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by smartician 5y ago
I don't quite understand how a settlement in a bankruptcy case can include an immunity provision against future criminal charges. What is the mechanism for that?
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by smartician 5y ago
Even though I'm not a blockchain expert, I'm a bit surprised by the other responses. AFAIK, when a node finds a new block, it announces that to its peers and starts working on finding the next block. No explicit acknowledgment fro
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by smartician 5y ago
Greenwald has been shilling for Russia for years now, so it's not a stretch that this would extend to Belarus as well?
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by smartician 6y ago
Sounds like you have a different idea of what "getting along" means?
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by smartician 6y ago
The conspiracy is now so wide-spread that almost everybody is part of it. I call it "reality".
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by smartician 6y ago
It's almost comical how you go from "it doesn't matter what the scale of the irregularities is, fraud is fraud" to "you have to qualify the scale of the insurrection, only a few were armed" in the same post. If
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by smartician 6y ago
When I left Germany in 2007, I was making 52000 Euro per year. Crazy to hear that salaries remained practically flat. When I went to Silicon Valley, my pay practically doubled overnight, and now 13 years later I make 10x as much (and my job
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by smartician 6y ago
I read through the original complaint[1] and had a few observations that made me scratch my head. 1. All other browsers' private/incognito modes behave the same. Then why do they expect Chrome to behave differently? Is the complai
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by smartician 6y ago
Can you define "tracking"?
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by smartician 6y ago
My guess is that it was used as a paid ad in other YouTube videos. Channels will often do that quickly accumulate view count, which would help in organic rankings as well. In this case, it doesn't seem to have worked very well. Maybe i
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by smartician 6y ago
For some reason there is a subculture within Google where employees act antagonistic towards their employer and go all Pikachu-faced when they're then terminated. Then they speak out and claim they were retaliated against, whereas peop
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by smartician 6y ago
The article doesn't mention anything about mobile devices though?
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by smartician 6y ago
But in order for Google to catch people spying on other people by viewing their calendars, Google would have to surveil the activity of the people doing the spying. Maybe that's what the headline is referring to, but the article doesn&
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by smartician 6y ago
I thought this was about the 1985 RPG of the same name. The amazing Rob Hubbard soundtrack immediately played in my head when I clicked through, only to find screenshots of a completely unfamiliar game. It took me almost half an hour to fig
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by smartician 6y ago
My understanding is that you will owe taxes on all 10,000 shares, since you were in CA when they were granted. Vesting dates don't matter.
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by smartician 6y ago
Multiple reasons come to mind. 1. Germany doesn't have TLDs like ".edu", and it became a de-facto standard to construct higher education domains by abbreviation of type of school and location: www.[uni|fh|...]-[location].de 2
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by smartician 7y ago
Foxconn was promised tax credits, with the requirement that they meet certain job creation and investment targets. Tax credits lower your tax owed dollar for dollar. What happens when the credits exceed the taxes due? I looked it up: The co
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by smartician 7y ago
Bingo. "Travel-related activities of e-bikers who switched from cycling decreased by around 200 MET min/wk., while those switching from private motorized vehicle and public transport gained around 550 and 800 MET min/wk. resp
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by smartician 7y ago
Type `about:config` in the address bar. Search for `allow-muted`, set that to false. If that still doesn't work, check other related autoplay settings, like `media.autoplay.ask-permission`.
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by smartician 8y ago
Usually ad blockers work by maintaining a blacklist of known ad server hosts and/or IP addresses, and simply block any requests to these. With AMP though, any content (even ads) is funneled through a proxy CDN (the AMP cache), so ads a
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by smartician 8y ago
What's unclear about this? You are publicly distributing intellectual property you have no rights over, and the owner is asking you to cease and desist. It doesn't matter how many people actually access it, that's not a valid
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by smartician 8y ago
We have run into the same issue before. Many third party services like Optimizely for example just stuff all their tracking information into a cookie, serialized as JSON, which you as the site owner don't really have much control over.
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by smartician 8y ago
Ditto, Mint and Personal Finance is good enough.
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by smartician 8y ago
I agree. It also taught me a valuable (and fairly cheap) lesson on not relying on a single source of revenue.
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by smartician 8y ago
Good catch! From the agreement document: "“Class Representative(s)” means each and all of the named Plaintiffs in this Action: Free Range Content, Inc., Coconut Island Software, Inc., Taylor Chose, and Matthew Simpson" So that cla
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by smartician 8y ago
Yes: "... Payments to each of the Class Representatives, not to exceed $5,000 each, as compensation for their active participation in the case on behalf of the Settlement Class ..." EDIT: see below for correction
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by smartician 8y ago
11 million is a joke really. I only lost about $250, but it pretty much killed off an otherwise promising potential startup.
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by smartician 8y ago
What's even worse is that they won't tell you what you allegedly did wrong. You can appeal, but you have to guess what you did wrong and provide evidence, but you can't even access your click data anymore since you're no
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by smartician 8y ago
It's about as exciting as having sent in your resume and hearing back from them. So not nothing, but don't picture yourself getting chair massages while sipping draft kombucha just yet.
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$11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts(adsensepublishersettlement.com)
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