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by nasredin 9y ago
They always seem to want phone numbers, which in a lot of countries are easily attributable to real people. One more time the "techbros" of Silicon Valey don't realize their actions are hurting people.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Google can lock you out of your account even if you have the right password.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I used Tor to access Google "products". After taking a hiatus and logging in with the correct (strong) password Google essentially locked me out. And no I don't have any "techbro" friends who work for Google. Lesson
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by nasredin 9y ago
I do not recommend watching Transformers (the movies) for you. The last (and final) one I watched (just to see how bad it was) had a 30 second (I am not shitting you) beer commercial complete with the signature Michael Bay 360 degree shot.
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by nasredin 9y ago
DD-WRT firmware (done via hosts file). You can also runs pixelserv that will return a 1 pixel image so you don't get any errors.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Anytime I notice an overtly blatant product placement (e.g. 3 second shot of a logo), I feel like I discovered a mole (as in double agent). There's a certain feeling of "Gotcha! I still got it. Can't full me, Diet Coke".
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by nasredin 9y ago
Is this a recent change? IIRC the standard is: 22 minutes for 30 min shows 44 minutes for hour long shows You can go to RARBG and check the MediaInfo for any show. So you get 16 min of ads every hour. So a quarter of each hour is ads.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Russians are always caught in the middle. Not quiete European, and they don't want to be, but not quite Asian. Always a clash of values there.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Ding, ding ding. We have a winner! I think people in the West who do not have to experience having one guy as "president" for 20+ years are either naive or ignorant of how these autocrats or kleptocrats operate. --- Fun fact: Bel
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by nasredin 9y ago
Can't wait until I turn 60 so I can finally justifiably call people with inferior skills than me - noobs. --- I know one older gentleman playing a FPS. He is not very good, but better than the majority. It's all about community th
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by nasredin 9y ago
After I read your comment I thought: That is clever! Should he have included a sarcasm tag at the end? Living dangerously! And of course you got down voted.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I have nothing against the guy. There's a whole industry whose goal is to spread disinformation. So one has to be extra careful of any hidden agendas or biases. It just smelled like "Americans For Prosperity" type deal, hence
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by nasredin 9y ago
Thank you. Billion, trillion, what's the difference! I think I just qualified to work in Congressional Budget Office!
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by nasredin 9y ago
I have very strong feelings WRT the creator of ABP. --- The creator of ABP ("Wladimir"?) is a scammer, con man, and malware distributor. He created an adblocking extension. He then used the auto-update feature to update his extens
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by nasredin 9y ago
Look rich people are just like you and me! Now stop complaining and get back to work!
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by nasredin 9y ago
Click bait. Do not waste your time. >Looking at the finances of people who have more money that you or I do can be a little unsettling. If we’re not careful, the financial voyeurism can also foster a sense of ingratitude. That’s not good
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by nasredin 9y ago
Thanks. There was recently a NYT article on trying to get a ballet shoe emoji (high heel shoes & sexism related) into Unicode. Sarcasm should be in Unicode! --- >Sarcasm, Inc. was formed in 2006 to pursue this idea, and with a great
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by nasredin 9y ago
So instead of click-to-play Flash, now you have unstoppable, auto playing audio and video ads that spy on you...? Yes Flash with it's weekly or sometimes daily security vulnerabilities was bad, but HTML5 is not "better". It i
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by nasredin 9y ago
I think the anti-net-neutrality people are running out of fresh, not yet discredited arguments. In OSI model IIRC: Application (software) is layer 7. Physical connection is layer 1. I am sure somebody will correct me.
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by nasredin 9y ago
OT. I think we need to standardize the sarcasm tag on the Internet. Not one of those RFC that no one implements, but something concrete, perhaps baked into the HTML standard. (If the W3C include DRM, they can include sarcasm). Or maybe some
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by nasredin 9y ago
>git yolo I hope you do not work on missiles or on passenger aircrafts!
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by nasredin 9y ago
Nice. I think these are the "new" sanctions that concern Putin. Basically Congress told the IC to draw up a list of Russian oligarchs, so they may be targeted. Since a lot of these oligarchs have money in the West (houses in Italy
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by nasredin 9y ago
Saved you a click: Pornhub ARIA @Pornhub Pornhub would never play you like that fam Netflix US @netflix To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you? 7:47 AM · Dec 11, 2017 I sure hop
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by nasredin 9y ago
Duct tape and glue? I got angry, took my drill, a piece of metal, couple of screws and connected the whole thing Mad Max style. Yes, they were quite uncomfortable. And you couldn't really wear them in public too. --- And yes hd380s see
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by nasredin 9y ago
I know it looks ridiculous but if you are in charge of a gang of kids put them in the brightest eye-burning tee shirts you can find. You won't even have to look at their dirty, disgusting faces, just count them like cattle. In a large
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by nasredin 9y ago
Well the actual driver inside should last you a lifetime, the plasticky headband on the other hand... --- Also related: The Sennheisers branded ear pads or Brainwavz (IIRC) ear pads are a bit expensive ($20+). You can get generic "memo
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by nasredin 9y ago
The sellers are not really to blame here though. Often they are just Chinese-speaking American entrepreneurs. The problem is the lack of IP protection in China. And lack of any interest in branding and brand differentiation, hence you got &
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by nasredin 9y ago
>I wish that Amazon could split the market place off. Recently Amazon made it much harder to select sellers. Now on some products, the page is so confusing that you don't know is it "Fullfilled by Amazon" or you are buying
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Bluedio Sorry to be a bit of an asshole. Do not buy Chinese crap. It's a lottery. My Sennheisers (made of plastic BTW) have been in use since 2014. My previous Sennheisers broke (just the headband) after a couple of years. Bought $
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by nasredin 9y ago
Regarding the performance improvements. Sometimes it seems it's more about job security. How many rewrites do you need? Mozilla's Law: (Use McConaughey Voice) As Intel processors get faster... Mozilla's software stays the sam

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