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by epicide 7y ago
> If this was a commercial project, his income would be magnitudes higher. Not necessarily. I would expect part of the reason it's one of the most used is because it's non-commercial. I do agree it's not fair compensation,
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by epicide 7y ago
So basically Tinder for Recruiters? On the surface, it sounds useful, but also like Tinder, would've likely been abused.
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by epicide 7y ago
Some people see it as a form of challenge. Sure, it might be fun to figure it out on your own, but sharing it is a whole different question [0][1]. The challenge, especially for places that aren't really tech-first types, kinda becomes
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by epicide 7y ago
> Seems like it would largely be restricted to the (relatively) rich and tech savvy Yep, that's a problem. > these people no longer reproducing and passing down the genetics which may have played a role in the success Nope, that&
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by epicide 7y ago
This makes me sad on so many levels. Bravo.
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by epicide 7y ago
> Then you're just using Chrome... Well, yeah, that was the whole point. If we're saying fire up Chrome just to watch Netflix, I'm suggesting saving some effort and/or isolate the rest of your browser by wrapping it i
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by epicide 7y ago
Seemingly not for all platforms.
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by epicide 7y ago
I don't think it would be hard to make an Electron Netflix app if one doesn't already exist.
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by epicide 7y ago
I mean, Bill wasn't really wrong . Just maybe naive? People have been lying/wrong in print forever. This is not new [0]. What's new is the vast amount of information. He was definitely correct with "for all practical pu
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by epicide 7y ago
> gig internet is already widely available I don't have it available and I live in an urban area. Hell, I don't even have a viable alternative to my cable company. There's a ton of bureaucracy around all of it. Political n
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by epicide 7y ago
> I'm not even sure what I'd do with gig internet. We're going to find out and that's the most interesting part.
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by epicide 7y ago
Yep, somewhere along the way freedom of (or from) a schedule got butchered into the war on sleep.
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by epicide 7y ago
I don't think the point is to change their business model. The point is to include an alternative way to support them other than ads. Augment, not replace. E.g. I remove ads (both in their settings and with an ad blocker). However, I w
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by epicide 7y ago
> putting my whole left hand on the left side of the keyboard to press Shift with my pinky and 1 with my ring finger Try using your right pinky to press shift when typing a bang. If you want to just use one hand, try holding shift with p
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by epicide 7y ago
They seem to even let you turn ads off in the settings.
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by epicide 7y ago
I just did a search for "switch reddit" and got at least 5 different subreddits. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant? Also, while it makes you dependent on the reddit search, there's the "!r" search shortcut.
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by epicide 7y ago
Doesn't this ultimately make the situation worse since now less people will see that page in the first place? i.e. the only people that will (likely) see it are the ones that are already doing what you want.
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by epicide 7y ago
No reason you can't have more than one, either. You could even issue keys for people to act on your behalf (e.g. they get access to it on your death as part of your will).
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by epicide 7y ago
Unit of mass .
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by epicide 7y ago
Any number of things that are better than what currently happens when a SSN is leaked.
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by epicide 7y ago
Mostly off-topic, but related: this is one of the major reasons email needs to finally go away. It was never intended to be the backbone of peoples lives in the way it has become. Access to my email account probably gives you more access to
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by epicide 7y ago
> If the few blokes using this scam their way into few hundred terabytes of free storage, so be it, it's not worth the hassle for Google, imo. This. They probably thought of this exact scenario before adding unlimited docs. They pro
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by epicide 7y ago
> I don't know if there's a precedent for looking back and feeling completely unimpressed and underwhelmed Survivorship bias. We only talk about the interesting things, regardless of whether it was recorded or not. Many decades
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by epicide 7y ago
What happens when you set yourself to be disgusted[0] at the idea of changing your own preferences? [0]: I'm assuming you can also go the opposite way.
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by epicide 7y ago
I had it as a footnote because I meant it to pertain to a more broad group of people than rich white men. My point wasn't to make a snide remark like "oh everyone gets mad at the poor CEOs". My point was that crowds seem to e
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by epicide 7y ago
Even if Facebook-the-product dies[0], Facebook-the-company will continue to be around for a looong time. Even if they fall out of public favor, they have enough money, enough data, enough business connections, etc. to continue for a very lo
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by epicide 8y ago
This whole thing seems like more harm than good and an example of Facebook (intentionally or not) having a larger political influence than a "social media" company should. I think "limited to political ads only" adds to
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by epicide 8y ago
Things like this always remind me of this awesome talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4 The example starting at 9:45 especially relates.
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by epicide 8y ago
The article isn't about removing all traces of Google from your site/stack. It's about removing 3rd party tracking from your site. Specifically, it focuses on removing Google Analytics. Using Google Sheets doesn't add 3r
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by epicide 8y ago
O/T but people do the same thing with light, as well. e.g. just had a nighttime flight (so they turn off the cabin lights) where the person diagonally in front of me blinded me with his 100% brightness screen for hours. Couple that wit

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