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by naaaaak 8y ago
Disable Javascript by default and make turning it on the exception. The web would be a much better place.
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by naaaaak 8y ago
Text input lacks expected shortcuts, multi-select, good undo/redo, spellcheck underline, grammar check, smart features, text replacement, transformation conveniences, etc. All menus lack basic/expected items, both in the menu bar
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by naaaaak 8y ago
Apple originally kept Siri audio for up to 2 years "for testing and product improvement purposes". I am not sure if that is still the case. https://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/
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by naaaaak 9y ago
1.7B for a pro-censorship left-wing cheerleading site. Not worth.
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by naaaaak 9y ago
America's Health-Care Crisis??? You mean Obamacare didn't end skyrocketing costs and fix what it purported to? You mean the sole accomplishment of a corrupt President didn't accomplish anything? Say it isn't so! Now ex
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by naaaaak 9y ago
Companies that do this are screwing themselves hard in the long-term. No one of value will want a job there.
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by naaaaak 9y ago
WashPo, owned by Bezos whose fortune is in Amazon, is criticizing a competitor.
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by naaaaak 9y ago
https://twitter.com/JoshNoneYaBiz/status/852661406298198016 Reminder of fake polls pushed by fake news. Almost all of the establishment media reported polls like this leading up to the election. They traded all
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by naaaaak 9y ago
I never said he was banned. > more than a third of his videos had become demonetized http://www.polygon.com/2017/4/10/15246814/pewdiepie-youtube-... > "I’m going to have [to be] family friendl
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by naaaaak 9y ago
What polls were "basically right" in the month, weeks, and days leading up to the election? I recall most of them being very off the mark because of their methodology. There were a ton of polls that consistently oversampled Demo
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by naaaaak 9y ago
No, Youtube is demonetizing anyone who disagrees with the narrative. Do you think pewdiepie is right of Fox News? Do you think buzzfeed, printers of the 4chan fanfic "piss dossier" are not notoriously full of bullshit? Have tmz
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by naaaaak 9y ago
Under the News tab you don't, and that's what the screenshots show.
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by naaaaak 9y ago
> for being politically too extreme YouTube defines "politically too extreme" as anything that's slightly left of Fox News. Google's News tab now promotes tmz, the onion, and buzzfeed as "news" over sites th
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by naaaaak 9y ago
> Fake news is specifically the creation of websites that look like legitimate news sites, with what look like legitimate articles, in order to generate click and ad revenue. So CNN, NYT, WashPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, etc.
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by naaaaak 10y ago
They implied the mere vote for it would collapse things.
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by naaaaak 10y ago
> they are nonetheless doing what the people told them to do We call that a functioning democracy. The EU is the opposite of that. EU: "You have to accept our way, even if you don't want it and it's bad for your country.
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by naaaaak 10y ago
> There's a solid base of racist idiots in the UK - proud "patriots" who don't understand how to invest in the future, but do understand tribal flag waving and imperial nostalgia. As opossed to the tribal flag waving
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by naaaaak 10y ago
> As far as I've been following the analytics, news and coverage on this, the outcomes for UK are only negative. Most news is pure propaganda. All of the so-called "news" (BBC, etc.) has a vested interest in keeping the s
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by naaaaak 10y ago
Awful to try to read on mobile. Regular page anywhere?
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by naaaaak 10y ago
Wasn't running the most corrupt, least trustworthy candidate who couldn't cite a single accomplishment in 30 years of public "self service" THE problem?
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by naaaaak 10y ago
Apple has a car project. Autopilot must be one of its core features. But Apple would not create a VP-level position for Autopilot or any one feature for any of their products (even if they it called something else for secrecy/general
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by naaaaak 10y ago
Nothing about Twitter is essential and Twitter is highly filtered. Twitter actively censors opinions and trends it doesn't like. Over the summer, #DNCLeaks trended hard, only to get removed and replaced by a typoed tag that killed it
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by naaaaak 10y ago
> We would frequently run into bugs that had been reported on openradar for years without having been addressed. In over a decade of submitting bug reports to Apple, they've only ever fixed a few of my issues. Most of my reports ar
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by naaaaak 10y ago
Basic censorship. SV liberal-types are triggered by the word "Republican" and thus have filters for it. This response will be auto downvoted or filtered out soon.
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by naaaaak 11y ago
If this becomes a thing, the world is going to run out of islands faster than companies can buy them to evade totalitarian governments.
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by naaaaak 11y ago
No matter what happens in this case, to the individual engineers or to Apple, the problem runs much deeper: - Government power and rights > individual power and rights. - Mass surveillance of their own people. - Constitution consistently
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by naaaaak 11y ago
"They charged less than their competition. That's potential tax revenue lost. They are therefore thieves." is the dumbest argument I've ever heard. How is this even an issue, let alone the basis for a legal case?
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by naaaaak 11y ago
Exactly it, but your friend is just a typical hypocrite. She says she is for women's rights, but is really just for any woman who has the same worldview as her and f the rest.
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by naaaaak 11y ago
Exactly why they want to do this. Tax the difference and keep the price constant because they know a raped consumer will keep paying it.
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by naaaaak 12y ago
Cocoa has a ton of bugs and cruft and could very much benefit from a mass refactoring. I'd like to see everything deprecated actually removed and a bunch of other aggressive actions taken to prune APIs that never worked well. Replace

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