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Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in Nazis – and Let Ads Target Them(latimes.com)
135 points by mnm1 8y ago|180 comments
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by mnm1 8y ago
This is why I mostly stopped watching the NBA and basketball in general. The foul-calling situation is ridiculous. Many offensive fouls get called as defensive fouls and even good calls slow down the game significantly, more than it's
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by mnm1 8y ago
I agree that no one should be tortured and murdered, but my point still stands because Americans are so apathetic to the suffering of convicts (and suffering of anyone in general). Most probably assume people in jail deserve to be there. Th
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by mnm1 8y ago
By that definition, Apple's own store is illicit because I don't permit any apps from it. Except that Apple does permit these stores to exist so by that exact definition they are not illicit. Either way, it doesn't make sense
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by mnm1 8y ago
Illicit? What law or statute was broken? Breaking Apple's TOS still is, afaik, not illicit or illegal. Has this changed recently? Has someone been prosecuted under the CFAA or other law for breaking a company's TOS? Last I heard,
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by mnm1 8y ago
This is the most accurate explanation. In other words, it's a mic like any other. The 'disabled' in this context means nothing. Just wait till Google gets served with a warrant. Suddenly, those mics won't be disabled any
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by mnm1 8y ago
Ball's in the employer's court. It's their turn to make a move. The employee (me) can only react. Therefore as long as the employer continues to be like this, I have no choice in how I respond because I'm a human being w
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by mnm1 8y ago
Cameras in a public space? Oh no! Call the police right now! On the other hand, Google conveniently forgetting about the mics they installed in people's private residences is actually a big deal. This is exactly the reason I would neve
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by mnm1 8y ago
I never once had problems with my own cable equipment. Can't say the same for the rented garbage Comcast provides. Not to mention using the built in WiFi is like burning money because it's so slow. It takes less than five minutes
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by mnm1 8y ago
I'm OK with sending a patch or pull request back to the author in any circumstance and using the author's work as a base for said patch/PR makes complete sense to me. The problem I've seen is when the reviewer takes it u
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by mnm1 8y ago
Lol. Two supreme court justices. Permanent losses of billions in taxes. Russia meddling in our government. It's way too fucking late for hope that lasting damage doesn't occur. Even if this administration ended tomorrow, the damag
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by mnm1 8y ago
Unless you don't have sick days or your company cuts PTO in half. In that case, in front of the computer or in bed, that's still working from home. Fuck them for not providing sick days and cutting PTO in half. Fuck them for no ra
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by mnm1 8y ago
You bring up a good point about changing the code. I wouldn't want the reviewer changing the code himself and not getting reviewed again. But even if it was reviewed again, I would still find it problematic as the reviewer might make c
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by mnm1 8y ago
90% of the stuff on Amazon is fake or counterfeit. Why would anyone expect the book division to be different? This is what Amazon has decided to be: a marketplace for garbage products, most fake or extremely low quality. Their strategy is b
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by mnm1 8y ago
So you want to write each feature/bugfix three times? What kind of company that's still in business does that? I worked with an engineer who would sometimes rewrite my perfectly fine pull requests and it didn't go well. What
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by mnm1 8y ago
The article is confused about the position it's writing about. That's either a director, vp of engineering, or even the CTO itself and at that point, no longer a developer or individual contributor.
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by mnm1 8y ago
> Most people don't remotely know how Webpack works. And they shouldn't have to! Until it breaks down leaving the project in an unmaintainable state, you're right. Then it's a scramble to understand and update that in
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by mnm1 8y ago
So even though Macs are the de facto standard in the music industry and Apple makes software for music composition (logic pro) that supports all the external audio devices mentioned here, they couldn't plug one of these in to test? Are
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by mnm1 8y ago
To be honest, without getting the salary range up front or within the first email exchange, I typically end the interaction there. I've had way too many days and weeks wasted only to find out the company can barely pay 2/3 of my c
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by mnm1 8y ago
I truly wish I never learned to touch type. The RSI issues are simply not worth it. I don't need to type fast to create software. That includes writing emails and such. I've adapted now to a slower workflow where I spend a lot mor
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by mnm1 8y ago
Bullshit. That might work for some but in no way is it a cure or preventative measure for RSI for everyone. RSI is a real concern and often is caused by actual physical issues that need to be dealt with.
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by mnm1 8y ago
> A bug in one "page" of the app can cause the whole application server to go down. Maybe if you're using node or some other single threaded server like that but this isn't true for multithreaded or multiprocess serve
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by mnm1 8y ago
Based on the number of Windows 10 users, that's a very small percentage of users indeed.
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by mnm1 8y ago
This works. Now you only need double the engineers to create the same app as you would using a server side framework. Hardly a more powerful argument against SPAs than this.
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by mnm1 8y ago
Churchill isn't the only one or at all unique. What major imperialist leaders wouldn't fit the label "war criminal"? Or much worse: the founding fathers of the US weren't exactly saints either. The systematic pursui
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by mnm1 8y ago
As a developer you should support a proper form that works with password managers. Period. Anything else is a failure on the developer's part to create a working login. It's also a massive security hole you've introduced by e
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by mnm1 8y ago
Atlassian does this multi page login and it's shit. Google too though as least their shitty implementation works with password managers without having to fill in the info multiple times. There's a simple rule one can follow: if it
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by mnm1 8y ago
This explains everything except why Google itself won't let humans through even when they've selected the right things a million times. All this sophistication and it's still too stupid to do its basic job of knowing the righ
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by mnm1 8y ago
So Facebook will swat you if its algorithms don't like what you say or you violate its terms of service or for whatever reason it wants to fuck you over. Now there's a good reason never to use that garbage. This is insane. I wonde
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by mnm1 8y ago
> this in turn illustrates the obvious limits of using law as a solution for society's problems. So the government completely fails one of the few major domestic duties it has and this is excusable? What should people do? Revolt? K

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