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by plorg 7y ago
At work we had a 4'x4' powder coated sheet of aluminum hung up in one of the engineering offices as a white board. It worked fine for about a year. We moved out of the office for some construction and when we moved back in we took
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by plorg 7y ago
It's never been 100% clear to me what the accepted timeline of human inhabitation of the American continents was, but it seems clearly possible (or likely?) that humans and other megafauna existed close together. Given that fact, it&#x
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by plorg 7y ago
They have implemented a system that works on rulesets similar to those used in AdBlock Plus (with whom Google has a business relationship). Rather than allow extensions to examine web requests they have to provide matching rules for the con
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by plorg 7y ago
Do 2B users use uBO, or do most of them use ABP or uBlock? Because I don't see much pushback from the authors of the later, and it anything they have a vested interest in design choices that negate the power of their greatest competito
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by plorg 8y ago
The Do Not Call Registry obviously isn't 100% effective, but one possible regulatory move would be to create a similar service for email and phone numbers used in marketing lists, such that possessing a list with the PII of a person wh
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by plorg 8y ago
I started tracking the advertisers who upload my contact information a few months ago. One day I "hid" all of the pages in that section of the ads settings page and the next day it showed that over 100 pages had uploaded my contac
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by plorg 8y ago
I assumed this article was either or written by someone watching or reading about the episode. It seemed nearly impossible to not know about it in the internet world I inhabit. For what it's worth, I understood the genesis of that proj
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by plorg 8y ago
I've never been a big fan of start pages, even (or especially?) those with supposedly personalized content. Bookmarks are fine, but tiles showing most frequently visited sites seems like a pushy way of forcing the user use bookmarks, a
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by plorg 8y ago
The obvious difference is that a human on a bicycle is moving on the order of 10 times less mass than a human in a car. Like my sibling post notes, it could be different for, e.g, a motorcycle, but a cyclist also produces about 0% of the SO
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by plorg 8y ago
One thought might be that a company interested in making decisions based on customer feedback would consult those customers before making a change like this.
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by plorg 8y ago
While it may be true that Manafort incidentally backed up WhatsApp or Signal messages to iCloud, the FBI supporting statement in the motion to revoke parole indicates that the messages cited were preserved by the receiving party and volunta
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by plorg 8y ago
I routinely rack up thousands of steps playing my cello, even with my Fitbit on my left wrist. I suspect the numbers would be significantly higher if I wore it on the wrist of my bow arm.
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by plorg 9y ago
I have a loosely imagined regulatory solution to the particular problem of secretive data brokerages and user targeting. It works at follows: * Targeted ads are required to include both a declaration that they are targeted to a user and wha
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Trump bans US use of Venezuelan cryptocurrencies(theguardian.com)
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by plorg 9y ago
Is this a new or different presentation of Onavo in the FB app? I've seen this menu item in the Android app for probably 2 years or more.
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by plorg 9y ago
I have Location History on (it's complicated to justify it in my own head, but I find the feature useful, and it's not like my phone company and Google don't know my location - at least this way I get some benefit from it). I
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by plorg 9y ago
Alternately, the tax system "penalizes" those who lack wealth by advantaging those who make money by owning capital. Pretending like a pre-existing, often un-earned economic advantage implies some sort of inherent moral or econom
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by plorg 9y ago
My undergraduate engineering education was at a fairly religious school, and the last semester of the program involved a course called "technology and society". The material was largely from the typical secular sources, including
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by plorg 9y ago
It took a long time to standardize and integrate the US power grid (which even today is basically 3 loosely-connected systems). Some parts held out longer than others. My brother recently visited a hydro dam in northern Minnesota that had o
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by plorg 9y ago
Up until last year I was still on AT&T and using a dumbphone. The phone I had came with software to sync contacts with "the cloud". It was much easier to edit the list online (or even just as a CSV file) than on the phone itse
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by plorg 9y ago
Wealth increasing due to age is exactly the result of a system where accumulated capital is a tax-preffered method of wealth generation. Capitalism as practiced advantages anyone who has more wealth than another, and unchecked leads exactly
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by plorg 9y ago
Literally the last 7 tweets as of right now (all of which are older than this comment) are the account owner saying she was trolling.
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by plorg 9y ago
Living around a great number of conservatives, but interacting with a great number of liberals online, my experience is that it simply goes both ways. It's a much-remarked-on idea that "red" and "blue" America are i
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by plorg 9y ago
similarly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10...
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by plorg 10y ago
On the other hand, Facebook's thirsty attempt at pushing the same feature in all of their apps is both fragmented and ham-handed. It seems to have landed with a thud - I have seen exactly one contact post a Story in either the Facebook
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by plorg 10y ago
This is actually a native feature now in both Android and iOS.
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by plorg 10y ago
Maybe now they'll address the Takeout format to return a sane, digestible form of GV data, rather than the frequently-broken HTML form that it currently returns.
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by plorg 10y ago
As a single user with a number of personal/hobbyist machines, I actually find systemd annoying to work with for precisely this reason. If a daemon is misconfigured and fails to launch several times in a row, it inevitably triggers the
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by plorg 10y ago
Here in Iowa we grow corn to feed our cows (different, I assume HN-ers could guess, from human-edible sweetcorn). I don't know about the vitamin load. I assume it's probably less-good than that of the random plants on marginal lan
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by plorg 10y ago
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