jammygit

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by jammygit 8y ago
If there wasn't ad supported content, people would have to buy high quality goods and services for money. That seems like a good thing in an economy. Edit: the problem is that the 'free' ad driven business model makes it extr
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by jammygit 8y ago
The specific claim, unless I missed it, is no data collection for advertising purposes (page 12 and also in their other privacy policy online). That doesn't stop them from other uses of the data. Microsoft makes a similar claim with so
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by jammygit 8y ago
Wasnt sure if it was individual humans and not 'persons'
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by jammygit 8y ago
Amazon restarted my prime subscription without my consent. I definitely cancelled it and left it canceled for months. I think they auto renewed it when I bought something? No idea. Very dishonest
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by jammygit 8y ago
Thanks for sharing, I will avoid them for sure. I periodically get tempted. I found canceling MIT tech and the Atlantic to be painless btw
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by jammygit 8y ago
Could gdpr endanger sites like this? Actually curious
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by jammygit 8y ago
What is the alternative? Is, what do informed people do instead of using credit cards or PayPal to buy things? (I assume stripe is the same)
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by jammygit 8y ago
The privacy card privacy policy isn't very comforting. I assume its partially boilerplate but it did keep me from signing up a while ago
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by jammygit 8y ago
They thrown in 'not data mining you' for free though
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by jammygit 8y ago
Will it not still have keylogging telemetry though, at least while using the app?
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by jammygit 8y ago
How did they prove it?
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by jammygit 8y ago
Workers mine 40 minerals per minute and cost 50, taking... 15 seconds to build? I forget. Workers beyond 24 provide zero benefit (better to send them to the natural). Let's say you make 4 extra at a cost of 200 minerals and then lose 4
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by jammygit 8y ago
Maybe some famous people will pen something like the 'Agile Manifesto' for unionized knowledge work, and it will slowly catch on. It could happen (though it would be risky for anyone who isn't self-employed to be an authors)
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by jammygit 8y ago
It was as though it was the employers who unionized against the employees in that case...
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by jammygit 8y ago
"Programmers, maybe ones on HN especially, are super conservative" I think spots on a left-right political spectrum is a sloppy way to represent people. There have got to be over 100 valid 'axes' to position a person on,
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by jammygit 8y ago
The service advertises being able to get people to play slot machines more[1]... Message: Play slots! Target: Existing slot players Exposure to articles such as: "Woman hits $1.6 million slot jackpot at Vegas airport Launch your micro-
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by jammygit 8y ago
My favourite intro to threads is just the Modern Operating Systems text. Fantastic author
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by jammygit 8y ago
I've wanted to switch to magazines for my news for a while now but haven't found a specific one that I love yet. Any recommendations?
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by jammygit 8y ago
When I skimmed the cognito docs a bit ago I saw them talk almost exclusively about using it to control access to AWS resources. Would you recommend it for general web app auth as well? Edit: typo
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by jammygit 8y ago
I've read some of those articles and I found them fairly informative. Could you be more specific about the best practices that invalidate his arguments?
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by jammygit 8y ago
I have the 4k screen on older model. It makes the ui a bit sluggish unless I downscale it. I would have preferred a less fancy screen tbh for that reason (battery would be better too) Mostly though, I'm jealous of a friends' macbo
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by jammygit 8y ago
I'm not really comfortable storing tracker cookies in my browser so that I can tell the trackers I don't want to be tracked. I don't really believe it either since apparently a lot of tracker companies just fudge the rules an
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by jammygit 8y ago
In parts of Canada, up until recently mayor candidates were free to pocket any leftover campaign contributions. One could be forgiven for confusing this with blatant, but legal, bribery. The rules were only changed about 10 years ago: http
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by jammygit 8y ago
In the article he basically describes how his profits were swallowed up by marketing expenses. I wish he had broken down in more detail the $50,000 in royalties from his other traditionally-published book since it was such a drastically dif
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by jammygit 8y ago
I find it takes more like a week to fully get rid of the headaches and tiredness. The real challenge comes the next time I get extremely busy - its hard to not reach for the crutch
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by jammygit 8y ago
IIRC, the complaints I've read online are along the lines of: Mozilla ran a Mr Robot ad campaign with browser integration, partnered with an ad company for some research in a seemingly-sneaky way, made their CEO resign (now the CEO of
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by jammygit 8y ago
Disappointing that the 100 studies neglected long term success so much that the author didn't have much to say about it after reading them all
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by jammygit 8y ago
I've always read that proving correctness and using theorem provers was impractical for real projects. Could you elaborate on how you use those tools and for which situations? I'm actually really curious
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by jammygit 8y ago
I always found Ubuntu to be easiest to use. No fighting to get GPU drivers to work, or other weird issues. Easy to install things when I was first learning too. Edit: I meant to ask what people are using that's more stable. Fedora you
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by jammygit 8y ago
The icons are nice, but I've never known what 90% of them were supposed to represent. Still can only guess at many of them. I do like the depth though

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