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by clubm8 8y ago
This seems to be a re-occuring pattern: have ads on a free/cheap service, introduce a paid service, place ads on the paid service, then hope if you hold out long enough people will forget there was a time when your paid service was ad
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How do I check if I've deleted Facebook? Does deleting Facebook mean I no longer have a right to know if my data was breached while I was a member?
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> There were no downvotes when I made the edit. I doubt that. I replied very shortly after, and it was displayed in grey as downvoted comments are.
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If it doesn't work the !s bang command can search with Startpage (proxied Google search)
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>EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue. You made a comment stating "This metric is meaningless&quot
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I'm surprised it took 17 years after Saudi money paid for 9/11[1] for this to become the case. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/15/911-report-s...
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> probably because then they would be liable for when someone hacks your shit and then uses it to login to your bank and steal all your stuff Which law specifically would make Apple liable if your iCloud keychain was hacked and the crede
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Another big red flag is being told to sign immediately. If you're ever told "sign this or be fired", even if there is consideration (ex: a severance) w/o being given the chance to have a lawyer review it, there's a
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Are the other 6 just not consumers (100% piracy)? :)
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>Maybe SETI hasn't detected anything because generating a signal loud enough for us to detect is a stupendous amount of energy, and it's simply too much energy for a single planet civilization to justify using on a radio transm
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> I sometimes think that they answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is an exceptionally dangerous place. Even when intelligence evolves, it has to dodge a whole bunch of bullets from the universe randomly sterilizing chunks wi
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>During the cold war, cozying up to the Russians the way Google is now sucking up to the Chinese would have been rated as treason. I am a huge critic of China's human rights record, but "treason" has a very specific legal
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> Canada won't develop a racism problem because 20% of the country are already immigrants and Canada doesn't have a bible belt south You do have the prairies though and they can be as conservative as the Dakotas. (With a simil
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Also, it makes sure there are no single points of failure. Apparently many embezzlers refuse to take vacation for fear someone will look over the books and notice irregularities.
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I think there's a lot of good, moral work out there. I have a friend who's a security engineer at a bank. I was surprised when he took the job - he'd always been pretty to the left politically. But he takes pride in making su
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>Voting can change things (and publicly embarrassing elected officials works, too), but I doubt any of the people reading these comments live in the voting districts of the officials involved in the cases in the article. You seem determi
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>Ranting on an internet forum is useless. You just said that voting can change things. Wouldn't it logically follow that ranting on a public forum, which people can read and be inspired to vote by, is very useful ?
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I have a friend who I often chat about job searching with (we're both on the market). They recently had a shockingly bad experiece with a company that prides itself by it's glassdoor rating. They told me they don't plan on wr
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>I have seen cases where the reviews are mixed and they're generally accurate. The problem is that they're describing different departments and a candidate on the outside would not know that, so they'd not understand that
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No
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They can't hack what you don't bring. Buy a cheap amazon fire tablet or chromebook for use on wifi / in flight entertainment.
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> If they know polygraph doesn't work, why do they still do it? The airport is not the only security theater the Americans operate :)
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>* I have always thought that Google generally siphons data from the product and once they have enough of the data that they need then the project they shut it down. * Or if the tool competes with another. I think Reader was killed mainl
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>A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. I think it depends. Is this an internal tool they decided to monetize? If they're dogfooding it's much less likely the
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>> My setup is to basically have two systems: a work laptop, on which I try to keep everything professional so that if and when it is hacked the damage will be minimal, and then a second laptop, which I use for anything personal and n
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> For example, in the case of an at least partially selfish person, why should s/he wait to cross the street if s/he knows that the car that is nearing has an anti-collision/auto-break system? If they get advanced enough,
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>Prime Video is by far the best user experience for me, and Netflix is by far the worst. Prime is good while watching . For finding content Netflix is superior IMHO. The recommendation algorithm is better, plus the search is better. Ama
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I think you need to have a European office. The issue is that many do - if not to have a legit satellite office, then because they moved their "official" HQs to Ireland to participate in tax shenanigans.
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Are 100% of these registrations spies? Or could some legit diplomatics be mixed in? (IIRC like the Americans, Russians use diplomatic posts as cover majority of time)
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> Instantly I thought, "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government" - Monty Python When HN's the need to venerate Scandavia as a wonderland collides with their reverence for Mon

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