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541.
by fwn 9y ago
To answer this question, location is pretty much key. If in the Netherlands: probably Turkey. If anywhere else: probably the Netherlands. Although it is hard to think about a scenario in which the only available choice is between the Nether
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by fwn 9y ago
That is interesting and different from what I have experienced on Android. I've no explanation for that.
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by fwn 9y ago
I'm not sure their psychological/cultural reasons translate very well to continental europe. The people that surround me in Germany have all the time they want. Besides that: > No one has ever complained of having too much of i
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by fwn 9y ago
Facebook is naturally very good at optimizing their platform to extract more and more money per user. I wonder whether the price of such monetization opt out would account for their increasing revenue per user by rising accordingly. ... on
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by fwn 9y ago
WhatsApp reduces the quality of your media and saves it in a second folder of your gallery. If you forward already converted media it will be taken from the gallery in it's compressed, substantially smaller version.
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by fwn 9y ago
Asking such questions on a voluntary basis is usually just a phase to reduce opposition once it's finally mandatory.
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by fwn 9y ago
Yes. At worst, that may be the idea. Making an overly broad questionnair to introduce arbitrariness by enabeling your executive branch to selectively invalidate a specific visa holders questionnaires consistency.
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by fwn 9y ago
This looks to me like steganography, not cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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by fwn 9y ago
> There is something I find particularly revolting about sexual exploitation, having both your dignity and your agency taken from you. To me, this sounds like the classic moral concerns one would think of regarding the legality of prosti
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by fwn 9y ago
Not OP, but pointing at risky behaviour alone does not say anything about the drivers, the companies or the pedestrians responsibility. It's not football, so one does not have to choose sides at such issues.
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by fwn 9y ago
> Traditionally, SAS has pushed a lot of resources in the educational sector. Get them started young, and they'll be customers forever. If that is the strategy I'm not entirely sure it is well implemented. The version available
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by fwn 9y ago
The biggest problems my colleagues have with Sci-Hub is 1. the ever changing domain names and 2. the universities adapting DNS blocklist. I try to make it a habit to bookmark the English Wikipedia page on sci-hub and follow the IP linked th
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by fwn 9y ago
A problem is that reputation is increasingly defunct, at least in my limited experience. After getting curation & comments from hn, reddit, etc., my mobile browsers reader mode strips the design. I had to look up the source after readin
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by fwn 9y ago
From the article: "Another popular explanation for collecting – financial gain – cannot explain why collectors go to such lengths."
555.
by fwn 9y ago
I just tested it and it appears to work on my system. Three dots > More tools > Add to Desktop
556.
by fwn 9y ago
AFAIK you can pin bookmarks/PWAs to your windows taskbar/start menu/desktop via Chrome. They'll even open in a seperated window.
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by fwn 9y ago
But wouldn't this cheaper Ikea furniture just translate to even cheaper second hand Ikea furniture? I can't imagine a way to keep furniture prices high enough to pressure people into engaging in the second hand market. The last ti
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by fwn 9y ago
That's something I encountered with my universities ActiveSync setup. I stopped it on Android with Mailwise. http://mail-wise.com/faq/#bypass But it is probably not wise to do that in a company setup, as it clearl
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by fwn 9y ago
It is probably opt-in and a crippled version of the default chat interface. This way the few users of the feature will be visible like a Christmas tree in a dark forest and the general userbase will think it's their laziness not to use
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by fwn 9y ago
The entertainment density is often very low. It doesn't work this way for content that tries to communicate a specific mood, but for slapstick humor chains like BBT, more jokes is just funnier than less jokes per minute.
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by fwn 9y ago
Optional end to end encryption with an additionally crippled UX just means 1. no used end to end encryption in practice and 2. a worse reputation for e2e as a whole. Telegram has it as much as Facebook Messenger has it. It's a fig leaf
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by fwn 9y ago
Surely there is no power relation stacked against prisoners that might lead to any suspicion regarding their consent.
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by fwn 9y ago
> You can't credibly decry net neutrality (ie government regulation of your "private business"), when the very existence of your "private business" depends on government regulation to operate. Not sure what is me
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by fwn 9y ago
> I've never been able to find a second time a video You can see all the videos you watched as a list in your activity log. This link works after inserting your username: https://www.facebook.com/username/allact
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by fwn 9y ago
Oh my. Fair enough. :D "Sensory deprivation".
566.
by fwn 9y ago
Not Op, but if it only were entertaining. If I had to guess, probably 80% of my school time was idle time so boring it felt like sensual deprivation. There was little else to do than bullying each other. If phones would've been a thing
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by fwn 9y ago
In my case that's roughly 10 people. The only one I regularly see and hold strong online conversations with is my girlfriend. This is probably true for of most people not living in their hometown or having connections through college o
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by fwn 9y ago
Also buy the replacement for wearout.
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by fwn 9y ago
> The school won't show mercy. I guess this is very specific to the US phenomenon explained in the article. In my German schooling history, cheating the homework was trivial and well established. Everyone got the degree and it was a
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by fwn 9y ago
> "Imgur has never asked for real names, addresses, phone numbers, or other personally-identifying information (“PII”), so the information that was compromised did NOT include such PII." This sounds somewhat cheeky at first, bu

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