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by davidcbc 8y ago
WhatsApp isn't even close to as ubiquitous as Facebook. WhatsApp has about 1.5 billion monthly active users compared to Facebook's 2.1 billion. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly
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by davidcbc 8y ago
> One believes in these things only until they become managers themselves. And every one aspires to be one in this industry. Oh god no, not even close to everyone in this industry aspires to be a manager. Personally, even if I end up bec
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I certainly hope so.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Hundreds of millions from the sale of Pixel 3 Qi chargers seems wildly optimistic.
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CppCon 2018: 105 STL Algorithms in Less Than an Hour(youtube.com)
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Honestly, hearing the opinions of many Chinese people with family still in China who want Google to go to China due to the current state of affairs with Baidu is what made me consider that there may be reasonable arguments on both sides of
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by davidcbc 8y ago
It is much more likely in my opinion that people would become desensitized to data breaches and stop taking any of them seriously. Equifax or Cambridge Analytica would have been just another in a deluge of notifications.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
> Ah right... when you can't attack the ideas, attack the author. This feels unintentionally ironic considering the article starts with "They're clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Where were you renting DVDs for 50 cents a day? That seems really cheap.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Downtown is very small (less than 0.5 square miles) in Pittsburgh and it just isn't very residential (nor is it intended to be). There are other parts of the city that are much more walkable and while there aren't many trains the
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by davidcbc 8y ago
This is an absurdly out of touch comment. The vast majority of cars sold in the US aren't even close to $60k. The average new car is only $37k and only about 30% of car purchases are new cars.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Not everyone has the luxury to just switch jobs. A large portion of the population has very few job options so they get exploited by employers who know they don't really have other options.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
In the situation where it is prohibitively expensive to get money or supplies into a place what are you expecting these people to spend their cryptocurrency on?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Is there any evidence at all that vote buying is a problem in US elections?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Voter suppression is an actual real world problem that happens today, not a hypothetical problem like the one you are worried about. Allowing voting by mail is an improvement to that real world problem as it reduces the barriers to voting f
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Apple had issues like this when Jobs was there too. He's the reason "You're holding it wrong" is a common phrase
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Just because there are contexts where it wouldn't be bad doesn't mean that the example fits that narrow context.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
What is the scenario where it is necessary for a leader to tell someone they should have been aborted?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Because it is human nature to relate more with people who are like you
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Considering Facebook owns Instagram this sounds like great news for Facebook. Facebook the company owning the product teens are using instead of Facebook the product seems like a good long term strategy.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
I don't know whether keto is ultimately good or bad but this isn't a very good argument. People do tons of things that are unhealthy but don't lead to immediate death. Loads of people smoke for years without dropping dead as
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by davidcbc 8y ago
How is that disingenuous? He didn't need a key to call Tesla and convince them to add the car to his account.
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That's Larry Wall
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Considering how cheap apps are an extra 30% for some level of quality guarantee is a steal
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Only if all my friends and family are on it, and they'll want all their friends and family on it, and they'll want their friends and family... etc... It's like the value of a social media platform is in lots of people being o
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by davidcbc 8y ago
> Do Facebook and YouTube constitute quasi-governmental actors that should be held to constitutional standards when regulating their vast marketplaces of ideas? Mr Tribe says that under current law, they aren’t. Betteridge's Law win
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Pretty much any site with a login is using cookies to do it
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Why are the comments critical of Musk being flagged?
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by davidcbc 8y ago
Why is this comment flagged? I thought the exact same thing, it was all a publicity stunt rather than a legitimate humanitarian effort.
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by davidcbc 8y ago
The guy on Github is distributing the source files which have a Blizzard copyright notice on them saying not to distribute them.

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