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by dade_ 9y ago
Exactly, the company could have gone bankrupt and he sold before the market knew the massive risk they were carrying. I am glad he has been charged.
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by dade_ 9y ago
That is exactly the process I went through a few years ago and the manipulative messaging assured me that I was making the correct decision to get as far away from FB as possible. Dr. Robert B. Cialdini, closed off Influence, The Psychology
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by dade_ 9y ago
I think if I were in high school today, I would today feel exactly the same as I did in 7th grade about Apple products. John Dvorak wrote an article that Apple machines were basically Cuisinarts and I thought the class was to teach me abou
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by dade_ 9y ago
I just received this email from my bank. Something like this would be nice: "Below is a link to the 2018 Annual Privacy Notice. This Notice provides details on the types of information we collect, why we collect it, and with whom we m
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by dade_ 9y ago
I got rid of Facebook years ago. Finding a useful app for planning an event is very difficult, but just using email works fine. I just use calendar invites and I follow up with chat / SMS if needed. I can't think of any reason
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by dade_ 9y ago
We have an environmental levy on electronics that supposedly covers the cost of recycling the product. However, I have never seen any reports on whether it truly covers the recycling cost or if it has improved landfill diversion.
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by dade_ 9y ago
You are using an bad example: First, there is nothing to repair. You either live with dead pixels or you replace the panel, which is essentially the TV. Also, if you spend 10 hours fixing a TV, you don't know what you are doing. A co
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by dade_ 9y ago
"Nothing is to be had for gold but mediocrity." -Arthur Schopenhauer
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by dade_ 9y ago
Your words are painful to read. Many people from thousands of kilometers away, liberated the Netherlands from Germany... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_World_War_II
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by dade_ 9y ago
Imagine having billions of dollars and all you can come up with is adding voice and video calling to a picture sharing app. I can't understand why anyone would do that, but giving away money is actually fun, though I can only imagine g
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by dade_ 9y ago
I don't see why this would make anyone thinks this is illegal as it doesn't stop anyone from buying Google Home products. It isn't as though Best Buy is selling Amazon products and Apple stopped selling nest in their retail
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by dade_ 9y ago
I find your comment ironic, considering the basis of the whole articles was very alternative: "Brainwaves were first noticed by German psychiatrist Hans Berger. In 1929, he published a paper describing the repeating waves of current he
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by dade_ 9y ago
There is some missing math. They likely have 30 or 40 payroll systems all up for renewal/replacement. The old systems are probably loaded with features and forgotten requirements that would have been discovered during deployment.
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by dade_ 9y ago
Visio
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by dade_ 9y ago
I am very weary of VIA after the APC. It was an awful experience, and in the end they just closed the community forum years ago, with a note that it would be reopening in weeks: https://apc.io/forum/
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by dade_ 9y ago
I loved the performance and battery life of the phone, but I finally gave up on the form factor. Apple and developers now support the screen size as an afterthought and I'd become increasingly frustrated by new version of apps that sq
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by dade_ 9y ago
They were in Android apps that had banner ads (TuneIn, and a couple others). I closed my Facebook account in 2014, so I don't consider it recent. It really did say come back to Facebook. Since creating a new Google account and resett
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by dade_ 9y ago
I also really annoy my friends. Essentially Facebook has redefined a friend as someone that will still bother to contact you and invite you to things even though you aren't on Facebook. Banner adds since I switched to Android this yea
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by dade_ 9y ago
It is only scary because business TV would be impossibly boring to watch if they weren't bouncing from one imaginary crisis to another, all between actual disasters that no one saw coming.
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by dade_ 9y ago
This article is very informative about the challenges that biology contends with, but it doesn't convince me that the headline is true.
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by dade_ 9y ago
Also consider that only a small amount of treated water is consumed by people, but all of the fluoride added to our water supply ends up in our waterways.
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by dade_ 9y ago
At the time, being able to run windows applications on OS/2 was a big feature, so there wasn't much need for native applications. Windows 95 came out, and its apps were not compatible, so the feature ended up accelerated its demi
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by dade_ 9y ago
In the last few months the organizers of the meetups I go to have been complaining about changes to meetup, and noted that it is obvious that the changes are being made by people with no clue about what organizers need or how they use the p
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by dade_ 9y ago
Growing up in western Canada we were warned against an awful illness Beaver Fever, which is a catchy name for it.
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by dade_ 9y ago
I was due for a new real winter coat this year, and black and drab are as common as vehical and pedestrian collisions this time of year. Fortunately, Moose Knuckes: https://www.mooseknucklescanada.com/bomber-ballistic&#x2
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by dade_ 9y ago
Or The Wire...
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by dade_ 9y ago
I would definitely make maximum use of the charitable donation deduction though.
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by dade_ 9y ago
That is a very defeatist position.
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by dade_ 9y ago
How is 1188 rare? 100 people a month is absurdly common. http://killedbypolice.net/
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by dade_ 9y ago
There is competition in most markets, but people are lazy and stick with the incombent telcos and cable companies which slows the expansion of competitive players. I live in probably the most competitive market and I am paying 100 CAD&#x2F

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