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> Those fucken rich kids. Immigrants too, who conventionally start out at the other end of the class spectrum Yeah, the more general pattern seems to be that you're more likely to start a business if you're at the fringe of soc
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> Wait, does this mean I can blacklist any image I want by claiming it's a naughty picture of myself? I could imagine they'd also ask for a copy of your ID or something like that. They already have the impudence to do so when t
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> the new privacy invading feature should be opt in. I agree. The new features, however, are not. They even ("temporarily") collect IP addresses by default when FF calls home.( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
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It seems to depend on your location. > In March 2017, news articles revealed Qwant displays mainly search results from Bing, except in France and Germany, despite several commitment to be exclusively "made in France". https:&#
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It seems he is already moving on by entering the self help/motivational speaker industry. > As his business is increasingly run by his team, Grant has reduced his salary down to $60,000 a year and now dedicates much of his time to g
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> Jerry Seinfeld's "Don't break the chain" idea is nice. He has officially stated that the X was not his idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...
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> What's your working definition of "mainstream news outlet"? A news outlet with a "one size fits most" attitude. That is, they offer a product which caters to people who could be described as "average"
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Is this mainly intended for people from non-western countries who need a channel for free speech? Because apart from that I see no point in FB offering an onion service. If anonymity, discretion and trust are what I am looking for than sure
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That's still a bit of a non answer. More to the point: Why does a mainstream news outlet care about this small group of people?
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> The worst thing that can happen is that someone signs up and gets no "badge". But even that seems unlikely if enough people use it. IMO, the worst thing that could happen is FB creating much richer profiles about its users. T
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Perhaps I am a bit dense but I still don't see why small sample sizes aren't problematic. If the data source we tap is valid (i.e.: it does give us the information that we really need) then we need a big sample size to gain precis
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9y ago
Personally, I think XMPP with Omemo is the best you can use today. You have classic desktop clients for all operating systems (e.g. Gajim for Linux and Windows) and there are clients for android (conversations) and iOs (Chatsecure). Most of
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A question for clarification: Containers don't prevent the browser from leaking information such as the addons and fonts installed, right? In other words, the browser fingerprint would still be revealed? If this is the case then contai
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Looking forward to this very much. The only downer: $599 for a phone is a lot of money. I understand that they have to cover many expenses. However, I hope they'll also offer phones for poorer people. In the end, privacy should not be
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Incidentally, does Thunderbird still receive money from mozilla?
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> The Turks in Germany also voted for Erdogan in large numbers. The Turks in Germany who voted voted for Erdogan in large numbers.
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Some interesting insights there. Thanks for this article. I just hope this doesn't lead to more draconian IT laws all over the EU... ;)
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> Well it's not a secret, but it's not obvious for most teenagers. Fair enough but the list of things that can harm a teen's self esteem is endless. So in a way there is no way around learning how to deal with issues of im
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Maybe decision makers are too data driven? Whatever they do has to be justifiable and most people don't argue against numbers. So trying to optimize aggregated or averaged numbers looks like a sensible approach. The problem, however, i
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any source on this? that would be horrible indeed.
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If you care about privacy then don't ask me for my name and my birth date when I want to download a free app. (apple id)
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> Ah, but what do you have to declare at the border? depends on whether or not the security person likes you ;)
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Does anyone know what Microsoft's objectives are here?
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> You could argue it already ended with the corporatists' "Web 2.0". And PRISM. What's more, FB and Co are to blame for these shutdowns of communication channels. Had we kept our communication decentralized governmen
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> Isn't there a lot of talk about how today's youth is much less likely to date/engage in sexual activity? could be but those two things needn't be mutually exclusive. maybe the youth is just more extreme in both dir
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They do care about the problems of average Germans. Unfortunately, the list of corner cases is lengthy as most people are not average.
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> Apologies for the pedantry, but doesn't that make half the world a mistake? If we take that statement literally, then yes. But it seems to be enough if there is one area in which you are better than average. That being said, there
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When it comes to messaging I prefer XMPP with Omemo these days. There is Gajim for PC, Conversations for Android and ChatSecure for Apple. Of course, many people don't want to change their habits and I think there is no need to push to
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What's the easiest way to find out whether a computer is infected?
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The idea of Dr Sarno is not really in accordance with the scientific literature but it is indeed a very simple method and has worked like a charm for me, too. So I wouldn't say it's a scam. At worst, his method might turns out to
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