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by ewzimm 10y ago
An app that tells you what position to take on issues seems a little lacking, but the idea here is solid. What I would like to see is the non-partisan version that's dismissed here, a platform for people to objectively highlight what&#
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To complete the headline, only when iCloud is enabled. Anyone especially concerned about privacy shouldn't be using iCloud anyway, but it definitely needs more fine-grained control.
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There's really an amazing amount of misinformation and manipulation going on. I think there's a place for people developing critical thinking skills, but there's also a limit to what people can sort through. There's a bi
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I agree that the system needs to change, but you should also take into consideration that the purpose of the electoral college is to prop up the power of smaller states that don't have large populations, as minority opinions are import
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This is absolutely the right answer, but maybe Facebook can do some things to help. It's possible to gamify the process of learning to spot biases by presenting people with situations and getting them to think critically to solve the b
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This is the biggest irony of the article. Everyone in the establishment media is trying to figure out how Trump won without their endorsement without addressing the actual issues voters cared about. It even says in this article that people
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It also took me until college to learn to pronounce the e.
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I did the same thing when I was younger. There's still some of it left over, but the embarrassment of being a teenager definitely normalized it. I learned to read when I was pretty young, before I was exposed to a lot of words in speec
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But your individual case isn't going to affect their behavior. If you wanted to change the situation, not paying simply isn't going far enough. You'd need to coordinate with other potential victims or do something like this w
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I think it goes against a lot of people's idea of efficieny. Why should each person need to research, source, and mix their own MRP if we have similar needs?
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Just noticed I said billion, meant million. Looking forward to VR displays with that kind of resolution though.
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The Wacom has the pressure level advantage: 2048 vs 1024 levels on the Surface. But with well-calibrated software, it should be enough. I'm not sure if people can discern 2048 levels of pressure, and I'm sure this device was teste
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That monitor is just under 3.69 billion pixels compared to 13.5 billion on the Surface Studio. It doesn't include the dial interface, the real-life scaling, the pivot mechanism, the color profiles, a lot more. It's probably the cl
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Having effective universal computing and making it usable for people are different enough that there's plenty of room for people specializing in both. Consumer hardware isn't anywhere near finished changing, and I'm sure a lo
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Definitely the worst part of most laptops. I often have to tap my touchpad 3 or 4 times to get it to register one click, and that's pretty normal from what I've used. I'm surprised that nobody except Apple makes much of an ef
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Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not seriously suggesting that you're a Russian shill. That's meant as sarcasm and immediately contradicted by my next statement. I'm seriously concerned about the amount of Russian-blamin
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There's something beautiful about the fact that the most powerful people at the tops of similar power structures looked out from one planet at trillions of galaxies and said nope, these kinds of arrangements end here at the edge of our
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I hope you didn't take that literally! I'm just following the trend. I hope things cool down because the tech in Eastern Europe is fantastic.
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Maybe some existing efforts need help, but I think Wayland is doing fine without Canonical. Either way, shaming developers for choosing to go their own way is toxic, just as bad as harrassing people for not taking every request on Github. D
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From the first announcement, Canonical said that the reason for developing Mir was for their specific vision of touchscreens and convergence. FLOSS is so good because people can scratch an itch out in the open where everyone can benefit fro
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There's a lot of fragmentation, but things are getting better. You can do all that with a FireTV stick for $40. It runs DRM apps, has a Kodi fork MrMC in the store (or you can sideload Kodi), Miracast for general screen casting, apps f
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Yes, it's reinforced at small scales too. I said usually it's reinforced at most tribally against another group, meaning that this is about the largest scale you can take anger and hatred as a social force. At that point, you&#x27
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I think you might misunderstand just how love is stronger than anger and hate. Love is reinforced by interaction with all types of others. Anger and hate can be socially reinforced but usually at most tribally against another group. It has
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I'm not a good representative of public discourse. I've read Richard Stallman's blog for over fifteen years. What you're talking about with hardware is exactly my point. We're talking about encryption, which I'
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The Overton window though is about what's acceptable in public discourse.
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I'm not so sure that haivng a standard way to connect DRM to a browser is changing the Overton Window. It's a technical standard that no users are actually looking at. What percenage of the population would even know the differenc
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Yes, all DRM is easy to bypass right now, but it works as a way to get studios on board with digital distribution. This brings up an interesting point. The main argument against DRM is that it is a slippery slope which will lead to more vio
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This is true. Especially South American slash and burn of the rainforest for cattle grazing is a huge contribution. We're burning through our largest carbon sinks and also the most diverse ecosystem to raise meat. Switching to alternat
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Some people might say that our instincts are often wrong. A lot of people use tricks to do something other than what their emotions are telling them. They get angry and contain it. They feel jealous that someone else is getting attention an
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That low ranking is related to the first thing you're saying. It's what drives advocates of national health care, not the idea that nobody will die. When people are talking about deaths of people who can't afford health care,

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