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by chicob 8y ago
I get the same result whichever computer I use. Disabling adblockers has no effect.
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by chicob 8y ago
I think that they have the right to ask for whatever they want to ask, just as much as I have the right not to concede them what they're asking. I know I need to activate cookies in order to login. I do have a lot of cookie exceptions.
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by chicob 8y ago
I wanted to read the article, but unfortunately it requires me to activate cookies or to subscribe. I was about to create an exception for nautil.us but I had a Wait-Why-Should-I moment. Now I find that request unacceptable, really. They&#x
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by chicob 8y ago
Pollution just hit a new low.
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by chicob 8y ago
Less is more, I guess. Suzuki's Jimny is one of the few (if not the only) 4x4 available that is not an SUV. At least around here. If you're looking for minimalism, you should take a look at Bollinger's B1 ( https://
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by chicob 8y ago
Anyone with concerns about privacy and thinking about buying a car in Europe should have eCall in mind. An European citizen unwilling to have an embedded system that tracks location, accesses mic and transmit GPS data has three options: bur
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by chicob 8y ago
Well, I didn't know that Private Mode worked as a container. I thought it merely didn't store browsing history and cookies between sessions by default, while allowing tabs to share data between them for each session.
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by chicob 8y ago
Firefox Containers don't seem to work in Private Mode. Also Privacy Badger, btw.
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by chicob 9y ago
As there are already 21 mentions of Horowitz's and Hill's 'The Art of Electronics'[1], here I add another one. It's a great book. [1] https://artofelectronics.net/
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by chicob 9y ago
>Why are you saying "Facebook must go" rather than "people must stop using Facebook"? I say that like I would say "shady credit pushers must go", although I also think people shouldn't resort to such se
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by chicob 9y ago
That is true, although the whole process has been quite fragmented. I suspect that in many cases (hopefully, not all) the motive behind those inquiries is taxation. And at the same time, Europe is rolling out eCall, which will make it manda
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by chicob 9y ago
I still don't see anyone addressing the elephant in the room: corporate, extensive personal data harvesting must stop. If this is Facebook's business model, Facebook must go. No one would allow the kind of pervasive intrusion put
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by chicob 9y ago
Facebook tracks people who are not users. That has been a reason for lawsuits. I have taken measures to block Facebook trackers in many sites I visit. So yes, Facebook (among other agents, like Google) is forcing me to follow a course of ac
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by chicob 9y ago
Well, I don't mean to compare those two very different situations, but that does happen with victims of domestic violence. Many times they choose to remain in the relationship, and out of fear and desperation, they hope things will cha
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by chicob 9y ago
Wouldn't adding hashed query strings to urls linking to sites outside of Facebook circumvent any effort put into containing de-anonymizing data? The wrong hash would lead nowhere, and the right one would give you away. Facebook would o
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by chicob 9y ago
When someone needs to mention the 'real' character of this 'real community', that means there is nothing real about it. It's a red flag for phony. Henry Ford tried to force the American way of life in Fordlândia. He
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EU: Do you have any concerns for your privacy? You shouldn't [pdf](ec.europa.eu)
1 points by chicob 9y ago|0 comments
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by chicob 9y ago
ETI message? Kill it with fire. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsTheOnlyWayToBe...
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by chicob 9y ago
It is worth mentioning that "the plow that broke the plains" is thought to have been in part responsible for the Dust Bowl.
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John Deere and the Birth of Precision Agriculture(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by chicob 9y ago|1 comments
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by chicob 9y ago
Regarding what you said about English, Mandarin, Arabic (or Hindi might I add), it is curious to note that, in some more modern erudite circles, English and French played roles I find similar to Classical Latin and Classical Greek in the er
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by chicob 9y ago
Thanks for your correction. It is quite complete. I didn't mean it disappeared overnight but, as far as I know, formal education in Latin declined with the fall of the Empire, thus giving preponderance to Vulgar Latin. As a consequence
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by chicob 9y ago
It's not like people resentfully segregate from each other just because they speak different languages. Languages evolve, change, innovate and sometimes they go extinct. Latin disappeared with the downfall of the Roman Empire (although
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by chicob 9y ago
I hope "discoverability" doesn't mean "easily trackable".
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by chicob 9y ago
I witnessed something similar some years ago, in Lisbon. Our living room had a window facing the street, and sometimes one could hear a low pitch humming noise that made that window shake. The first time it happened I remember wondering who
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by chicob 9y ago
In principle, a quota rule can be used for power consolidation by (arguably douchebaggy) men that already occupy a relative position of power. I can imagine members of an all-male board using quotas as a means to move competitors or newcome
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by chicob 9y ago
This is an interesting article in what respects the making of an important question: will this step simplify anything? I usually think that most "smart" solutions are gimmicks for true believers. I am not a technophobe or a luddit
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by chicob 9y ago
It seems to me that you are confusing utility with morality. The fact that eating human flesh might not be good for us (which, being a questionable claim, let's take for granted for the sake of this discussion) is beside the point. The
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by chicob 9y ago
What??
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by chicob 9y ago
Practically? What does that even mean? Of course there are moral questions regarding the practice of cannibalism! Cannibalism still existed as a traditional practice in the twentieth century, so it is a moral question. And ethically speakin

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