benknight87

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by benknight87 4y ago
Leaving the US five years ago and moving to Southeast Asia provided a swift solution to all of my dating problems.
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by benknight87 4y ago
I'd like to pay creators directly for the things I watch and cut out the middle man entirely.
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by benknight87 4y ago
Funny to see the ad hominem attacks coming out with little to no information about the actual company or deal. The well-oiled news outrage machine chugs along, baiting people into emotional reactions about things that don't affect them
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by benknight87 4y ago
"Impersonate"
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by benknight87 4y ago
If the current dumb phone comeback continues, SMS won't be going anywhere any time soon
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by benknight87 4y ago
Online fraud is rampant across major platforms. Companies lack the resources and immediate financial incentives to combat it. Google Maps is another good example. I live in Vietnam and businesses stealing another business' unclaimed li
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by benknight87 4y ago
OMG this, so hard. This idea is tied to the "genius" myth where we think had people like Mark Zuckerberg not come around we wouldn't have social media, or had Einstein not been born nobody else could have conceived of relativ
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by benknight87 4y ago
I kind of hope one day personal data plans render public wifi obsolete. Every time you connect to a new wifi network you just never know what awaits. It might be a slow connection, it might be a shitty device that only kind of works, it mig
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by benknight87 4y ago
My favorite part of this article is the paywall about 2 paragraphs in.
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by benknight87 4y ago
I really enjoyed reading Fiber Fueled which basically lays out how all the latest science links our overall health very closely to the health and diversity of our microbiome. It will be interesting to see if new research continues to find e
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by benknight87 4y ago
With a wide range of technical savviness among users, macOS tries its best to make everyone happy and IMO does a pretty decent job at it. It's loved by programmers and grandmas alike. Can't really say that about Linux or Windows.
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by benknight87 4y ago
While I agree it's more likely that carousels are more of a way to satisfy stakeholders than to actually provide something of value to users, most of the usability issues with them are solved by simply disabling auto-play, or at least
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by benknight87 5y ago
This happened to my Instagram account a few months ago. Exact same error message but it made no sense as I hadn't done anything remotely against their terms of service and it was totally out of the blue. I filled out some support form
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by benknight87 5y ago
The only thing that really seems to be true about all of this is Blockchain indeed is a huge innovation simply because of its ability to create decentralized trust. Full stop. Web3/crypto tech is currently going through the "Peak
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by benknight87 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: the vast majority of people in the world do not need to get so emotionally invested in things happening in the world that don't directly affect them. As terrible as it is, in the broader context of all human history
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by benknight87 5y ago
Small nitpick - the search form doesn't stand out as input, it just looks like random header text.
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by benknight87 5y ago
Has anyone done a decent job explaining what the most likely outcomes actually are?