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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> I can't really put my finger on what makes Fortnite work so well with teenagers Free To Play!
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I'm familiar with both those buildings, and can attest to the fact that sometimes the boldest and inscrutable design decisions eventually become the most well-loved. High risk, high reward.
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A real hard problem here is distinguishing between a lack of discipline and ADHD. Maybe that's kind of unknowable.
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Pretty sure they meant "one day a boycott."
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For certain tasks, robots are also faster, safer & produce higher quality, as the automotive industry has demonstrated.
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The downside to computerizing & networking everything is the multitude of vulnerabilities you open.
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It's understandable to be curious about that, I am myself. But I don't think they owe us that. It might be sensitive information, anyway.
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But it's more profitable to store multiple user interests & behaviors in a database to be exploited in any number of ways, including selling. The aggregation even lets you infer other valuable information about the user, such as
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Somehow I doubt that a side position would substantially improve the situation for either party if the woman still feels violated.
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There's also the court of public opinion to consider, in which actual legal standing is irrelevant. Small comfort if you successfully rebuff a suit but lose your reputation in the process.
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It hasn't been technologically possible until recently, and now that it is, businesses are strongly incentivized to use it, in order to keep up with the growth of competitors that do used tracked advertising. Privacy-focused mass-marke
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This isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. Tracking-based advertising isn't used out of necessity any more often than negotiating a $200k TC increase is. It's about maximizing profit, not simply about sustained survival.
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Perhaps, but the existence of apocryphal Seuss stories seems likely as well.
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Or any more than we are entitled to an explanation of the name of any business, individual, or [noun] we encounter.
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That might justify using "should" in a prudential sense, but not a moral sense.
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Even if people do leave, the data that Facebook possesses on both former users & never-users combined with their demonstrably dangerous & dishonest practices justifies some sort of regulatory intervention.
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Any entity sufficiently large to lobby legislators or offer campaign donations can threaten democracy more directly, and in fact it happens every day.
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Because targeting is very profitable.
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Right, it's less a serious moral evaluation and more a rhetorical device to appease his supporters long enough to continue reading his argument.
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12-35% of minimum full-time wage.
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> the newer ones seem to be implicitly saying "you have no control (anymore)." Since all those toolbars can still be made visible in newer versions, I think MS's choice to hide them is more about a minimalist aesthetic tha
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> nukes (Green Eggs) Think you mean the Butter Battle.
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That'll happen with most N-gram searches.
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> "Don't be shy, no time for false modesty, it may cost a life." Or it may cost the rescuer quite a bit when a woman regains consciousness half-naked with a man on top of her.
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Having some executable file is a prerequisite for opening any other!
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I'd upvote the video even if it was an American kid, it's cool. The fact that it's from an impoverished country makes it cooler.
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Were you hunting like primeval man, or modern man?
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I suppose I was taking more of an idealistic view.
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Given our propensity to dehumanize political opponents, perhaps the converse is true as well.
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High disagreeableness gives you ambition. High conscientiousness gives you the power to achieve it. Low neuroticism helps you avoid self-sabotage.

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