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by bad_user 7y ago
> The website you are looking at did not select _any_ of the ads you see. That's irrelevant. In general the content creator gets to choose how their content gets monetized. They own the copyright after all. That ads blocking isn&#
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by bad_user 7y ago
> - Too many websites place tracking cookies first and then let you disable them Under GDPR, unless the website owner can prove a legitimate interest (which is pretty hard to do and doesn't work for advertising), this is illegal
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by bad_user 7y ago
> But business gonna business and bend the rules, I guess. Until some lawsuits will happen and the EU has been more than happy to collect fines.
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by bad_user 7y ago
Dr. Khan is not just a cardiologist, he's a vegan and my problem with him specifically and with veganism in general is that it's often ideological. Chris Kresser is not an "acupuncturist". And this is a classic ad-homin
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by bad_user 7y ago
> I'd rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and I was the customer (not the product). Out of curiosity, what services and products are you paying for? I'm willing to bet that a vast majority
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by bad_user 7y ago
You don't have ad-blockers on all devices or for their app. I'm on iOS and I like using the app since Premium allows for playing stuff in the background, plus downloading stuff for offline viewing. You can't get that in Firef
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by bad_user 7y ago
> For example, eating barbecued meat causes cancer, but it we don't ban it. Sure, but the absolute risk is very low and it's probably zero if you add veggies to your meal. And also causality was not established, observationa
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by bad_user 7y ago
There's no difference between "fruit juice" and regular soda. The fiber is gone so "fruit juice" will be as easily absorbed as regular juice and the sugar in it is just as potent. You could argue that "fruit ju
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by bad_user 7y ago
Interestingly the food industry has perverse incentives ... because humans have a maximum limit of food eaten during the day, big companies like Coca Cola can only grow by encouraging people to eat more. Since the more people eat, the more
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by bad_user 7y ago
I would agree with banning any ads for children under 18 years old, b/c they get bombarded with ads for junk food on all media channels. Plus I would agree with media campaigns teaching people that sugary drinks are a leading cause of
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by bad_user 7y ago
There are newer services like Revolut proving that it can be done. All you need is somebody's phone number and the transfer is instant and with no taxes. You can also exchange currency at the interbank exchange rate during the week. An
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by bad_user 7y ago
Open Source means that it can be forked. If that guy gets hit by a bus and if the app is useful enough (and it is), then a fork will happen. And I can always do some contributions myself. And if I'm wrong and that fork doesn't hap
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by bad_user 7y ago
With Bitwarden the personal account is separate from the shared Organization account. If a user forgets his/her password, then you can always create a new account. All the collections belonging to the organizations will be there. The p
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by bad_user 7y ago
We've been using Bitwarden at work, the Teams plant, paying $15 per month, or $180 per year for 10 users. The only reason for why I picked it is its open source nature, otherwise I would have gone for 1Password Teams. The pricing is od
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by bad_user 7y ago
No. Open source has a precise defition that is equivalent with Free Software: [1] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
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by bad_user 7y ago
Dropbox is still the only mainstream sync service that works on Linux though. And it works well. Never had any problems with it. On the other hand I've had plenty of problems of Insync. And the open source solutions are all garbage.
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by bad_user 7y ago
No, this isn't about control. Safari's content blockers simply suck at what they do. And yes, I'm an iPhone user.
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by bad_user 7y ago
As I said, Safari's content blockers are restricted in what they can do and easy to circumvent. That they work for now is only temporary. There's also the elephant in the room: 1. Those content blockers don't work in webviews
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by bad_user 7y ago
I think ads provide a business model without which many online services won't survive. And indeed there's the privacy angle, however... (1) laws like the GDPR are far more effective at fighting that and (2) ads don't have to
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by bad_user 7y ago
Ha, no :-) And I'm also no longer on that team.
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by bad_user 7y ago
Safari's content blockers are super easy to circumvent by anti-ad-blocking tech. That many publishers don't do that already is a mystery, probably because visitors with ad-blocking are still a minority and publishers don't wa
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by bad_user 7y ago
There's nothing interesting here. China is not a liberal democracy and is guilty of many human rights violations. If you want to use Huawei devices, go ahead, it's a personal choice, but preferring Chinese devices for security or
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by bad_user 7y ago
The point is that Monad, Applicative and Functor are well defined interfaces with laws (properties) you can count on. They are in fact much better, more precisely defined than classic design patterns. And in expressive programming languages
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by bad_user 7y ago
This has nothing to do with technology. If you start expressing opinions about how sex with a sex-trafficked child should be legal, won't your friends and family raise some questions about your character? Unless we're talking of m
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by bad_user 7y ago
What's being lost in the conversation is that the child in the the story was trafficked for sex. We are not talking just about sex with a 17 year old.
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by bad_user 7y ago
That's what you think happened here? You think Epstein felt in love? With a child being trafficked for sex?
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by bad_user 7y ago
> learn both This is a common advice but it isn't realistic. It takes a lot of time to learn a language, its tools, its most popular libraries, its best practices, to interact with its community, to see in what problem domains it
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by bad_user 7y ago
Not sure how good the original article is, but this is a poor rant. And I very much dislike Go as a language.
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by bad_user 7y ago
> studies have found that drivers leave less distance when they see a cyclist wearing a helmet I don't think that's what those studies have found. First of all the results are disputed and also this can work both ways — as sp
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by bad_user 7y ago
As I said in another message, the Dutch are lucky to have cities that are mostly flat. In my city we've got some hills in spite of the region being plain — and riding a bike on a slope you can easily reach 60 km/h without sweating

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