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by heartbeats 7y ago
Ha-ha, no. Rather the opposite - after all, we need some kind of system to prevent anti-vax disinformation from undermining our public health response. EDIT: Yes, this is satire.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
If Firefox blocks Google due to privacy concerns, this gives Yandex a de-facto monopoly. The user can of course opt out of it, but most people just follow the defaults. Inertia and all.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
I would guess that any corporation needs to, but sole proprietorships do not.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Something has to be done. It's either the case that they are productive members of society, in which case they are rarely imprisoned, or that they are not, in which case they often are. Children aren't productive members of societ
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Sure, but organizations strive for bigness. It's the perfect way to kill one, actually. 1) Give them $0.2 billion a year in easy money 2) Their projects expand as per Parkinson's law so they spend $0.2 billion a year 3) Since they
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by heartbeats 7y ago
You make a deal - they stop it so that they may be granted a Firefox monopoly on advertising. Then, site operators are left with a choice: 1) abandon tracking, earn ad revenue from Firefox and Chrome 2) keep tracking, earn no ad revenue fro
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by heartbeats 7y ago
It's not very anonymized. Google already has a list of URLs, so they can just hash them all and see what matches. And if they have URL 1, 2, and 4, odds are they can interpolate to find out what #3 is.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
If they want to do something, there's a simple three-step plan. 1) block all ads, by default 2) do not unblock Google's ads, 3) receive Adblock Plus-style bribes from Yandex or whoever to whitelist them, provided they don't h
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Then they just go in again until they're either rehabilitated or dead. It doesn't functionally matter what happens in there, since it's the same thing as with standardized tests: all tests are inherently fair, regardless of h
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by heartbeats 7y ago
No, I was responding to this: "minor fixes may end up doing a lot of good". They won't, since the purpose is just to have somewhere to store people. The actual crime isn't very interesting, the thing of importance is tha
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by heartbeats 7y ago
It's not so simple. Why do we have education? Firstly, because there's needed some way to filter people. If you get 100 applicants, you can't make a detailed consideration. But if only 30 have degrees, it's much easier.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Firefox, Chrome. Are there any others?
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by heartbeats 7y ago
If the standard told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? The standard is idiotic. Which part of "user agent" don't they understand?
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by heartbeats 7y ago
And in ten years, I'm sure they'll ban HTTP altogether. This is unacceptable, IMHO. I was trying to use a site with misconfigured HSTS the other day, and it wouldn't let me. No override, no nothing. That's just offensive
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by heartbeats 7y ago
For now.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
I've been here for a while lurking, it's only now that I decided to make an account. Thank you for your reply. I think it might be best to agree to disagree, yes. Your characterization is accurate - if women are to be homemakers,
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by heartbeats 7y ago
>That is discriminatory to suggest that one country's accent is more acceptable than another's. In the abstract sense, maybe. But it still isn't a good look. If I call the support and hear someone from India, my first impr
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Thick accent, but not hard to understand, and the fact remains those are not ideal for a public-facing role. I mean, German, sure, but "Indian tech support representative" just isn't a good look no matter how you slice it. De
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Without the claims of regret, I think it becomes nonsensical. I am of the opinion that women should stay at home with the kids. Any development driving this is, ipso facto, good. Divorces are regrettable. The fact that they carry with them
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by heartbeats 7y ago
I'm aware of these patterns, I just think they're a downstream consequence of perfectly normal and healthy specialization. >The amount of hours worked by a homemaker has stayed steady at 60 hours per week for about 300 years wh
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by heartbeats 7y ago
That may be legally permissible, but is it morally acceptable? It just sounds like thinly veiled blackmail to me. If you have a thick accent, then that can obviously cause some problems, and likewise for being deaf. The only thing this will
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by heartbeats 7y ago
That causes problems for their counterparties. Passively scraping a website doesn't, generally.
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by heartbeats 7y ago
Well, someone's got to do it. At the end of the day, you're just shifting labour around. Then you might as well specialize, since that's where the efficiency is at. Many people in careers find it deeply soul-crushing. I since
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by heartbeats 7y ago
>Unemployed, with No Work Experience in the Last 5 Years >Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs Huh.