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by deepfriedbits 10y ago
Yep. 66 countries, including the U.S., China, Japan, Canada, Argentina and Israel, boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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by deepfriedbits 10y ago
It's China, so it falls under the authority of the CPC first, then any legal considerations second. We marvel at how quickly they built up high speed rail, but when you can just seize land without regard to imminent domain, associated
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by deepfriedbits 10y ago
As I understand it, she/they did try to make a play here, acquiring Jerry Shen and Bignoggins for fantasy innovation, including daily stuff. Unfortunately, he was quickly fired from Yahoo! for sending out an inter-department email quot
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by deepfriedbits 10y ago
Yep. It was tongue-in-cheek. More of a comment on th sheer number of Minecraft videos on YouTube.
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by deepfriedbits 10y ago
Steve's Law: No matter where you are on YouTube, you are never more than two clicks away from a Minecraft video.
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by deepfriedbits 10y ago
Links will still count towards the character limit for now as Twitter is concerned with abuse/spam. What we may see at some point is Twitter not counting the first link in a tweet against the 140, but counting subsequent links. As for
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
Missed that thread but it's great. I often refer to my wife as my "Facebook Ambassador" as she serves a similar role in our household.
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
Not exactly my cup of tea, either, but there's an argument to be made that these things do help make the subject more accessible, which is probably a good thing.
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
Same. And if you used his max sentences for each answer in his template, you'd end up with the War and Peace of press releases he so (justly) despises.
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
Great news if for nothing else, this spells the end of the Fav/RT binary polls that are fundamentally flawed in their form.
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
Yes, but Twitter deserves credit for creating something that didn't exist. It's global IRC for the masses. That and it brought the Internet real-time search. That's huge and did not exist before Twitter.
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
I was surprised to see their share price listed prominently at the top of their home page. Is it just me or is that considered outdated and gauche?
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by deepfriedbits 11y ago
I also favor this approach and 1Password sure makes it, if not easy, then certainly tolerable. The only thing I'd add is that there are some websites with weird length and character rules, so sometimes you must tweak your password gene
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by deepfriedbits 12y ago
Absolutely. I run a rather large (non-tech) site that doubled in traffic from Feb 2015 vs. Feb 2014 and AdSense revenues were actually down about 6% year over year. Uniques and pageviews were way up, click-through rate was near constant, bu