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by klondike_ 9y ago
I used to hate the blobmojis, but after a while I started to grow fond of them. The weird gradients on the new emojis are a bit jarring. In my opinion the clean, flat style of the old emojis is a lot nicer.
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by klondike_ 9y ago
That might be good for power users, but for the average user it's a disaster. How many people actually read the app permissions when they install something? Most apps request background privileges and if you don't like that your o
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by klondike_ 9y ago
Carriers generally have deals with other companies for preinstalled apps which may or may not still be active by the time it comes around for an update. Also they have to test the devices, but considering the sheer number of Android devices
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This is possibly the best thing to happen to wild rhino populations. I don't see how this is any different to farming cows, chicken, pigs or any other animal. There will always be demand for rhino horn, so it makes sense to satisfy tha
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by klondike_ 9y ago
Project Treble is the most important thing in this release >The biggest change to the foundations of Android to date: a modular architecture that makes it easier and faster for hardware makers to deliver Android updates. With any luck, t
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by klondike_ 9y ago
This is a problem with any app store to some extent, even Apple's. The difference here is that Microsoft seems to be encouraging low quality apps to boost its "app count" numbers to make its store seem more attractive. Also,
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by klondike_ 9y ago
>While top-tier YouTube influencers can help put a game in front of tens of millions of eyes, their celebrity can also be a double-edged sword when fans are more interested in watching the player than buying the game. Maybe this is why t
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by klondike_ 9y ago
This really shows the advantages to a federated social network. People have all sorts of sensibilities about what is acceptable content, and a one-size-fits-all moderation approach like on Twitter will never work for everybody.
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by klondike_ 9y ago
It's hard to claim the high ground against terrorists when you're torturing people
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by klondike_ 9y ago
The argument here isn't really whether Google has the right to censor free speech or not. It clearly does, the First Amendment only applies to the government. The real issue here is how much control two companies have over nearly all o
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by klondike_ 9y ago
It's obvious why nobody's pulled off something like Youtube TV before. There's a huge mess of red tape when dealing with live TV broadcasts, everything from sports blackouts to local channel affiliates. Cable TV is obviously
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by klondike_ 9y ago
Sharp was at one point selling their Aquos phone on Sprint, I'm not sure if they still do though
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by klondike_ 9y ago
Food quackery is the new medical quackery. A huge industry has been built on selling snake oil foods to consumers that don't know any better. Like the age of medical quackery, the reason this all exists is because people simply aren&#x
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by klondike_ 9y ago
The US Supreme Court is generally divided into two camps: originalists (favored by Republicans) and liberals (favored by Democrats). Originalists tend to interpret the constitution by trying to infer what the founding fathers intended. Libe
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by klondike_ 9y ago
The Nixon/Kennedy debate anecdote is a common misconception. In reality most radio listeners were older and lived in rural areas, making them more likely to lean towards Nixon anyways. [1] People have always interpreted things the way
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by klondike_ 9y ago
Twitter should continue to respect free speech, as long as it doesn't involve directly threatening tweets. Without it, Twitter wouldn't be as popular as it is. People respect being able to directly confront prominent people in the
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by klondike_ 9y ago
This is a shame. Nuclear is our only realistic option for zero-carbon electricity. The planet can't afford to wait for breakthroughs in renewable energy and grid storage.
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by klondike_ 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_U... It usually d
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by klondike_ 9y ago
The release is inside of the garage, so unless you have the key (not as common as you'd think) you're out of luck. Also I'm sure it'd get annoying to manually open the garage all the time, especially since this article s
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by klondike_ 9y ago
I believe this is part of their strategy, it requires somebody else who already uses the app to teach you. This keeps the platform exclusive to tech-savvy youth instead of being infested by old people and falling out of favor with those gro
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by klondike_ 9y ago
This isn't exactly surprising. Snapchat is a messaging application, and Instagram is a messaging and picture sharing platform. Obviously users would spend more time browsing images on Insagram than just shooting off some messages to fr
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by klondike_ 9y ago
The History Channel's Hitler obession happened because the last WWII vets were dying off so the History Channel rushed to interview them, putting out a bunch of WWII documentaries
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by klondike_ 9y ago
Back in the 2.xx days rooting was basically mandatory to get decent performance and regular updates, but now the OS is more optimized and has most of the features of rooted devices anyways. Regardless, Google is trying their best to kill of