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Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies(nytimes.com)
43 points by bgarbiak 8y ago|21 comments
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
This, plus the obnoxious, childish writing style. It's a tech tabloid.
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
Of course, child porn is easier to identify. For a human eye. Also, in case of Apple and their App Store it’s not only CP, it is all kind of NSFW content that has to be filtered out. And that can be nuanced. It appears that for now the filt
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
That must have changed recently, no? Because a few years ago all the "dangerous" search terms where blanked in the Tumblr app. Not even a straight porn, I was looking for photos of some top models and if there was any kind of topl
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
One commenter in the OP article pointed an interesting aspect of it: it's widely required, and considered totally feasible to preemptively filter pornography from the user uploaded stuff, and yet: even the giants like YouTube will fall
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
There are user-made shortcuts for Spotify already[0]. These use external website to connect to Spotify API and require a prompt. So, instead of "Play Kurt Vile" you have to say "Play artist", wait for a note, then say &q
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
Is it a broad change of culture, or maybe your friends became parents recently?
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
I believe this is this: "(Bayer's) Cutter (Laboratories) misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the produc
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by bgarbiak 8y ago
The systems in VWs are like that by purpose. Their premium brands do behave better, yet they still not on the level of Tesla's system (I refuse to call it autopilot). Still, no one knows if what Tesla does is indeed that much better, o
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WhatsApp raises minimum age in Europe to 16(reuters.com)
3 points by bgarbiak 8y ago|0 comments
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
IANAL, but: iOS is not a monopoly, but it has a dominant position, especially in US (over or close to 50% market share). For tablets their market share is even bigger than that. That should be enough to at least consider some actions, on so
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Coal is one thing, the environmental cost of producing batteries is another. You have to drive your 100kWh Tesla for over 8 years to get carbon emissions lower than ICE cars[1]. That number probably got lower thanks to Gigafactory being mor
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Only the cheapest (and TT) Audi models are based on MQB. From A4 up it’s MLB – the luxury variant. Also, for the new cars Audi will share the tech not with the cheaper makes, but upwards: with Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini and so on. It alr
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
It's not only Facebook though. If you look for a restaurant at Google it will show you a link to that restaurant's website, opening hours, etc. but also: how popular the place is at any time, and how much time people spend there.
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
> Why? Should I then expect the government to bail me out after I lose all of my money in blackjack, provided that sufficient amount of people do the same. Well, if the issue grows to such a great scale then bailing people out saves the
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
I think you mean the A class: https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/vehicles/pass...
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
I can not disagree more. Formula E is nothing like Formula 1. I was hoping it is, even considered going to the race nearby, but then I dug more into it. In reality: it's closer to go-karts than F1 or other "racing formulas".
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Mazda and other partners won't get solid state batteries from Toyota. They cooperate on a shared platform for EVs, not on the batteries tech. Source: http://www.thedrive.com/tech/15514/toyota-wont-share-solid-
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
"This represents a year-over-year 3% unit growth and 2% revenue growth, suggesting slightly more people are buying higher priced iPhones like the 7 Plus and 8 Plus." Isn't that the other way around? More units were sold, bu
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
I see no reason why workers, who do exactly the same job as their counterparts in Germany, UK, France, should be grateful and just accept being paid many times less. The better they are paid the better the situation is for the workers in
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Poland took in not million but 183 refugees from Ukraine. (data from april 2017) The million people you're talking about are no refugees, they are cheap labour. They're allowed to stay only as long as they keep their jobs. And t
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
But you want humans to have children, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think fathers in Norway are forced to take a maternity leave, which are equally long as mothers' leaves. That's seems like a fair solution.
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
You would be right if we could transfer the energy from power plant to cars efficiently. We can't. Batteries are the bottleneck. See: https://www.autovistagroup.com/news-and-insights/swedish-stu... However, I have
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
I'm as big fan of EVs as the next guy, and would love to see cities with clean air and no noise. But, there are few things that we forget about when we talk about zero-emmision cars. EVs pollute less, but they pollute too, and in citie
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Yeah, indeed, sometimes they seem to shove some bands down the throats. At least in the radio mode you can use the "thumb down", and I hope they're checking which songs I keep skipping. But, for the best results: try listenin
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Daily Mix is intended to work this way. It's ought to give you songs that you already know and like, not the new ones.
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
There are many other cars that could be compared to Model 3. Mazdas, VWs, Hyundais, Hondas. If we take only size, price, performance and interior quality into consideration then Model 3 is certainly not the best choice. But it's an EV.
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Or from LG: http://www.lgchem.com/global/lg-chem-company/information-cen... Batteries supply appears to be a solved problem quite soon.
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
I don't want to start a political dispute over here, but the private pension funds scheme is a theft by itself. The country transfers money over to these pension funds, and by doing that it raises it's own debt. Now it has to sell
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by bgarbiak 9y ago
Didn't test it, but I'd guess that playing some media (audio, preferably) should keep Safari alive.

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