randomb_1979

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by randomb_1979 7y ago
"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
>>I am more than happy to leave their shitty website and never come back. Unfortunately, if this is actually true, then you are the exception which proves the rule. That's precisely why I call these people "freeloaders"
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
Too bad there is no way to make a blocklist to block all freeloaders from visiting websites. The person who actually owns anything at all (the website owner) is somehow expected to give everything for free to someone who doesn't own an
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
Governments around the world should demand Facebook either place a permanent ad banner promoting WT:Social front and center on their website for everyone from that country, or they can pay $x00 million in fines per month. If Facebook choose
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
Given how far computer vision has advanced nowadays, I would be interested to know if anyone has done an analysis of the frequency and delta of over-speeding vs the make of the car as a (not so great) proxy for how rich a person is. That mi
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
But I would still endorse Apple over Microsoft until MS shows that it cares about user privacy by publicly distancing themselves from Facebook. Plus, Apple stuff just works. You still end up being an unpaid IT support for MSFT when you buy
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
I would be much more interested in email leaks about the "friendly fraud" case [1], because I think Facebook actually broke the law on that one. [1] https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
The key word, of course, is "often" and not "always". How would you know the difference?
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
I have never seen a comment which is so ignorant of Facebook's past behavior. Are you aware that Facebook at one point unilaterally decided to allow people to see and comment on photos of friends of friends (i.e. 2nd degree connections
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
>>I don't know what goes into running this site, but personally, if I know I'm guaranteed to get a totally one-sided take, I'd rather have the one from the people who actually know how to code. In other words, if you do
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by randomb_1979 7y ago
>> "It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster." Funny, that's exactly what it has looked