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by apozem 10y ago
I respectfully disagree with almost every part of your post. 1. Snapchat is not done. Millions of active users in advertiser-desired demographics is not done. Instagram has blunted its growth, but Snapchat is still alive and well. 2. Snapch
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I'm with you- I love RSS and hate Facebook's news feed. Unfortunately, that is one of the biggest reasons why the masses chose Facebook over Twitter. > Facebook, meanwhile, continued to add to the variety of posts available to
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As someone who's followed Norton's work for several years- yes, that seems like the most likely cause. She appears in the documentary about Aaron Swartz, "The Internet's Own Boy," and by her own account greatly stru
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> Don't want so many people? Mandate reversible sterilization at birth. No. Forced sterilization is eugenics, and we've seen what happens with that [1]. Eugenics is unconscionable for moral, ethical, legal and humanitarian reas
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Sports and luxuries for students have absolutely become the focus of universities. It's hard to sell an ethereal "better education." It's easy to show off your new athletic dorms and massive scoreboard. I know that'
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You need to learn more about The Intercept. Glenn Greenwald and his crowd spent the election cycle relentlessly attacking Clinton over her emails and Obama over his drone strikes.
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Google's decisions on messaging have baffled me for years. Why get rid of gChat, a popular and useful service? Why not implement flawless SMS integration into Hangouts (send SMS from desktop) for people not on Google Voice? Why ditch H
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You are right! Surprising way to test the bot.
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Interesting. I wonder who else is capable of making a bot of this complexity? Like the article said, it's probably not Google. They already have AlphaGo and wouldn't try to hide it under a new account. Maybe this is a message to G
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The lack of Switch mentions raised my eyebrow as well. This article is right in the micro sense but omits two crucial facts: * The Switch is a giant question mark that could be good * Nintendo is sitting on a lot of money. That money and fa
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I can't speak for all of them, but on the second-most recent episode of The Talk Show Gruber and his guest Joanna Stern agreed that the most popular aftermarket USB-C MagSafe replacement did not cut it. Be careful before you buy one of
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Mossberg: In tech, form trumps function too often(theverge.com)
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You get the users you're willing to tolerate. If you advertise your site as an uncensored paradise, don't be surprised when it becomes overrun with assholes. Look no farther than Voat to see how poorly this will go. That said, som
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Both. Amazon corrodes the power of brick and mortar by obsoleting it. Why go to a store limited by shelf space when you can shop at one with essentially infinite inventory?
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I constantly see this assumption from people who attack left-wing culture. It is a mistake to assume someone supports PC politics out of "virtue signaling" or a desire to be socially accepted. Maybe some people do that, but many d
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This is exactly how I felt about Red Dead Redemption. Years after beating the game, I couldn't tell you much about any individual mission. I do remember staring at the in-game sunset as it cast shadows across the open prairie and think
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by apozem 10y ago
I'm sorry your friends within Apple feel burned. Really, I am. I like my Apple products and would like to buy more... But however hard your friends at Apple worked on the new Macs, they're not the Macs we wanted. We professional
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> marketing shills and state-sponsored trolls Gonna need some hard evidence of that. 4chan can barely sell ads on the site, not sure why anyone would bother marketing to them. Frankly, 4chan is kind of irrelavant. A couple million weebs,
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You can interpret public stances of principle as various ways of making money in the long term, but I do buy that Tim Cook cares about doing the right thing in some areas. > (An) NCPPR representative asked Mr. Cook to commit right then a
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I wasn't interested in mechanical watches until reading this from Marco Arment: > Logically, I shouldn’t like these. I’m a usually-rational software developer and computer geek. Mechanical watches are ancient technology that’s outcl
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You'd be surprised. http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26352/did-heinlein-...
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It's large in absolute numbers but nothing compared to the mobile market.
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Yes. If you are paid to advertise something, it is an ad. The law is having trouble catching up on this front, especially in a world where any YouTuber with an audience could potentially run undisclosed ads. Regulating people posting videos
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Professionals actually buy based on features and what they need, not what looks entertaining. Ditto for console gamers. It's a more informed audience that's concentrated in a small group of people with far more disposable income t
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This is a very naive view of history and reconciliation. It's easy to say, "Yes, it was bad, but why don't we move on? Why be divisive and bring up past wrongs?" when you were not the one tortured. I would even call it c
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> This is a pretty chronic Google problem that I noticed both from the inside and outside: their engineering and design talent are incredible, but the people responsible for the product and marketing side are evidently really, really bad
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Cook has his edges. He's supposed to be a demanding, logical boss. > One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Some
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This is what worries me about Nintendo. With the possible exception of Pokemon Go, they aren't capturing new users. They make money off of loyal fans who grew up with Mario and Zelda. Do kids today care about Nintendo?
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Me too. After hearing what the French army suffered through at Verdun, I don't know how anyone could question their courage or tenacity.
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Thank you for sharing this. A beautiful, evocative passage that captures the emotion of the conflict.

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