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by actuator 6y ago
Are you sure about this? From what I gather the current ruling dispensation in India is opposite of left, and Jack Dorsey has stated in the past about Twitter having left leaning bias. [1] Might not translate to their India operations but I
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by actuator 6y ago
FB's motivation at the end of day is money, they will cater to demands of any ruling org. For long time Zuck was doing trips to PRC to cozy up to CCP. I went through the article and while I don't rule out the possibility of ideolo
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by actuator 6y ago
Interesting points they are making, it would be interesting to see how much of the IPO volume gets sold out in the first week or month to see how much of the price is being driven by just a few shares. I looked at Zoom's IPO, the trade
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by actuator 6y ago
They control the distribution channels of a general computing platform at their whim. They push their own services like Apple Music by having pre installed apps, free app store placement, not having to pay the 30% cut over other competitors
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, I understand but the background is weak. The majority does feel happy that the outcome was less violence and it doesn't affect them but the question should always be, at what cost.
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by actuator 6y ago
Can't really collectively punish a community for crimes of few, that's no justice.
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by actuator 6y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
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by actuator 6y ago
Good thing then, that there are solutions other than war.
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by actuator 6y ago
No, you have power to actually influence at least people in your circle. At least on a personal level, you can start looking at the place of origin of products and be ready to pay more for an alternative. There is a subreddit where people w
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by actuator 6y ago
For debugging issues in Safari, Browserstack should be good enough.
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by actuator 6y ago
I have heard and read in reviews that Microsoft has more or less nailed the touchpad in Surface laptops. So definitely there is scope.
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by actuator 6y ago
I think it should work as expected, there is generally parity between different OSs for Firefox. I use Google Sheets on my remote linux machine and that seems to work fine. I don't like LibreOffice though.
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by actuator 6y ago
I noticed that T480 comes with a U processor. Is this configurable? For a machine that is not going for that ultrabook thickness, M seems like a better choice.
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by actuator 6y ago
It definitely is better than most other laptops and one that makes a significant difference. I think XPS 13 has improved the touchpad a lot, but haven't used the recent version.
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by actuator 6y ago
> in relative terms. In US certainly, some parts of the world definitely have it worse. But I think the fear and divide it generates between ethnicities/religions/countries is definitely higher.
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by actuator 6y ago
But creators can always be enticed with money, after all isn't that why most of them are there. The way he is going about this is definitely thuggish, he would have probably earned more fans by not forcing a sale and instead using alte
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by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure how the kind of videos that do well on Tiktok will do on Youtube. Tiktok video seems to be the 10-30 second entertainment ones. Youtube by its very nature has a whole breadth of other content. Their recommendation can be certa
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by actuator 6y ago
Hey, thanks for telling about this. This sounds interesting, I hope someone who uses iOS gives it a try and can give feedback.
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by actuator 6y ago
Is Tiktok's userbase so loyal that they want to spend $50B on it, the app effectively has no moat. Why not just launch a competitor and pay content creators to post there, all of these companies(including other FAANG group as well) hav
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by actuator 6y ago
Not justifying mass surveillance but this is where the argument for mass surveillance comes in. Though I would argue about its effectiveness. I remember the recent British incidents claiming the suspect was under watch, but they failed to p
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, the top ones generally are fairly accurate even from my experience, though the full body ones fare better than just the foot ones. Even if they are off by ~5%, it still can be good to track changes.
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by actuator 6y ago
That's not something you can have at your home though, no? The DEXA/DXA scans machine I know of are something you can't keep at the comfort of your home. In my personal experience I have found impedance ones to be fairly accu
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by actuator 6y ago
The fat measurement bit seems interesting. It seems entirely dependent on CV.[1] It does acknowledge that people gain fat differently but I am very apprehensive of this feature. Definition of muscles unless you go sub 10% BF looks very diff
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by actuator 6y ago
I think those would be easy to find. Most of the accounts will have locations of Chinese mainland and only post good things about China and bad thing about others. Some of them will post funny/beautiful photos/videos to gain follo
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by actuator 6y ago
I think individual experience is going to vary depending on how much you are trusted. SerpentZa was a vlogger who was there in China for a long time. In contrast to your example, he has mentioned about being stopped at various places and CC
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by actuator 6y ago
For the 4-5 language pairs I picked, there were more matches for the feminine names. I wonder if that is a sample bias.
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by actuator 6y ago
TBF, not all Android phones are created equal. There are Android phones sold in the developing world at low price points where ads appear on home screen, notification bar etc. with tracking deep within OS. Then, there are phones like Pixel
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, that targeting bit is fine to argue and I tried to infer that with my comment as well. I just have an issue with hyperboles like "sold individual user's behavioral profile to Cambridge Analytica" being thrown around in
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by actuator 6y ago
They had a bunch of blog posts about restricting APIs like this[1]. I think someone can look at the current APIs and see what related friends information they allow. The last time I used FB APIs was in 2012 and the last time I used FB was i
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by actuator 6y ago
FB has done plenty wrong but you can make the point without upping the hyperbole as well. There is a danger of FB manipulating things on its own but they didn't sell the data to any third party including Cambridge Analytica, it was har

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