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They live in the pages of an economics textbook, blissfully untethered from reality.
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Advertisers have 2 options for who to place ads with: Google and Facebook. When you have a monopoly, the customer has to take what it can get. Facebook has overstated its views and clicks for years to charge advertisers more, and faced no c
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"Democratic People's Republic of America"
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It's not about owning the data, it's about controlling the message.
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In America, winning the most votes doesn't guarantee the power to form national government. There is no limit on opaque corporate donations, which can be masked via PACs, while individual citizens have strict limits and face jail time
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I was somewhat shocked when I saw that BL3, a 2019 game, barely even booted on my 2015 gaming desktop. BL1 and 2 were playable on my dirt cheap Dell Vostro laptop with integrated graphics, 4GB RAM and a low power Core i3 processor. I thoug
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They're about as likely to disclose that as law enforcement would let someone know that a judge has signed a wiretap warrant for their phone.
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> clearly the wider public is moving towards REAL identification to be online. No they're not. Nobody voted for that. It is simply being imposed on people via government mandates.
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That's how new car purchases work in the US too. Unless you pay cash, which few people do, the car belongs to whichever entity granted the loan to purchase it.
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Covid constrained the supply of new cars, leading used car prices to skyrocket. It's not easy for the average person to evaluate whether a used car from a private seller is in good condition. A Carfax report is thin on details other th
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That covers 90% of the use cases people purchase computers for. Everything else can be handled on a phone or tablet.
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VR has its gaming niche and thankfully doesn't insist on itself. Apple abandoned it fast and Zuckerberg eventually stopped embarrassing himself by trying to make Metaverse a crypto-powered Epstein island.
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Minesweeper, Solitaire and 3D Space Pinball are remembered fondly because they were entertaining and stayed out of the way. Copilot is the opposite of that. I don't need to see a Copilot prompt to "clean up my data" when I op
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I recently bought a mini laptop with an Intel N100 chip that came with W11 pre-installed. My work PC is running some enterprise LTS version of Windows 10, which feels barely any different from Windows from the past 15 years or so. Imagine m
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What third party app are you running offline? By third party I mean something not built into the OS like a notes app, file manager or camera app.
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> Meta relied heavily on selling personalized advertising, which required it to be able to target particular demographics and interest groups. This was achieved by tracking individual users across different apps. Yet another reason to du
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How is this any different from the effect shown in this Codepen? https://codepen.io/GreggOD/pen/xLbboZ
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> It’s astonishing how marginal the Microsoft Store is on Windows. That's good, there's a 30 year legacy of Windows software being downloadable online through a website and people clicking setup.exe to get it done. The App Stor
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Apple doesn't care. The iOS app store is just as full of crummy shovelware and ads. They are a "software and services" company after all. The embarassment should be felt by the commentariat that rushes to defend Apple'
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"Austerity" lays the political groundwork for tax cuts for the rich. Austerity never affects military or police budgets though, we're happy to increase the debt to finance those.
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Privacy respecting ads are those on TV and printed newspapers. Targeted ads are where the money has been for a quarter of a century.
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> However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a bit ugly. No it isn't. Free websites exist: Wordpress, Blogger, Wix, Weebly etc. The only "ad&quot
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That wasn't done as a play for venture capital. The Google Books project began before eBooks existed; in the 2000s, they spent money on all kinds of projects that had no real strategy for monetization. I remember Google Books being a v
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Up next: rebranding Basic Training to "Alpha Male Bootcamp of Virility", brought to you by UFC and Bluechew.
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> Buying used copies of books, scanning them, and training on it is fine. But nobody was ever going to that, not when there are billions in VC dollars at stake for whoever moves fastest. Everybody will simply risk the fine, which tends t
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The rich in America make their money through stock market pumps and dumps. Just keep the minimum wage frozen and the tax cuts coming and they won't say a word. As long as the Federal Reserve and the Bureau of Labour Statistics keep say
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That goodwill is almost entirely due to the US' need to rebuild the Japanese economy rapidly to counter threats from China, North Korea and the Soviet Union. That happened through favourable trade deals and mass outsourcing of automoti
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I don't think touching cash is any more disgusting than opening a door at a public business, holding a rail on a subway or holding the gas nozzle while refilling a car. I find cash to be easier to budget with for discretionary expenses
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This is definitely what consumers think about when making a ourchasing decision. You can't go more than a couple of miles in a populated area without seeing a gas station. Charger stations on the other hand are few and far in between,
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What else could they have been? Microsoft didn't give them $10bn to build out their B2C homework autocomplete service.

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