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by alvah 4y ago
This is a good point, YouTube on my smart TVs is logged into my account, my kids are forever mangling my search history with Roblox, Minecraft, squishies & other random things kids are into. I'm sure Google / YT has no idea wh
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by alvah 4y ago
Where do people get the idea that they are either employees of or contractors to YouTube? Do Amazon affiliates and bloggers monetizing with AdSense have the same, false idea?
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by alvah 4y ago
Paul Graham wrote an essay about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html Though he primarily talked about religion and politics (it's an old essay), I see people attaching other concepts to their identity, and th
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by alvah 4y ago
How can you possibly extract racism from the parent post? Even if you're actively looking for it? Throwing that word around like confetti makes it less useful where it is deserved.
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by alvah 4y ago
Audi sell EVs as well as ICEs. You said you’d bought an Audi after considering a Tesla. As I said, poorly-executed virtue signal.
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by alvah 4y ago
Tell the OP to buy an Opel instead of an Audi then.
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by alvah 4y ago
No I don't, that's not what I'm suggesting. People who may have bought Teslas in the past at least partly for virtue-signalling are now buying cars built by other manufacturers as a virtue signal against Musk, now they have
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by alvah 4y ago
VW was founded by the Nazis, and the SS ran labor camps where prisoners were forced to work for Auto Union. I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in Audi's wiki, they did make an announcement about it several years ago. I find
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by alvah 4y ago
"Didn't buy a Tesla" = sends a message to Tesla "Didn't buy a Tesla, bought an Audi" = poorly-executed virtue signal attempt.
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by alvah 4y ago
Who is punishing VW? I drive one (my 3rd) & it's a great car. I'm not using it to signal my virtue though, and I am suggesting it's a poor choice for that purpose.
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by alvah 4y ago
When is the official cutoff, for a company founded by the Nazi party to be used as the positive side of a virtue-signaling comparison? Obviously less than 80 years?
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by alvah 4y ago
Audi or VW are poor choices if virtue signaling is the aim. Almost any other Western car company would have been better.
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by alvah 4y ago
Wait until you find out the history of Audi (and its parent company VW)
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by alvah 4y ago
You’re absolutely correct, the largest bureaucracy in Europe definitely doesn’t waste any money. What ratio would be less fucking weird?
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by alvah 4y ago
Of course it’s hard. My point is that the current version of the algorithm gives undue weight to factors other than what the user wants.
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by alvah 4y ago
Surely one of the purposes of a search engine is to assist the journey from generic to specific. I don’t see how filling page 1 for generic queries with non-specific DR90+ behemoths helps.
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by alvah 4y ago
More constructive commentary /sarc And I’m far from a conservative. I just think socialism is more stupid & damaging in the real world (as opposed to in theory) than any of the realistic alternatives, but that doesn’t make me a sup
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by alvah 4y ago
That’s a naive understanding of 2 topics in 1 post. Structural high labour costs can’t be negated by a CO2 tax - how could they? The Gillard / Ken Henry CO2 tax proposals would have had a devastating impact on employment in both mining
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by alvah 4y ago
So more Murdoch!!! Boo, hiss! then. Constructive.
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by alvah 4y ago
query: “best smart watch” Pages and pages of SEO spam, generally ranked by how big & established the site pushing said spam is, rather than any unique insights contained within.
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by alvah 4y ago
“Australia should stop exporting raw materials and do the refining closer to the mines.” High cost of energy / high cost of labour / history of problematic industrial relations all conspire against this worthy goal.
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by alvah 4y ago
“Murdoch!!!!! Boo, hiss” isn’t really a constructive contribution to any debate.
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by alvah 4y ago
Your snark is inaccurate. FFI (one of the major players discussed here) is not part of the fossil fuel industry, and it’s chairman castigates the fossil fuel industry publicly and repeatedly.
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by alvah 4y ago
Ah, the “I’m too smart for this conversation” line. You should look up the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by alvah 4y ago
If you’re talking about the tape I think you’re talking about, please please please don’t release the tape. Ever.
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by alvah 4y ago
Anybody who generates wealth via business ownership is different from most of us - business risk should have at least a chance of reward, otherwise why take the risk? Of course rent-seeking, regulation-gaming & parasitical industries
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by alvah 4y ago
If this is your level of understanding of logic, reason, and debate, how are you even able to tie your own shoelaces?
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by alvah 4y ago
Theoretically this is the case, but in my testing with several apps on an iPhone 13 Pro the results are underwhelming.
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by alvah 4y ago
Blame the cartoon mouse, it ruins everything it touches.
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by alvah 4y ago
Good for you. I haven’t seen any evidence for the “it was only dick pics, definitely nothing else” theory, I assume you have some?

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