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by cryptoz 7y ago
> but because I thought more people under the age 60 would be behind a computer 8 hours a day. They are, but it isn't counted here (this is "media consumption only", not all screen time) confusingly enough.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
IMO and in my direct experience, all of my favorite tech has gotten objectively worse over the last few years. - My phone cannot play music through headphones and charge at the same time. Nor can I use any old pair of headphones with it, an
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The article is (confusingly) not about all screen time, but just media consumption. I assume that 'media consumption' would not include tasks like doing work or financial planning, or taxes, or vacation planning, etc.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
To me, looking at the charts, the TV line seems flat for seniors but the smartphone line is a major increase since 2015. My interpretation is that seniors have added 2+ hours per day of screentime in the last 4 years and 100% of the additio
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JWST (telescope) could learn about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres(washington.edu)
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> you think your device is spying on you Well, of course it is. Ridiculous to think smartphones aren't spying on their users in this day and age. > But that’s not the story that the NYT has published here. Uh, yes it is. > I’m
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by cryptoz 8y ago
Your entire post boils down to, "just trust the billionaires!" No, we won't. They are liars and cheaters, the lot of them, and we aren't going to trust them any more. They said in court "we didn't do that"
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by cryptoz 8y ago
No, I wrote that comment because you are an abrasive member of the community who is writing direct insults to other members, calling them deranged, etc, and doing other things that are against the rules of the site. You are breaking the con
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> This is literally no different than a web API or scraping facebook HTML, just more streamlined. I see you're using the new definition of literally, the one that means figuratively. In the same sentence you have said it is no diffe
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> Yea basically. Pretending Trump doesn't exist is a really, really bad idea. It's extremely dangerous to the democracy that exists in the USA and the world to pretend that the insane President, self-declared dictator of the co
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by cryptoz 8y ago
So we're just pretending that Trump doesn't exist? There's a big difference between then and today.
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by cryptoz 8y ago
Yes it has. Its ridiculous to suggest that someone who has recently felt empowered will be unable to turn that energy into employment or income. Empowerement definitely pays bills, it does it all the time for people. Empowerement is often t
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by cryptoz 8y ago
It is not devaluing to refuse to run ads. In fact I would say it is quite devaluing feeling forced to run ads and is empowering to choose not to.
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by cryptoz 8y ago
The US military of the 1990s was a very different organization than it is today. Pretending we have the same solid military leadership right now as we did then is dangerous.
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by cryptoz 8y ago
Of course he doesn't have the authority to do so. He still plans on doing it and that is clearly unstable and not a 'feature' of a solid military you want to have. I'm not the one fear mongering. It is the US government
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by cryptoz 8y ago
I am not trolling. That's ridiculous. I'm merely speaking the truth. And yes I would make both of those claims. And I am a reasonable person. If you think that my statements above make me an "unreasonable person" just fo
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> the US certainly isn't 100% trustworthy. The US is the most wildly insane, two-faced and upside-down country in the world right now in terms of military. The commander-in-chief routinely makes nuclear threats, actively hurts his
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by cryptoz 8y ago
The headline takes some random person's conjecture and displays it as if it were a fact. Not to mention, it takes a pretty-sounding number and makes a small nice soundbite out of it, despite being nearly meaningless. You can't inf
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by cryptoz 8y ago
I don't understand this. I spent $100 on a Google VR headset recently. It has no tracking or weird crap that would count me as a "product". What are you talking about? Google has a lot of products, period. Many of them have A
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> Reddit is unlikely to have the kind of quality data that facebook has to sell - directly, or indirectly. It's a different kind of data. Spez claims to know his user's "dark secrets" and that can be an ad-tech advant
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> Do you propose a city should not measure traffic or pollution? No, I certainly propose a city should measure it. I propose it be done with taxpayer dollars, open source software, and in an otherwise fully open and democratic way by th
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by cryptoz 8y ago
There's a big difference in the attitude of the society that builds these things vs. not, which is what I'm trying to describe. I'm aware that Google can create technical solutions that help protect privacy, that's not t
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> Companies record video and audio outside their premises all the time. It's this kind of tone-deafness I was trying to describe in how Google talks about their plans. Yes, I'm aware that companies do that kind of surveillance
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by cryptoz 8y ago
I agree. As a primarily Android-focused developer, I understand Swift and I know how to make an iPhone app. But there nothing as infuriating as being handed a 30k LOC iOS app's source code and being told that the code is the documentat
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by cryptoz 8y ago
Google seems to be all over the map on this one. I would have thought that minimalism would be a good concept when building to reduce consumption; but rather, Google is going all-out with an enormously large and complex proposal it seems. A
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> It will be a sad day for me when there's nobody left who has walked on our nearest neighbor. It feels like a turning away from possibility. It's quite possible that will never happen, depending on the next few years of spacef
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by cryptoz 8y ago
Restaurants donating extra food to the homeless is strictly illegal across much of the USA.
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> Non sequitur. Nobody is discussing legal risks. Simply PR ones. What? This is a legal concern! You brought it up and it is a major legal concern across nearly all of America! > This piece isn't designed to help, and it doesn&
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by cryptoz 8y ago
I don't agree with your analysis or analogy at all. Donating can be dangerous and it is important to recognize that and address it. It is on both the citizens of a place to vote for politicians who will make laws that makes it easier f
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by cryptoz 8y ago
> > But Amazon is the fifth-most-valuable company in the world, with one of the richest men on the planet at its helm, leaving little doubt that the company could be doing much more to ensure that its local philanthropy isn’t making l

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