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by jammygit 7y ago
We should judge governments at least a little bit the way we judge people. If people have debt, why do they have it? Are they even trying to pay it off? Are they counting on dying before somebody tries to collect, leaving it to your kids to
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The PineTime is a new Linux smart watch - I imagine a future version could do the basics pretty good. I really just need notifications and a step counter, personally https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/pinetime-lin
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I advised my privacy-worried dad to get a Fitbit instead of an android watch (couldn’t afford Apple Watch). Now I feel like an *hole
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Can confirm. I did experiments and math about this years ago- overtraining workers is only good if you know you are about to get severely harassed and plan to lose a bunch
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Former masters Zerg here. You are partially correct, but actual high level play involves a great deal of small variations to these cookie cutter strays, and these small variations lead to a constantly evolving metagame. A good example was t
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This neglects the massive rise of infertility in the last few decades (eg, sperm counts are halved). It doesn’t seem to be a choice for a growing number of people (I guess if you’re well off there are some procedures that can help)
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> The Windows team measures the quality of new software builds by scrutinizing 20,000 diagnostic metrics based on data flowing in from 800 million Windows devices One of my personal metrics for the quality of the software I use is that i
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by jammygit 7y ago
The wording of this article makes e2e encryption seem bad and icky, which is a little thoughtless or the author
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What specifically makes people look up to Mr Pike so much? Is one of his projects in particular, or just his accumulated contributions?
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I think that’s also why angularjs was so successful. Fast forward a couple of years and despite everyone having to switch to vue or angularX, and it having a 40% “used but would avoid in future” reviews, it lives on as it’s commonly dislike
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One day they will release calendars
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Could someone remind me what the second champion punishment was?
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> Twice in the past two months, men masquerading as socially conscious investors have lured members of the Citizen Lab internet watchdog group to meetings at luxury hotels to quiz them for hours about their work exposing Israeli surveill
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There is a lot of talk about protests at blizzcon. I hope the participants succeed and can keep the media’s attention on this issue, this has been the best anti-censorship PR in a long time. A big enough community reaction could actually ge
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Also in Spanish news: there was a separation movement leading to the arrests and jailing of separatist leaders after 90% of the population votes for separation. The leaders got something like 15 years of jail time. There have been massive p
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Does anybody else still get 30 minute delivery guarantees? I haven’t seen one of those in 10 years
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In the recent Canadian election, the conservatives used Facebook to target Asian Canadians with ads falsely claiming that the liberals wanted to legalize hard drugs. It shouldn’t be facebooks job to police that though, we should have legal
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by jammygit 7y ago
Can you not delete it first? If you really can’t do anything at all, that’s rough
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> Reportedly, a database containing sensitive user info was easily accessible to anyone through a web browser. Personally, I'm tired of hearing the word 'breach' used to describe unlocked doors. It is absolutely critical t
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Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You(reddit.com)
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I think this is from his essay collection "Free Software, Free Society." Its a great read, I wish he'd written a sequel to go into more depth on some of the topics... maybe now he'll have time to do some more writing?
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> In summary, Sourcehut is financially healthy, with an operating monthly profit of about $1,038. > The total gross revenue during this period was $9,172.00 Very cool for a donation-driven project to manage that. Congrats!
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Too many science projects reporting statistical results that do not hold up in repeat experiments; contradictory media coverage of the same topic repeatedly as a result. Reduces trust in science, statistics, and the media all at once.
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Fitbit has a privacy policy that says they won't sell or transfer your data IIRC, but that does not prevent them from doing so in the case of a sale or merger. I hate those clauses: the hypothetical argument is always 'what if som
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That is silly. Imagine that the genes were transferred via some toxic mould that transfers DNA but that was extremely hard to remove after the procedure. Of course the procedure matters
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I’ve been reading a sci fi book called the windup girl. The setting is a future where agri-tech companies and bioweapons proliferated until some conflict happened that led to almost all crops on earth being wiped out, and only innovative ne
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> Throughout eight years of civil war, Syrians who tied their fortunes to the changing whims of American policy have been systematically arrested, killed, and driven from the country. > First it was protesters chanting for democracy—m
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It isn’t exactly the ads that are the problem but the tracking. It is possible this is fine, but it seems likely to be... not fine Edit: definitely not-fine: > Startpage is now (partly?) owned by System1, a company which... > has dev
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I can see the use for that information, but I don’t like it being broadcast like that
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I just found out that the game Dead by Daylight seems to collect your font list if you install it. Surely this data goes to some tracking company for fingerprinting...

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