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by shopkins 9y ago
Sure. I was using the term colloquially, as I think the author was.
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by shopkins 9y ago
The "wild environments" offer concrete examples of the benefits of solitude. They're reduced anxiety, not being on pills, boosts to your the immune system, etc. Solitude generally accompanies the wilderness, and wilderness is
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by shopkins 10y ago
Absolutely, competition will protect the consumer best. But we need that competition first :) In the meantime, it seems logical to take some steps to limit the damage that our currently monopolistic telcos can do and give someone power
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Comcast-Funded Civil Rights Groups Claim Low-Income People Want Ads Over Privacy(theintercept.com)
167 points by shopkins 10y ago|70 comments
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by shopkins 10y ago
> Furthermore, this bill seems like a minor nuisance compared to the data collected by Facebook, Google, and the NSA. This is the bullshit argument Republicans/ISPs are pushing that anyone technical should immediately realize as suc
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by shopkins 10y ago
Yeah I thought that was weird too. This is important! But not enough for me to make time for it! Everyone needs to take action, even if it's the smallest possible action. Take a minute to donate to the EFF or tweet about the issue, o
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by shopkins 10y ago
Nice. Similar to https://telegra.ph , https://write.as , and https://bold.io .
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by shopkins 10y ago
You're right it'd be sad. But if you climb a tree, you're not gonna reach out to the moon; you're going to be a little out of breath from climbing, and notice your lungs. You'll have put your arms and legs to use. Y
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by shopkins 10y ago
All these tools are basically improved pastebins, or a "lighter Medium". But it's nice having choice with all these new ones popping up.
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Write freely – tools for anonymous publishing(writefree.ly)
3 points by shopkins 10y ago|1 comments
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by shopkins 10y ago
Are they not "poised" to get new powers?
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by shopkins 10y ago
Most traffic will let you be consistent, even if it's at 2 MPH :)
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by shopkins 10y ago
I think if it's annoying, you're not driving in traffic the right way. Sure, it's annoying for aggressive stop-and-go driving, but if you maintain a consistent speed with the traffic in front of you (see traffic shockwaves [0
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by shopkins 10y ago
Not only that, but it's safe to say Apple isn't a tech company anymore. They're a luxury brand selling luxury products -- evidenced merely in how they spend all their time talking about how the thing looks instead of how po
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by shopkins 10y ago
That's not the point either. The point is that if I asked you, a human, "Who is Tim Cook" and you replied "123-555-1212" or "tim@apple.com" I would be a little dumbfounded. If I'm asking the question
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by shopkins 10y ago
You can easily blacklist JS on certain sites in Chrome.
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by shopkins 10y ago
It's not the profits , but the practices that generate those profits, which people consider evil.
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by shopkins 10y ago
Come on, the stickers alone are worth an OS upgrade! /s
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Identities(write.as)
4 points by shopkins 10y ago|0 comments
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by shopkins 10y ago
> swipe conversation left iOS's heavy reliance on this gesture is a great example of how bad it's gotten. Unlike drawers, which usually have some kind of pullable tab, or reorderable items in a list, which have little icons ind
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by shopkins 10y ago
> "Mouse-over" for more info is not meaningful for touchscreens. So icons can't have explanations. One might argue that the icons should explain themselves. > Whatever happened to Google's "material design&quo
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by shopkins 10y ago
I don't think there's any "effective" advertising as utilities. Where do they say you can store email with them in perpetuity? One of the biggest problems, I think, is user education: the average user sees these widely-a
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by shopkins 10y ago
I take the same policy, especially after moving to the city I'm in now, where I encounter a lot of panhandling. It started one night when I was beginning to tell one guy who approached me, "No I don't have any--" he inte
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by shopkins 10y ago
As an alternative to #7, you can also like and fill in as much as possible , as a kind of obfuscation. Among my other exploits (according to FB), I've lived in Alert, Nunavut and Istanbul, was divorced twice before age 16, and overcam
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What Makes You Different?(shopkins.writeas.com)
5 points by shopkins 10y ago|0 comments
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by shopkins 10y ago
> I wonder how long that will last until people start moving away from the platform. I think we'll need a solid alternative first. What would people want in the "next Facebook" anyway? Easy contact with every old classmate
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by shopkins 10y ago
Ah, I guess that's part of it. I was thinking of the more general perspective, i.e. "Anyone can make it with a little hard work and determination."
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by shopkins 10y ago
What was the old American Dream, if not exactly that?
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by shopkins 10y ago
Very cool, but the experience was ruined when I was testing a game I made and was interrupted by a lightbox saying "Seems like you have done a nice game! If you want to continue making awesome games and saving them, you should register
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by shopkins 10y ago
Right, this is fixed now. New entries shouldn't have this problem.

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