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by gundmc 6y ago
Reddit is the 7th most visited site in the USA and somehow never gets brought up in conversations of hate speech, toxicity, and disinformation in social media.
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by gundmc 6y ago
The Honda Clarity plugs the hole left by the Volt pretty nicely. And last I checked it's still eligible for the full federal phev rebate.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I'm pretty sure only editors can see document history as well. If you share as view or comment the history is not visible.
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by gundmc 6y ago
It most certainly does not do so by default. It will occasionally prompt you to set up backups and you have to choose the frequency and method.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I legitimately can't parse what this is saying between the outrageous redactions.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Imperceptible with a controller on TV (as compared to an Xbox One on the same TV, which has a decent amount of input lag already). On Chrome on PC with a low-latency gaming monitor, you can notice the difference if you play a game natively
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by gundmc 6y ago
One of my favorite features of Cloud Shell on GCP is that for pretty much any action in the UI, it will provide the equivalent fully populated cloud shell command. I hope AWS does something similar.
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by gundmc 6y ago
So much for the narrative that Amazon never kills any services.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Also, "beyond the pale" [2] stems from the area enforced during the tsarist era of Russia (1791 - 1917) beyond which Jews were not allowed settlement. Tsarist apartheid in other words. This doesn't seem to be true based
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by gundmc 6y ago
Question for Microsoft employees: does it feel as if Satya changed the internal work culture at MS or has it been more about public perception and less about on the ground culture change?
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Take for example a term like “LatinX.” This term has been proposed and is used by certain people, but is extremely unfamiliar and often alienating to Latinos themselves: https://www.vox.com/2020/11/5/2154
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by gundmc 6y ago
It seems reasonable to choose to publish something you wrote yourself (and presumably cleared with legal/PR) and not publish something written by someone else with an intended internal audience. It would be WAY worse if they unilateral
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by gundmc 6y ago
The email from Jeff Dean in the article describes one of them - to ubmask all of the anonymous feedback provided on her paper and list everyone who was consulted on the decision to prevent publication.
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by gundmc 6y ago
It's in the article.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I don't understand this argument. Why do the providers of the feedback need to be unmasked? So they can be disregarded because of their race or gender or "position of privilege"? From what I can tell, she doesn't seem to
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by gundmc 6y ago
This is my experience working with McKinsey. The consultants on our team were incredibly smart and incredibly hard working, but internal politics and selling ideas to stakeholders is a huge part of their value. It carries a lot of weight to
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by gundmc 6y ago
The Undersheriff and Sheriff's Captain were also indicted.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Hell, if that's already financially untenable, you should at least still allow YouTube Partners - i.e. the people whose financial incentives are most aligned with monetization anyway - deliberately demonetize their own videos. Bec
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Google drops Google Play Music, which allowed custom uploads Google Play Music's successor, YouTube Music, also allows custom uploads.
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by gundmc 6y ago
"Without much of a warrant" doesn't make sense as a phrase. Either you have a warrant or you don't. You can take issue with the grounds for a warrant or the breadth, but that's up to a judge to determine. There&#x27
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by gundmc 6y ago
Legacy can work in most cases
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by gundmc 6y ago
Google taking the Steve Jobs "you're holding it wrong" approach.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> This law was basically written by Google and Facebook, so it is a combination of regulatory capture and their hidden agenda. Do you have a source for this? This isn't something I remember reading in my prevote research anywhere.
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by gundmc 6y ago
In my experience, Meet is far far better than the Zoom webclient. And I refuse to install the zoom desktop application.
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by gundmc 6y ago
It seems to have gotten a little better recently, but my experience matches yours. It really struggles when I wear over-ear headphones - they sort of phase in and out of existence. The other thing I've noticed is the background blur ab
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by gundmc 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're just trying to stir the pot, but it's included as TAC (traffic acquisition costs) and has clearly been reported every quarter for years.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Many of the only high quality review sites left (like Wirecutter) are partially monetized with referral links. I don't think this would be a good approach.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Youtube used to store original files without even checking that it was a video. This allowed some enterprising individuals to create a YouTube file system. I'm sure that has changed by now.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> If you're poor, you can have a free email address, but that comes at a cost of allowing Google to read your email (and pass it to their ad customers) so they can serve you ads. Google doesn't show ads based on email contents.
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by gundmc 6y ago
The democratic states said they will look to merge with this case in the coming weeks if they determine charges are appropriate.

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