criley2

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by criley2 13y ago
As if I need every single website hooked into Google Ads, all of them reminding me that I'm single, trying to sell me clothes, trying to sell me dating websites, trying to predict what I want in life. It's invasive, and quite fran
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by criley2 13y ago
How about- and I know this is shocking- we find a balance . A balance between nothing and tabloid. We're dangerously close to tabloid currently. Lots of irrelevant articles, lots of speculation and opinion, and the real stories are hi
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by criley2 13y ago
Why isn't that salary reasonable? It seems like you're being ethnocentric and judging that salary based on your own home and your own salary. When confronted with cost of living data for Taiwan, you pivot and say that people are t
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by criley2 13y ago
Before Gutenberg et al, you had to have someone spend weeks or months to hand copy your book, one at a time. To me, the web is just the next step in the improvement in the publishing of the written word. I don't see it as different tha
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by criley2 13y ago
If the NSA is tapping fiber at providers, a la Room 641A, then the companies behavior is completely irrelevant to the spying, and the NSA watches all traffic in and out of their networks anyway. So your choice, as a European, seems to be ut
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by criley2 13y ago
Heh, it's worth noting that the Forbes source for those "numbers" is a Redditor who is ballpark estimating based on user reports in a forum. Didn't realize we were in a time when Forbes sources were nearly unsourced Redd
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by criley2 13y ago
Seeing as it's extremely likely that the NSA is tapping into fiber at exchanges near major corporations, and almost everything you do online is tracked by someone, it seems like a moot point anyway. Who cares if Mozilla or Google is pr