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by lenwood 5y ago
Yikes! Lucy did a nice job talking around the ethics question at the end. She may be good at her job, but its pretty offensive that her job even exists.
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Facebook's Algorithm Is Broken-Some Spicy Suggestions on How to Fix It(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by lenwood 5y ago|0 comments
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by lenwood 5y ago
Wow this is cool! It would be awesome to learn more about its history. The nameplate (visible at 11:10 [0]) says patented with a date of 1901, which is 10 years before IBM was founded [1]. This was curious to me so I looked up the patent [2
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Calculating integers from 0-100 using only 4 digits (1, 2, 5 and 7)(old.reddit.com)
3 points by lenwood 5y ago|0 comments
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by lenwood 5y ago
> by no means is this different from the store branded products you find at Safeway or Walgreens It is different because Amazon controls exposure to products. In the store if I want ketchup, Heinz and the store brand are right next to ea
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by lenwood 5y ago
Your point is valid. Any business model that is dependent on collecting visitor data is flawed and its appropriate for these companies to either change or wither. I hear the concern, but IMO the need for privacy is greater.
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by lenwood 6y ago
Very interesting. I think anyone with ambition has been rejected and its interesting to see how much OP is putting themselves out there. I chose to keep a list of all of the times I or my work has been recognized. I guess it comes down to w
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by lenwood 6y ago
If the goal is to avoid capricious removal of content then this is great. If the goal is to avoid the platform being used for harm then this seems insufficient. The law cannot move fast enough to stay current with social trends.
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by lenwood 6y ago
> modern Android designs are cleaner than iPhone looks Design is about more than the way apps & interface looks. I recently switched from Android and the thing that most struck me is that iPhone usability is more consistent. I was ab
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by lenwood 6y ago
I haven't kept up with this space at all. I'm a bit surprised to learn that all that's required is a windshield attachment & software update. I find this simultaneously fascinating & scary.
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by lenwood 6y ago
How do you contact a miner? Can you give an example of this? I've read this before but I'm curious to learn more specifics.
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by lenwood 6y ago
THE 10 JOBS MICROSOFT IS OFFERING FREE "LEARNING PATHS" FOR: Customer service specialist, Sales representative, IT support/help desk technician, Digital marketing specialist, Project manager, Graphic designer, Financial analy
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Microsoft Aims to Train 25M Workers Free in 2020(wsj.com)
4 points by lenwood 6y ago|1 comments
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by lenwood 6y ago
Fair point. This does illustrate why someone might find it surprising that Dodge is outranking Toyota in a measure of quality though.
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by lenwood 6y ago
According to JD Power [1], Lexus is the most dependable 2019 brand. Dodge is the most improved, but its still lower in the list. And according to Consumer Reports study on 2020 models [2] Lexus is the most reliable brand but Dodge is in the
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by lenwood 6y ago
There are a few threads in Twitter where people are discussing the validity of this article's claim. Here are the two most prominent (referenced in the article) [1], [2]. [1]: https://twitter.com/TomAnthonySEO/stat
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by lenwood 6y ago
Strictly speaking, GA is always 3rd party (it would only be 1st party if/when its used to measure google-analytics.com which is not a user-facing domain). For measuring any other website, its 3rd party. I believe that this would limit
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by lenwood 6y ago
I've been thinking of migrating my blog back to text only. When I was a student I kept a "blog" as a list of HTML files that I manually updated. I've been using Wordpress for the past ~15 years and am growing weary of ha
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by lenwood 6y ago
I've done a bit more reading. This is not as dramatic as it seems. First party GA is not blocked. Access to 3rd party storage may be blocked, but this would not prevent web interactions from being visible to GA.
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Apple Safari to Block Google Analytics from Collecting Data(searchenginejournal.com)
137 points by lenwood 6y ago|4 comments
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by lenwood 6y ago
Apple’s Safari browser will reportedly block Google Analytics from tracking users and collecting data about their web browsing activity.
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by lenwood 6y ago
I find it somewhat ironic that the article is not on Medium. It's listed there as well [1], but the stories I've seen shared are published elsewhere. [1]: https://blog.medium.com/colin-kaepernick-to-join-medium-boa
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by lenwood 6y ago
Well it depends on what rmason plans to do with it.
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by lenwood 6y ago
I tried to find one. The closest I came is their Traffic dashboard [1], which is updated daily. I also checked their Twitter account [2] but no mention of problems yet. [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic [2]: https:/
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by lenwood 6y ago
Trump seems to think Twitter is a public service within his domain, rather than a private company with its own agenda & governance. I'm glad Twitter is responding to him, I respect them for the position they're taking. In addi
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by lenwood 6y ago
I understand why they have billboards. I'm not sure I get why they have this billboard map up, other than showing that they could. Tangentially related, DuckDuckGo is also sponsoring NPR programming. I've heard their snippet on Al
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by lenwood 7y ago
I agree with the sentiment but how? Google & Facebook are in a powerful position, and its a complex issue that the general population (let alone politicians) don't fully understand. The author acknowledges that GDPR is fine, but do