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by mtgx 8y ago
"Rejoice everyone! We've fixed the issue...by admitting we're going to keep tracking you." I don't think this is legal under GDPR at all, but I'm sure I'll be proven either wrong or wrong in the multiple l
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by mtgx 8y ago
No, censorship regimes made them less accessible. In fact, those regimes were already making all content they wanted non-accessible, and only allowing people to see the content that didn't really matter anyway.
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by mtgx 8y ago
This should be the top comment. And 37% is not low-carb. If anything what this shows is that if you have moderate carbs, you won't be doing so well. But if you have moderate carbs + more plant-based food, you'll be healthier. So
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by mtgx 8y ago
> “What we tell people is, ‘Please be lawful and please be considerate,’” Andrew Ng, a machine learning researcher whose venture fund invests in driverless startups, told Bloomberg. This is like web developers criticizing users for using
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by mtgx 8y ago
Stop using Google's products. That's the only real choice you have. Besides, there are plenty of great podcast apps.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Translation: "We'd really really like to go back there, and we are willing to do whatever they ask of us (proven by all the reported ways in which we tried to convince the Chinese leaders to let us back in), but it's still
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by mtgx 8y ago
Yes, but you're thinking local. Amazon could go global. It's still pretty tiny in most other countries. Not that I'm looking forward to a global e-commerce company, just saying that would probably be a better strategy for the
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by mtgx 8y ago
That's how it could work for other app developers, but in WhatsApp's case, WhatsApp is already capable of replacing users' encryption key with its own. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's not different at all. It's just that on mobile the "frog" has been sufficiently boiled before this happened. Didn't Google deny something like this very recently saying it was an "error" (Facebook&#x2
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by mtgx 8y ago
Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default and likely never will. Paul Durov has been quite hostile against that feature in the past. So yes, choose Signal over Telegram. I find that instead of trying to convince friends&#x2
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by mtgx 8y ago
Why don't more people realize this one simple logical conclusion: pumping more insulin into your body is going to end-up killing you . Sure, it will kill you more slowly than you'd die if you didn't get that insulin in the
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by mtgx 8y ago
Or you could "hack" your body by eating keto-friendly foods: https://blog.virtahealth.com/with-sustained-type-2-diabetes-... https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/type-2-diabetes-reversal-the...
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by mtgx 8y ago
"Because of websites not willing to stop tracking users against their freely-given consent." Fixed that for you.
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by mtgx 8y ago
"Hybrids" of all kinds are usually a dead-end transitional technology. See the fate of "touch-optimized" Symbian and Blackberry OSs. The old timers dislike them for being "different" and the ones who want the n
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by mtgx 8y ago
If they can produce so much cheap energy, doesn't that balance out with the more expensive batteries they have to buy? (which will only get cheaper in the years to come)
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's also a new form of slavery.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Do you know what I would like? For Android to actually show what apps/services drain battery life. I noticed recently that WhatsApp, Reddit Sync, and a few other apps were draining battery life like crazy. But none of that drainage w
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by mtgx 8y ago
Would you say they are in de-Nile?
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by mtgx 8y ago
For the same reason Apple is selling an 18-core Mac Pro for $20,000 or whatever the price is now. Some people need that power. It's just that with AMD, you can get more of it and for a tiny fraction of the cost of Apple's Mac Pro.
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by mtgx 8y ago
In Android 8.0+, enabling Unknown sources works on a per-app basis. But considering that Android 8+ still has low market share, I assume they will want users to have previous versions of Android to download it, too. I actually agree with th
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by mtgx 8y ago
However, you can't install other app stores from the Play Store itself. That seems pretty anti-competitive. Google also bans ad-blockers from its Play Store. Why? Because they interfere with its business model. Again, anti-competitive.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Eating more deals in a day (whether small or large) = more insulin spikes throughout the day = less of a chance to heal your insulin resistance.
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's not just Bezos or other billionaires, but the companies themselves. Most of the "Big Tech" players have been allowed to grow so much because there hasn't been any anti-trust enforcement, and if there was, it was ine
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by mtgx 8y ago
It did spur competition where Google Fiber was announced. The ISPs were tripping over themselves to match Google in those cities. But as soon as Google announced the demise of Fiber, they mostly put the brakes on those expansions. They may
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by mtgx 8y ago
This is the danger of China dominating electric vehicles in the future, which is to say China will dominate most of the car industry in the future, because EVs are the future of all cars. Obviously, this isn't just about the spying a
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by mtgx 8y ago
Duo Beyond was a very smart move on their part, taking Google's enterprise security architecture and turning it into a third-party turnkey solution for enterprise customers. They did it before Cloudflare, too. I bet that is a big part
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by mtgx 8y ago
The countdown to Coinbase getting acquired has already started. Now it's just a matter of when it will happen and which of the tech giants will end-up owning it.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Relevant post from earlier this year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whatsapp-fou...
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by mtgx 8y ago
If that's what Reddit's security team was thinking by mid-2018, then Reddit security is in bad shape. NIST recommended the deprecation of SMS 2FA two years ago. When NIST recommends the deprecation of a protocol you know you shoul
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by mtgx 8y ago
That line is a shadow of its former self (from a few months ago). The only reason it remained there is so that they can still claim that it's "there". Compare that to this: https://web.archive.org/web/201

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