sfvegandude

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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Spark was free before this. Users can continue to use the free version (and existing customers will keep all the features they’ve had).
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Unfortunate that people who make more than $100/hr won't pay $60/year for an app they use every day.
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
So pre-record the instructions for taking the medicine in English / Spanish / Mandarin etc, stick ‘em in one of those booths like they have at the porn store and call it a day.
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3565754-boycottwalgree...
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
>"This will end covid by making sure nobody gets sick" I honestly don't remember ever having that impression. Could you point me to some old headlines that were around at the time that gave that impression?
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
If this were the case, it would be a huge lawsuit, given they state the opposite: You can turn off Personalized Ads on your iOS or iPadOS device by going to Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising and tapping to turn off
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
The be precise: Apple’s advertising platform does not track you, meaning that it does not link user or device data collected from our apps with user or device data collected from third parties for targeted advertising or advertising measure
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Infinite Jest vibes
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Apple has an ad platform. Do they use this?
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Amazon has spent the last decade or so perfecting employee surveillance, and now home surveillance. They don't need people to be onsite anymore because they can just watch people at home.
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Do you think human preference is influenced by cultural upbringing? For example, if you grew up only seeing one race, would that influence your perception of other races as attractive?
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Dom/Sub?
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
I'm interested to know how the study determined that Black users were ignored specifically for being Black. In my experience, the default behavior for getting a message from someone you're not interested in -- for whatever reason
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
>I don’t think it’s wrong to allow people to take risks if they know what they are getting into. At the same time, there’s a point where it doesn’t make sense for the state to socialize the cost of rescuing / protecting people who c
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Google Maps and Google Assistant could work with that data and Google could also choose not to be surveillance capitalist robber barons.
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
It doesn’t matter. When we talk about “having access to user data,” we’re talking about a humans being able to look at, I.e, the user logs of a former lover and doing something bad with it. But that’s not the real danger of Google having th
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Okay, does hibernation work? How about palm rejection on the track pad? Hi-Dpi fractional scaling? Do I need to read hostile *nix forums to find the right incantation to make Wi-fi work?
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
It’s not really possible to say precisely why the stock went down beyond “a certain % of shareholders now believe that the price today is better than it will be whenever they originally intended to sell it.”
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
As a PM —- you know the guy who is filling your calendar up with meetings and preventing you from doing the real work —- I love this. Please send us and others signals. Be brutal and direct. “This meeting doesn’t have an agenda, so I won’t
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with debt. It just needs to be handled (regulated) appropriately -- no easy task, to be sure -- but consider that debt is traditionally what has enabled people with good ideas to make big bets that p
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
I’m seriously tempted by this. I’m not a chrome user today; I have heard that when MV3 comes out, I won’t be able to use adblockers in Chrome. Is that right?
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Performance isn’t static. Hiring is hard. Organizational priorities shift, people lose interest, etc. It’s often better for both parities if one just moves on.
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
I also like it, and believe that Meta’s way of going about this is more humane than keeping people on who aren’t performing. We are not talking about underpaid wage slaves here. These are professionals who deserve honest feedback about thei
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
What is the negative impact to users of the hardware DRM? I am only familiar with a dialogue box that warns users that a specific part might not be authentic. I have also read about issues with those parts not performing correctly with soft
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Apple started offering home repair kits for iPhone this year, but they’re super difficult to use: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/personaltech/a ... There’s speculation that offering th
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Many think the deadly seven are recorded in the Bible. Even though each of the seven is a sin, this list is not contained in Scripture. The history of this sin categorization began in the year 400. Evagrius Ponticus, a fourth-century monk,
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
If I were shelling out $75k for 3 inches it wouldn’t be for my height
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
Not to the country you’re visiting. I had to attest to the German government that I would not send any emails or write any reports on my recent work trip there. Else, I needed a work permit.
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
IT is easier when everyone is in the same place - for example, fixing a person’s work laptop or updating software. Workers compensation is easier to manage, for example if someone is injured on the job. Finally, as much as the knowledge cla
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by sfvegandude 4y ago
>If you are going to attend a funeral […] and hour abuse or hold up signs with obscenities, you will be arrested. It’s a shame that the UK doesn’t have robust protections for free speech. In the US, you certainly will not be arrested for

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