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by flashman 10y ago
Makes sense - most visitors are going to be looking at some other game, not doing a keyword search, so go where the eyeballs are.
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by flashman 10y ago
Thanks :)
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by flashman 10y ago
Only 4.155×10⁸ seconds late :)
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by flashman 10y ago
Yes, meat should be more heavily taxed to reflect its environmental and public health system externalities. Most people should consume less meat, or at least meat produced with less deforestation and fewer carbon emissions. We would probabl
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by flashman 10y ago
If eating vegetarian is the worst thing that happens to you in hospital, it's been an OK visit.
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by flashman 10y ago
My BitBar script to display my current free drive space: #!/bin/bash df -h | awk '{print $4}' | head -n2 | tail -n1 (There has to be a neater way to do this...)
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by flashman 10y ago
The parent commenter was saying anybody can go through your comment history, and by extension admins have no special access to 'dark secrets'. I was pointing out that that's just not true.
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by flashman 10y ago
But they have your upvotes, saved links, private messages, and at least some idea of which outbound links you've clicked (you can turn some of that off). It's like an ISP knowing a significant portion of your web browsing behaviou
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Organ transplants: the gifts that keep on living (2015)(theaustralian.com.au)
2 points by flashman 10y ago|0 comments
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by flashman 10y ago
It's a graph which explains why people are curious, not why the data looks that way, so it's fine. If you're rigging an election, you're going to rig electronic machines because it's easier than changing thousands o
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by flashman 10y ago
Various people are trying to explain the Wisconsin result, in which Trump-voting counties were three times more likely to have electronic voting than Clinton-voting counties. I made this image to illustrate: http://i.imgur.com&#x
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by flashman 10y ago
> Ideas are very hard to kill by censorship and when you do let them "fester" they get more extreme and radical I believe allowing these people on your community site gives them the space they need to become more extreme and r
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by flashman 10y ago
> They're the people who matter . For the marketing purposes of driving mass adoption of your fashion product: yes, unquestionably. If tech people want to drive fashion, maybe they should stop looking down their noses at the indust
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by flashman 10y ago
Does it warn you if someone sends you a link designed to log your IP address and browser? e.g. one generated on http://grabify.link
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by flashman 10y ago
That's actually pretty bad because you have no idea whether it's still going to explode. Like a firework that does nothing after the fuse burns into the casing.
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by flashman 10y ago
I use IFTTT to email me every time a file is deleted from my Dropbox, after a nasty incident where several gigabytes of baby photos were silently deleted. Luckily I noticed soon enough to restore them. I'm not sure why it happened or w
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by flashman 10y ago
> I't funny The amount of things an alien would have to know to understand what happened here is immense.
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by flashman 10y ago
I've never seen rot 13 spoiler format before, so thanks for that :)
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by flashman 10y ago
Apple is a premium brand, not a luxury one. Premium products are mass marketed and justify their price premium with higher quality and useful extra features. Luxury products are niche targeted and justify their price premium with exclusiv
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by flashman 10y ago
Well, where's the money in email? Services, right? The reason Twitter didn't go the same way as email is because it's centrally controlled and hostile to services, in my opinion.
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by flashman 10y ago
Well, there is an element of confirmation bias. We don't know whether the successful apps represent one-hundredth or two-thirds of the submitted apps. But earlier this year Apple did say it was trying to decrease approval times,[1] may
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by flashman 10y ago
It looks like WOT was capturing browsing activity and selling an 'anonymised' version to other vendors. NDR then purchased some of this data and was able to de-anonymise it by examining the URLs for personally identifying informat
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by flashman 10y ago
A favourite of mine is Pasquale D'Silva on using animation principles to add meaning to user interfaces: https://medium.com/@pasql/transitional-interfaces-926eb80d64... If you've got a spare 50 minutes he dis
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by flashman 10y ago
Specifically a game development company, you mean? Well, I think video game income is quite a speculative proposition, capital city cost of living is high (and that's where the talent wants to live, you'll have trouble attracting
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by flashman 10y ago
One of my least-favourite parts of video game news outlet Rock Paper Shotgun is the box of Taboola links at the end of the article. They never have anything to do with video games. The sad part it, I'm sure RPS gets a lot of money from
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by flashman 10y ago
> Apple seems completely stuck in a time where all users needed was access to a decent office suite and the ability to email and print in order to "do work". They're like a corporate IT department that refuses to allow its
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Facial recognition fooled into thinking Bill Murray is Tom Hanks(medium.com)
1 points by flashman 10y ago|0 comments
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by flashman 10y ago
> Enjoying extreme spiciness has nothing to do with enjoying food. I'm convinced there's a significant element of machismo: "Are you tough enough to eat this?"
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by flashman 10y ago
Not at all designed to be compatible with mobile.
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by flashman 10y ago
Another long read on plane spotters, this time from Australia: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewmcmillen/things-are-looking-u... Usual disclaimer about it being good despite being on BuzzFeed. Also this discussion was ab

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