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by ballenf 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that an IOS device has the page open in a tab and refreshes it from time to time. I wish manual refresh was an option, especially for pages with redirects to another app or the AppStore.
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by ballenf 4y ago
And the nearby Burger Shack wondered why their online orders plummeted.
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by ballenf 4y ago
LED bulbs is the one that still surprises me. The quality jump and price cliff from the flickery, blindness-inducing early bulbs was very fast.
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by ballenf 4y ago
If every PR a dev submitted got reverted the next day, they'd probably lose a bit of passion and start phoning it in or leave for another job.
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by ballenf 4y ago
What's scarier than secretly reading messages is the idea that we are being manipulated into believing that we thought of the "random item" all on our own, instead of it being cleverly triggered by a series of manipulative ad
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by ballenf 4y ago
Maybe making (certain kinds of) math mistakes is a sign of intelligence.
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by ballenf 4y ago
And physical currency satisfies this analogy-test of causation more fully than Tornado cash. It's almost like the establishment of a national currency had as one of its goals fungibility of notes as a priority (over notes from any of h
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by ballenf 4y ago
Because a prankster will replace the QR code with one that pops open a different can just behind you. Hopefully it's on a timer and closes just before you can get there for maximum fun.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Commute time is just one of many very large inefficiencies in modern work life. I spend much more time each day in useless meetings, filling out useless forms, digging through HR docs pages trying to find convoluted policies so I can get re
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by ballenf 4y ago
And what's the value of drugs trafficked over public highways? Or illegal activity coordinated over SMS? Using volume of illegal activity cannot be the primary factor in categorizing a platform.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Makes me wonder what city in all the world and all of history up to the present would be the most visually impressive or beautiful. The present has the challenge of having many orders of magnitude more people, but modern plumbing, electrici
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by ballenf 4y ago
I think it's more so that many schools use unofficial YouTube frontends that already hide ads & recommendations. The elementary schools in my area do anyway.
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by ballenf 4y ago
"The streetlight was originally designed as a surveillance device and has been refined to that end ever since then." I'm sorry, but I don't think any normal definition of "surveillance" would include a lamp tha
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by ballenf 4y ago
"Return to the workforce" is such a dystopian paradigm. What could be more important or more valuable to society than caring for those who need it? Why would "professional" caregivers be part of the workforce, but the lo
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by ballenf 4y ago
I'd prefer a hardware switch over pure software anyway. A toggle on the headphones -- a slide switch for Device A or B. (Auto software switching would be better if it worked 99%+ of the time.)
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by ballenf 4y ago
Surely a cutoff in impression #s for hand review would be feasible? Even if the cutoff started absurdly high as logistics were ironed out. And then no cutoff for certain classes of ads, like political.
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Using Leaves to Improve Solar Cells(youtube.com)
3 points by ballenf 4y ago|1 comments
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by ballenf 4y ago
We should look at it about as longingly as as an offsite backup for critical data. If you only have one habitable planet, you have none. There's no need to romanticize our interest in Mars. It just becomes prudent at some point after b
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by ballenf 4y ago
And then the alien with a better knowledge of their own history and development will retort, "They are really no different than we were when we carried our food supplies around on our uppermost IR signaler organ. Given that they are al
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by ballenf 4y ago
Could the shift away from full spectrum incandescent bulbs have any affect on the "air cleaning" process indoors?
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by ballenf 4y ago
One commenter questions whether generals and armies were capable of the advanced math implicated by the harmonic transfer method. But they don't have to do any advanced math. They just take food for the fleet from a single donkey and t
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by ballenf 4y ago
Why does Amazon care about the reviews? Just seems like they have more to lose with this extraordinary freeze. Just have to wonder if the move isn't ego driven instead of business driven. But I also think Bezos can do whatever he wants
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by ballenf 4y ago
So who was hurt in that scenario? Seems ok unless the servers were mislead during hiring.
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by ballenf 4y ago
> The emphasis on novelty has deep roots in academic publishing. It used to be that publishing was expensive, and any repetition came at the expense of other things that could have been published. Today, however, publishing is essentiall
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by ballenf 4y ago
It's opt-in for people to choose Brave over another browser. It's opt-in for creators to accept payouts. All the complaints mentioned in your link were resolved 2 years ago. Brave returns money to donators if the creator doesn&#x2
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by ballenf 4y ago
Seems like it's ok to let societies draw different boundaries around what the government's "job" is.
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by ballenf 4y ago
> I should reveal that I'm an anti-monarchist and a believe that states should strip any and all powers from from their monarchies, even if they are quaint and historical anachronisms. Curious why? Would you hold that position even
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by ballenf 4y ago
Yep, got a notice to that effect for the first time but didn't confirm that it's related to the outages.
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by ballenf 4y ago
> And, suing a merchant is prohibitively slow, expensive, and arduous. Is that true because credit cards mean there's no incentive to make the court process more efficient? That is, without credit cards playing that role courts wo
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by ballenf 4y ago
Then you just point the webcam at a screen or microphone at a speaker? I really don't think moving our trust to unknown, unnamed manufacturers of hardware in far away places is a solution. The solution is not going to be high tech, imh

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