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by actuator 5y ago
This is not true. As I have submitted on HN earlier, Apple is using the purchases data to customise ads. https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208477 You can make a case that the ad targeting is just on App Store, News and
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by actuator 5y ago
I did it after my first job. It was a break of about a year and I spent the first 5 months just backpacking around and climbing mountains. I enjoyed being off grid with even my smartphone mostly off and being used just as a camera. It just
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by actuator 5y ago
> With due respect, our entire country is experiencing fear, uncertainty and certainly despair. Giving voice to it is not unreasonable. I totally respect and understand that. It is just that hyperbolic figures just lead to flame wars and
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by actuator 5y ago
I think their analysis is also using the total pronounced deaths to Covid deaths and studying the delta from previous years, the same as the tweet you linked. The figures seem higher in the tweet, I am guessing we will have more clarity on
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by actuator 5y ago
Can you please read that graph again and tell me where you didn't have clarity? ~600k/~200k is ~ 3x. Those are the numbers mentioned for the country in discussion here.
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by actuator 5y ago
The situation is quite sad, and I am happy you and your family are fine as you mentioned in your other comment. I am quite sure you can do without spreading FUD here though. If you have data to back up the 10-100x claim, please share it. Th
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by actuator 5y ago
I am really intrigued to see how this will work. https://health.google/health-research/imaging-and-diagnostic... For me at least, minor dermatological issues have been something that I feel lazy enough(also a bit consc
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by actuator 5y ago
Video of Project Starline: https://youtu.be/Q13CishCKXY
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by actuator 5y ago
Tim Cook?
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by actuator 5y ago
You don't believe data can be manufactured/erased to tell a story if someone is willing to? There is enough time as well to generate a new trail of breadcrumbs. I don't think we will get the true answer or an answer that is g
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by actuator 5y ago
How is this even going to work? PRC will never allow access to the actual data if it was a lab escape/origin. The sort of propoganda happening on Twitter shows that even discussion is going to be difficult.
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by actuator 5y ago
There is nothing dumb about what Musk and Tesla did, in fact it was for self gain. Look at the price when Tesla announced they bought bitcoin worth about a billion dollars. Even after the current fall, the price now is way higher than back
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by actuator 5y ago
While the framing does look exaggerated - In app purchases can be something like an ebook you bought, I don't know how much info they are getting, but it is creepy. - It doesn't matter which ad the targeting is used for, it means
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Apple is using payment transactions information to target ads(twitter.com)
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by actuator 6y ago
> and not just dedicated vegans. Are vegans actually adopting these? I would have assumed non vegetarians eating fake meat more. A significant part of the world is vegetarian/vegan, so we don't have dearth of just plant based f
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by actuator 6y ago
Native apps definitely have advantage in some areas. But web apps give the ability to ship an app to more platforms and not be restricted by app store border control. Spotify had an Ubuntu client which never worked well, but as their web ap
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, but redux etc gained traction with React, and together they make SPAs good.
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by actuator 6y ago
> IMO, React doesn't bring much to the table in this regard while adding a lot of complexity and heft. Strongly disagree with this. In any complex web application with a lot of components, specially ones where a lot of fixed compo
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by actuator 6y ago
> We collated the prices of a 330ml bottle of beer in supermarkets around the world using online shops, focusing on well-known beer brands such as Corona and Heineken. There in lies the problem. I was wondering why some low income but hi
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by actuator 6y ago
I haven't used FB in 7 years but I wonder if FB will become a much better platform in Australia after the news ban, with just posts/photos from friends and less noise.
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by actuator 6y ago
> I wonder about the copyright to the headline and blurb content when other people share. I think this is a slippery slope on copyright enforcement, we have seen it getting ridiculous on YouTube. What if someone shares a screenshot of th
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by actuator 6y ago
I think FB was absolutely right to do it. Asking for payment for links embedded in hypertext goes against the ethos of www. It sets up a dangerous precedent for the web in general. If they really had to find a nice middleground with FB prof
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by actuator 6y ago
One more spectacular mountain, Mount Kailash[1] which is sacred to four religions also hasn't been climbed till now. Though despite being sacred, PRC government had given permission to a team to climb which they later denied. Reinhold
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by actuator 6y ago
Other than the fact that there are multiple countries that have space programs. > A “puny” $22.6bn buys a lot of food and houses a lot of homeless people. This is reductive line of thinking. You can't equate spending on cutting edge
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by actuator 6y ago
Can't each country have a platform where you kind of validate it in kind of this way. - Select the country, get redirected to the sovereign identity auth platform - There you can log in/provide the details in the sovereign run pla
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, I really doubt European companies themselves are not using these rules to get out of paying more.
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by actuator 6y ago
> But let's not support a business culture where being a bad actor is cool- Agreed but what can few individuals even do when masses don't even care? We can try to use our privacy sensitive platforms and modular phones with open
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by actuator 6y ago
But he is right. Why not just fix this at a policy level? While paying low tax seems morally wrong, the job of a company is to do good for itself, because they all are responsible to their shareholders. Google left China on moral grounds in
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by actuator 6y ago
Ah, your comment referred to FANMAG hence my reply. > There aren't really any FANMAGs outside of London. There are. For example, AWS has a development center in Cambridge.
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by actuator 6y ago
I think using SELECT in all cases, enforces the idea of just requiring what you need which just gives the performance benefit in other cases even if they occur less. Even without the optimisation bit, personally I prefer when code is explic

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