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by d1zzy 7y ago
But as long as it's possible it doesn't qualify as lock-in.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> and as they can't fix that without losing out on tracking Tracking what users click to as the result of a search is critical feedback information for training your models/algorithms, it's not just about "hey let&#x2
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Agreed but one of the major reasons why residents are opposed to building/zoning residential IS a natural result of Prop 13. It's impressive how much of the past/current problems California is facing can be traced back to Pro
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by d1zzy 7y ago
lol what? 55% taxes?
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Having grown up here I just see all the traffic and density and lack of breathing room and want to head for the hills. And that's why so many people live in those WUI areas (wildland-urban interface) which is one of the factors wh
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by d1zzy 7y ago
As long as no Prop 13 gets voted in it should be much better than California. Everyone complaining about policies in California make it sound like Texas is perfect. I'm pretty sure it could use a lot of improvements on its policies. Th
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I disagree with such a vast general statement. Yes there are problems to everyone using the same software but there are advantages too. One drawback is that potential security issues would affect "everyone" but on the other hand t
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Why is Microsoft tracking "even worse" than Google tracking? Without specifics is hard to know what the message you replied to meant but one thing where I find MS tracking worse than anything Google can do on the Internet rig
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by d1zzy 7y ago
How much of that is it reasonable to do as an immigrant? Aren't police allowed too search all sorts of things with easy excuse? My refusal is a form of escalation especially since they can arrest me on whatever, then let me go, and tha
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by d1zzy 7y ago
That may work in suburban America but I'm not so sure about the rest of the world. Most of my life I've lived in apartment complexes (US) / blocks of flats (Europe) where there was no car charging possibility when parking. It
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> The child doesn't get a choice about being brought into the world, so your desire or intent to produce a child is irrelevant. If you don't want to father a child, don't do anything that could reasonably lead to producing
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by d1zzy 7y ago
He's not an exec, he's a founder (which together with Larry and Eric controls over 50% of shareholder voting power). He'd have to fire himself.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Well she's stuck raising the son of an emotionally abusive sociopath. She decided to have a child and she decided to raise them. These are choices she made. He decided he doesn't want to take part in raising his son. It soun
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I think it's more than that, powerful/rich people men are going to have more access to (consensual) sex than poor men.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Try driving an (electric) Smart in the US. At least in the Bay Area everyone looks at us like we're crazy and inevitably there's at least one person a week commenting something in the parking lot.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> The other end should be you too? But that cannot work with a cloud-based Motion Detection feature (arguably the second most important feature of Ring doorbell cameras, after the doorbell functionality). The Motion Detection is done se
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Even if Google doesn't pay you for your data, you still have the right (as a resident of California) to prevent Google from selling on your data directly, or in using your data as part of a sale (e.g. targeted advertising). Except
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Are you saying that Google sells Chrome OS at a loss?
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> A cheap device would deliver lower performance That's one way to lower price, but in an industry of razor sharp hardware returns if you really want to make something cheap you do it by getting money from services and if those &quo
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by d1zzy 7y ago
But maximizing ad revenue (long term) does also imply not losing user's trust and information.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
There are things that aren't as obvious and may seem counterintuitive. Because company A derives 95% of their profits from ads it puts pressure on product design to not endanger that and also branch out in other areas. It would be extr
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by d1zzy 7y ago
If that money is mostly captured in coastal overexpensive housing, the same property that would be hardest hit if something largely negatively impacts tech companies/workforce, then they have much less money than one might expect :)
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Full time employees are around 100k with TVAs at around 120k. Yes, TVAs are more numerous and they enjoy different perks/benefits/etc (they aren't Google employees technically so that's not surprising) but we aren't
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Yeah it does feel overwhelming. I'm actually starting to think that some of this may be targeted. Meaning that actively political people (of any political affiliation) are actively looking to get hired at Google and stir shit up. One w
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by d1zzy 7y ago
You missed the biggest weapon against crime: a functioning fair society. Crime isn't entropy, something that's inherent to the laws of the universe and that can only be managed, it cannot be solved. A society where everyone and th
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by d1zzy 7y ago
It's weird how now Ring requires having to add a valid address/location for the doorbell, I remember first configuring it 2 years ago when I didn't have to add an address. Anyway, so I went and typed the name of a nearby larg
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> If I must give one access because it needs a firmware update to fix a bug or something, I temporarily set my guest wifi network's password to something random, configure the TV to use that, apply the fix, then reset the guest wifi
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Although I agree with you on points 1-3, point 4 is no longer the case as of this last year or two. Most people are only interested in the main apps such as YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ etc. My 2019 Samsung TV OS is not only fast and smoo
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Unless your job requires work email/calendar while at home I really don't see how having corp access on mobile can be a justification for productivity. The moment my company announced a requirement for having to install a corp po
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by d1zzy 7y ago
There may be valid reasons for installing the trackers, reasons that the writers are ignorant about. If suddenly you remove those 2 companies from the Internet, who's to say the tracking won't continue with other companies. Maybe

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