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by aylmao 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is being down-voted, could someone thinking of down-voting comment? EDIT: now I'm being down voted? Could someone explain?
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by aylmao 8y ago
> The team is joining DeepMind/Alphabet, and it appears DeepMind promised that health data would never be joined to your Google account. Ah, good to hear! Companies always keep their promises after all, especially when it is around
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by aylmao 8y ago
> I'm amazed at how many people here say that people should simply use a static site generator instead of wordpress or medium. I don't think the author (or the people writing those comments) are claiming that medium is going to
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by aylmao 8y ago
> The emergence of liberal democracies is associated with ideals of liberty and equality that may seem self-evident and irreversible. > In the second decade of the 21st century, liberalism has begun to lose credibility. Questions abou
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by aylmao 8y ago
I don't see as much negative behaviour from people in Facebook, as I do in online platforms which are anonymous. Maybe it's just my friends aren't a meaningful sample of people, or maybe it's that-- since you connect wit
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by aylmao 8y ago
Centralization of data aside, playing non-devils advocate: > The only people on facebook are boomers arguing about politics. Dating is all about exclusivity and compartmentalization. Nobody wants to date in the same place they get happy
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by aylmao 8y ago
> Why would you want dating and current and previous partners integrated with the entire rest of your social life? I mean, isn't your dating already integrated with a lot of your social life? That's part of why breakups are tou
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by aylmao 8y ago
Maybe the'll weed themselves out if the feature is not there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by aylmao 8y ago
Which makes me wonder, is deodorant something that should be advertised at all? If your deodorant has some new unique property, etc, then it makes sense to advertise that. And I remember deodorants that did advertise they were careful on th
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by aylmao 8y ago
This is part of why the concept of the free market economy makes little sense to me. The free market revolves around the idea that eventually bad players lose and good players selling what's best for the consumer win. Rational buyers b
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by aylmao 8y ago
We're all vulnerable to smear and false accusations. Anyone could claim right now that you sold company secrets to a competitor, yet we don't worry about that because most people are not liars or jerks and would face repercussions
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by aylmao 8y ago
The article says it: > He said that X decided not to hire Simpson before she went to Burning Man and that he did not realize she had not been informed. Also, the guy admitted it was "an error of judgement". When the accused adm
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by aylmao 8y ago
I'd like to see this as a single button, where you download the 3MB standalone, and if the user doesn't have chrome, it downloads an Electron runtime.
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by aylmao 8y ago
All examples of bad user experience, yes.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Pretty cool and interesting idea, and I guess the usability is banking the fact that Chrome is the most popular browser and probably installed on most user's computers. Idea for another project: a wrapper around the system's bulit
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by aylmao 8y ago
Or not even 4k, I'd be good having something that matches my phone's selfie camera.
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by aylmao 8y ago
The base MacBook has 256GB Storage. I still don't think that merits it being $100 more expensive than the base Air, but sigh. I guess the MacBook Air brand is just much more popular at this point. Being the "first utrabook" a
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by aylmao 8y ago
Honestly I'd imagine this is on purpose. Facebook wouldn't want their platforms to overlap too much anyway-- wouldn't that be putting all eggs in one basket, in terms of vision for the future of social interaction? There&#x27
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by aylmao 8y ago
> The rest of the post is a rant about user tracking. Almost. There's also: > "The only other way we’ve found so far, which currently accounts for a much smaller portion of our revenue, is non-tracking affiliate partnerships
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by aylmao 8y ago
For a minute I thought it said "The Hardest Words" and was quite confused reading through it.
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by aylmao 8y ago
They were(/are?) trying to mimic web companies in their rapid, continuous iteration.
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by aylmao 8y ago
> I feel like we must have done enough twin studies over the years at this point to conclusively say that genetic heritage is the most significant factor for a whole host of ourcomes. I feel like there wouldn't be so much discussion
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by aylmao 8y ago
+1. And not only businesses, people are also changing apartments all the time.
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by aylmao 8y ago
A look at the financial district in NYC reveals this. During the day the place is very active, but during the night the whole thing dies out.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Mailbox. I've missed it less since I discovered Spark, but Mailbox was the OG app that made me not hate email.
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by aylmao 8y ago
This article sounded a bit weird to me from the technical level, but I just assumed it could be lack of clear understanding on the nitty-gritty from the journalist, or just me not knowing about hardware enough to know what's possible a
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by aylmao 8y ago
> You literally have no idea what the people of Cuba feel about Castro. Neither do I. I don't. I personally haven't been to Cuba, but I'm not American so I know people who have (unlike the US, we could always travel to Cub
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by aylmao 8y ago
> Considering the horrific things Castro did to the Cuban people[1] and how he almost started nuclear armageddon[2], the world would have been better off if he had been overthrown (and possibly killed) as early as possible. Considering t
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by aylmao 8y ago
> First, the purpose of a military is to be able to break things and harm people as effectively as possible. Did he think his job would involve making the military less effective? That's his point. He was distracted by the pay, the
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by aylmao 8y ago
> Basically Latin America has been like the entire Middle East for the last 10 years. Have a look at this list (especially during/after the 50s) [1] and tell me what most countries have in common. > Perhaps this was inevitable. I

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