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by skizm 7y ago
Did you just learn this term from today's xkcd? Because I did.
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by skizm 7y ago
How has no one used this for ads yet? You could make any third party site appear as a first party site. As blockers usually aren’t set up to block first party ads.
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by skizm 7y ago
The square bracket buttons seem like fairly fundamental characters to relegate to very non-clear three-button shortcut that isn't even labeled on a keyboard. I also don't see curly braces? Seems like an impractical keyboard layout
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by skizm 7y ago
Fair point.
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by skizm 7y ago
One specific thing that bothers me is that Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE with Windows, but apple doesn't get in trouble when they block all browser apps that don't use Safari under the hood. How is this different? I wan
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by skizm 7y ago
That condition is only met if you send N requests to N routers. If you send 1,000,000*N requests to N routers, they will almost always be evenly distributed.
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by skizm 7y ago
A cold show temporarily jacks your heart rate up just enough to get you out the door. It doesn’t make people less sick, just less likely to take a sick day. The article even says subjects that were sick just felt slightly more energetic and
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by skizm 7y ago
How does this law allow for taking pictures in or of public spaces? Are you just now allowed to use facial recognition tech on personal photos of public places? How does Facebook get around this? Or do they just ignore the law?
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by skizm 7y ago
As a private citizen, would I be allowed to set up a camera on my front porch, point it at the sidewalk, and store all the data it takes in, including counts of how many times each "unique" person walks by, etc. Maybe even link it
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by skizm 7y ago
I agree with most of your points, but I think the root of this problem is that most people will literally take out as much money as banks will approve them for. Once they lock in their mortgage and home, they'll fight for laws that kee
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by skizm 7y ago
Small note: free to play till launch. I don't think you get them forever. That said, they're great games and playing them only makes me sad they never made a true HL3.
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by skizm 7y ago
At one point I thought like this too, but then realized I also like to archive everything in case something jogs my memory and I want to go back and search the blob of "links that piqued my interest". So now I bookmark/save(r
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by skizm 7y ago
This is literally the Hogwarts houses right down to the colors matching...
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by skizm 7y ago
True, I guess I'm just worried it might hit my neighbors unsecured wifi or somerthing. I live in an apartment complex so it is tough to monitor all the connections all the time since people move in and out.
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by skizm 7y ago
I think you're right. Dell actually has a few "conference room monitors", which come close. There is a 55 inch version for $850, and a 70 inch version for $3,000. I've considered the 55 inch version, but it is just a bit
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by skizm 7y ago
Anyone have a recommendation for high quality 4k dumb TVs that are truly offline? I have a media center PC I plug into my TV and don't want or need any of the "apps" or "homescreens", just give me a few inputs to HD
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by skizm 7y ago
Private communities promote bubbles where people become entrenched in their preconceived beliefs. Much like genetics, you need variety, and the strongest beliefs/traits will survive in the long run. I think a healthy mix of public and
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by skizm 7y ago
How would you make a "sword" stop mid-air? A companion sword-fighting robot that mimics the movements of the enemy you're seeing? I'm not saying never, just without nano-bots and a fully mutable IRL environment to go wit
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by skizm 7y ago
The article does say Google risked all their China money at one point to stay true to their "don't be evil" mantra. They turned heel only recently. I'd say they genuinely believed and practiced it for a while, but once t
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by skizm 7y ago
I wanted to point to Etsy, since they were a b-corp, meaning they were held to higher "social and environmental standards" than a typical company, but I just Google'd them to see how their stock is doing and it looks like the
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by skizm 7y ago
Haptic feedback might have been the wrong phrase. I meant that there is a lack of literally anything physical to interact with despite your eyes constantly telling you otherwise. You can’t rest your arm on a table, put your hand on a wall,
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by skizm 7y ago
VR is the uncanny valley of immersion. Visually everything works so well that you are constantly jarred back to reality every time you try and interact with something. Traditional games work well because they require minimal movement to get
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by skizm 7y ago
I meant more like swinging a sword will never meet another sword. Punching someone in the face will never hurt your hand, etc. and then when you swing through air as your in-game hand stops, it feels kinda lame.
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by skizm 7y ago
VR won’t ever be more than niche because there is no way to fake tactile feedback or motion. Games need to design around this. Beat Sanger is the best selling VR game because your character doesn’t move and there is nothing to touch. God ga
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by skizm 7y ago
One of the comments on the page points out this: > Hong Kong life expectancy: Hong Kong is a city with no rural area. If you look at the life expectancy of just Sydney, leaving out the rest of Australia you get 86.7 years instead of 82.5
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by skizm 7y ago
The pros you sort of shove into the ear canal and they're more or less wedged in place, right? Same with other earbuds like jaybirds. They're very different design than the normal airpods in that sense which I could totally see fa
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by skizm 7y ago
Like the author said, Google put their money where there mouth was on several occasions regarding China. They simply started ignoring Chinese government requests to sensor things and put billions of dollars at risk in an attempt to not be e
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by skizm 7y ago
If you're against drug legalization, this is like hearing "allowing people to steal whatever they want is causing less murder". Allowing everyone to do bad things, in order to slightly reduce the number of really bad things i
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by skizm 7y ago
An actual argument I've heard from TurboTax shills is that tons of people underpay taxes now with the self report system, and having the government pre-fill forms for you to rubber stamp would effectively increase taxes on the working
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by skizm 7y ago
> I definitely was missing out on a lot of unique interactions by wearing headphones everywhere I went. As someone who works in a big city, this is why I wear my headphones everywhere. I am usually not even listening to anything, I just

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