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by cabaalis 7y ago
"We listened to you..." post in 3, 2..
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The server is responding, though, so maybe an argument for owning your platform is being able to permanently remove your content if you so choose?
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I do this myself, so I wonder if when humans are trying to minimize impact when communicating bad news, we pick language intended to diminish. Why say "LESS THAN 1.3 percent" instead of just saying something like "1.28 percen
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Why am I not surprised that the comment saying no need for government intervention is the one comment that's downvoted? While I typically believe smaller government is the answer, I would personally welcome a regulatory framework that
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But passively reading the news and feeling like crap aren't going to stop anything either. It seems more would be done if local news, or even just having a conversation with a friend were the primary way of obtaining information. I wou
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Trump just does it on Twitter. https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/obama-says... https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html... https:
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I try very hard to give some grace to the "Trump bad in everything" that I hear so much. However, his moronic tweets aside, I see nothing more than normal politicking, and right-of-center governance. The biggest flaw I see is the
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Have you ever created anything that you charge money for?
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I use Alexa nearly every day to tell me the weather while I'm getting dressed and to play music on spotify. I ask it the occasional math problem, trivia question, etc. Paranoia aside, what's my exposure level?
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I believe OP is referring to the recent ruling allowing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple's app store to proceed. Not necessarily declared a monopoly yet, but also not declared not one. https://www.theverge.com/2019&#x
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Is this elaborated on anywhere to break down by age/etc? Because "9.9% of that 10% of households are actually just your parents/grandparents who've made good choices over the course of their life rather than a bunch of b
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At my college, this class was the primary weeding-out class in junior year. Started with a full class, maybe 50? At the end of the semester there were 7 of us.
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I recommend everyone watch this video. It's geared towards lawyers. If the police are asking questions with any level of suspicion at all, don't talk to them. Even if you do not lie, and are innocent, the things you say can still
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I switched to Firefox on all my devices last year and haven't looked back. Opening up Chrome feels very dated.
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Thanks for this. Food is not an overly large item in my budget (~11% net) but with my life being just me and my son 182.5 days out of the year, I'm definitely interested in applying some engineering to my grocery list.
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And in the end, they'll read the same books, study the same math, learn the same history. No SAT score or college admission can replace an inquisitive mind and a library.
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The primary barrier to social safety nets is the cost, and the ideological idea that government should not take more from its productive citizens to cover that cost. If the largest organizations are effectively optimizing humans out of the
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> Because everyone recycles these days That's just it though, isn't it? They don't, really. My understanding of the "crisis" is that all those well-intentioned recyclers were duly sorting their plastics, which wa
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Non-techies that are my age don't get the value of let's plays. When I was a kid, it was NES and then Sega. You'd go over to your friend's house and would take turns playing Mario, Ninja Gaiden, Contra, etc. When you wer
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Am I reading correctly that this argument has now been going on for 8 years, or at minimum nearly 6? [1] An argument about who I am buying from when I type my credit card into Apple's system, click a purchase button on an Apple devic
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It's not impossible, it's just impossible for politicians. It's because they're essentially tricking their way in, especially during primary seasons. "I don't know" is a very honest statement, and doesn&#x
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I find the term personally confusing when only one individual is involved. Most definitions of the word include multiple people. It would seem that's an unpopular opinion here. Meh, can't win them all.
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I want to make a minor point that is not a critique but more a statement so first of all, congratulations on your success! I think we as a society need to stop referring to single member entities with no employees (meaning a single, sole pe
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Which is true (or both?) Facebook had a great idea to connect people, and then an advertising scheme derailed that idea into evil. Facebook had a great idea to connect people, and empirically found out that people mostly suck and generally
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You are aware that Google identified a vulnerability so awful that they hid it from the public so as not to draw government scrutiny, did not retain access logs, and ultimately shut down a major public application? It wasn't authentica
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For #1, it seems the market would adjust. We already see complaints about drivers not knowing the area they're driving in. Would it reassure riders to know that their driver spends 99% of driving time in an area they're riding? Fo
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> In exchange for the IRS promising not to create its own free, online filing tool, Intuit, H&R Block and other companies signed a deal to offer Free File options to lower-income Americans. Hence the hate when they attempt to hide su
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> drivers often don't know the neighborhood and rely exclusively on GPS I drove for Uber about 3 years ago for a couple of months when getting my consultancy off the ground, which led to my current gig. If I had a way to tell Uber &
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So there just...wasn't one? The Bronx is 57 square miles, with a population density of 35000/sqmi. The town I live in is 58 square miles, with a density of <2000/sqmi. I searched "bookstore" on google maps around
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Don't be so sure: > And that search wasn't reasonable, the court said. The city searches vehicles "that are parked legally, without probable cause, or even so much as 'individualized suspicion of wrongdoing' — th

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