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31.
by ggg2 7y ago
wonder how much more sales the russian firewall will generate to cisco et al
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by ggg2 7y ago
in protests in brazil and arab spring, whatsapp groups helped organizers pinpoint (sadly, both were after the fact) plain clothes police activity within the protests creating artificial agitation to justify the use of force.
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by ggg2 7y ago
this is mostly because of reach. telegram is the defacto communication medium in russia and ukraine. they don't sell there for one reason or another. it's simply because all their clientele is there. no need to overthink it.
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by ggg2 7y ago
same way toddlers install apps: voice and voice to text input. also in china older generations migth be literate but not capable of typing in a phone/computer.
35.
by ggg2 7y ago
yes. nobody complained when US (and everyone else later on) required online forms for visa requests. full of google Analytics tags and all.
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by ggg2 7y ago
they already have the little red book-esque app that solidifies Xi as their permanent leader. now I can't recall if that was a stand alone app or within the wechat ecosystem.
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by ggg2 7y ago
BlackBerry is selling android phones for a while
38.
by ggg2 7y ago
your list just confirmed the points you replied to.
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by ggg2 7y ago
"what if I lived in any other country, which requires a fire extinguisher in every car?" ...and most of them aren't even a matchbox like that place.
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by ggg2 7y ago
> 10h disable lid sleep (well, disable sleep entirely on osx 10+ because apple don't want to give you the option to disable lid sleep only) and it will never pass 4h. the 6/8/10h some people claim is because they don&#x27
41.
by ggg2 7y ago
so you gave more money to company with the broken product? why not buy amd?
42.
by ggg2 7y ago
thats the billion dollar question! not having the clear answer even in public traded companies is a travesty.
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by ggg2 7y ago
why? their machines are now fashion products/statement for (rich) people that socialize via socal media videos. (most people here will disagree while not being that demographic. they will also not have a reason to buy a $50k youtube po
44.
by ggg2 7y ago
in this day and age: just buy a data plan sim card! it will be safer, more pratical and cheaper. even if you have to splurge in one country or another with bad monopoly cases (e.g. visiting the usa) it's still better than using a combi
45.
by ggg2 7y ago
the problem seems to be the publisher (which some researchers double as) framing it in a peer-consensus way when it's not.
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by ggg2 7y ago
the dumbest thing anyone wrote (and he did it on this later article) is to personalize the algorithm. the algorithm is code. put in place by someone. it is not magical. it is not hard to predict. it doesn't run around gainig sentience.
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by ggg2 7y ago
wait, they bought the company with the pattent? that's exactly what american capitalism is about! apple bought fingerworks(?) and sat on top of their patents, refusing all license requests, until 20(?) years later they started working
48.
by ggg2 7y ago
not really. I migth have dozen of friends who did read, and did figure out it was BS. But the systems optimize for positive interactions (which generates eyeballs/pageview/ad impressions). So even if a dozen friends dismissed some
49.
by ggg2 7y ago
interesting how little info we have from companies that can do that. https://ipinfo.io/AS268869 One would think there would be a little more trust and transparency. But I guess you only need to buy 1k ips and you are in the
50.
by ggg2 7y ago
also interesting for the timing. lots of political pressure from US and others on Taiwan "independence" on internal policies happening these last weeks. e.g. http://m.focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201905280016
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by ggg2 7y ago
now it is even worse. before we had the big 4 and everyone had them at their home. now you have big 3 and everyone have one or another. or at most 2. and this is untill the big one dominate (like google did with search). which is the end ga
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by ggg2 7y ago
hopefully firefox will continue to run fine on those (and get faster over time) chrome on android is dead to me. so many antifeatures it's maddening.
53.
by ggg2 7y ago
every article preaches the same absurd fallacy: " users update the OS more in so or so" Users have absolutely no say! Planed obsolence does. every single device could be running the latest version just fine. But the manufacturer
54.
by ggg2 7y ago
why do you think you control that? apple tries, and even then people already managed to run code via pdf engines; on android it's at least more clear you have no control. You probably have apps in your phone runnig rigth now that ship
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by ggg2 7y ago
don't forget error rate metric too
56.
by ggg2 7y ago
which ended with Microsoft running to give them windows source for inspection. redflagOS was a huge success when you see the goals and few resources invested.
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by ggg2 7y ago
which was a direct result of Google suing them to show it. oh the irony!
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by ggg2 7y ago
why not use the correct analogy? e.g. if a journalist (in the usa or outside) knows your employer (gov or private) committed crimes against the population and kept proofs of it inside a toy safe, that you can open easily just by fiddling wi
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by ggg2 7y ago
specially when you are already paying a fixed monthly fee for the transfer cost of the near-zero-cost-to-them crappy non-premium media content, which is the same bandwidth cost to provide you with reruns of what you "rented" befor
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by ggg2 7y ago
yes. What's the point?

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