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by jarfil 8y ago
Except they'd probably get stopped by customs.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Spreadsheets are not databases... but everyone insists on using them as such, so this happens.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Usernames are not a secret, passwords are a secret.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Nutrition is, for the most part, not science at all. Studies are not just financed by obvious interests in the result, but also they use really poor population samples with horrible falsability and repeatability issues. The fact that we sti
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by jarfil 8y ago
You can't con a honest man, but a greedy man... that's easy.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Says who? Even if half of the world population were to die off, those in developed countries will barely notice. Just throw some automation at it, which we're doing anyway, and we can even increase our quality of life while third world
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by jarfil 8y ago
That's why refutations also need to be good clickbait. But of course that requires good communicators, while many people with in-depth knowledge are not even mediocre ones.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Moderately skilled teenagers with lots of free time can do plenty of things "just for the lulz". More skilled adults disgruntled by any reason (religion, politics, love, etc) can do some serious harm even when they could put those
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by jarfil 8y ago
An accelerometer and gyroscope may not make for a precise dead reckoning system, but if all you need is to get into a 1m blast radius, they might be good enough. Pair that with a smartphone with face/feature detection like those used f
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's completely irrelevant what PDA manufacturers were doing when the bulk of charger waste comes precisely from those "dumb" phones. And Apple.
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by jarfil 8y ago
You do choose when to turn NFC on, when to unlock your phone, and where to tap it. Remember it's NFC, not WiFi we're talking about, you need to get your phone within less than half an inch from the tag for it to work.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Not true. Do you want me to share a photo of some 2010-2015 phone chargers and their plugs? Because just recently I've found some of those lying around, and let me tell you: 5 phones, 5 different plugs. Also one phone with a micro USB
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by jarfil 8y ago
Your file browser also "forces your phone to do things" depending on the file format, using whatever default application to open the file. It's the same with NFC tags, and you can easily stop that by turning NFC off.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Windows Vista was just Windows 7 Beta (never should have been called anything else), and Windows 8 was actually a good OS with a single UX flaw. Early versions of Android were pretty much the same, just lacking in features. I think the same
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by jarfil 8y ago
Increased supply doesn't drive prices down on its own. Prices change as the ratio of supply:demand diverges from 1:1. Immigrants not only bring in labor supply, but also product demand. So even if they aren't investors looking to
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by jarfil 8y ago
Huawei has it, but it's kind of hidden and only accessible from the lockscreen (wtf, right?).
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by jarfil 8y ago
Nothing, just some R&D into optimizing 3D structures, like what was done with 2D. 3D chips have been an obvious step forward since the first 2D wafer, it just happened that making stuff smaller was easier, faster, and as long as Moore&#
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by jarfil 8y ago
RSS was never intended to serve content, it shouldn't be different from a Twitter feed full of "title, link, short summary" posts. Minus the comments.
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by jarfil 8y ago
RSS was created in 1999, when short of visiting a website it was the only way to get updates about new content. Now, there are other ways which people already use and like, addiction or not.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Right now most forums are pseudonynous, which has its own considerations in the GDPR. They also don't require personal data other than the email, which is required to log in, so if someone logs in, it means they already had access to t
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by jarfil 8y ago
There are also subreddits with mostly text only submissions, but of course they are neither the meme or porn ones. Actually, there are even some subreddits which act like a RSS feed for some sites.
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by jarfil 8y ago
It used to be a way for media to keep their readers updated about new content, which was in line with the interests of both subscription and ad driven media. But since then we've come to have Twitter, Facebook, mobile apps with notific
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by jarfil 8y ago
There is a separate "Firefox Developer Edition" for that.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Google is already censoring content in the US and EU, not even the same results in all countries, and we asked for it, so what's so much different about following Chinese law?
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by jarfil 8y ago
> keep those profitable quarters Isn't it actually illegal for publicly traded companies to do otherwise?
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by jarfil 8y ago
IIRC your "app" is not just the executable, but everything related to your application in the store. That includes all assets, metadata, listings, etc. Also the "transactions" includes selling the app in the store, so un
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by jarfil 8y ago
40, yesterday I opened a mechanical keyboard for the first time and learned how to disassemble and fix a cherry (outemu) mechanical switch.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Why replicate the same calculation with the same errors? Shouldn't it be specified as a pure math formula somewhere, probably in the contacts? So they did it slightly wrong for a long time, but why would that be the reference instead o
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by jarfil 8y ago
Just remember that you've always been at war with Eastasia, Eurasia always supported you... and Trump always promised to cut useless jobs. Saying otherwise is plusuntruth, I mean, fake news!
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's quite simple: their server, their rules. Much like you can ask anyone to leave your property, but can't censor them on public property. The Internet, as a network, should uphold free speech, that's why Net Neutrality is

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