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by pgrote 5y ago
It always amazes me when things like this happen. If you look at the comments on this post you'll see people responding as if this a terrific new idea/frontier. Others respond with links to existing solutions as you did; Gumroad w
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Gas shortage: Gov. Cooper declares state of emergency for NC(wlos.com)
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Amazon blocked 10B listings in counterfeit crackdown(newsnationnow.com)
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Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app(theverge.com)
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Zynga agrees to buy mobile ad and monetization firm Chartboost(venturebeat.com)
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by pgrote 5y ago
>on sale 9 years from now (2030) will be vastly superior to today's offerings I hope you are right. Discounting the environmental and societal impact of mining the materials needed for these advancements and the electrical generatio
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by pgrote 5y ago
>lack of long term safety trials. is she antivax/antiscience? I don't think so, but in our cultural climate those who bring up real, substantive questions about the process can be brought up. It is a shame since the MRNA vaccin
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by pgrote 5y ago
If you're going to reference the contract, release the specific sections of the contract. If you're going to reference Roku demands, release the emails. It is tiring when 2 corporations sling it at each other without any backup. M
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US Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees(reuters.com)
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by pgrote 6y ago
>Alright, let's say you get appointed at Twitter to clean up this mess. Announce a sale of intellectual and physical assets and close down. I would realize the company is a negative drain on society.
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by pgrote 6y ago
>Google has been in a constant arms race against unscrupulous SEO practices ever since. One company controls 80% of what is found on the internet. They set rules, restrictions, penalties that are not public. They do not pass any sort of
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by pgrote 6y ago
I get most of my news from NewsNationNow and the Reuters direct feed. I am a long time current subscriber to the NY Times. I hate what they have become, but still subscribe as they have have a handful of professional reporters. Anything US
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by pgrote 6y ago
I wish I could find it, but 10 years ago, probably longer now, there was a prescient video where there turned out to be only 4 tech companies left. Something like amazgooglesoft or something. The narrator had a deep voice and I think it was
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by pgrote 6y ago
Unsure. What I do know is that Google doesn't remove reviews for just anyone. They don't remove Play Store reviews and they do not remove Google Local reviews. Even if an app or a company is birdgaded due to bad news that is someo
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by pgrote 6y ago
Is the idea that technology will evolve to allow long distances to be driven without having to stop and charge for hours during the trip?
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by pgrote 6y ago
The lack of self reflection in journalistic circles is amazing, but big tech ruined them, too. 1) Writing to appease Google rather than readers. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxLKUM0FlCw ) ( http://experiment.cj
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Fintech startup SoFi to go public via SPAC backed by Chamath Palihapitiya(cnbc.com)
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Former Disney and Discovery Execs Will Launch New Service, Strumm, This Spring(cordcuttersnews.com)
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by pgrote 6y ago
Thank you. I feel the same way. I vote in every election. There are problems with many elections, especially ones for US President. Those problems are baked into the system we've established as a nation. States run their own elections.
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Marcus Hutchins – How I Found My First Ever ZeroDay (In RDP)(malwaretech.com)
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by pgrote 6y ago
Thank you for the explanation. Unsure how I wasn't putting 2+2 together. Facebook presumably does have rules against brigading.
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by pgrote 6y ago
I am confused by this statement and don't understand: "But as Mai Khoi discovered, Vietnamese Facebook is also plagued by unofficial censorship, achieved not by declaring content illegal but by coordinating users to flag it for vi
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by pgrote 6y ago
You are 100% correct. There are those among us that overlook this as the reason for new releases and discontinuing products. I know I've experienced a point where the decision is made to discontinue something as adding what is needed t
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MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites unlawful content(reuters.com)
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Weather Service runs out of Internet bandwidth, proposes limiting key data(washingtonpost.com)
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by pgrote 6y ago
What a remarkable walkthrough. I think many people can related to: "But the interesting part is that it looks like in 2017 I’ve done very little work that actually shipped to production in a meaningful way. This is because of a few th
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BuzzFeed Acquires HuffPost, Expanding Its Slate of World-Class Media Brands(buzzfeed.com)
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by pgrote 6y ago
>There are just legal requirements around certain types of porn for example. Or videos of illegal activities up to and sometimes even including murder. If I understand your point, it is law enforcement doesn't allow moderation of th
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by pgrote 6y ago
>2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13" How long will OS updates be distributed for it?
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by pgrote 6y ago
It could be. With voting I think the consideration is a barrier for voting. In many states you do not need to prove it to vote. Some states allow a normal vote and some states make them provisional. Still, no concrete identification is requ

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