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by frenchy 7y ago
> At its best, advertising is a form of search technology That's not advertising. That's curation. Mixing these up is like mixing up astronomy and astrology.
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by frenchy 7y ago
Ah, I guess this is sort of a change between GTK 2 & 3.
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by frenchy 7y ago
Really? Do you have a source for that? Theming GTK has been a not uncommon thing since as long as I've been using it (~15 years).
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by frenchy 7y ago
The Green Party is certainly marginalized here, but a lot less so than in the US. The party leader actually has a seat in Parliment and is regularly quoted on public radio. They also form a small part of the a coalition government in BC and
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by frenchy 7y ago
I'm not much of a stock person, but I think in such cases, the voting shares tend to be tightly controlled. Especially for companies like Alphabet & Facebook, they are essentially trying to get the funding of a public company, whil
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by frenchy 7y ago
> unless you’re in an area where they get to charge. Why don't they do this everywhere? Is it because customers would throw a fit?
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by frenchy 7y ago
It depends how near. I've read that living in the outer parts of the exclusion zone is likely to reduce your lifespan by a week or two. Depending on the city, that actually might be an improvement.
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by frenchy 7y ago
Not just that, evolution is more about reproduction of the fittest, than survival of the fittest. Any health effects that don't manifest until 40 or later aren't likely to have much influence on evolution.
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by frenchy 7y ago
> why do you not want those people to have the information they need to refine and improve these emails Well, it comes at the expense of 1) making things slower for me and 2) making it more difficult to discern phishing emails from legit
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by frenchy 7y ago
> The use case that this breaks is doing click tracking on links I, personally, would be quite happy for this use case to break.
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by frenchy 7y ago
Why don't people just wake up earlier? If we keep shifting the day back, and waking up later, we'll up with the sun rising at 11 AM.
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by frenchy 7y ago
I think it has to do with "ergonomics", and the existance and interaction with the "?" keywords played a big part of that.
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by frenchy 7y ago
Yeah, but any language more popular than brainfuck has some level of adoption. Your language doesn't have to be super popular to start having adoptions issues.
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by frenchy 7y ago
I don't really have a problem with that. If you're making content, and it's valuable, and it's related to a product, that's great. If your content isn't valuable to me, then I won't bother with it. If you&
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by frenchy 7y ago
I'm not sure that people confused the two, it's just that the intrusive forms of advertising make up an overwhelmingly large part of a normal person's interactions with ads that we all just assume that that is what you'r
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by frenchy 7y ago
iOS doesn't support WebM. Why an OS should dictate what videos you can play is beyond me, but that's the wonderful world we live in.
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by frenchy 7y ago
FYI, the gravatar images don't load on my browser because I have Firefox's content blocker enabled. The alt-text "The user's avatar" is showing in a bunch of places, and on the project list it overlaps with the proj
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by frenchy 7y ago
That's a good question. This comes up every-now-and-then with my wife. She's usually says that pockets don't really matter, and then I point out that I have to carry her goods in my pockets. I suspect it's something real
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by frenchy 7y ago
For what it's worth, LibreOffice is probably LGPL because of OpenOffice's history with the Oracle buy-out. Oracle gave OpenOffice to Apache for the same reason Google gave Wave to Apache: They run a sort-of paliative service for s
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by frenchy 7y ago
I think the target market is a little larger than you think. The problem with Apple products is that they're a walled garden, and an expensive one to boot. My privacy isn't worth $4000 for a set of new computers, but it might be w
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by frenchy 7y ago
This isn't really evidence at all, but it's well known that as people age, it becomes more difficult to new memories, than it is to keep old ones[1], which is why you regularly get old people mixing up their current loved ones wit
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by frenchy 7y ago
It has to do with what time means. A coloiquial understanding of time has almost everything to with the way our mind and our memories work. Our mind and memories won't be of much use at the end of the universe, so we have to depend on
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by frenchy 8y ago
As others have mentioned, this is mostly not a problem because climbers are usually concious, and moving about and whatnot. Hanging in a harness for too long is quite uncomfortable if you don't move at least a little bit. Where this st
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by frenchy 8y ago
Perhaps, but the pessimist in me suspects that this natural legitimacy, which we all wish our politicians would have, is not near as effective as advertisements. Somehow, we have to come to terms with just how good advertisements are at aff
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by frenchy 8y ago
There's also Conversations, an Android XMPP client that supports OTR/OMEMO.
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by frenchy 8y ago
Don't expect people to change their consumption patterns when the economics so strongly favor one set of behaviors.
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by frenchy 8y ago
It's probably cramping. Often, when you sit like that, certain parts of your legs end up being under more pressure than their used to (because of the weight of your body on them). If your legs aren't used to it, the muscle tissue
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by frenchy 8y ago
> Does this thought process of summarizing the shenanigans we see in the world from entities like FB not serve to drive home a quick idea, without having to read pages and pages of text to get the point across not have a place. Maybe for
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by frenchy 8y ago
> distributing ownership of productive assets instead of just income Yeah, that's pretty much standard communism ("collective ownership of the means of production"). The million dollar question, is "how do we go about
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by frenchy 8y ago
Like OOXML, it's probably mostly the case to woo government to use their proprietary format. Additionally, I think with AMP, you might be able to get your input heard, but only if you run a mail service with millions of users.

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