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by criley2 6y ago
Facts are bad business. They don't sell well, people don't like hearing them, they're expensive to get, and provide only intangible benefit to fake facts. Many societies these days seem to be operating just fine purely on fak
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by criley2 6y ago
>That's why I recommend to avoid signing-in into YouTube. Better watch anonymously so you can always clean the cookies and get out of the pit. When you sign in, you can view your history and remove things you don't want the al
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by criley2 6y ago
>but I've seen superthin flat lens, with a marginal cost of production around ~$2 in a university facility, that work better than some $500 lens -- and the latter are expensive because they are hard to make the traditional way. I fi
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by criley2 6y ago
Ironically, many asians know that over-consumption of MSG leads to the symptoms that are now "racist" to discuss. Here's popular chef (and half-Japanese) J Kenji Lopez-Alt discussing how he experiences "MSG Symptom Compl
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by criley2 6y ago
That's disgusting. And it's like saying roads aren't essential because cars can drive on dirt.
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by criley2 6y ago
You're going too high. Apple doesn't sell $300 phones for $1000 to people who buy $20,000 bags. Well they do but they don't make hundreds of billions in profit by targeting the 0.01% of consumers. They do it by making lower c
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by criley2 6y ago
>Apple is my hero in that regard, where you actually pay for the product experience instead for being part of some deeply troubling subculture where passionately debating about very expensive cables and gadgets without ever being able to
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by criley2 6y ago
Fast food is an expensive luxury to poor Americans who would live on generically branded large bags of frozen goods that are heated in an electric oven or microwave. If we're talking the cheapest and worst food habits of the poorest, w
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by criley2 6y ago
> I don't know what the distribution of stove type by income level is, but I do have the impression that richer Americans are more likely to have fancy induction ranges, and poorer Americans are more likely to use gas. At a high eno
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by criley2 6y ago
>It's not that people want to create division. But the left becomes upset with your product if you show them rightwing opinions, so if you want to have rightwing content you have to make bubbles so they don't see it. It's
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by criley2 6y ago
I personally believe that it is naive to think that Apple cares what consumers think as they have enough money to take $0 from consumers for say 30 years straight and be fine. They are post-capitalist. I understand that in an ideal market,
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by criley2 6y ago
I am familiar with the saying, however, in this case, voting for government officials and creating a "demand" datapoint in markets by completing a purchase are not synonymous. When we go to the polls, we are literally making decis
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by criley2 6y ago
The difference between the State and the Private Company is that citizens vote for the State, and Legislators (the "paternalizers") are directly installed by the voters. The iPhone buyer does not get a say in the development staff
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by criley2 6y ago
>> I've grown up in a period when pop culture didn't care much about cultural sensitivity. >Same, and as unpopular it may be, i firmly believe it's kind of better to not care. As a white dude, I've found that &q
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by criley2 6y ago
To provide a story of the opposite, I'm another atheist with very center-left politics with extremely Trumpy Christian family (they moved out to a rural area, prepping with guns and supplies, the whole nine yards) and I never took the
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by criley2 6y ago
Who has? We're still on Facebook and Twitter and Youtube, using iPhones to play digital music. You say 2020, I say 2009. Wireless earbuds and smart watches I guess are the only "game changing" (they're not) inventions of
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by criley2 6y ago
Shame for anyone who wanted a real shot at this case. The Trump admin is pushing an un-finished rush-job against Google because it's 14 days before the election and the administration is desperate for any hail mary to turn the polls ar
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by criley2 6y ago
FYI, Minecraft is the best selling game of all time and has probably sold more copies than every game Bethesda has ever made combined.
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by criley2 6y ago
>> A statement from ranking member Sam Graves of Missouri says, "if aviation and safety experts determine that areas in the FAA's processes for certifying aircraft and equipment can be improved, then Congress will act."
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by criley2 6y ago
The known facts are that the most prominent critic and opposition to the Russian dictator was poisoned in a situation that is highly similar to previous incidents that are confirmed Russian. Considering Putin has had journalists and opposit
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by criley2 6y ago
>Fair point but that’s largely due to security not Apple’s desire to lockout other browsers Lol, if I remember correctly Microsoft also used the "security" angle to defend their monopolistic behavior too.
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by criley2 6y ago
I remember when 4G launched here in Atlanta I could pull down 100Mbps no problem. I still can (pulled 150mbps down as a test for this comment), but I could then too. Getting 150/30 to nearby servers. I guess I live next to the tower lo
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by criley2 6y ago
Firefox/Mozilla is largely funded with the search deal which is usually paid by Google. Google has a vested interest in Firefox staying alive for competitive/monopoly reasons, especially now that IE is official a Chrome skin. e.g.
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by criley2 6y ago
The ineptitude of the spamming is actually a sign of eptitude -- they intentionally include the signs you look for because you're a waste of their time. They have figured out the precise line to walk where bad marks like you avoid them
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by criley2 6y ago
I can't even get Google Assistant to reliably work for commands they claimed to have rolled out years and years ago https://i.imgur.com/ucmKl5l.png . I would literally never trust Google Assistant with anything remotely
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by criley2 6y ago
- Airstrikes are not a war and the US is not at war with Iran (believe me, you'd know if they were) - Libya was started by France who begged the US to join them on their little sorties, Italy ran air command too, the US was just along
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by criley2 6y ago
It's been like 17 years since the US started a war in the Middle East. Your talking points are a little dusty.
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by criley2 6y ago
It's absurd to say this and honestly I don't know how anyone who understands the scale of the numbers here and the impact these programs have on society could think this. Pensions are funded by the next generation, just like Socia
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by criley2 6y ago
2. I'm talking about the switch to WebExtensions, https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ , which every major browser followed Chrome in doing, which was largely done for security reasons 3. Firefox does not man
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by criley2 6y ago
Spotify doesn't 'charge fees to artists', they charge fees to listeners and advertisers, to create a revenue pool, to pay out to artists. And while that payout pool is roughly 70% of revenue, meaning they keep roughly 30%, th

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