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I wonder how many of the clicks on online ads in general are just accidental clicks. Especially clicks from phones where it is extremely easy to accidentally load the ads. This question will probably never be answered because it is a vital
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Facebook can just replace corporate media with alternative media outlets that provide the same news. In fact, the alternative media was doing extremely well on social media until around 2017 or so when they changed the algorithms to favor c
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A good rule to determine whether you should quit a job is to examine how much you think about quitting. If you're thinking about quitting on anything resembling an occasional basis let alone a regular basis, the answer is yes. If you e
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I've never had any issues with my HP color laser printer. Bought it about 3 and a half years ago and have never had to change the toner. It just works whenever I need it and whether I need it to print, scan or copy. I think you're
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DMCA counter-claims require the name, address and phone number of the repo owner which is why fake DMCAs are a well-known method of doxxing anonymous people. The DMCA is a very flawed law that is easy to abuse and isn't even effective
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I think the real reason is that the political donation system operates on trust that the donors are who they say they are just like the voting system in most states just trusts that you are who you claim to be when you show up to vote (i.e.
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There are more possible health care systems than the NHS and the worst of all worlds disaster that is US healthcare. I know British people love the NHS but I don't think the US should copy it given its bad outcomes and constant issues
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One of the classics that explains the why behind VC backed tech companies is Peter Thiel's book Zero to One. A big takeaway for me from reading that book was that the companies that become extremely profitable are basically monopolies
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I almost ended up in this situation. Interviewed with this company last summer and from the feedback I got, it sounded like they were on the fence about whether to extend me an offer. They don't have any offices in the Philly area and
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I think AI can replace the "copy everything from Stack Overflow" type of developer but I doubt it is capable of replacing the competent developer. The currently popular form of AI is likely to hit a local maximum just like machine
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Another way you can probably increase the effectiveness of marketing emails is to send less of them. If you're sending daily emails or worse multiple emails a day, your emails are spam and people will start auto-deleting them. This tra
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Per the Nazis v. Skokie case, the 1st Amendment protects the right to engage in hateful speech. There's no serious debate that this law is unconstitutional and the politicians who supported it showed that they either don't underst
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This policy paper argues pretty strongly against making unpaid volunteers criminally liable for security bugs. People in the political realm think of tech as "big tech" (their term for FAANG) and are currently trying to come up wi
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You might be able to accomplish more or less the same goal by dual licensing under AGPL and paid proprietary if you require a contributor agreement. QT (a GUI library for C++) is dual licensed LGPL and proprietary because some corporate use
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One of the ways to address that is to tax vacant housing units. For example, you could double the property taxes for any house that is vacant for more than x days out of a year and the x could be surprisingly high. For multi-unit properties
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As far as an uninformed reader is concerned (think either the typical cable news watcher or the typical apolitical person), "ending single-family zoning" reads as "banning new single-family housing". Most voters, let alo
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The 1099-NEC form you receive instead of a W-2 for contractor income even has instructions for how to report your employer to the IRS if you think you've been misclassified as a contractor instead of an employee. I'm sure the IRS
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Any culture where a failure means somebody needs to be fired is a toxic culture where people will be unwilling to take any risks whatsoever. That's not normal and is a sign that the company's future isn't going to be very pro
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I have a suspicion that the "volunteer-mods" on the big Reddits, like the Wikipedia admins, are infiltrated by people paid by interested parties to represent their interests on those popular web sites. In the case of Wikipedia, I
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You can definitely participate in political discourse under a pseudonym. The anonymous Twitter account "Catturd" is one currently famous example.
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The best thing they could do to attract talent would be to offer a choice of 3, 4 or 5 days for 60%, 80% or 100% salary. Many people would probably choose 3 days at a high paying finance job over 5 days somewhere else and 60% of the money t
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> Want to create something, offer it for free, and know that nobody will modify your code and start selling it? GPL. You can modify somebody's GPLed code and start selling it. The only restriction is that you must offer to share you
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The thing is that Alphabet made a $13.62 billion profit in Q4 of last year[0] so these are not "lean times". Their profit was down from $13.91 billion in the previous quarter. In other words, this is a company that is making at le
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I don't think getting rid of education is a good idea. The current American system is not working but that's mainly because it is a government run monopoly that is largely controlled by very powerful teachers unions that place the
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There are 2 possibilities here: 1) The police have no real criminals to arrest but need to do something to justify their existence. So they're harassing people over things that not only aren't crimes but are examples of good paren
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I think the "you must claim to be at least 13 to be able to participate in an online discussion site" law makes sense as it functions as an IQ test of sorts to keep under-13s who are not ready to be on the internet off the interne
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The idea of giving kids laptops with unsupervised internet access to use for in-person school sounds really weird to me. At the very least you'd think the teacher would be able to see and control their screen to stop them from misusing
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I don't see much difference between the business model of trading card games and the business model of the EA Sports Ultimate Team mode other than the existence of physical items. This business model is really good from the company&#x2
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The real reason is "our profit margins are currently spread too thin" but they can't say that because it'd make Amazon look really bad in terms of PR. Amazon is currently looking to cut stuff that costs Amazon money and
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I do a good bit of my web browsing on my phone and I hate those web sites that are "optimized for phones" and thus typically lacking content and features. You can sometimes disable them with desktop mode but usually those sites

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