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by crystaln 8y ago
Same. I really want to switch to Android for various reasons but can't bring myself to give up Apple's core respect for privacy.
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by crystaln 8y ago
Apple has implented a solution with iMessage, albeit a proprietary one only for iOS communications. If Google prioritized the privacy of users thet would build a similar product as the default Android messaging service, hopefully as an open
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by crystaln 8y ago
The university insures their football and ruby teams. Surely they can get insurance for other clubs, even if it means losing some money. Students do after all pay record tuition.
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by crystaln 8y ago
So switch to Chromecast. They are so cheap why even bother complaining here? I love my Fire TV. Great apps, and easy to add a bt keyboard and install Kodi for torrent streaming. I don't think you can do that with a Chromecast. Best med
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by crystaln 8y ago
Yes there is a large market of people who don't have video game consoles hooked up to their displays.
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by crystaln 9y ago
I have not heard the consent decree mentioned.
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by crystaln 9y ago
There are so many companies that collect and sell data on Americans that I don't understand why our Congress is grandstanding on Facebook. Hello credit card companies? These hearings seem more political based on Facebooks percieved bia
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by crystaln 9y ago
Well, if the real money is in teaching people how to make money, then teaching people how to make money involves teaching people how to teach people how to make money, and thus recursed. This is a pyramid scheme.
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by crystaln 9y ago
Excel spreadsheets are a lot more flexible and easy to use than domain specific tools, particularly for someone already familiar with Excel. I agree this is a good place to look. I'm not sure a new tool will be an improvement as it wil
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by crystaln 9y ago
The real money is telling people how to make money. Sounds like a pyramid scheme.
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by crystaln 9y ago
Also quantum erasure.
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by crystaln 9y ago
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by crystaln 9y ago
Or like, lawyers. Do we ask them to prove the efficacy of their methods or do we take anecdotal evidence?
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by crystaln 9y ago
Bad analogy. There is a real effect from taking the drug, even if not related to it's pharmacology. There is no effect of the tiger rock on the tigers.
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by crystaln 9y ago
How many of our colleagues troll the internet for anecdotal evidence about recreational drugs or nootropics or Rsi cures. Not all knowledge has been established by science. In fact, I'd say less than 1% of knowledge, and much of medica
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by crystaln 9y ago
If a placebo effect makes you smarter, did the medicine work?
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by crystaln 9y ago
Yes. Also it's called then placebo effect for a reason. Because the effect is real. Placebo effects can cure cancer. Feeling better is important if not the ultimate goal. Some medicine may be a combination of placebo and effects we don
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by crystaln 9y ago
Yes we do. That's very valuable sometimes. Often those studies are flawed or biased. In fact much of the time they are not even reproducible, or studies that don't support a patent holder's interests are discarded. Also thous
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by crystaln 9y ago
All of it? No. The entire holistic method? Definitely not. Bits and pieces of Chinese medicine have been appropriated by Western medicine in piecemeal ways that often miss the point. There are large universities to teach this stuff. To beli
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by crystaln 9y ago
The idea that the lack of a rigorous specific study indicates supplementation doesn't work is flawed. The entire Eastern system of medicine evolved based on shared experience and knowledge, and ample experience exists with many supplem
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by crystaln 9y ago
There's a double standard because the US and China have different standards. Apple has defended the rights of its users when it can. If Apple received a U.S. Supreme Court order to hand over user data, Apple would follow that order, ev
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by crystaln 9y ago
I appreciate that this article tells a story and let's the reader think about the meaning and impact, coming to their own conclusion. It's almost like the author is mocking American media for spoon feeding opinions.
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by crystaln 9y ago
Yeah TechCrunch has really passed it's heydey.
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by crystaln 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not securities and not subject to insider trading or market manipulation regulations.
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by crystaln 9y ago
If it's viewed as an asset split, which is probably more defensible, then there are no tax liabilities incurred.
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by crystaln 9y ago
BTC will not once it gets into multitrillion dollars. It's a young asset with no derivatives that the market isn't sure how to value. Also there are ways to hedge volatility.
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by crystaln 9y ago
BTC will supplement gold for value storage and will hit a $5T market cap in a few years IMO. It certainly has utility for storing and moving value. Don't underestimate that.
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by crystaln 9y ago
It will be interesting to see how Twitter allows Donald Trump to be abusive and threatening, while not allowing other celebrities, based on some carefully carved out definition of "newsworthy."
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by crystaln 9y ago
There's no real commitment here, just a face save for China. The diplomatic language was clearly coerced and has no impact except satisfying Chinese narcissism.
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by crystaln 9y ago
There have been exposés on this in there part, resulting in fast action from Google. Sadly the behaviour alerts to have crept up on us again. It seems like a list of violating extensions maintained by an outside organisation would help, or

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