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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Amazon does have an ad business, and has for some years now. http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-ad-business-to-reach-5-...
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Damn dude... I'm sick and tired of writing stuff like m = f( <...> ) if m: # do stuff with m Trivial as it may be, I for one welcome this.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Firefox extension to bypass WSJ and FT paywall https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
So the _average_ energy company has twice as high RPE as Google? That's unexpected...
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Link please.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Slide down to browse through the hundreds of tabs I have opened (...) You have hundreds of tabs opened? Man, you're doing something wrong. At this point learning how not to have hundreds of tabs opened seems like a bigger improvem
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Correctness comes first. I agree with this. Interestingly, the post is very simple, and not correct. I prefer posts which are slightly more complex but correct, but those don't get as many upvotes.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
I've heard of Nexcloud. What's the difference between it and Syncthing?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Companies like this data to improve their products. As long as it's opt-in, we should have no ethical issue with it. Doesn't surprise me that Mozilla is dealing with this ethically. One of the few organizations I trust.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> particularly since the current US administration will presumably see this as related to the larger international trade-war. It's not just the administration. Every time the EU has levied fines against Google a lot of Americans on
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> This was due to the culture of Europes entrepreneurs which is often "bureaucracy first, product later". Are you just mindlessly repeating the usual right-wing nonsense that you read somewhere on the internet, or can you back
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Stop contributing to google's ecosystem.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Yes. And because of that I cannot empathise with this developer. It's not longer a case of "don't put your time into a closed ecosystem, for your own sake", but "you have the moral duty not to contribute to a closed
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
When you visit wikipedia in the UK you some times see a banner with information. I'm posting here the content and links of the banner: > To all our readers in the UK This Tuesday we need your help. On 5 July 2018, the European Parli
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
London has some really bad areas though.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
I'm not the person you were responding to, but I'd be curious to hear more. Could you please explicitely say whatever it was that you were implying?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
So in your mind people are just coming up with these things for no reason, is that it?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Hey, does anyone know where to find information about how python's releases are structured? For example, 3.6 exists and 3.7 is released. Without looking at the release details, should I be upgrading? Should I assume that it will break
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> You need a lot of optimism about solutions for global warming and pollution. I disagree. Unless you can show me a first-principle calculation for why a specific number should be "too much", then I don't think it's r
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> You can bypass the throttling by opening the About Firefox dialog to force an update check. This didn't work. Opening that dialog doesn't seem to trigger anything, and I don't see any button within it either.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Yuan has fallen 10% Weak Yuan is good for Chinese trade, which has an enormous surplus.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Oh how interesting. Just went on lobste.rs and at the bottom they have the moderation log made public. Really cool. I guess it's unusual because moderators don't like accountability. What's Lbda though?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> And now the dark theme also applies to address bar and hamburger menu which is nice bonus. I have both normal FF and nightly FF. Before nightly getting the dark hamburger menu I'd never thought much of it. After nightly got the da
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
That sounds like the cartoonish view of the Chinese gov that someone who only has any contact with it through western media buys into.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
And you use it as if it's some singular person, and of course it isn't, just like I use "the US" as if it's some singular person, which it also isn't. So we're both doing the same thing, and you're po
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
You use the Chinese government as if it's some singular person, and of course it isn't.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> The Fed sets interest rates, not the US government. Who said anything about US gov? If I say "the US sets USD interest rates", responding that "it's not the US gov, it's the Fed" sounds likes you're u
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
How come I always find out about Firefox updates from HN faster than actually getting the updates? Honest question.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
TIL about the Blub paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blub_paradox#The_Blub_paradox Thanks for that.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> The US manages the value of its currency indirectly but the market sets the price. The market sets the price based on (amongst other things) interest rates, and the US sets the interest rates however it's more convenient for its t

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