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Tianducheng: A housing estate in Xingqiao, China that imitates Paris(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> It's nuts to me that a skilled profession - that not many can do - lets themselves get micro-managed like this. Physicians at hospitals know your pain, as their product manager equivalent is hospital administration micro managing
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Wouldn't a script blocker like NoScript or uMatrix take care of this?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Wouldn't a script blocker like NoScript or uMatrix take care of this?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
For sure, though at the very least the examples you gave are mostly other social networks. So at worst, it allows them to know what other social networks you use. What you want to avoid is using your phone number when doing things like onli
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Being tracked when logged off/on other sites is a bit different than shadow profiles. Users are absolutely tracked when logged off or on other sites through 3rd party cookies, aka the Facebook Pixel. If you go on a news site that has t
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Fed formally adopts new rules for investment and trading activity by officials(federalreserve.gov)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
The Web Archives browser extension is great for this. It allows you to pull up archived versions of whatever website you're on, from a variety of archive sources. My go-to lately has been using the www.archive.is option when I use the
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> Blue collar wedges (wages?) are pretty similar across time, but the cost of house construction (ignoring land) is dramatically higher. Blue collar wages as a whole may have, but construction workers' wages since 2006 have increase
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New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars(roadandtrack.com)
365 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|454 comments
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Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B(intel.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
For future instances where you give up trying to figure out the wordle, I built a site to make that easier: www.wordlespoiler.com Word of warning: it has the answer to both today and tomorrows wordles.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Page 12 has the list of sunscreens that have over 2 ppm Benzene.
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Valisure study on Benzene levels in popular Sunscreen Products [pdf](valisure.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|1 comments
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Hieroglyphs were mostly used for religious/formal writing. Everyday writing in Ancient Egypt used the Heiratic script, which then evolved into the Demotic script, and then finally the Coptic script, which is the Egyptian language writt
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I don't know if their argument of "quality over quantity" can be interpreted as anti-intellectual necessarily. If anything, I think that can be seen as pro-intellectual and against stats/funding-chasing.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> China has overtaken the United States as the world’s leader in several key scientific metrics, including the overall number of papers published and patents awarded. Considering how meaningless "number of papers/patents publis
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
This idea is basically the background behind the recent "wordcel" term/meme that's been making the rounds. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Do you happen to have a link to that twitter thread? I'm curious to read it.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
If "bps" is supposed to stand for basis points, then you're saying they get a 0.15% cut?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
New Jersey's already on the list
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Rockstar has their own engine called RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Based on what I've read, and what's been implied with the most recent GTA V Online expansions, it's most likely going to take place in both Vice City and missions to "Cayo Perico" (their take on Colombia) for drug t
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Rockstar Games track record shows couldn't give less of a shit about who they offend with the satire in their GTA series. I wouldn't worry about that.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
NSO seems to essentially be a front for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. They get to wash their hands of whatever NSO does by saying "hey that wasn't a nation state spying, they're a private company and we'll pu
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
There's a separate setting for its own advertising network that asks the user if they want their activity in apps to be used to target ads they see. Just like for the case of 3rd party apps like FB, it can be turned off.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> But the fact that a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch In this instance, the flick of the switch added a prompt asking users whether they want to opt in/consent to Facebook tracking their activities on
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
It's the norm in the US too.
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The Turin Erotic Papyrus(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|0 comments
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Sony is buying Bungie, the developer of Destiny and original creator of Halo(theverge.com)
83 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|43 comments

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