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721.
by philjohn 4y ago
Not recalling AirTags until the privacy implications are fixed, says otherwise.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Except they deliberately delay the attribution messaage so optimising ads takes longer for buyers, and hence costs more money.
723.
by philjohn 4y ago
In the UK but have another data point - was looking to buy a demo car from a VW dealership - paid the deposit and it was a decent amount under MSRP as it had 1500 miles on it. Phoned up the next day to say another dealer in their network ha
724.
by philjohn 4y ago
I'd argue that's due to scale and scale alone.
725.
by philjohn 4y ago
Or they both over-hired and are taking similar steps to lean into natural attrition. As for new engineers and surplus of others, I'm sure they'll be moving people around. A backend dev on one project can move to another backend pr
726.
by philjohn 4y ago
And they are less likely to kick up a fuss about poor working conditions when the alternative is no job at all as nobody else wants to hire them.
727.
by philjohn 4y ago
In the UK most flashing tends to be lead - more malleable than copper, and lasts centuries.
728.
by philjohn 4y ago
The incentives laid out for them by the people THEY elected?
729.
by philjohn 4y ago
Facebook is still that for me - I don't follow groups and my feed is 99% far flung friends posts about their lives - we've also moved past the "look, everything in my life is perfect!" phase and people are more honest.
730.
by philjohn 4y ago
More trees than Paris and more canals than Venice
731.
by philjohn 4y ago
And Behind the Bastards is a hoot to listen to
732.
by philjohn 4y ago
It's how Marvel funded their early films - a 200m revolving line of credit.
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by philjohn 4y ago
This is the key - capitalism only works when there is viable competition, otherwise it's just a monopoly. They got around this in the UK by splitting the monopoly (well, except for Kingston upon hull) into BT and OpenReach. OpenReach p
734.
by philjohn 4y ago
Isn't saltwater lithium extraction close to being a thing, as well as recycling?
735.
by philjohn 4y ago
Look at one of the other child responses to the parent - someone who used to work on medical devices. That this is heavily regulated is a good thing, because in the not so distant past we had people die due to the Therac-25. I get wanting f
736.
by philjohn 4y ago
On pure scale alone, surely urban areas have far more voters, and therefore more need for funds than much smaller red counties?
737.
by philjohn 4y ago
Looking at the comments that got them banned would be illuminating. I've seen my fair share of people just being straight up assholes. Sorry buddy, be civil, or go somewhere else.
738.
by philjohn 4y ago
And yet that can also be valid - the /r/teen sub, which is meant as a safe place for teenagers to talk, bans people who've posted in creepy subs - do you disagree with that?
739.
by philjohn 4y ago
You're still viewing this from the lens of people in the west.
740.
by philjohn 4y ago
The problem with in device ads is that they break down when you: a) don't own the device b) the device is very low performance, or has no local storage c) accessing via the web d) don't have enough data allowance for the much larg
741.
by philjohn 4y ago
What was humorous was a friend of mine who is super privacy conscious, pihole, cookie blocking, javascript blocking etc. etc. They complained that the ads they're getting aren't interesting and are just in general crap. Yeah, that
742.
by philjohn 4y ago
How have they gone insane? Can you give some specific examples?
743.
by philjohn 4y ago
I would wager good money that in many cases these "I was left wing, but the insane Left pushed me to the GOP!" posters were never, in fact, left wing and are instead trying to spread a particular message. See also the "walk a
744.
by philjohn 4y ago
It's not a vanity project though. It's to take load of the existing train lines to enable better (more frequent, faster) local services with longer distance services bypassing these lines.
745.
by philjohn 4y ago
Probably as good a time as any to share the actuarial analysis of V2 rocket strikes in wartime London - https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1740-9... We also had increased stress at the time
746.
by philjohn 4y ago
No, if you read the article it's from 12 up the benefits outweigh the risks, quoth: The ACIP report projected that mRNA vaccination in 12-17-year-old males would result in 215 fewer hospitalizations and 71 fewer intensive care unit st
747.
by philjohn 4y ago
Turns out that myocarditis is though https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34341797/
748.
by philjohn 4y ago
Not a natural born US Citizen, so can't be President.
749.
by philjohn 4y ago
I was under the impression that video evidence as well as social media posts were used in addition.
750.
by philjohn 4y ago
The gloves one is easy - some people took Covid as a serious threat to themselves and wore gloves - I saw many people wearing gloves to shop and then throwing them away before getting to their car. It's also interesting that the map of

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