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by jammygit 7y ago
Iirc there is a bitcoin “atm” somewhere in my city
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I don’t believe cable tv, for how locked down and awful it is/was, ever went so far as to try and limit any spending outside their own platforms. Perhaps it was a lack of innovation, but the internet and the world of software licensing
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The studies seem flawed in a very obvious way > If you set up a circumstance where there's no relationship between the button and the light, depressed patients might be able to better pick that out, because that set of circumstances
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My Facebook feed had been friends posting memes and angry political stories since 2010. I deleted it
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I thought posters were joking. That is absurd
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People say google has good engineers, and that their systems have few bugs. However, their algorithmic bugs routinely de-platform people and often seem to take away people’s incomes (eg, the AdWords people losing accounts every other day).
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Not sure why the downvotes. Canadian companies are not into paying people very well, instead we get news stories about massive outsourcing to India followed by security breaches a few years later (eg, see the news over the last year or two
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I know a very bright Indian guy who was frustrated with the American system, so he immigrated to Canada instead. Come on up, we’ll take you!
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We have a situation where a platform is able to coerce world leaders into behaving. That is a scary amount of centralization
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I quit Facebook and ended up spending too much time on hn
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They are genuinely afraid of more media screwups and bad press?
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Google tried to do worse with dragonfly and employees stood up. That made me feel nice
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Anybody have any other sites or books/resources that they would recommend?
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Did not know this existed. Very cool
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My understanding is that Facebook uses similar clauses to disallow web scraping. Does that mean Facebook is fair game too?
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I found this [1] list also, although this reddit post seems to have more information. I especially like how this reddit post includes updates and companies who made good choices like red bull [1] https://github.com/caffeine-
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Maybe the actual story is that mei merch sold out in response?
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Conservative Facebook ads target Chinese, say Trudeau will legalize hard drugs(globalnews.ca)
4 points by jammygit 7y ago|0 comments
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I feel like my university only taught calculation, not theory, when it came to linear algebra. It’s like the equivalent of a “12 hacks to rotate a matrix” article. The theoretical books I find however give no explanation for the definitions
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There are still multiple posts about it on the Reddit front page too, at least earlier
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I plan to avoid their games with the exception of playing with a particular sick friend. I don’t intend to buy another for a very, very long time. Can’t speak for other people though
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On the other hand, my twitter account was banned almost immediately after creating it this year. They said it was for “breach of terms of service” - and they won’t even let me delete the empty account now and declared they won’t respond to
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Blizzard Hong Kong Decision Makes National News(reddit.com)
2 points by jammygit 7y ago|0 comments
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They had to apologize to SOMEBODY, and they chose Chinese censors. The bad publicity is incredible so far, there are 5 top stories on reddit at the moment
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What do you mean? Lots of social media activity?
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It’s to sell their east-Asian inspired loot box games to Chinese users. Blizzard has been learning from Chinese and Korean gaming companies and how they skirt gambling laws and want into that market
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An aside: Blizzard has been fighting harder and harder to control the esports that revolve around its games. Now that it is succeeding in centralizing things as it hoped, it is using its power to destroy careers and impose political censors
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You are claiming that morality is irrelevant if there is a rule involved, and your action is substantially worse if you break a rule for a moral reason deliberately instead of accidentally?
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“The police are attacking me now” This journalist was not being accurate. There is a large difference between an attack and pressure. He claimed they wanted to clear the streets of cameras so that the police could do whatever they want. If
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You never hear discussions about maintenance costs of infrastructure. I wonder what the math looks like for a given bridge/road

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