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by catalogia 6y ago
Frankly I think you're naive, unless you're getting hung up on "favor." If you expect me to believe that Microsoft would never cooperate with the American government like this, you'll have to do better than name c
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by catalogia 6y ago
> That is not really relevant though. It's at least as relevant as brand penetration is.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Youtube has been doing this for years. Clear your cookies then start watching youtube videos. Youtube will immediately begin tuning video suggestions to what you watch, no contact importing or channel subscribing necessary.
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by catalogia 6y ago
It makes no sense that you believe you know my opinion on what America and/or American companies should do when I didn't give my opinion on what American and/or American companies should do. The viewpoint you've ascribe
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by catalogia 6y ago
I think bullying TikTok would be more likely to earn the ire of those who use it (non-voting teenagers), and the appreciation of non-users (the parents of those teenagers.) I don't really think that's what's going on here tho
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by catalogia 6y ago
I suspect that Microsoft wants to buy TikTok as a favor to the US Government. I view this as possibly a repeat of Ebay/Microsoft buying Skype as a favor to the US Government. If moderating TikTok is too much of a hassle, they'l
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by catalogia 6y ago
Brands smands, what's behind the sticker? Boeing planes are made in America, but a great many American "brands" aren't.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> The American equivalent would be BLM protests. We all know how the feds are kidnapping citizens without warrant. I mentioned this happening two weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874084 ), while living
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by catalogia 6y ago
The first iPod to really become popular was the 4G, which I think not coincidentally was also the first to have proper USB support. iTunes not being on Windows seems like a lesser factor; even if iTunes was on Windows it wouldn't hav
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by catalogia 6y ago
DRM on music is deader than Elvis. I can buy music from Amazon, Apple, or on CD, vinyl or magtap from a record store. None of them employ DRM.
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by catalogia 6y ago
No. A single long exposure would only show maybe one or two of those satellites. That's numerous exposures stacked on top of each other, such that every satellite visible in any of them is in the final result. This is completely b
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by catalogia 6y ago
How would you measure the aggregate seriousness of a database, if not with some function of the individual entries of the database? Give me a fucking break, you know damn well I'm right.
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by catalogia 6y ago
The article doesn't make clear whether they turned the system off because it wasn't working due to masks, or simply wasn't doing what they meant it to do in the first place. > “This decision was in part based on a larger
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by catalogia 6y ago
Do these systems continue to work in the mask era, or have they wasted their money? Personally I've taken to wearing masks and large sunglasses, just because I can. I suppose they could still track my gait, posture, hair style, etc.
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by catalogia 6y ago
I think my point stands that some allegations are more serious than others and the aggregate seriousness of this database is a function of how serious the allegations in the database are. This seems almost tautologically obvious.
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by catalogia 6y ago
I think that depends on how severe they are. If that's 12 thousand reports of covered up beatings, that's extremely alarming. If it's 12 thousand reports of "showed up five minutes late to work", that's less
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by catalogia 6y ago
Don't you know that serfs living in digital fiefdoms don't have rights? They're living on the lord's property and the lord's property rights must be respected above all else.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> (Btw, another baffling trait of the Android ecosystem is how many well-known and widely-used hackish tools are closed-source: those from XDA and such. “Flash this binary to root your phone”, “install this blob for low-level customizat
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by catalogia 6y ago
That's not a contradiction.
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by catalogia 6y ago
This, basically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954 In this case, it was reentry of a reactor that had been running for a few months. If a rocket carrying a reactor blew up, it would probably cause less damage
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by catalogia 6y ago
One of my aunts is a such a specialized teacher; her program is called "emotional support" or something to that effect. From what I understand it's a classroom in the same school building and the students sent to her classro
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by catalogia 6y ago
Yes. Protecting privacy is a better cause than most wars have been fought over.
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by catalogia 6y ago
I never expected to see "On the internet, nobody knows your a dog" become a new moral panic. Here's the pragmatic solution that doesn't involve entrusting so much power to governments: communicate with people you know.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Suppose a child disrupts class for 30 of his peers because his dad beats him. His dad has now effectively victimized 31 kids. Wouldn't it be productive and moral to find ways to help all 31, perhaps by putting misbehaving kids in spe
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by catalogia 6y ago
If math class is for teaching social science, then perhaps social studies class could be for teaching trigonometry.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Personally I'm a fan of list comprehension, particularly as implemented by rackets for/list forms. I certainly don't use them for everything, sometimes a plain old map fits the circumstance better, but I find myself using fo
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Bitch is an independent, quarterly magazine published in Portland, Oregon.[1] Its tagline is "a feminist response to pop culture".[2] Bitch is published by the non-profit Bitch Media feminist media organization. The magazine
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by catalogia 6y ago
Doesn't that suggest those terms are denylisted? It doesn't seem very plausible that those terms would return no results unless they've been denylisted.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> for-profit, paid universities? Asking alumni for donations is done very frequently by non-profit private universities, which you're probably confusing for for-profit. Harvard is an example of such a university. I don't
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by catalogia 6y ago
One of my hobbies is asking christians if they know about the time god told a bear to maul some kids for making fun of a bald guy. When they say they aren't I dab, tip my fedora, then moonwalk out of the room. Aren't humans goo

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