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by ggg9990 8y ago
Another thing I’ve noticed is articles using large headshots of women for companies where they could use product photos. With men it’s much rarer... they even prefer to run cheesy graphics of “AI” instead of headshots.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I would think it is much more than 20,000 in a country of 1 billion people with such tight content controls.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Alice, Bob, and Carol all hate each other. A politician of yesteryear had to forge some compromise between them to get the support of any two. Today, you can tell Alice that you'll kill Bob and Carol, Bob that you'll kill Alice an
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by ggg9990 8y ago
> what country has the budget to knock out twenty four satellites in quick succession? The only countries between whom a war would be a globally consequential event: the United States, China, and Russia.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The overfocus on Facebook hides the much more important and sobering point — if you tell someone exactly what they want to hear, they can be induced to vote for you, which calls into question the real long-term value of democracy as a polit
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by ggg9990 8y ago
A lot of their security/policy work is hiring tons of humans to fix things. For example they are hiring an additional 10,000 content moderators. That will obviously impact profitability.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
India is different from Romania
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The people in India who own an iPhone almost all read English perfectly.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
But at some point, it's not worth trying anymore, like a house which is 90% on fire.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
They had the issues with Steve Jobs but they also had Steve Jobs to save their ass.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yikes, pretty bad showing by Apple here. They don't have the leeway that they did when they had Steve Jobs... they have tremendous brand loyalty, but will need to be more careful in the future.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
OK, if you cook enough to use two ovens maybe the programmable oven is suitable for you.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I’ve read so many stories about these plans and they all have the same flaw... nothing stops an ex-Navy SEAL from taking all of this stuff from them when money is worth nothing (as it will be in an apocalypse)
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by ggg9990 8y ago
All these unemployed people are not going to crawl under a bridge and die. When people are hungry and see people with food, they kill them and take their food. We don’t really have any plan for this yet and it will seem like a distant scena
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Could you have pushed one arm up and rotated the bar to one side of you? What should one do if one calls for help and it doesn’t come?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
What’s the model?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
How much is my car UI really going to improve over 10 years? Without some kind of revenue model, the manufacturer wants you to upgrade, and there isn't really anything that's actually useful that can ship post-build without instal
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Unless the touchscreen is fully redundant, I cannot imagine it being worth the loss of physical buttons for the 99% of times you are warming up a pizza slice for 5 minutes.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Touchscreens are for UI that needs to reconfigure constantly -- i.e., for multiple-purpose devices. Smartphones are great examples. One minute it's a restaurant review guide, then it's a messaging device, then it's a compass,
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I had to get a cheaper car than I wanted/could afford to avoid aggravating and accident-inducing touchscreen technology.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If every case going to trial would cost an unreal amount of money, then the solution is to either reduce everyone's Constitutional rights, or do things differently, not browbeat defendants into a Sophie's Choice between their righ
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Imagine you have a folder in your Dropbox with 237 subfolders, and each of those subfolders has a certain number of files in it. The largest folder has 1,132 files, for example, the second largest has 916, the third-largest has 771, etc. Th
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by ggg9990 8y ago
As a Dropbox paying customer and never having heard of the Northwestern Institutional Review Board it's not them that pisses me off. I haven't reconsidered my usage of Dropbox for a very long time, since I made the decision to sta
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The soap opera effect is due to very high frame rates breaking the fourth wall and making it clear that the thing you are watching is horribly faked. You can notice that the effect is not nearly so severe on non-staged content (sports, wild
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by ggg9990 8y ago
"Clog the docket"? Why isn't the court system appropriately scaled to give each defendant their Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial? Because fuck them, that's why.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
> The 20 (that seemed high to him for a 2 year plea) is a fuck you for going to trial So you get an 18-year "fuck you" for invoking your Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury of your peers?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The harm is that 1) data which seems anonymized can be de-anonymized due to carelessness or advances in analytical techniques, and 2) it’s mine. I have laptops in my house for example that I’ve not used in years and will never use again. Th
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Interesting that the article has to frame the reason for combating bad facts with the idea that the children are harmed by being called poisoned, instead of just saying that the facts are wrong. Otherwise they’d be vulnerable to accusations
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The cable thing is completely different and a clear cash grab by Apple. I mean, the Lightning cable is way better than Micro USB, but why it costs $20 is just because Apple knows people will pay that much.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
There’s a lot about the Civil War that can only be found in books or newspapers that aren’t searchable online. Many of the newspapers of the time are long gone with no searachle archive.

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