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by cwhiz 6y ago
About 7,700 people die on any average day in America. Roughly 1,800 a day from heart disease, 1500 from cancer, and 450 from accidents. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm I imagine people would act a bit
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Facebook does not deserve any benefit of doubt. You should assume the worst from one of the most evil companies in the US.
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The worst thing about Parler is the bots. I browsed it a bit out of curiosity, a huge portion of the content is obvious bot. I looked into this further, and apparently Parler doesn’t bother blocking or banning bots unless the FBI or police
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Lots of people dunking on this guy may have missed the fact that this was day 2 on the job. I don’t necessarily agree with his approach, but it is an impossible situation to be in. Thanks for sharing.
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To add an example, YouTube landing page is full of curated content from Google. I have not subscribed to any of it. In fact, my subscribed videos are on a completely separate page. Google has chosen what they want me to see. Therefore, Goog
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This article does not address curation or editorializing. If you, the platform, are in charge of what I see, then you are a publisher. If you, the platform, add comments to what I write, you are editorializing, and you are a publisher. Publ
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Access to internet services is not some fundamental human right. No one HAS to use these services. You can live a perfectly fine life without FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Google, etc. I don’t have accounts with any of these services. M
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Would I rather have to pay? Fucking yes! This should be the default. The default should be pay, with a free option that requires you to dump truck all your data. Tech giants have completely ruined the internet economy. You can’t even pay fo
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by cwhiz 6y ago
10x is still an order of magnitude too low. This type of behavior should be financially debilitating for a company. $4 million is a rounding error for Facebook. The fine should be $4 billion.
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The expiring messages fail in hilarious ways, all the time. Things like a few random messages from a prior day that are funny out of context all by themselves. If I open signal on my laptop sometimes it does this ridiculous “time lapse” whe
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Signal is terrible. I use the app still, but it’s horribly buggy. The disappearing messages, a hallmark feature, is fundamentally broken in some way that I can’t fully comprehend. Totally unreliable. Telegram is better in every way... excep
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by cwhiz 6y ago
This is the first I have heard of this Tether and Bitfinex story. Seems extremely shady. Does anyone have more details? However, I don’t really understand the distinction between Tether minting coins and people buying gold ETFs.
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I would assume no. I actually don't even know of another company that is putting self driving software directly into consumer hands.
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Basically... the FSD beta is not even close to being able to handle snow. It did not appear to be even 1% of the way toward being usable in snow.
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I have two external monitors, and it works. It must be some weird fringe scenario. They still should have caught it, but it’s not impacting every single user.
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Wearable data is not covered by existing health laws.
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Fitbit has this slice of data but they are unable to combine it with any other slices of data. Google has all of the other data. Google acquiring Fitbit is Google purchasing health data. Fitbit is unable to acquire that data on their own
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The burden is on you to prove why this could possibly be better for any single person, ever.
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And what happens when Googlers do become stupid? Or if they make a mistake? Or if they are hacked. Google should never be given access to this type of data. Never.
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It is specifically the data collection. Other companies are competing in the wearable industry, but no other company is collecting and aggregating data like Google is. If you give Google your wearable data they will have an even more extrao
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Coming at you from the same company that wants you to pay every year to use CarPlay.
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Elon dying.
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Practically no one was harmed by this. A penny or two per trade. It’s more the principle of the matter than the actual costs. The fact that Robinhood was clearly lying is the most concerning thing.
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It is better, but it shouldn't be. Google has destroyed or reshaped entire industries with their surveillance subsidized pricing model.
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Larry Page was the CEO of Alphabet until the end of 2019. He owns over 40 million shares. Sergey Brin was the President of Alphabet until the end of 2019. He owns ~39 million shares. The actions of Google from inception until 2019 are the
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Always err on the side of freedom and individual liberty, always.
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The US is a free country. China is an authoritarian dictatorship. The most alarming thing to me is the public appetite for authoritarian policies.
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Reddit has usability problems by design. Reddit want to make it as obnoxious as possible to use on a mobile phone, so that you’ll download their stupid app. They also push you to login to view more content, so they can track you. Reddit is
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Apple had a long history in music prior to Apple Music. I have no doubt that Apple could make a car. But I do doubt that they could make a self driving car. Google is still trying to figure it out after a decade of research and development.
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At this point the charging infrastructure is the biggest differentiator for me. I don't particularly care for Elon Musk, and I don't think Tesla vehicles are made particularly well. However, is there any competitor that has even

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