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by bcoates 9y ago
Google is hoping that this will discourage people from going to even the minimal effort to use an adblocker. The next step will be to mildly then not-so-mildly burden effective adblockers on Chrome.
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by bcoates 9y ago
But is he keeping track of their plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids? You ever see a Putin drink a glass of water?
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by bcoates 9y ago
Wait, Seth Abramson's problem with the Washingon Post is that they're not willing enough to believe batshit Russians-under-our-beds stories?
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by bcoates 9y ago
I have an ailing 1020 that I'm dreading replacing. Are there any new user-serviceable phones on the market? or should I just keep doing the Ship of Theseus thing with Amazon greymarket parts until the phone market shakes out into less
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by bcoates 9y ago
Teaching to the test is so much work, the smart teacher will just lobby administration to get the weaker students removed from the class. https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/03/29/why-selection-bias-is-t...
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by bcoates 9y ago
Early child education evidence is a whole complicated thing in itself, but programs shifting first reading instruction younger do not show benefits at older age, and school systems that put the expected literacy age much later than most Ame
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by bcoates 9y ago
At least Youtube and Facebook offer this feature. It's pretty standard. The problem is that a lot of their inventory is an inch wide and a mile deep. The rule is roughly "narrow targeting, cheap impressions, reasonable frequency,
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by bcoates 9y ago
If people were tearing their hair out about internet gambling destroying democracy they would rightly be made fun of. Internet gambling is discouraged/banned to the extent it threatens the local tax base, nobody cares about gambling ad
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by bcoates 9y ago
With the exception of the github profile, that's not my experience at all -- if anything, lots of hiring managers want to ape that sort of experience even if they can't really assess it because the alternative is something like th
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by bcoates 9y ago
I think you're really underestimating the shocking amount of television people used to watch. Many baby boomers have spent most of their adult life spending almost every free moment in front of a TV.
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by bcoates 9y ago
I would put up with a hieroglyphic based UI ten times weirder than the one depicted if it meant the microwave didn't beep. Seriously, what is it with embedded digital electronics designers and beeping? Nothing else has a gratuitous noi
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by bcoates 9y ago
Of course they do, a three way handshake at that distance takes way too long.
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by bcoates 9y ago
packet transit, installation, maintenance, customer service. Also most less technical ISP customers get a lot of value out of ISP managed equipment rental and don't want to buy and maintain a router-AP themselves. Local loop unbundling
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by bcoates 9y ago
Ad breaks are up to the video poster.
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by bcoates 9y ago
It's short in the sense that you're selling before you buy and profiting off the thing bought/sold (bitcoin) going down between the two trades. Sell -> wait -> buy as opposed to the 'long' position of buy -&gt
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by bcoates 9y ago
To put downward pressure on the exchange rates the smart money would have to be holding tons of tether to liquidate in the first place -- is there any reason to believe they are?
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by bcoates 9y ago
Tether is how you short bitcoin -- it's hard to move USD out of exchanges, people are worried about a bitcoin (or "all cryptocurrencies") drop, so they move into tether hoping to buy back in after bitcoin goes down without ha
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by bcoates 9y ago
Luck isn't just a matter of taste. A sufficient luck element makes it practical for players of different skill to play together (particularly for 3+ player games, where being uncompetitive isn't so much educational as boring and g
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by bcoates 9y ago
The 1955 Parker Brothers game "Careers" is weirdly ahead of its time in this way, it's roll-and-move (looks like Monopoly) but each player chooses their own, hidden, victory condition to win. It's the norm for everyone i
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by bcoates 9y ago
If I had to guess, videos consisting of mostly text (screencasts/slide shows) are considered likely to be bad videos (spammy junk and make-money-fast scams) and programming stuff is getting caught in the crossfire
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by bcoates 9y ago
It's not a matter of balls, it's a matter of understanding that the most important part of tax policy is compliance, that is actually collecting the taxes . Even our current methods of evaluating quantities and distribution of we
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by bcoates 9y ago
Particularly after the POTS line was disabled! I'd be inclined to check the emergency call button on that elevator and see if anyone picks up.
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by bcoates 9y ago
Thompson's real high water mark was the Mojave phonebooth, ever since we lost it civilization has been on a long slow decay down to Mad Max world.
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by bcoates 9y ago
Why not both: because debundling and/or demonopolizing cable involves moving against entrenched interests, and the pro-NN forces have just demonstrated they don't have the political strength to get neutrality alone, let alone &quo
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by bcoates 9y ago
High fixed costs aren't what's keeping competitors out of the market; legally mandated monopolies are. City/Neighborhood/small scale ISPs work just fine where they're allowed to exist. There's no natural reason
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by bcoates 9y ago
Where I live, I like spectrum-formerly-timewarner-formerly-roadrunner cable Internet just fine. There are a lot of alternatives to using it for home Internet around here, and I'm pretty sure the two are related. If you want better inte
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by bcoates 9y ago
Turn on your ad-blocker? I can only reproduce the dumb wall if I have the noxious bounceexchange.com enabled
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by bcoates 9y ago
Traditional local media (broadcast radio, newspaper, broadcast TV) are oversupplied and under severe economic/competitive pressure; there needs to be less of them which means consolidation and winding down marginal operations. It'
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The "right altitude" maximizes damage and mostly reduces fallout as a side-effect, so yeah
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Linus isn't a manager, he's in charge. Persuading people to move in the same direction is a critical management skill but fundamentally not the job of someone actually steering things, and it's entirely common for the person

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