account), and even when I am signed in I turned off the search history a long time ago.
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by Jordrok 9y ago
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
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by Jordrok 9y ago
Oddly enough, Windows 10 Pro seems to leave my default browser alone most of the time (I do seem to recall it messing with it once, but I may be wrong), but I've had it attempt to switch my default media viewers away from VLC and Irfan
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by Jordrok 9y ago
Oh wow, now that is really bad. I would assume that would have to be a bug, but it seems like a pretty massive thing to overlook.
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by Jordrok 9y ago
Gotta say, I'm not a fan of this redesign. Others have touched on the biggest issues - lack of information density and missing article snippets, but here's the one I really can't figure out: Why is the left sidebar so crazi
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by Jordrok 9y ago
There is a certain amount of knee-jerk reaction and each situation should ideally be judged on its own individual merits, but this is also Trump we're talking about. It's been a pretty accurate heuristic so far to say that any id
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by Jordrok 9y ago
That really doesn't make me feel any better.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Yeah. Sounds eerily similar to the story of a certain real estate developer turned politician. It's a little bit like attempting to achieve escape velocity. If you succeed then everything is fine, but if you fall even a little bit sh
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Not at all. The rule doesn't state that paying for software guarantees that you're not still the product, just that if you're not paying for it, it's significantly more likely that the difference will be made up for som
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Interestingly, the general perception I've had for a while now is that Google's search results have been getting slowly, gradually worse over the years. It seems like it works harder now to funnel you into some predefined concept
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Wow. This has GOT to be illegal...right?
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Also had this happen to me and had my parents call me asking about it. A few warning bells did go off in my head, but as far as I could tell it all looked legit. Kind of disturbed by the lack of communication by Google though, since it se
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Very cool! Man, does it peg the hell out of the CPU though! :P
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Yep. If you make a change that upsets nearly 40% of your userbase, can you really act surprised when you hear people complain about it? Even if you go with the comparatively tiny 5% estimate of users who are 'unable' to switch,
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by Jordrok 10y ago
This x1000. Policy-wise, I disagree with Pence on just about everything, but I would take him in a heartbeat over Trump. Pence actually has experience governing and seems to be capable of compromise and handling criticism (see: the Hamilt
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by Jordrok 10y ago
I guess. I don't really dispute your reasoning - it all seems logical. To me though, the color and shape of a console is almost totally irrelevant. Who cares what it looks like? In the end it's just a box full of circuits that
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Sure, people will almost definitely not call them "moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a", but I could easily see a lot of people shortening the whole thing to just Moz. The :// in a url acts as a separator, so the impo
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Incidentally, the first search result for "moz://a" from every search provider I tried was https://moz.com/ , with https://www.mozilla.org nowhere in sight. Yeah...not sure this is a great ide
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by Jordrok 10y ago
All of that, plus the ads just feel fair. They exist, appear at the "right" times, and can easily be skipped if content isn't interesting. I won't dispute your other points, but I wonder, since skipping the ads is so e

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