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by spinach 8y ago
Which is being driven by the concentration of powerful computers, where the likes of Google, Facebook, etc, rise to the top quickly and have a lot of power, while using the data of it's users. Even though the users provide data for the
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by spinach 8y ago
Why are you blaming women exactly? Japanese men seem afraid of women in general and have a need to infantalize them so they can consume them. There is a big culture of illustrated child porn there, it's out in the open, everywhere and
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by spinach 8y ago
I don't think it's about control as it is about conceit. I don't think human conceit can be underestimated. This really became clear to me from reading The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Humans want to believe everything is cre
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by spinach 8y ago
It's interesting that even companies that have a clear paid service do this too. Companies like Google, Facebook and all sorts of free apps, rely on their shady back-end manipulation/ads because their service is free, but that eve
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by spinach 8y ago
Because of the stamps - they can relate them to texts to figure out when those administrations were in power.
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by spinach 8y ago
I was curious about that so I followed through the link and saw there was a jump down of a million, and upon googling it, it seems that Google did a purge this spring. It doesn't have to do with users or developers but just Google doin
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by spinach 8y ago
Apple has been aiming for the mass market though, even if at the slightly pricier end of it. How exactly have they not been? Though it does seem from here on out, they might try to shrink their market and focus more on luxury products.
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by spinach 8y ago
That begs the question then, what happens to these early-20s geniuses once they are late 20s/30s?
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by spinach 8y ago
China is secular, for them it's about the 'power of the people' and community.
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Except that your friends, family, and others can upload private photos with you in them.
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by spinach 8y ago
They need to be protected somehow. Doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.
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by spinach 8y ago
Read the article? "Analysts pointed to two major reasons for the increase: A growing number of Americans are using opioids, and drugs are becoming more deadly. It is the second factor that most likely explains the bulk of the increased
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by spinach 8y ago
Is 5 years really that amazing? I had 7-8 years on an Asus laptop I just recently replaced that I traveled with and used all the time.
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by spinach 8y ago
At your first point, this is really only true for celebs like Paris Hilton who make their money through appearances and are famous for being famous, but a lot of celebrities have paparazzis following them around all day, everyday and certai
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by spinach 8y ago
"To advance this perspective, millions of people around the world practice yoga and meditation." I don't think this is true though. I don't think most people who aren't Buddhist do Yoga for renouncing the material w
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by spinach 9y ago
I doubt this would replace swooning over boy band photos though, that will happen in parallel. Just like a similar thing for boys wouldn't replace porn, right?