Slansitartop

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by Slansitartop 9y ago
IIRC, the cell phone voice codecs are at an absurdly low bitrate (1.2kbps?) and highly optimized for human voice only , so voice is acceptable and everything else sounds like trash. Analog landlines used 64kbps codecs (after the analog l
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> If you get regulated, you are now approved by the government. Not necessarily. I suppose it would be possible to regulate it into nonexistence, by undermining the privacy-invading business model. You could probably get at least part-w
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> ”Fighter combat” or ”air-to-air” does certainly not equal dogfighting. Air-to-air is what fighters are made for! It’s just that these days it’s most often beyond-visual-range (BVR) engagement with radar and missiles. It’s still fighter
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
This seems to be more like repetition of the Chinese party line than an independent assessment.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I dread that this will become standard when applying for visas elsewhere. It's already difficult enough. Also, could this be another route for backdoor revocation of permanent residency and/or citizenship? For instance, you piss o
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Zuckerberg has been talking a big game lately about regaining user's trust and how "we have a lot of work to do." If he were at all serious about those sentiments FB would begin... > FB's desire to continue opera
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> And some time in the near future your credit score will suck if you don't have a social media footprint. People will just create fake accounts that "like" things like "saving money" and "paying off debt.&q
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I dread that this will become standard when applying for visas elsewhere. It's already difficult enough. Also, could this be another route for backdoor revocation of permanent residency and/or citizenship? For instance, you piss
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> People like to believe they are special snowflakes that can rise above the influence of marketing, but hit them with the right marketing message and you got them. Maybe so, but the success of marketing has different probabilities for d
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
But do they actually do that? It seems like a lot of effort to market to someone who's less likely to be successfully marketed to.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> The corruption happens at lower levels, and is usually a byproduct of too much power granted to someone who doesn't deserve it. On what basis do you make that judgement? Isn't it too difficult to truly learn about the activi
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Regarding democracy and authoritarianism, keep in mind the the country was super poor and uneducated. Ceding power democratically across the country would have probably resulted in massive corruption. Are you claiming China's gove
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I use a separate Chrome profile specifically for Facebook, to keep its cookies quarantined.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
And back then many of the people saying stuff like... > If it didn't upset you before why would it suddenly upset you now? ...were probably putting down the people who were upset by saying they were being paranoid. I think the fuel
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
That covers only part of the scandal, which IMHO has at least two parts: 1) Facebook data was widely shared to all kinds of 3rd parties. 2) Facebook data can be used to manipulate individuals and inappropriately influence the political proc
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I keep hearing this suggestion and it makes no sense. Split into what? Instagram, WhatsApp, and multiple competing Facebook copies (say Facebook Red, Facebook Green, and Facebook Orange) with a mandate to interoperate with each other
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
>> "You have a wealthy company from a developed nation going into an economy or democracy that's still struggling to get its feet on the ground - and taking advantage of that to profit from that," he told MPs. > Chri
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Even to this day there are a lot of things that "normal" people do that are utterly foreign to me, like going to clubs I understand that a lot of people who go clubbing actually don't like it, but they're under the
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Could such a breakup order or sanctions be specific to certain businesses? Google has a strong position in the email space, but it isn't anywhere as dominant as it is with search and web advertising.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Equifax, I would force to pull my data if I could You could freeze your credit with Equifax, if you're not looking to take out new credit lines. It costs money, but I've heard it pretty much stops them from making money off
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
The main problem with Google is that I expect any service they build (beyond their biggest ones) to be shutdown eventually (probably sooner rather than later). It's not worth taking a chance on them anymore.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I'm still completely convinced that this whole scandal will not damage Facebook a bit, in the long term. Yeah, the stock is going to be a bit lower for some weeks, some people will leave, but the largest part of the Facebook users
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I've read that, for a time, "view anyone's profile" was an advertised perk of being a Facebook employee (maybe just a wink-wink, nudge-nudge thing in an interview, I have no firsthand experience). I'm sure they don
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Your example is an example of taking advantage of personal hospitality , the Google drive users are taking advantage of an advertised product offering. Those are totally different things. No one's an asshole for using a product t
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> With a lot of people absusing unlimited drive accounts to host their Plex collections I’m surprise it’s lasted this long. Those people are going to ruin it for the rest of us. How is it "abuse" to take them up on their &quot
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
You can migrate all your Spotify stuff to a new, non-Facebook-linked account. I just did yesterday, and it wasn't that hard.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> #deletefacebook is about Deleting Facebook. If you try to make it about something else you clearly aren't getting it. Delete Facebook means Delete Facebook. Get off it. Break the links. Make everything go away. From the perspectiv
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Android has not, until extremely recently, required apps to request permission for things at runtime. Or allowed permissions to be selectively denied. I think that was introduced in Android 6.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Maybe so you can silo cookies and the like?
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
There are two relevant concepts here, and it's not surprising people get them a little confused. One is the natural right of free expression, the other is the First Amendment. The latter is a law meant to protect the former against a

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