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by chippy 9y ago
The article points out that ex-executives of these companies say that the services were designed to capture people's attention and act like a drug, and that they now disagree with it. The implication of this (and to answer the title, I
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by chippy 9y ago
I think the authors point was that the companies are advocating for people to be using their services for as long as possible, and yet the bosses of the companies are using it minimally or not using it at all. Once per day may indeed be a h
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by chippy 9y ago
Next SV pitch: "it's like Uber for organised crime". semi-seriously though - I can imagine in a work of science fiction a "sharing economy" of people willing to trade time for work doing criminal activities evolves.
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by chippy 9y ago
I wonder if the Ubuntu stable ones have this too?
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by chippy 9y ago
I did read the article. I didn't see that it was peer reviewed nor a repeated study, scientifically speaking. The last few paragraphs also give some (typical) scientific distance on the rhetoric that it will revolutionise ALL past rat
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Buy Nothing Day 2017(buynothingday.co.uk)
1 points by chippy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
Firefox 57 was directed at people who moved away from it, to Chrome users, I'm glad it has made an impact - however, it has upset many people who were using it as their main browser and who depended on a number of extensions which used
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Bail Bloc: A cryptocurrency scheme against bail(thenewinquiry.com)
2 points by chippy 9y ago|0 comments
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Universal Basic Bullshit(thenewinquiry.com)
2 points by chippy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
Firefox 52 is a special Extended Support Release version and will continue to get security patches.
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Google Maps Gets a New Look(blog.google)
114 points by chippy 9y ago|114 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
This new release is all about attracting new users to FF from Chrome. It will hurt those of us who actively have been using and living with Firefox. In time, they say, they will bring back the various APIs for the extensions (although it&#x
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by chippy 9y ago
That list is missing Hide Caption Titlebar Plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-...
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by chippy 9y ago
In the UK it's impossible to get Vitamin D from the Sun during Winter months, due to the high latitudes (it's above all of the US apart from Alaska, and is also above most of the population of Canada), even if you walk around nake
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by chippy 9y ago
This is my favourite extension also. When using a laptop or other small screen, being able to remove the title bar is essential. I'm not upgrading to 57 until I can find a good workaround. Apparently, one used to be able to manually m
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by chippy 9y ago
The article suggests the novel view that showing one's political side in the workplace should not be considered offensive nor for it to be taken personally.
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by chippy 9y ago
Would you expect the Young Creationist to create personal offence in their co-workers and expect them to be out of the company in weeks? Because I don't think that would be the case.
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by chippy 9y ago
I live in the UK, we do not have a President here.
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by chippy 9y ago
Click rate of plain text email: 1% Click rate of html email: 0.3% That's very low and yet the result was, loudly claimed in bold, that the plain text one had 3.3x more clicks than the designed email!! Also, the opened rate is within t
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by chippy 9y ago
How much time do you put into the YouTube channel per week / month? I'm seeing on average three 20 minute videos produced per week - so it's at least one hour, but I'd imagine each video takes longer to edit etc?
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by chippy 9y ago
I remember a talk from a map librarian who said that the Soviets didn't just copy western maps, as they often had more detail and unique elements that the western maps didn't have. One thing, for example was the heights of bridge
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Mapped the World(redatlasbook.com)
151 points by chippy 9y ago|66 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
How's the battery on the pinebook?
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by chippy 9y ago
It does account for it, but only for one starting point. So the spatial relationship of the objects to each other mean less than the relationship of the objects independently with the starting position (the centre). A user would have to do
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by chippy 9y ago
Map reading is a learnt skill, it doesn't come naturally to anyone regardless of sex, culture, background. Now, navigation and a kind of natural spatial knowledge is different, and I'd like to learn more about this. I would imagin
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by chippy 9y ago
As a geographer I cringed. The article was written in a way that made it sound a bit more important than it actually is, and I think that quote was one of it. A designer finding geography and cartography for the first time. It IS good stuff
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400,000 people in the UK had data ‘potentially’ stolen in Equifax hack(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by chippy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
It is more in line with American foreign policy and their interior civil service (anti-extremism globally and pushing against the new right at home)
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by chippy 9y ago
>I worked at Google for over a decade. Thanks for your comment. I would like to hear from people who work from Google right now. The policies and priorities have changed. Their approaches have changed. It has changed since many people ha
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by chippy 9y ago
Was this in response to the update? Or the original terms?

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