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by Strom 4y ago
As a daily Bolt user I have two main guesses as to why they want everyone using the app. 1) GPS tracking. They want to know where you are at all times. The app makes this tracking easier than a webpage. 2) Upselling. The Bolt app has front
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by Strom 4y ago
For what it's worth Uber is still in the neighboring Estonia, which is also the headquarters of Bolt. Uber entered Estonia quite early and did its classic market share grab where it completely dominated. However they quickly lost that
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by Strom 4y ago
It's true but the same thing is true for almost every open source project. Instead of Microsoft it's usually a single guy or perhaps a duo who has the ultimate say. Everyone else's word is just a suggestion. It's a rarit
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by Strom 4y ago
Depends on the specific implementation, but in theory this doesn't limit any functionality for SSO. Data can be shared via mechanisms other than cookies.
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by Strom 4y ago
It would be an EU directive, which means that member states will have to write new laws that accomplish this. However don't get the wrong idea that this was just decided by someone in Brussels and it's a directive now. This is jus
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by Strom 4y ago
> [..] time period (~800 to ~1050) [..] the first time we appear in history. Some interesting new developments with that recently. In 2008-2010 two Viking ships were discovered in Saaremaa, Estonia. The ships (or the bits that's l
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by Strom 4y ago
As someone who has used Zulip for years, I consider the named threads to be the reason to use Zulip. When used properly, it makes following discussions actually possible without being drowned by other concurrent messages. I'd say Dis
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by Strom 4y ago
A lot less features. If you don't care about the missing features, then it might be a completely reasonable replacement.
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by Strom 4y ago
I have a guess, but I haven't actually researched this specific case to be sure. intoPIX seems to be based in Belgium. I'm not sure exactly what type of patents RED has, but there are types like software patents which don't e
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by Strom 4y ago
> Are there people to watch an "Adam Project" and a "Bridgerton" (I assume these are interesting shows) every month? In case the specific shows threw you off, those were meant just as examples of quality. They don&#
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by Strom 4y ago
How much extra latency are we talking here? Anyone have any actual numbers?
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by Strom 4y ago
> If 80% are good submissions it’s a useless filter and should be dropped. How did you arrive at this conclusion? I can easily imagine that this process is so laborious that plenty of people don't even submit anything. Like the pe
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by Strom 4y ago
What criteria of the definition doesn't El Salvador fulfill?
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by Strom 4y ago
Bitcoin also has the backing of a government - El Salvador. I would rather argue though that even government backed currencies are fully dependant on trust, not government usage of it. Just check out any government currency hyperinflation e
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by Strom 4y ago
The key to understanding the popularity of stories that contain "well known information" is that not everyone has the same life experiences. For every piece of info you know, there are a lot of people who have never heard of it.
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by Strom 4y ago
Stable relationships are possible without marriage. Some people view these as synonyms and others see that as a clear mistake.
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by Strom 4y ago
> Imagine making the same argument for 7 year old chimney sweeps in Victorian England That's quite an extreme example you got there, but as a former child worker myself I feel qualified to push back. I did hard physical labor at a
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by Strom 5y ago
Text alone is already a painful domain [1][2] and text is just a small subset of the full UI domain. -- [1] https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ [2] https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-
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by Strom 5y ago
That stale bot is quite the sight. It seems the Signal team has fully adopted the ostrich strategy for dealing with issues.
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by Strom 5y ago
Android literally has the Linux kernel. Can't get more same than that.
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by Strom 5y ago
First let me say that ads in general definitely work, I'm definitely not arguing against that. What I'm talking about in specific is search ads where the ad is for a term that ranks organically high anyway. It's not just imag
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by Strom 5y ago
That's a good point. It's a lot harder to cannibalize organic traffic with non-search ads.
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by Strom 5y ago
> It's pretty easy to tell if an ad is working when you turn it on, and your email list growth rate instantly doubles -- and all the traffic is coming from a new traffic source. Maybe for a real tight definition of instantly , bu
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by Strom 5y ago
> you should be able to track whether a customer originated from an ad click vs. SEO That's easy to track, but answers the wrong question. It answers whether the person clicked on the ad or the organic link. What we actually want
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by Strom 5y ago
> If you can't answer that question, then you're not running a proper advertising campaign. What is this proper advertising campaign? Does it include turning off ads for terms that rank organically high anyway?
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by Strom 5y ago
> it has killed indie gaming That's quite the take. I'd say Valve did more good for indie gaming than anyone else with the introduction of early access. Almost all the indie gaming being done in my social circles is through S
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by Strom 5y ago
Korea definitely has non-red blood in plenty of games. PUBG has blue blood in Korea for example. https://img.gurugamer.com//resize/640x-//2021/03/29/the-red-... https://www.redd
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by Strom 5y ago
It's funny isn't it. Nobody goes around threads screaming DON'T LISTEN TO POLITICAL ADVICE, go talk to your local POLITICAL PROFESSIONAL. Yet it is not that different. The best local politicians will obviously have amazing in
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by Strom 5y ago
You need to pay for champions, they are not unlocked for free.
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by Strom 5y ago
Moxie Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, a popular secure messaging app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

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