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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Advertising is lying. How can you trust anything the sellers of products say? I firmly believe this. However, I try to be more objective these days and even if I hate/disagree with something I still like to find some objective fac
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> It’s not like you’re unbiased either. Correct, I'm not. I can't stand ads. And to clarify, I mean traditional ads like banner ads, billboards, TV ads etc. Ads come with tracking now... that needs to die immediately! And I&#x2
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> This boils down to "rules for thee but not for me" I don't believe that. Taking the building site example, I'd rather work on one that's got a bunch of site posters up and does all the right safety stuff than o
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Not really. I mean a study that's not from a company that sells ads or is in the chain somewhere! Any studies (I use the term very broadly) that I've seen are all net positive! I want something from, say, The German Institute of B
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I'm a fan of regulation where it's necessary. For example, when it comes to things like building sites they are incredibly safe now, thanks to many regulations. I'd argue that they're an absolute necessity. However, for
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I went on the hunt just before posting this to find out more about how many people click on ads and how beneficial they are (for any party, not just the advertiser) and I can honestly say I think it's all lies: the whole industry are l
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I have no idea why you are being downvoted... perhaps FB zealots fear the truth. Regulation is exactly what large corporations want. Regulation prevents competition from ever getting started. What's an extra £30 million a year for regu
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Wait a minute... I live in North Ayrshire. I wasn't asked. This sounds like a pile of shite to me!
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> But it’s unfortunate that “blockchain” is apparently synonymous with proof of work cryptocurrencies and NFTs. I usually put stuff like that down to either lazy writing or just the wrong/badly skilled writer. It's the same as
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
It's Facebook! How can you trust them? If you honestly believe them then I've got a bridge you might wanna take a look at...
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I've always bought HP business laser printers. They've always worked for me. I also don't let it connect to the internet as it has a fixed IP and no gateway. Also none of this cartridge subscription business and I've alw
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Your own quote mentions you can't hibernate it. And we recently could close laptops, have them sleep/hibernate and not wake up until you open the screen again so sticking them in a backpack was fine. Not sure if the issue is Windo
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Ask HN: Where to download IP Geolocation CSV/txt file
2 points by _Understated_ 5y ago|3 comments
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, I'll chime in. No menu! Massive waste of screen space just to display a single word! Making me scroll to find _anything_ of substance... and then finding there isn't actually anything of substance. Each line has one or two wor
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
For those that are saying things like "Google/Microsoft etc. are worse" and other such pseudo-justifications: You are missing the point! Mozilla is now in exactly the same camp as Microsoft, Google and all the other spyware c
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
If the issues is DNS-related or routing-related then since it's all owned by FB, they own the records too so it's likely that literally everything that has a DNS record under the FB cost code will be hit. The WhatsApp servers will
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I assume this means that anyone that uses their FB account to login somewhere can't login once their token expires... Hahahahaha!
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I'm convinced that this is all a result of Microsoft being a rudderless ship. That and their unkillable telemetry telling them shit like "n% of people spend x% more time in Settings than Control Panel" so that means that Sett
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> I think most people just don't want to be under someone's control I'm not sure it's as black and white as that! I've worked from home for a number of years and I used to think people were insane to want to go i
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Back then, I used to overclock the $hit out of my CPU. Any chance I could get to ramp it up I took. This one I have now is the first one I haven't overclocked in at least a decade: i9 10900K. I went from an i7 8700k running all cores a
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
What kind of ramp-up time are we looking at here? This can't be a quick process to get chips out the door I imagine!
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
When I worked in a fulfillment center (picking and stowing) I never once got told my numbers. Nor was I ever told what my numbers should be, just that "We'll let you know if your numbers drop". And yes, we always tried to tak
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Since when is it anyone's business (within the limits of the law) where I get my parts from?
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> and the company themselves considers them a camera app. Doesn't matter what the company calls themselves, it's a forum that people upload phone pics to and those photos/images are then displayed in an algorithmic form (u
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Spam protection has been around for years and years. It's nothing new. Sure, Reddit may have a handful of devs dedicated to perfecting it for their platform but there are a huge number of solutions to spam and I bet many commercial and
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> There are various features provided by Snapchat (camera, filters, games) Of course, these are addons to the platform. But the platform is still the same fundamental application as a forum. Nothing more.
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> But every platform you listed is significantly more complex than that. I'd agree with that on the surface but those platforms you listed are basically forums with a new name! They provide very little over and above that. So, in ac
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
What version of USB-C? There are several and they are confusing as hell!
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I noticed there is a call to prevent members of Congress and whatnot to be prevented from holding stocks. That won't happen. Ever. What's more likely is that their transactions will be exempt from being made public... they make th
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I'm no lawyer but this looks damning - It says he lied to Congress. I'm not in the US, but isn't that pretty serious (if proven!)?

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