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3y ago
this was especially bad when there were ads sprinkled throughout during cable broadcasts A typical show went like this: last time on dragonBallZ… 12 minutes of content… next time on dragonBallZ
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3y ago
gopro is commodity hardware with a lot of marketing and branding to try and command a premium purchase price
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3y ago
what has stopped you from using chromium or brave instead of browsers infected with spyware?
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propogandist
3y ago
I have a checking account that pays 5.9% APY, I wouldn’t trust sofi with my money.
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3y ago
Chase, the largest bank in the US, offers 0.01% APY for their savings account. BOA offers similar rates. Goldman Sachs, the institution behind Apple's financial products, offers 3.90% APY to their Marcus clients, which is lower than Ap
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propogandist
3y ago
this is what Microsoft is trying with Office 365 GPT approach, where they are siphoning training data from every company and offering graphs and summaries in return
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propogandist
4y ago
this can be done with NetGuard (Android) or apps like AdGuard Pro (iOs). Both function as VPNs and allow DNS filtering (load custom host lists). Essential software and should be the first app to be installed on a device.
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propogandist
4y ago
try Brave’s search service
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4y ago
this was the same narrative pushed when most of the tweeps was axed, but the site has been running fine and has only grown in popularity.
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4y ago
I’ve been using thinkpad for over a decade and have noticed decline in quality on hardware and even firmware/software on the device. They have been regularly making the keyboard worse and it’s gotten down to 1.5mm of key travel or wors
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4y ago
what is the long term viability of the MB Air’s components since it doesn’t have a fan / air circulation to diffuse heat?
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4y ago
A thinkpad would offer great build quality, although some of that is slipping due to Lenovo’s cost cutting strategies. Unfortunately, today’s Windows OS is spyware, especially Windows 11, so the entire OS needs to be removed, if you want a
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4y ago
Not quite, card networks only know transaction level information if the merchant processing the card transaction passes back level 3 data. Merchants only pass level 3 data to secure a processing % discount on network fees. This data can be
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4y ago
Owning an iPhone shows the owner has privilege to overpay for commodity hardware, manufactured in their backyard; no one will give it up.
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4y ago
My colleague was telling me that the general health care system is not very good (unable to get instant attention), so it's typical to pay an extra premium for private health insurance also. He is well compensated, and I suspect he is
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4y ago
Twitter 1.0 colluded with US Govt and FBI to push preferred narrative censoring anything they deemed unfit; see Twitter files. FB too was complicit in this practice. All US entities are collaborating with the government to push govt propag
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4y ago
The audio preference to be bluetooth audio only can be configured in the cars bluetooth connection settings, usually.
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4y ago
80% or so of their revenues are still from Google Search. The only money they have to invest is from selling out their users to the top bidder; this is not a group positioned to invest in Trustworthy AI
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4y ago
The PTO my french teams have is incredible. The taxes they have to pay (about 50%) is horrendous.
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4y ago
Ive seen so many twitter threads where SEOs are excited about the content generation opportunity. BigCos will follow suit and it'll be very hard to differentiate human generated corporate drivel from GPT powered drivel. The web will be
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4y ago
Every country’s central bank is at a different stage of CBDC adoption. You can elect to put your head in the sand pretending this isn’t happening or assess initiatives underway and policies being promoted. Some examples: >[1] Nigeria ban
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4y ago
Every central bank is working in a digital currency (CBDC); the insurance and safety will be one of the value propositions pitched by the government. CBDCs will enable governments to control money at the individual level, also, if needed.
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4y ago
They’re working on private and dedicated instances from alleged product brief leaks. Keep in mind Microsoft is also a monster in selling to enterprise, regulated industry and governments, they will have this functionality to get firms to se
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4y ago
Google Ads is too aggressive for this sort of product that requires knowledge of many things. The product is niche and would need a simple youtube video series to explain it, with a descriptive title and description text. Ideally, in the vi
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it’s more intricate than this. There is store shelf specific plans to define how inventory should be stocked at the SKU level on a given shelf. The distance between the price tags determine the actual shelf space facings usually, in additio
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> Waymo, Baidu, Mobileye and Cruise? 2 of the 4 don't have anything available for mass market, and they are money losing ventures. Mobileye is the only player that matters of the lot, given Baidu will effectively be limited to CCP f
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The market research firm that put this together is in the business of selling expensive reports and custom consulting engagements to auto manufacturers to aid with automotive strategy. They have a business interest to make lesser known firm
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4y ago
data mining. Microsoft’s bing app is ridden with ad scripts and they’re wanting to scale up rev share for Bing from media buyers
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4y ago
all those companies are part of a botnet and you should not be training their AI models with your data.
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4y ago
how do you convince clients to improve data collection?
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