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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> they only let you skip a number of songs in a short time and often played things I didn't care for. If you aren't in the US, then it won't work, but I create multiple stations and can switch station if the music isn&#x27
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Pandora's music recommendations are amazing, and the stations stay within their genre. I've discovered a huge amount of new music that way. I've never used Spotify, so I can't compare. I don't like podcasts either.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> Unfortunately, all major browsers now use a combined address and search bar. So, if you’re typing in the address of a sensitive website to go directly there, your keystrokes as you type will be sent to your default search engine and yo
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Google is full of smart people who get paid to deal with obstacles like that. If your goal is to block ads and tracking, it's extremely unwise to depend on software that is fundamentally controlled by an ad company. If someone threaten
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
I don't think that will work because Google controls Chromium. They will play a long game to sabotage the abilities of smaller Chromium browsers to block ads. Advertising is their business model and they have a lot of money to spend on
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> making the ad blocker faster Does anyone seriously believe that an advertising company wants to improve the performance of ad blockers? It's obvious what Google is doing. If you want to see where things are going in the long run,
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> Doesn't incognito mode warn you that you will be tracked. It says some websites "might" track you. It doesn't let you know that Google itself is going to track you.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> If I go to a party incognito, I don't expect to leave no physical trace of my presence. It's more like going to a party hosted by someone who makes a living by tracking you, where you were told that you are going to be incogn
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Surfing the Web anonymously isn't a crime.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Those analogies don't fit. Collisions between cars have nothing to do with the intention of Toyota. Toyota isn't in the business of causing cars to crash. Firearm manufacturers aren't really in the business of encouraging civ
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> The entire lawsuit revolves around the idea that incognito ("private") browsing somehow implies that users aren't tracked at all, despite a clear, front-and-center warning that they still might be whenever you use it, pu
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> Google Groups used to be handy for shadowing a bunch of Usenet groups, but that's gone now. I'm not sure how much Usenet exists these days. I think Google Groups killed Usenet when they made a web interface for it. It was flo
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> it’s also not really that hard to set an billing alert in CloudWatch and track spend in Cost Explorer Billing alerts aren't good enough. Consider a scenario where you're consulting on someone else's small- or medium-size
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> AWS isn't perfect but at least you have half a chance of working out what is costing you money through the billing console. The first few times I used AWS for tutorials, something similar happened to me. I thought I shut everythin
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> Partly i think it's also on people to learn a little. It isn't just limited to non-tech people. Even many programmers even aren't aware of it. They know how to code, but they don't understand the larger systems that
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> The thing that every single person can see is that these companies don't have the customer's interest primarily in mind. I've tried to talk about privacy with many people, but very few people think about things like that
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
The global food market is worth trillions of dollars. People in many countries eat insects. It doesn't have to start with people in the US who have never really given serious consideration to it. I've traveled a lot and seen how p
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Many great ideas sound ridiculous at first. That's why most people don't build new things. Convincing people that insects are a good food source is far less of a challenge than what many successful companies have done (or hope to
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
"Influencers" and billionaries will probably happen before the rest of the public does. Billionaires should get on board before someone else does. > By 2030, the global industry for edible insects, sold whole or in a smoothie-r
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
It will take time for people to get used to it. You don't necessarily eat something like a "bowl of crickets", but you can grind them up and add to dishes, like protein smoothies.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
There is a better solution to the problem: edible insects. The first reaction most people have is that the public in developed countries wouldn't eat insects, but people once thought lobsters were gross. Changing people's tastes i
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
People who are concerned about it will stop talking to people who wear Ray-Bans. I could see this having a negative effect on Ray-Ban, especially since it's easy to say "ban Ray-Bans" or "Ray-Bans are banned" when y
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
I'm not saying that there is only tech content on Medium, but it's a large part of the site. The list you posted has many programming-related categories in it.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> This release allows deno lint and deno fmt to be configured. That's good news. The main thing holding me back from seriously looking at Deno was the lack of config for the formatting. The default settings weren't right for me
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> You are not the intended audience. A site full of programming articles (Medium) probably wants its articles to be read by programmers.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Also, the code snippets often don't work when you paste them because of the "smart quotes".
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Discourse often shows a blank page with certain ad-blockers. JS is enabled, but the Discourse CDN gets blocked, so nothing displays unless the ad-blocking setting is overridden for that site. Some sites do load HTML, but others are blank.
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
> How confident are you humans will never build settlements outside of earth? I'm just a random person who could be wrong, but to literally answer your question: I'm convinced that it will never happen on a long-term basis. It
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by a5aAqU 5y ago
Once people realize that humans are going to go extinct within hundreds of years, they can focus on the right things. Humans aren't going to migrate to space or other planets, and the planet's systems are too complex and interconn
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by a5aAqU 7y ago
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