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by dhoulb 9y ago
Urgh, gross. Visual vomit — totally impractical and communicates nothing.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
The February 14 spike is particularly interesting as it’s an example of people _choosing_ a ‘positive’ date, vs just avoiding negative dates (holidays, 9/11, 13ths).
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Really useful context, thanks!
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I’s love to know that too. I assume some part of the September bump is “festive cheer”, which would still show in Australia. But it’d be fun to know how much was each.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
It’s obvious people are able to influence some contol over this, I huess through inducement (or just holding it in??). Avoiding holidays was the obvious trend, but there were two others I saw that made me chuckle: 1. People avoiding Februar
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Spotify showing the wrong album art(plus.google.com)
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by dhoulb 13y ago
If it's obvious in hindsight, it's still obvious. The trade is: we give you a monopoly on the thing, you give us (the public) written step-by-step instructions on how to create that thing. If instructions aren't necessary to
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I think 39" is an awesome size for a monitor. First up, I'll say I'm really not bothered about pixel density on a desktop machine. I love Retina on my laptop, but I never notice it's not there on my iMac - it's too
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by dhoulb 13y ago
GCHQ has done some appalling stuff, but the Google network penetration was done by the NSA.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I agree. I personally trust Google far more than the US or my own (UK) government. It's the whole monopoly on force thing. I have no fear that Google will grab me out of my bed in the middle of the night. With the UK government — even
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by dhoulb 13y ago
NHS number is clearly ridiculous. But, I can see why all the other data are statistically relevant in analysis. Postcode, so you can track viral outbreak etc with a fair degree of locational accuracy. Date of birth, so you could analyse if
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Rarr, scary database, rarrr.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
No, sorry, this is a terrible idea, Every broke idiot with a pen would write up every idea under the sun. Companies, with resources to actually bring those ideas to life, would have to pay way more to be able to do so, driving up the cost o
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Wrong way round. You want to know if clicks on illegal sources have an effect on legal sources. Not if clicks on legal sources have an effect on illegal sources. Yes, it's important. No, they're not the same.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Good responses, no need for the snark at the end though!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Because of this article, that entire archive of pictures they're holding is now probably worthless, for blackmail value. So, that's a plus.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Wow, did Eric Schmidt run over his dog or something? Guy's got a serious bias!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Completely agree. Whether or not worker safety contributes to ROI should never be a question. Same with environmental impact.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Well, for Apple to collect that information would probably be significant work. What's the cost of swapping out bad metals in their batteries? Some of it is really hard to quantify. But, it wasn't a serious request for information
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Seems like taking action in the real world and avoiding sources of inflammation would have a positive psychological effect. Giving the person a feeling of control over one area of their life. Surely that would be beneficial, whether or not
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Gluten intolerance isn't a binary state, it's a scale. Everyone's on it somewhere, but unless it's REALLY bad, you'd probably never get diagnosed or even tested. Main benefit of avoiding gluten though is it's a
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Yeah, I imagine most good doctors know full well it's emotional/stress, but avoid telling the patients because it's not what patients like to hear, or they don't think it'll be helpful. Pharmaceutical treatments for
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by dhoulb 13y ago
The effect might be that eating walnuts fills you up and makes you eat less potato chips. You're right of course, but don't underestimate how bad a place some people are coming from!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I think your metaphor is kinda off. Don't think of it like a stream, where some of the water can be separated off and filtered. Think of it like a road system. All the roads between Netflix Town and Comcast City have to go through Coge
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I don't hate Microsoft. But I don't exactly like them either. They've made some pretty piss poor decisions over the last 10 years that have had some huge impacts. IE6 was bad, but I can forgive their ignorance on that — n
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by dhoulb 13y ago
$3-4b does sound about right - factoring in the market/investor factors this article goes into. If they convince all of their users to pay the $1 next year, that's $450m in revenue, so 8-10x revenue is a reasonable price for a tec
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I have a couple of problems with the analysis. First, users don't use WhatsApp because they're concerned about Facebook hoovering up all the data. They use it because their slightly cooler social influencer friend uses it, so they
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Things to watch for are: A) You signed a contract that explicitly assigns ownership of anything you create to them B) You created it on equipment they own, or used any of their resources to make it C) You created it in time you should'
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by dhoulb 13y ago
In case anyone is interested in the numbers, USA produced in the region of 50,000 Sherman tanks during the Second World War. 5-10x more than Germany. Plus the British tanks. It didn't take all that long to reach Berlin!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS can do quite a bit of world changing.

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