m3rc

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by m3rc 11y ago
Am I very dense or is this a reference to the tech bubble?
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by m3rc 11y ago
I also use AdaWay from the F-Droid repos
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by m3rc 11y ago
It's very useful, but I try to encourage everyone I can to root and install a system level adblocker. Not feasible for 100% of people but the more the better.
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by m3rc 11y ago
Adblockers are a necessity to bring a computer up to the minimum level of security your friends and family need. There is so much malware being served through ads nowadays I wouldn't use any computer and try not to use a phone without
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by m3rc 11y ago
Well we've got even worse problems if we can't combat the lobbyist plague in the US
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by m3rc 11y ago
So? The free market makes no concessions about who can live on what
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by m3rc 11y ago
Why shouldn't we exploit everyone in less developed countries when we can rationalize it away by saying some theoretical model totally allows for our behavior?
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by m3rc 11y ago
As a student right now I staunchly refuse to ever pay full price from a textbook, and if possible to not pay for one at all. The prices we're charged are ridiculous, and the way professors profit even more so. The worst example of this
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by m3rc 11y ago
Yeah I used to never carry cash, until I started eating at a couple local restaurants that only accept cash
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by m3rc 11y ago
Wired's already a bad egg in my book for refusing to allow the first part of their articles in RSS and reader apps like Feedly. While every other website shows me the first paragraph in the app before I tap the link, Wired just gives t
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by m3rc 11y ago
That's... a lot of personal preference. I won't really address how you're only allowing for Apple and Apple only but just for one thing, I would really dislike a laptop made of metal
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by m3rc 11y ago
Until you're running systems that are actually too old to find anyone who will maintain them, or repair them when they inevitably break.
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by m3rc 11y ago
Uh no, it disable the stagefright library... disabling MMS auto-retrial is something else that I also did, but QKSMS also removed the ability for the app to interface with the Stagefright Libraries
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by m3rc 11y ago
Didn't a number of texting apps, possibly including hangouts, update to fix it separate of this botched fix? EDIT: I just checked and sure enough my texting app, QKSMS, updated to remove the Stagefright library
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by m3rc 11y ago
Holy crap yeah, I don't know what other app was put together so poorly as Spotify. It wakelocks like hell, it crashes constantly, none of the menu items make sense, AND aren't consistent with where you are in playing songs, it see
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by m3rc 11y ago
Yeah, shit like that really does suck. At the very least, we get that kind of service now.
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by m3rc 11y ago
How easy is it to tell the difference between an elevated heartbeat due to imminent drowning, and an elevated heartbeat due to having fun?
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by m3rc 11y ago
I've never been close to drowning from something like that, but I've definitely felt that panic set in when you start swimming for the surface and then bump into a big float that wasn't there when you went down
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by m3rc 11y ago
Your personal reasons for not using reddit don't have any impact on the fact that most of the people switching over were either from the /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/kotakuinaction, and /r/conspiracy crowd. You ca
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by m3rc 12y ago
Yeah I'm with you, tho only people who seemed interested in the leaked episodes were big fans.
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by m3rc 12y ago
I can't imagine people calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme are worse for its image than all of the Ponzi schemes
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by m3rc 12y ago
Forex makes money off of bad currencies. Sure currencies fluctuate, but always to their detriment.
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by m3rc 12y ago
Not to mention how delusional it is to talk about how amazing a new crytpocurrency will be under wide adoption, but then think that they'll make a ton of money. It is impossible for something to be simultaneously a good currency, AND a
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by m3rc 12y ago
I don't think very many people (if any) are arguing that Bitcoin should go away, or that it's inherently bad. People are just saying that the likelihood of Bitcoin actually gaining large scale adoption as a currency is incredibly
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by m3rc 12y ago
Probably just different definitions of what constitutes dislike of Apple. I don't know you but you probably have a lower bar than me for an anti-Apple sentiment so see far more of it
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by m3rc 12y ago
I agree that a lot of Apple criticism is poorly backed or even unfounded, but I also believe that it's far easier to dismiss criticism for not being well backed than it is to dismiss praise for the same reason. While much of the Appl
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by m3rc 12y ago
doesn't "pushing buttons others agree need pushing" just mean "participating in an echo chamber"?
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by m3rc 12y ago
Uhm, I think your comment is a real show of confirmation bias, or I suppose reverse confirmation bias. HN is deeply entrenched in the current Startup culture, a movement that is HEAVILY connected to both Apple and libertarianism...
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by m3rc 12y ago
I see it with pretty much any divisive opinion. People who don't share the opinion in the original low score comment don't pay it any attention and don't vote, but those who do share that opinion upvote it in a sort of comr
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by m3rc 12y ago
If you're monetizing it at all it seems pretty straightforward. A video you don't consider art could be monetized, a video you do consider art could be monetized, it doesn't really matter. It's kind of a silly distinctio

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