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by phatfish 12y ago
The overpopulation myth will be the next political distraction just like the climate change reality. The fact is even in developing countries -- when women are educated and have access to contraception -- most families have 2 children. This
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by phatfish 12y ago
That sounds great, if we can silo all the mobile users into their own instance of Facebook/Youtube etc. I might start using social media!
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by phatfish 12y ago
So just because we are not rounding dissenters up into concentration camps or starving half the population to death David Cameron (or whoever the next one is) should be able to search my entire communication and location history? That attit
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by phatfish 12y ago
If I like a site, and they don't show obnoxious ads I often white-list it. It's up to you convince me.
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by phatfish 12y ago
If you can understand the the core ideas of data structures and how to manipulate them (Arrays, Loops, Conditionals, Objects etc.), and can put that understanding into practice to solve a problem, you really are 90% of the way there. Learni
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by phatfish 12y ago
If my wife had divorced me and i ended up a crying heap on the floor like this guy i would probably want to try this. Most people are not in that situation though, it's all relative. Fair play to him though.
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by phatfish 12y ago
It was a sad day when he had to stop doing the yearly Quakecon keynote :/
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by phatfish 12y ago
4OD also serves ridiculous 2 minuet broadcast TV style blocks of Ads. This is why everyone runs AdBlock on their site, and why they fight a loosing battle to try a force people to view them. Youtube adverts are tolerable, and sometimes i ev
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by phatfish 12y ago
Yep, im pretty sure just the mac address collection from wifi radios would be enough to track what store you have been in if you run an Android phone. I have wifi and gps turned off except when i am lost.
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by phatfish 12y ago
As a 30+ i find it funny that chat rooms are making a come back. I used IRC (and still use) back in the day, and the funky flash and java chat rooms that a lot of mainstream websites used to host to build their communities. WhatsApp always
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by phatfish 12y ago
I agree completely that if you are a rationalist it is a waste of effort to throw someones beliefs back in their face, often they don't truly believe themselves anyway if you have a proper conversation. What i have seen of Randi he see
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by phatfish 12y ago
Because Starbucks is packed with the sort of hipsters that syphon as much data as possible about their personal lives to the databases of multinational corps, obviously! It really is easier than anyone could have imagined to get people to p
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by phatfish 12y ago
Maybe http://zfsguru.com/ could use some help.
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by phatfish 13y ago
If the Messenger app will work without the Facebook app this could be a good thing? I would like to know about IMs people send me, but i have no interest in the stream of adverts and status updates...
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by phatfish 13y ago
Well it shows how wealthy you are on a global scale. I expect the average westerner on $32,000 wont realize they are in the top 1% (globally). It's certainly interesting to think about, you then realize just how much money (and power)
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by phatfish 13y ago
GMail is pretty good. But the new maps is atrocious on any browser except Chrome (surprise surprise). The old version is much faster on all browsers. Same for the Android app, which also destroys my phone battery now too.
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by phatfish 13y ago
Overpopulation being the downfall of civilization is a complete myth. Even in developing countries such as Bangladesh the average family now as 2 children due to education and great progress in women's rights. I don't have the fig
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by phatfish 13y ago
Except when an upgrade to Flash breaks an important site for a lot of users. Then you are screwed. Reverting to the regular windows plugin would be the first change i made for a large deployment.
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by phatfish 13y ago
Also when infinite scroll is used on finite data. I have to spend 5 minuets awkwardly scrolling through pages to get to the end of a data set (I'm looking at you Soundcloud). With pagination this is literally 1 click!
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by phatfish 13y ago
Of course the irony is, when Spoify goes under you will be loosing more than just future updates to a piece of software that will continue to function forever ;)