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by anders_p 5y ago
Can you point to science that empirically demonstrates that the universe didn't come from absolutely nothing? No, right? So the idea that nothing can come from nothing, is based on an assumption. Which was the entire point of the comme
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by anders_p 5y ago
Its a nice idea. There'd be no ending or beginning to worry about. Everything would be self-contained. But I don't believe that our universe is neither unique, neverending, or cyclical. I believe that our universe is just one of m
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by anders_p 5y ago
> it's a "substance that reacts to magnets", which "could be metal". > This could lend some credence to the "COVID vaccine magnet challenge" that went viral in conspiracy theory circles. [3] You coul
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by anders_p 5y ago
>...when it's done in the interest of preventing another holocaust... Spying on journalists critical of oppressive regimes, has absolutely nothing to do with "preventing another holocaust". Arming tyrants with technology t
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by anders_p 5y ago
> The main exception was Jan 6, which we've been taught to believe is apparently worse than the civil war. People died. The insurgents erected gallows and carried plastic handcuff-strips. They were flying the Confederate flag INSIDE
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by anders_p 5y ago
>Photography was initially derided as "not art" or "machines replacing human artists" too. It was neither. It was just a new way to make pictures that spawned new art forms. This is one thing about progress and art, t
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by anders_p 5y ago
> But market share of what? No one pays for web search so that's not really a market. The customer in a web search isn't the USER. It's the BUISINESSES whose ads are placed on the search results page. THEY are certainly pa
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by anders_p 5y ago
Is that also a realistic alternative for a business? To just place their ads on DDG? Where only about 2% of consumers are? And a huge part of DDG's users have ad block? That would be a death sentence for a business, when the competitor
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by anders_p 5y ago
You completely missed the point of the comment. Google is stealing ideas and products, that they know are viable through the metrics they gather from the search data. Then they implement those products and embed them ABOVE the search result
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by anders_p 5y ago
I second whynaut's suggestion. That's precisely what I did for the elders. I set up pinned bookmark shortcuts on the 'tab bar' (had to enable the 'show bookmarks bar' option). Now they have a button for 'm
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by anders_p 5y ago
Google has a near monopoly on search traffic. Businesses HAVE to use Google for ads. Only placing ads on DuckDuckGo is not a viable strategy when more than 80% of all search traffic is via Google. Google prioritizes their own products. Some
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by anders_p 5y ago
I'm pretty sure those same apartment buildings wouldn't let you set up the large scale server farm required for you to set up your own search engine alternative to Google either.
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by anders_p 5y ago
I pretty sure that you completely missed the point of the comment. - Woosh. He wasn't arguing that building your own toilet is a good option - just that it exists as an option. And the fact of options merely existing, doesn't auto
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by anders_p 5y ago
> People talking like drilling a well in your backward is on par with typing in a different URL. So how about this, the upfront cost and effort of typing in a different URL is at least a few orders of magnitude easier than drilling a wel
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by anders_p 5y ago
That's just a ridiculous statement. There's hours of video online of American police screaming "stop resisting arrest!", while beating civilians senseless. It's quite clearly a tactic employed by a lot of them to c
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by anders_p 5y ago
Jesus Christ you can't be serious? Have never heard about what happened during the Civil Rights movement? Try a web search for police violence. You will see hours upon hours of unprovoked violence by the US police. Your comment is quit
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by anders_p 5y ago
Did the US government ads show a tortured hostage forced to "confess" to something? No they didn't. You are comparing apples to oranges. We are seeing a dicator state broadcast their use of torture on a dissident via Google
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by anders_p 5y ago
That's not what the comment said at all. He didn't claim that his action was ethical. He said that YouTube's was unethical. You completely misunderstood.
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by anders_p 5y ago
Seriously? Why would you be so skeptical of that? Would you really bring your phone with you, when going out for a beer or coffee, even if it could easily result in you being forced to stay quarantined for 2 weeks? Is your smartphone reall
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by anders_p 5y ago
Facebook could just as easily go the Netflix route and keep the subscription payments away from the app.
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by anders_p 5y ago
First of all, "shadow profikes" aren't a conspiracy theory. They're a fact. Secondly, the profiles aren't 'useless'. They're highly valuable. Both for being able to present users with a targeted exper
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by anders_p 5y ago
Your $150/month per user is way too high. According to their valuation it is closer to $50/user per year.
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by anders_p 5y ago
It's in no way given, that Apple would get anything money, from facebook charging for their service. They could easily go the Netflix route and keep the subscription payment off the app. If Netflix can avoid the in-app surcharge, then
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by anders_p 5y ago
Correction. Can't edit, but the last paragraph should've been: "I know that it's in no way HEALTHY*, but..."
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by anders_p 5y ago
I was a smoker for 20 of the 45 I've been alive. Around 1 pack a day. It was exactly the social aspect of smoking that I liked the most, now that I look back at it. Smokers have an easier time establishing a bond, when placed in new gr
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by anders_p 6y ago
They haven't seen any benefit to their economy compared to other nordic countries at all. Partly because they are export dependant and nobody's buying & partly because enough swedes are staying home (not going to pubs etc.) fo
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by anders_p 8y ago
I don't eat a banana whenever I have 5 minutes of idle time during the day though ;)
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by anders_p 8y ago
Seems like almost every time I have gotten really interested in news stories over the years & looked deeper into them, I somehow end up with Iran-Contra. :) Interestingly, Jamal's cousin is Dodi Fayed, the guy who married and died
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by anders_p 8y ago
Bing's video search is actually surprisingly good. Some of my friends have told me that it's a lot better for porn than Google.