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by a_imho 9y ago
I'm not versed in the facebook tos, but it very well could be included. If that bothers someone they should just stop using facebook, what's so hard about it?
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by a_imho 9y ago
This is my experience as well, very frustrating being locked out of your account when you need to take care of business. Nevermind cracked, they are fundamentally broken if a human can't get a nearly perfect success rate.
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by a_imho 9y ago
Discriminating wages on arbitrary criteria like geographic location goes against equal work = equal pay and that compensation should be based on contribution [1]. Location base: For the other 65% of the base, we factor in each location’s c
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by a_imho 9y ago
What do I pay for? As a non-profit organization, we don’t make profit on our operations. All the payments we receive go directly to deleting emission allowances. The price we charge you for deleting one emission allowance consists of 3 par
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by a_imho 9y ago
The result: Over 95% of the cars were going way faster than what the rules were and nothing wrong happens. I'm not sure what do you mean, there are plenty of accidents caused by speeding both on highways and within city limits. Care
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by a_imho 9y ago
I for one, do not trust or use them. All I'm saying is they could appear more trustworthy, perhaps because users are less aware. In this particular case as far as I understand, disabled means no recording at all, while keeping privat
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by a_imho 9y ago
Disable the voice recognition and you have a perfectly functioning phone. With a hub you have a paperweight, pretty big difference. I agree smartphones are bad, but can see how they perceived not as bad as hubs.
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by a_imho 9y ago
Isn't it a valid distinction between a device which could be abused to spy on you vs a device with the sole purpose to record ~everything you say unless you opt out (like in this case)? I can see how smartphones make that possibility l
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by a_imho 9y ago
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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They are not Rain affects signal strength, which means you can measure it Some newer networks are sufficiently sensitive that they can detect humidity and fog, both of which are predictors of imminent rain. The idea is to use mobile tow
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by a_imho 9y ago
What is the state of contentblocking on Apple devices? Do they come with adblockers by default?
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On the contrary, from the users pov the vast majority of mobile apps are inferior to a webapp. Downloading apps instead of pointing a browser to an address, while giving all kinds of control (permissions and access to the device itself) to
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by a_imho 9y ago
Facebook directly employs only about 20,658 people — roughly one employee per 100,000 users. Slightly OT, where does the 2b monthly active user statistics come from and how was it measured? I could only find Facebook self reported stats a
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by a_imho 9y ago
Even just minor deflation is disastrous for economies because if there is 3% deflation, you could get 100% of what was generally typical GDP growth for developed countries without spending any money to produce anything. This encourages eve
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by a_imho 9y ago
And there are major differences even in the EU. The wage gap for a developer in the V4 compared to e.g. Germany (UK/Switzerland in a broader context) is staggering. https://www.wageunion.eu/ https://elsajoha
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by a_imho 9y ago
Companies simply aren't passing along these profits to their workers. Best tldr
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I mean could doing away with the clock improve signal propagation time while reducing consumption while hashing in theory? Maybe even reduce chip size?
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saving energy and time among other benefits Wouldn't (bitcoin) miners be a good fit for async circuits? Simple logic, low power, high performance.
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by a_imho 9y ago
DRM makes it hard for 99% of the people IMO we have oversupply of interchangeably disposable content fighting for a limited number of clicks, if someone makes it hard for their customers to engage, they are shooting themselves in the foot
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What Does a Wage Gap Look Like(elsajohansson.wordpress.com)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033446
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Equal say is not the right criterion to pick officials imo, equal chance of being elected is more suited to represent the views of the people [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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Looking ahead to the November 2016 US presidential election, I see clear signs that Google is backing Hillary Clinton. Disclaimer, as a European I only loosely followed the election and our local media was very much pro Hillary. I had the
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by a_imho 9y ago
You can see Google and co stand on ads here [1]. Enforcing Coalition for Better Ads standards were marketed as adblocking is coming to Chrome for example [2] recently. [1] https://www.betterads.org/standards/ [2] http
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by a_imho 9y ago
Just a couple of days ago I was unable to put a Win10 iso on a 4GB usb drive, it was something like 4,5-5GB.
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by a_imho 9y ago
Pay in cash Lately I've been wondering whether I should withdraw most of my money from the bank. Any serious drawback to that approach? For one, I don't like my transactions being tracked and two, find it outrageous I have to pa
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by a_imho 9y ago
Opt out adblocking should be the number 1 differentiator as it has the biggest impact on browsing including performance, security and eye sore. It is borderline negligence that moz://a is not pushing it while Google and co are lub
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by a_imho 9y ago
Retire voting in favor of sortition.
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I'm not sure, I see there are a lot of people who would pick the file sharing side over copyright enforcement according to their moral compass. The piracy is theft argument does not really fly (like the adblocking is theft) despite s
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by a_imho 9y ago
Reminds me of this underwater kite project [1]. I was not able to find the numbers, but they would be interesting. Why not share them? [1] http://minesto.com/

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