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by p49k 6y ago
No, at least based on the info given in the thread. Apps need access to unencrypted data to perform background tasks and disabling FaceID in this way doesn’t have any effect on those tasks; otherwise it would be a confusing user experience.
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by p49k 6y ago
Publishers can’t make their default pages feel as lightweight as AMP pages because Google won’t preload their content like they do with AMP pages.
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by p49k 6y ago
Your comment reads like Apple removed the ability of Facebook to monetize apps with advertising (which they didn't), and reads as if tracking users' every movement is the only way to advertise (which it isn't). Furthermore, t
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by p49k 6y ago
The article has a somewhat misleading clickbaity title and is behind a paywall. This is the list of what is redacted: > Google's percentage share of the digital ad market > Number of ads Google's ad servers process per day &
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by p49k 6y ago
Mickey Mouse (specifically Steamboat Willie) will be in the public domain on Jan 1, 2024.
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by p49k 6y ago
Spotify has illustrated that they have no qualms themselves in abusing their market power to subvert the fairness/freeness of markets - they're currently pouring massive amounts of resources into an attempt to force themselves int
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by p49k 6y ago
If anyone has a good reason to bundle every location’s use case into one app it’s Uber. A common Uber user scenario is someone who takes an Uber to the airport in one country, arrives in another and has poor internet capability for one of s
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by p49k 6y ago
Running modern versions of software on CentOS 7 can be a giant pain due to the old version of glibc that’s baked in.
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by p49k 6y ago
The numerator is such a small percentage because so many fear losing their jobs for speaking out. In that context, this number is quite significant. Even if you disagree with their stance, you have to admit that it takes courage to speak up
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by p49k 6y ago
If this is true, you should delete your comments and wait until an appropriate time (post grieving) to post them, backed with evidence and discussions with people who knew him in the context of such issues, under your real name. Stop preten
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by p49k 6y ago
In the immediate period following someone’s death, is it too much to ask not to engage in or support rumor-mongering around the cause, for the sake of the family who is likely under tremendous stress and should not have to deal with the add
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by p49k 6y ago
Not to mention the unknown long-term effects of having it, even asymptotically.
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by p49k 6y ago
Using repo men (self-repossession) is in fact illegal in much of the civilized world.
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by p49k 6y ago
They are "changing the perspective" to a behavior which is predatory and stacked against one party. A company cannot just write anything they want into a contract and expect it to be enforceable; there are rules surrounding what i
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by p49k 6y ago
You need stability to run a business. Google would most likely eventually find and shut down the account; it would just be a matter of when. It’s not a sustainable plan to try to operate in that kind of precarious situation.
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by p49k 6y ago
It’s death by a thousand cuts. There is no way a consumer can win and be able to make effective choices in this environment.
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by p49k 6y ago
You mean 30ms as a baked in minimum, right? Because I just checked my LTE connection and am getting ~40ms ping to google.com.
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by p49k 6y ago
Does One include advanced automated/bot traffic detection/blocking? In other words, does it compete with Distil and others in that space?
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by p49k 6y ago
Trademark law takes into consideration the similarity of names and Google certainly has a trademark on “Android.” Although you’re correct that Google can use their might to force any outcome, it’s not accurate to imply that Google has no le
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by p49k 6y ago
I hope I didn’t do anything wrong by “vouching” to unflag this; it didn’t take any sides politically and seemed neutral and relevant.
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by p49k 6y ago
No one has a problem with Samsung putting ads on a channel with free content that you can choose not to watch. But to take screenshots of what you’re watching on your tv every 60 seconds, upload it to their servers, and use it to build a pr
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by p49k 6y ago
Don’t forget how much more expensive school is now than it was for the previous generation. An unfair grade is far more negatively impactful.
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by p49k 6y ago
These ads starting appearing on my TV two years after I bought it. There were no ads before that. No reviews mentioned ads. There is no way to disable them in settings. Yes I could disconnect it from the network but that would defeat one
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by p49k 6y ago
They are already added and listed in the article in the music section.
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by p49k 6y ago
A store that sells third party off-label products can still do quality control on those products and can take responsibility for what they sell, just as they would remove faulty brand-name products to protect their reputation.
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by p49k 6y ago
There are grocery stores which sell cheaper off-label products that aren’t their own. The makers of those products don’t advertise and thus pass those savings to the consumer. It’s a system that’s already proven to work.
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by p49k 6y ago
I didn’t say Apple banned anything? What I’m referring to happened in 2015. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-wi...
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by p49k 6y ago
Amazon outright banned the sale of Apple TV and Chromecast on Amazon’s marketplace for years, until Google/Apple agreed to include Prime Video. Amazon faced zero consequences. This isn’t new behavior.
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by p49k 6y ago
More than 200,000 additional people in the US have died in 2020 compared to this point in 2019. There is no other reasonable explanation for those additional deaths. That makes it abundantly clear that they are COVID-19 related. Hand-wave a
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by p49k 6y ago
Vietnam has 35 in a country of 90 million people.

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