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961.
by imron 9y ago
And should Apple have decided not to build a phone... That market was once pretty crowded too.
962.
by imron 9y ago
Alternatively they might be so freaked out by the surveillance aspect that they decide never to buy that brand again.
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by imron 9y ago
Would you still be comfortable with it if Zuckerberg was running for president? What ways do you think they company might be able to use that information to sway the outcome of the election (passively or actively), and do you think there is
964.
by imron 9y ago
Advertisers are suckers. Facebook and YouTube are selling ads to people who have already bought their product.
965.
by imron 9y ago
> The moment they don't, it will cause widespread outrage. lol.
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by imron 9y ago
> the consequences of widespread illegal wiretapping would be severe for Facebook, they would really cease to exist. Unfortunately, I don't think they would. They'd get a slap on the wrist fine, maybe have one or two senior ex
967.
by imron 9y ago
> how stupid must an executive be to do such a thing? -- the firing I mean. I disagree. If he wasn't fired it sends a signal to other employees that certain leaks are ok, and once that seeps in to Apple culture, it will be difficul
968.
by imron 9y ago
Just put your fat binaries in a Docker container for double the win!
969.
by imron 9y ago
See: https://medium.com/time-dorks/the-distraction-free-iphone-or... and https://medium.com/time-dorks/my-year-with-a-distraction-fre...
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by imron 9y ago
Disable wifi, don't get a data plan.
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by imron 9y ago
> Recently, I've added Twitter, HN, and a few other sites to my hosts file to block them And yet here you are :-) The worse thing about being technically literate is knowing how to get around all the blocks you put in place to stop
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by imron 9y ago
If that was happening I'd expect Twitter to be issuing denials and saying that this was disinformation from RT. And yet there is silence.
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by imron 9y ago
> Trump extensively uses Twitter for his own propaganda might underline that fact. Him and how many other hundreds of millions of other users, using Twitter for its primary purpose . If 'Twitter sold ads to Russia and <candida
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by imron 9y ago
I agree hence the reason I put 'colluding' in quotes. This is grasping at straws.
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by imron 9y ago
How many similar pitches did Twitter make to the BBC, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of other foreign media organisations? Where are the cries of UK and Qatari collusion and interference? And how is Putin responsible for Twitter pitching this to
976.
by imron 9y ago
Trump has been denying his campaign colluded with Russia. This doesn't contradict that, rather it shows that Twitter was the one 'colluding'.
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by imron 9y ago
Your asterisked comment is the whole point. It wasn't the staff all choosing to leave, it was the staff being told to leave. That'd be two very different stories, which is why 'exodus' would be misleading.
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by imron 9y ago
> They can force you to tuch to your smart phone's fingerprint sensor phisically. Not to mention your fingerprints are all over the device!
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by imron 9y ago
> Anyone know if Microsoft or anyone else is actively developing an MR environment for market? You mean like the Hololens? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens
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by imron 9y ago
> what will happen to the world’s recycling? It will move to another country whose leaders value money over the environment. China now has enough money and clout to say no. There are plenty of places that don't.
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by imron 9y ago
If you'd even done a cursory study of foreign firms in China having their technology stolen, you'd realise it's a real problem that many foreign firms face and concerns about it aren't due to racism but an abundance of c
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by imron 9y ago
Early adopters help bring the costs down for everyone else. By making the car more affordable for wealthy (but not that wealthy) people, it eventually brings the cost down for everybody.
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by imron 9y ago
The problem is when too much of something enters the food chain because manufacturers find it cheap (see for example, high fructose corn syrup).
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by imron 9y ago
Except with Fastmail you can use your own domain so it's not immediately obvious that you are using Fastmail.
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by imron 9y ago
It is! Except sites can't just do a regex to test for '+' so it's not easily detectable as such.
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by imron 9y ago
> I think it'd be a worthwhile trade off against the loss of cultural knowledge that results from language death. I don't. Out of curiosity, how many languages do you speak?
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by imron 9y ago
> Disposable email IDs are banned from most sites and I never found it easy to integrate in my workflow. Sign up for fastmail. Integration is completely painless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15525512
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by imron 9y ago
If you're using fastmail you don't even have to worry about that limit. If your email is example@fastmail.com and you are registering with http://www.onlinestore.com/ Just use onlinestore@example.fastmail.com and
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by imron 9y ago
It's not paywalled. Just turn on cookies.
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by imron 9y ago
> not sure where 仁 came from It means humaneness, benevolence, kindness, and is pronounced exactly the same as 人 which means person/people.

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