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601.
by mda 8y ago
It is a democracy. Democracy by definition is flawed.
602.
by mda 8y ago
Wow, I am speechless. If majority of China thinks this way, we are in for a very wild ride in near future.
603.
by mda 8y ago
Did you see the Us section of their transparency report?
604.
by mda 8y ago
They give it like everyone else.
605.
by mda 8y ago
Why? Google has the option for many years, it is hard but definitely doable.
606.
by mda 8y ago
I also didn't like the tone, lots of assertions without much backing.
607.
by mda 8y ago
Nit, Amanita muscaria does not really contain muscarin but muscimol and ibotenic acid. Latter causes stomach upset.
608.
by mda 8y ago
Freshness? I remember terrible spam and irrelevant results that plagued and killed it. Google was miles better on all aspects.
609.
by mda 8y ago
I expect it to change results, it would be a terrible experience if it did not
610.
by mda 8y ago
The very first answer is Toronto Pet users for me, even with special box and the works.
611.
by mda 8y ago
Examples? Maybe your expectations grew faster than technology to keep up?
612.
by mda 8y ago
Oh believe me you can find all sorts of non curated filth as well using Google as well. I think it is still a pretty good engine for "if you insist, here is the path to rabbit hole". If you let google know about you, it will tune
613.
by mda 8y ago
Any examples? I find it hard to believe it is "nearly useless for most searched topics". It is easy to check, go to your search history and look at your last 10-20 queries and count how many them useless.
614.
by mda 8y ago
I think Risc-V does not have this goal and ISA can not enforce it. There could be a Risc-V processor with worse characteristics than Intel's.
615.
by mda 8y ago
So you want compensation because your data is used along with millions of others to train an algorithm to distinguish if a bot or a real human to provide a service to you? Nice.
616.
by mda 8y ago
It is an editor that is hard to learn and master. There are other options you could have some / most of the mentioned benefits with much lower investment. Not everyone has the energy / willpower / time to learn vim.
617.
by mda 8y ago
There are so many things that are iffy but do not violate these.
618.
by mda 8y ago
Please don't disturb the daily HN Google bashing session.
619.
by mda 8y ago
It is not and never been a major defense contractor. The only majorish thing was Maven and thankfully cancelled.
620.
by mda 8y ago
Even with my limited insight I can tell that they were and still are vastly different companies.
621.
by mda 8y ago
Why is this a dark pattern? There could be a lot of people who sometimes sign in and sometimes stay logged out, the privacy checkup is useful for them, even you might have some settings from past you might want to see. This is not a dark pa
622.
by mda 8y ago
Are you talking about location history or search history? All answers below seem to be talking about location history.
623.
by mda 8y ago
I kinda doubt actually. Personal anecdote : I disabled location history about a year ago, and it almost never asked me to enable it afterwards, obviously they dialed it down quite a bit lately. Other claims are also hand wavy. They should i
624.
by mda 8y ago
I think he was merely pointing out that All US companies are bound by US laws and when government asks them to dance they would eventually, reluctantly, dance.
625.
by mda 8y ago
Others also anonimyzes data using differential privacy, k anonymity etc. It is a common practice and enforced when working with private / PII data.
626.
by mda 8y ago
That money is not given to the congresmen.
627.
by mda 8y ago
I don't think they knowingly violate their privacy policies either.
628.
by mda 8y ago
Why would they do that, It makes zero sense to assume they would do that and deliberately break their privacy policies.
629.
by mda 8y ago
Eeh, all balkan countries had their dirty little bloody revenges as well hadn't they. History is history, deal with it.
630.
by mda 8y ago
You are confusing Eunuchs (Harem agasi) with Jannisaries.

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