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by alexc05 9y ago
That seems to be a breakdown of the people who have VR HEADSETS broken down by headset type. What does "up 82%" mean?
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by alexc05 9y ago
So they're going to ask general accounts to rank things for reliability in the era Russian "bot-armies" able to up-rank en-masse? Suddenly they're going to be able to buy credibility the way they buy likes? I'm not
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by alexc05 9y ago
Isn't that headline a bit too clickbait-y?
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by alexc05 9y ago
In fairness - it's sometimes pretty fun to write a review for something. I kind-of enjoy it - probably why I'm also a prolific commenter on reddit and (less so) here. Have never been compensated for a review. (Or a comment on HN o
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by alexc05 9y ago
> Amazon has just responded to Google’s decision to remove YouTube from all Fire TV products I'm sorry - is amazon prime video available on my chromecast now and I've missed it? These guys are bloody hypocrites. (edit: meant to
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by alexc05 9y ago
Is there a difference between writing the content yourself and upvoting fringe content with 1,000 fake accounts while suppressing the inverse with the same? The fringe is emboldened and encouraged and given an artificial air of legitimacy.
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by alexc05 9y ago
Actually - I kind of support that idea. The financial incentive of being a Macedonian fake-news merchant is partially based on the fact that you can achieve massive scale cheaply via viral sharing. A financial barrier to share-ability would
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by alexc05 9y ago
Actually - I kind of support that idea. The financial incentive of being a Macedonian fake-news merchant is partially based on the fact that you can achieve massive scale cheaply via viral sharing. A financial barrier to share-ability would
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by alexc05 9y ago
I expect it's either a scatological reference or something to do with an eager dating partner who is unrequited.
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by alexc05 9y ago
I'd add that I also think there is a three dimensional cataloging of information that you get from using a thick textbook. "Chapter 19" gets stored in your own memory in three dimensional space. Flipping backwards and forward
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by alexc05 9y ago
I saw this on Rachel Maddow this morning. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/us-tech-giants-oddl... Near as she can tell, they live in Nigeria (though I don't think she's actually been able to back
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by alexc05 9y ago
How do we know he didn't leave it unsent because he was still unsure if he wanted to commit to that course of action? I write "drafts" of things and leave them unsent from time to time. After a cooling off period I decide tha
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by alexc05 9y ago
You can't just decide what is true. Think back to the US election you can't just "decide" that the story of thousands of Ohio ballots pre-marked for Hillary Clinton was true. http://www.snopes.com/clinton
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by alexc05 9y ago
I am really getting tired of programmer's "cute names for things". I recently went through training on adobe experience manager and literally every single internal technology was named for something that had no bearing on wha
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by alexc05 9y ago
Ha ha - OK that's funny. But realistically it changes the value proposition for owning your own charger at home, or going to a Tesla charging station where the cost is 20p. I mean when I lived in the UK Gas was something over a pound p
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by alexc05 9y ago
> Shell and Allego are talking about increasing the rate to £0.49p next year. If they do, it would render the station completely useless. umm... that's a bit hyperbolic. It would render the station "premium priced vs. home char
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by alexc05 9y ago
The actual title on the article is "Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests" why do we need ALLCAPS clickbait histrionics? Here's a line from the article which suggests that th
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by alexc05 9y ago
> Eventually, Facebook says, it OK’d proposed terms of the contract, which hiked drivers’ average pay by half, to $27.50 an hour, and for the first time provided fully paid family health care. For those people doing the driving that&#x27
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by alexc05 9y ago
Honestly - I loved the first iteration and have jumped in to play it again this time round. I love it still (again). It's changed a lot. It's upgraded again there is a tonne of stuff to do, lots to see and explore and plenty of &q
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by alexc05 9y ago
That's a good step, I wonder how that effects pages which host widgets from "Outbrain" and the like. So Salon (for example) has a block of "you might also be interested in" articles scattered around their content. A
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by alexc05 9y ago
That was amazing. I love crotchety grizzled engineers more than anyone I think. This was classic and hilarious. I can't wait to share with everyone at work.
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by alexc05 9y ago
YouTube isn't always "great content" their feed algorithm is overflowing with click bait and misleading thumbnails and titles. There's no question that there is a place for YouTube, but the quality definitely hovers arou
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by alexc05 9y ago
> "The problem is that anybody, anywhere, can sell just about anything on Amazon and eBay, including counterfeit glasses that may be dangerous. Buyers won’t discover their error until after the eclipse, or they suffer serious or per
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by alexc05 9y ago
what is uO? I've been using a hosts file. I'd love to up my game. Ahhh... other comments are saying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
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by alexc05 9y ago
I'm struggling to understand how preventing access to a tracking pixel circumvents copyright. Does this make sense to anyone? It sounds like they're "crying DMCA" because someone turned off their analytics? Can analytics
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by alexc05 9y ago
So the topic isn't entirely unrelated. In fact there is some evidence out there that the story itself is being artificially amplified by Russian social media bot accounts. http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
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by alexc05 9y ago
I have prime video. It really is such a pain in the butt to watch it though. They lock themselves out of chrome cast, Kodi, basically everything I currently use to stream to my TV. I'm really frustrated with it and don't feel like
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by alexc05 9y ago
Wikileaks may have started with the best intentions from the "information needs to be free" playbook (or maybe it has always been corrupt). But it is very clear for anyone who has been watching, that they are absolutely operating
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by alexc05 9y ago
That's right. It is actually pretty shocking (to me personally) that there are Pharmacists in the USA who are able to legally give DRUG-B when the prescription written is DRUG-A and they are different molecules, different MOA and t
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by alexc05 9y ago
So I work in advertising specifically focused on pharmaceutical brands. One of my client drugs has a problem where Pharmacists are dispensing as generic where their drug has a different Mechanism of Action and is only prescribed after the

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