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by panacea 13y ago
Do you really stand behind the 1000% hyperbole?
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by panacea 13y ago
Maybe he's worse than the NSA for Russians, but he ain't doing anything to me. As a non-USAsian, the NSA and what they're doing Hoovering up everything they can about me sucks way more.
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by panacea 13y ago
Should a distinction be made between "Do not track me " and "Do not track anonymous/aggregate user's paths". Serious question. I think that's what's being suggested here?
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by panacea 13y ago
I think it's incumbent on reasonable people to occasionally leave a positive comment, or send a short thank-you email to developers or creatives who have made something you've found enjoyable, useful or helpful. I do. "Do unt
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by panacea 13y ago
Instead, we have Instagram. "Instagram is even more depressing than Facebook. Here’s why." http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/...
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by panacea 13y ago
Slippery slope. From there we might start requiring basic knowledge of politics and policies before people can vote! ;]
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by panacea 13y ago
I already have it installed from the first time it was available. Then it got pulled... why/how is it back?
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by panacea 13y ago
I truly think Google's Glass will suffer a similar fate... at least in it's present incarnation.
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by panacea 13y ago
And thus the question posed in the title has been successfully answered in the comments.
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by panacea 13y ago
'White coke' was transparent coke. 'Black' coke is transparent too (hold it up to the light). You've never seen vodka in person?
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by panacea 13y ago
UI design has always been about abstracting away underlying complexity and presenting a virtual wizard to manipulate the underlying code. Would it not be more 'digitally authentic' to present 1's and 0's? 'Flat desi
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by panacea 13y ago
Shortlist? Used as a metric between deciding whether your get you next job, your affordable insurance policy.... long lists are easy to store and use with prejudice. I'm thankful that fresh air and sunshine is a viable pursuit for my w
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by panacea 13y ago
I'm paranoid about clicking on any links regarding these revelations on a site self-labelled "hacker"-news... even reading The Guardian! And it disturbs me. I'm quite certain I'm on a algorithmically generated short
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by panacea 13y ago
>I'm having a hard time locating that article now Irradiated tubes?
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by panacea 13y ago
Complaints? They lost a lawsuit and had to pay out because of in-app purchases. Incidentally, in-app purchases have practically spoiled their nascent status as the handheld gaming platform. In-app purchases make sense for certain things,
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by panacea 13y ago
How can I trust that Ghostery is legit??
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by panacea 13y ago
^ The x percent (of people still browsing the web on massive monitors) represent! (really? come on... surely not everyone's watching on laptops and tablets and phones at home?)
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by panacea 13y ago
"hit in the early to mid 90's" So did the internet. You couldn't be a hikikomori before then... you were simply a recluse. That was a psychological condition reserved for the 'crazy old...'
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by panacea 13y ago
>They also starting smelting aluminium. An energy intensive exercise made extremely affordable, because of very cheap geothermal energy sources.
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by panacea 13y ago
Interesting that they highlighted the Big Mac and the Sausage & Egg Muffin as core products. Nothing else really tempts me. The Big Mac for when I want a (guilt inducing) lunch, and the muffin for the best breakfast hangover go-to I kno
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by panacea 13y ago
It's no big deal. We all suspected it. It's so unsurprising that the US forced a foreign president to touch down and have his plane searched in a foreign country to try and catch the whistleblower.
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by panacea 13y ago
They obviously concluded that 'Themeparkville' just didn't have that certain zyng to it.
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by panacea 13y ago
They're semi-funny reply emails, but I don't really understand how he was having fun with them. Doing it for the lulz of punking individual users trying to get help? Seems a bit like being a bully on an individual kid. Possibly ca
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by panacea 13y ago
What sort of programmer? Are you a computer scientist, or a computer engineer? I sincerely don't mean any offence, but I wonder if there are two ends of the spectrum of code and computer programming. Do you muck about in fractal algori
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by panacea 13y ago
Is it even useful to talk about 'US foreign policy' anymore? I mean, I generally hold Conspiracy theorists in marginal disdain, but aren't we seeing the machinations of a shadow authority usually beyond the concrete knowledge
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by panacea 13y ago
That photo is a still from a video interview he had with The Guardian.
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by panacea 13y ago
That demo video made my teeth hurt. Like going back in time to before the first iPhone was released.
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by panacea 13y ago
OK, I know jokes aren't appreciated on HN, but this comment is comedic art.
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by panacea 13y ago
Hear, hear. This isn't a quaint distraction that's getting in the way of us discussing serious issues like gradients in web design buttons... this is a big story and deserves to consume some HN news 'cycles'.
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by panacea 13y ago
I use DDG, but whenever I have the sort of search intent you outline, I simply append !g and search Google instead. It's also easier for me to use DDG and append !gi to look at images, rather than run a Google search and then switch to

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