drewmol

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   by drewmol 8y ago

   >Google would say: ‘We know, that’s why we are pushing to move everyone to https.’ Am I presuming too much to think Google's primary motivation for pushing HTTPS is to protect their revenue model by preventing their ads from being r
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   I agree but is it possible this is aimed at avoiding class action suits about false advertised performamce, by attempting to make the new benchmarks inadmissible?
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   Step x - sell ability to target users based on gullibly and trustworthness scores
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   True as it is, the limited data is mostly due to criminalization in the US preventing comprehensive analysis. This is especially true for the less severe conditions (of which you mentioned several) where well studied alternative remedies a
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   Yes, I was too. Facebook made has similar advertising which is basically saying: "Listen, things got fucked up, we made lot's of $$$, and we don't really admit fault. If you do happen to blame us however, we think some fo
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   If you live in DC it may be worth filing a small-claim to recover damages.
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   It's easy to be pessimistic and jaded about this stuff, so thanks for keeping an open mind and for pointing this out. Wells Fargo started in 1852 with good intentions. They were fortunate and experienced exponential growth quickly, a
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   Do you think that if courts did not necessarily honor these contracts as binding it would help, or cause more problems than it solves? For example: if there are server logs to show someone 'agreed' to a 5000 word T&C in under
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   by drewmol 8y ago

   >However until then I'd prefer that laws like Washington State's 'keep right except to pass' were strongly enforced. I recently drove from Tuscon, AZ to Cleveland, OH. All 8 states I drove through have them, but som
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    He was pondering what's worse for a bird: extremely low occurance but surely instantaneous death, or getting to live knowing you'll be driven from your homeland to eventual extinction from robot invaders and wind turbines.
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Depends on the size, altitude and your affinity towards birds/drones. First wind turbines now robotic nuance drones, birds have had it to good for too long I guess.
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    I second this. Currently waiting the 72 hour 'phone being paired to an xaiomi-account' period so I can unlock the bootloader and install lineagos for use as my new daily driver. I find this (using a custom, configurable and mini
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    >Are you suggesting that the US military will use force to ensure that people use the dollar and that is its backing? Not the OP, but the governments' 'monopoly on violence' usually refers to the fact that they hold positi
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Thanks, I did know the idiom refers to foot placement, but still typed 'towing' for whatever reason. If 'B' becomes the primary business model, towing won't be necessary. A quick T&C change for automaticSelfRe
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Tesla seems to be <!--towing--> toeing a line between: A) manufacturing vehicles for sale as an exclusively-electric auto maker... and B) manufacturing the necessary hardware, but then just collecting an equiptment-fee. This equi
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Haha, of course you did - It's always a capacitor![1] These mature cheap reliable mass-produced electrolytic capacitors of which we rarely see fault today, sure had quite the rebellious stage[2] [3]. Interesting, from the announcement
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Isn't the anti Middle East sentimate more a fear of or aversion to people of cultures seen as tolerant of implementing Islamic theocracy in governance?
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    >"and at the same time, it was encouraging to see the vast majority of people affirm that though want us to use context, including from web sites this they visit, to make our ads more relevant and improve their overall product exper
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Typically the cashier can "turn on the pump" (enable pumping prior to paymemt) on request, and you can pay after pumping.
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    "You won't believe these 10 hate groups that Marc Zuckerberg refuses to ban, donates to!" > "Facebook stands firm, bans extremist nationalist hate group: <No longer available> from platform!
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    The beauty of Facebook's position is that by having sole control of the internet middlemanning market, they can solve it without taking a position. Members of the standard hate groups can experience Freedom Loving Facebook with ultimat
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    while money is not null if make money getdata(users) getmoney(data) else getdata(users) getdata(money) set make money
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Concerning points, here's what works for me: I act on the assumtion that I can't take the points with me when (I'm || HM) is dead. So... while I need enough to enable free speech, accumulating internet points is not the reaso
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Thanks for this, pretty useful for when I'm not on my own device.
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Side note: If you look at the ADA language about service animals, it's all about what you as a business cannot do, without doing a good job of specifying what constitutes a service animal... So if abusing vaugely defined legislation ai
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    >The real problem is combining all these datasets in one place for the purpose of perpetuating information asymmetry as a product. Rephrased, the real problem is (currently) what happens once it gets combined with that wealth of other da
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    I rode 12 different roller coasters this past Monday, not one required empty pockets, however it was an option to store pocket items in a bin on one of them. I'm realizing as I write this you probably mistyped your ... I did take a
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    I use them together, uMatrix as a fine grained control tool where I can setup a saved profile and click-allow until functionality & appearance are acceptable to me, and for 'one-off' or 'fuck-it no time' situations I
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    I think this is quite dependant on the person, type of pain, cannabis strain, extraction or concentration method, ingestion method etc. As mentioned up thread, kratom provides much closer effect to the commonly prescribed opiate derivativ
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    by drewmol 8y ago

    Crowdsource 911 dispach?