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by p49k 5y ago
> how do you back-up safely without a screen to show you what’s behind you? The older style of parking sensors based on ultrasonic sensors which use beeps and a diagram of the car to indicate what’s behind you and how far away is superio
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by p49k 5y ago
Gaming isn’t a major contributing cause to a country’s energy crisis.
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by p49k 5y ago
Two approaches: Reseller approach: Partner with a reseller that gives the publisher access to the reseller's own AdX and header bidding with a 15% or lower cut. Preferably a Google certified partner. A good reseller will work with the
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by p49k 5y ago
Just putting the Adsense code on a website is what a hobbyist who's making a few bucks/month would do, not someone who is running a business or making a living from their service. It makes sense that the case is not focused on thi
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by p49k 5y ago
No, I’m discussing from the point of view of the publisher. It’s financial suicide to lose 50% or more of your revenue because you don’t want to use GAM to manage your ad inventory.
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by p49k 5y ago
> Why? Because Google requires it. Google is the only major ad network that requires that you use their own ad serving product (GAM) in order to have full access to their inventory. So your options are to use GAM and have Google inventor
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by p49k 5y ago
This protobuf spec is in no way relevant to the situation outlined in the anti-competitive behavior complaint. The protobuf spec is related to using the Authorized Buyers RTB protocol within AdX. That's an ecosystem that lives entirely
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by p49k 5y ago
You only have access to non-Google bids, which makes it impossible to have enough information to know if the auction is unfair. Google is the final arbiter of what ad gets shown, Google does not disclose its own bid if it's the winner,
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by p49k 5y ago
Yes, but you can't effectively use them unless you run them through Google Ad Manager, which gives Google special privileges/rights for their own ad inventory versus the competitor. For example, Google gets to look at the ad impre
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by p49k 5y ago
For starters, it would create a more level playing field to allow alternative products by companies with different values to flourish, rather than having them acquired before having a chance to become competitive. Look at WhatsApp, founded
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by p49k 5y ago
Twitter doesn’t load on iOS if you have even basic content blockers enabled. I’m guessing they are artificially crippling the site to make you disable ad blocking. Once you disable Adblock, you realize that clicking on almost anything will
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by p49k 5y ago
He does in fact make this claim directly in the tweet thread: ...Facebook copied our signature feature: the “iLike button.” (They were kind enough to call in advance to inform us.)
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by p49k 5y ago
Antibody tests exist. I’m not in any way antivax, but it makes no sense why people who already had COVID should be required to receive a vaccine instead of just proving they have antibodies. This kind of illogical policy gives fuel to anti
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by p49k 5y ago
To be clear, it’s intermittent. Perhaps one in 500 times an input is focused, it exhibits this behavior. I have experienced this so many times over my life with so many different hardware/software configurations, and I have to assume o
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by p49k 5y ago
For a long time, in some browsers/OSes there was a bug (or perhaps an archaic feature that was accidentally triggered) where the cursor in an input could get stuck and cause all new characters to be inserted to the left; I'm assum
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by p49k 5y ago
She shared them with the SEC, Congress and the WSJ. Ostensibly she doesn’t have the resources to redact tens of thousands of documents herself.
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by p49k 5y ago
Title references "Facebook products" which includes Instagram.
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by p49k 5y ago
Sure, but you weren't in the white pages if you weren't already paying for a phone. At that point the question of whether you're getting a discount for agreeing to be in the book, or paying not to be in the book is just an ar
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by p49k 5y ago
I find the opposite; YouTube is on a constant mission to pull me into the world of right-wing videos with angry titles and antivax propaganda. If you browse YouTube with cookies disabled or within a cookie fence, you can see that such manip
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by p49k 5y ago
> Every week you get a new playlist that has new releases that they think you will like based on previous listening history That's not what Discover Weekly is. Discover weekly contains a diverse selection of music from any time per
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by p49k 5y ago
You're cherry-picking data to make Tesla's numbers and potential look worse than they actually are. The first two quarters are much slower for car sales; for example in 2020, Tesla shipped 178k units in Q1+Q2 and 319k units in Q3+
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by p49k 5y ago
Average price per vehicle is much higher than other brands. In terms of revenue in dollars, It seems they are on track to surpass Nissan next year, no?
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by p49k 5y ago
The flaw in logic here is to assume that Germany and the US are otherwise identical in policy. But of course that's not remotely true. Germany roads are safer because - Drivers are required to obtain an extensive education at a license
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by p49k 5y ago
Why would 19 of the top 20 Christian pages be run by Americans who specifically only connect to VPNs in Kosovo and Macedonia when they manage their pages? I think at some point common sense comes into play here.
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by p49k 5y ago
From the study: 1) Troll farm = Professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content 2) Through internal Facebook research in which documentation was leaked to journalists. 3) That's irrelevant to the
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by p49k 5y ago
I don’t understand why argv of other users’ processes needs to be public to non-root users in the first place, other than “that’s how it’s always been” - it’s clearly non-intuitive, so the mistake will naturally happen over and over again.
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by p49k 5y ago
With other indicators, if you lack context your brain is aware that you don’t have enough info to deduce what’s happening. With the MINI, they are providing additional (incorrect) context to reassure you of the (wrong) result.
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This is How America’s Richest Families Stay That Way(nytimes.com)
5 points by p49k 5y ago|3 comments
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by p49k 5y ago
They are both physically robust and very reliable, to the point where I don’t think this is a valid excuse. We’ve come a long way since the early days of mobile phones.
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by p49k 5y ago
Only at the slow 7.5W speed. Despite the fact that MagSafe follows the 15W Qi standard, the iPhone will only charge at 15W with a MagSafe-branded device. If Apple, for example placed both a USB-C and lightning port on future phones, but the

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