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by chippy 8y ago
I appreciate the explanation, thanks.
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by chippy 8y ago
I'm also confused about how privacy enhancing browser extensions work within a PWA. I've yet to get a full answer on this (it seems as if no one really knows) but it seems to me as if a PWA is more friendly to trackers and less fr
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by chippy 8y ago
Seems like both the demo and the static mirror are down or suffering from HN hug
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by chippy 8y ago
I was listening to the radio the other day on a programme about this as they said (like the article) that the brain is like any other organ like the liver and kidneys and that all observed structural changes was due to nurture and culture.
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by chippy 8y ago
Regarding twitter, the population growed and changed composition over time too. For example pre and Post Oprah around 2009 and explosive growth until 2014 when it slowed somewhat. So even if it's not a good representative of the whole
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by chippy 8y ago
The research linked in the first paragraph wasn't working for me. I think it's the same here: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/66753/ and is a free download
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by chippy 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brighton#Etymology "The etymology of the name of Brighton lies in the Old English Beorhthelmes tūn (Beorhthelm's farmstead). This name has evolved through Bristelmestu
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by chippy 8y ago
Brighton's also got one of the highest suicide rates in the country too which was surprising to me as I grew up very close to there and love the place. https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16885281.brighton-has-third-..
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by chippy 8y ago
Worth saying that for fellow British users we won't be able to get any vitamin D from the Sun until mid March. We live at too high a latitude - the sun is too low down in the horizon.
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by chippy 8y ago
Three clicks got me to the actual about page: https://tippin.me/howto and you shouldn't click the "about" link at the bottom. (The about link opens a biography of the web designer or someone a user shouldn&#x
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by chippy 8y ago
would it be under game theory?
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by chippy 8y ago
These cards are the original data tracking example as by using the cards you give the retailer all your data including demographics of your age and location etc. From what I recall retailers cannot use your credit card purchase history for
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by chippy 8y ago
The other replies have good examples. At it's simplest if you have $100 and go to the shops and leave with $20 you have not saved any money, you have lost $80. Reducing the amount you lose is not saving that money as money is still b
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by chippy 8y ago
> Is paying for convenience inherently wrong in your world view? I was channelling the spirit of the article. But for me it's not that something is convenient on it's own, it's 2 things. Firstly, it's that it's s
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by chippy 8y ago
>I actually prefer this Yes, this is why these tactics work. The human brain is being hacked by shady practices.
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by chippy 8y ago
> Most online clothing brands offer ‘free’ shipping, with the catch that you have to meet a minimum purchase amount (often $100) to qualify. Some 58% of consumers will add additional items to their cart — often things they didn’t origina
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by chippy 8y ago
There is a public gopher proxy you can use e.g. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://box.matto.nl:7...
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by chippy 8y ago
2018 and past comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17255265 note that the submission was flagged.
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The New Tech Totalitarianism – when companies know too much(newstatesman.com)
1 points by chippy 8y ago|1 comments
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Dostoevsky foresaw how 21st-century liberalism would undermine itself(unherd.com)
2 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
Imagine if the material contained morally grey stuff, like something politically incorrect. Not even illegal - just monetary support for some alt right figure or someone. Then imagine if the material was about this other woman before he got
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The Precariat: A Disruptive Class for Disruptive Times. [video](media.ccc.de)
2 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
I think the guidance (if not the law) to the police is that they have to tell the potential offender not to use those words, or "don't swear at me" first, and if they still continue then they can be nicked. So they have to kn
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by chippy 8y ago
The other, largely unspoken, downside to PWAs are that the user cannot block the tracking and ads in them when launched natively. Even though they might run on your android where you have firefox mobile with all the adblocking extensions en
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by chippy 8y ago
And get fined £90
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Brumadinho Dam Disaster, Sentinel-2 and OpenStreetMap(cesbio.ups-tlse.fr)
2 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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How to Burn a Million Quid(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour(theguardian.com)
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by chippy 8y ago
I use something like this on a self maintained VPN server which I access on my phone and both reduces adverts and crucially reduces data usage. I'd probably happily pay for a commercial VPN which had similar and better functionality.
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by chippy 8y ago
Would you rather start an outdoors civil protest in the Winter or the Summer? Its been proposed that Thatcher allowed the miners strike to occur but only during the Summer when the effects of lack of coal (power cuts) would be less. There&#

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