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by mcbits 8y ago
If you got that from Google's snippet, it's a bad snippet. Scrolljacking is short for "scroll hijacking" and can mean screwing with the browser's default (which we can assume to be user's preferred, or at least
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100% of it. I am, however, willing to view ads for an 80% share of the revenue.
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I'd probably mess up the arithmetic, but I wonder how many skyscrapers or Great Pyramids could be packed in a volume of 1 cubic mile. That's how much oil we use per year.[0] (All sources combined are equivalent to about 3 cubic mi
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Those timelines don't seem very conservative. 1% sounds like a nice, small number, but 1% of the speed of light is insanely fast. It's about 200 times faster than our fastest craft to date. We might envision launching a probe 200
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15x is modest for a virtual-product company net earnings, in cases where there are earnings after the accountants are done. A 5x multiple of revenue would value Netflix around $60 billion. And if Walmart had the assumed 30% margins, they pr
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They don't have to know it was false, only be reckless in trying to verify whether it was true or not (which would also be hard to prove, but not as hard).
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All of the companies mentioned in the original article have the resources to sue Bloomberg for defamation, so there's that possibility.
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One is viewing society as a "body" with computers being its "brain". The other is viewing the human body as a "body" with its brain being its "brain". The comparison is of the energy used by each &quo
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I tried the query several times and got a few slightly different results, at one point getting something similar (but not identical) to enraged_camel's results. Most of the time it shows me what everyone else is reporting, but "co
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Maybe vector-based CRTs like in oscilloscopes can be made small enough to use in headsets (if they haven't already). Either project floating text on transparent AR glasses or project a text layer on the lower resolution graphics displa
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Short sellers. People who sell something they don't own, speculating that they will be able to buy it later at a lower price. If so, they make money. If not and the price goes up a bit, some shorts are forced to buy at the higher price
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> Furthermore, the user gets 70% of the ad revenue for browser-private ads. I've installed and tried Brave a few times for this specific reason that I keep reading about, but I've never figured out how to receive these kickback
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According to the article, there are currently 2.1 million underage "candy nicotine" users. How many of them would have been smokers if the alternative didn't exist? If it's banned, how many will switch to regular cigaret
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Where media struggles is in spending hundreds of dollars per page of content that has an effective lifespan of about 1 to 5 days before it goes off to the virtual landfill (formerly a real landfill), never to be seen again. Maybe they need
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"Make prison suck" is just one possible means to an end (the ends being to deter crime and recidivism, and keep dangerous people off the streets), not an end in itself. For some offenders, the sucky experience is enough to set the
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Tone judgments aside, I think it's okay to be skeptical because spectroscopy is far from an exact science. Reminds me of the sensational "diamond planet"[0] a few years ago that was based on a dubious interpretation of the ho
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Start a marketplace and only accept listings for products certified to meet certain minimum security standards. Publish extremely clear and accessible guidance on the requirements and how to achieve them for certification. Gradually increas
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Google makes it work. But then there are C# and F#, which are Googleable but fail on probably 99.9% of other sites and software with search functionality, including some of Microsoft's own products (e.g. NuGet).
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Maybe for a fingertip, but I wouldn't try it with a full hand. The water stuck to the hand will take time to cool down no matter how fast you remove it. Unless you're just saying second degree burns don't count as major damag
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If I were to rent an office as a freelancer, it would be for two reasons. One reason is to establish a routine where I wake up, put on my work costume, leave the house, and go to a place where I shall be productive each day. Normal office &
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Apparently it wasn't terribly hard to publish the README on GitHub because he pushed that two days before this article. This article is just duplicate/spun content based on that. It exists for no reason other than to link to the G
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The platform should be disregarded because it's a rotten platform. This particular article can further be disregarded because the GitHub project README is practically the same content without all the stuff that Medium does to be annoyi
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The problem is that the only reason to post on Medium today is for the clicks. As a blogging platform it has gone down the toilet, which is a shame because it started out with a rather promising reading experience.
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Everything on Medium is the epitome of blog spam. They're worse than Blogspot these days. The GitHub link is the true original source. The (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) Medium blurb is (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) just for (PARDON THE INTER
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The project, minus the blogspam: https://github.com/electron/fiddle
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It sounds like it's more intrusive than most of the GDPR cookie notice spam that's been appearing on sites. But if it's causing users to start noticing and asking questions about the tracking on web sites, then GDPR seems to
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The composition of waste is probably different between online and brick-and-mortar stores, but the total waste is probably similar given that the total costs are similar.
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The text seems perfectly sized for reading on my screen. At 200% it looks like one of those clownish Bootstrap homepages and I'd have to scroll every 5 seconds to read it.
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It does make some sense considering the ideal user for an ad-supported business: Has money and either isn't savvy enough to block ads or, even better, ethically opposes blocking ads. No offense intended to the previous commenter in par
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Potentially a search engine could provide results without knowing the actual query, although that would make it difficult to identify new trends or determine which results are/aren't being clicked, so it probably wouldn't be

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