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by submeta 9y ago
I know many who would have paid 10 dollars a month. Some more, some less.
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by submeta 9y ago
> Koum and Acton were openly disparaging of the targeted advertising model. In a WhatsApp blog post in 2012, they wrote that “no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorr
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by submeta 9y ago
I use bitdefender as well, but lately I started deactivating "autopilot" (auto scanning folders in the background) because it pushes my cpu usage to > 100% regularly while I am using my Mac.
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by submeta 9y ago
The problem is not only privacy and that they sell user data. There is much more that is an issue. Look at what early founders criticize (the founder of Napster is among them). This platform manipulates it's users into spending as much
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by submeta 9y ago
So did I a couple of weeks ago. And I have to say: The world did not come to an end. Since I muted most of my contacts posts and used it like a newsreader, I had to find a newsreader alternative. Feedly is a pretty good replacement so far.
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Yes, You Should Delete Facebook(medium.com)
144 points by submeta 9y ago|82 comments
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by submeta 9y ago
+1
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by submeta 9y ago
I wonder if an open source platform and protocol for messaging and contacts would have the potential to confront all the Facebooks, Whatsapps, etc I am not talking about broadcasting / sharing. Just messaging and contacts (a listing wh
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by submeta 9y ago
> D. The networks present a false sense of reality which lowers happiness. Everyone always posts their highlight reel which makes you feel like the whole world is killing it constantly and you aren't. This! I can resonate with all o
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by submeta 9y ago
My problem is not how they use / misused the data. Thats a whole different chapter. I am accusing them of having made a platform that is designed to make you come back, as often as possible. They give you the illusion of being connecte
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by submeta 9y ago
I always felt like doing this (deleting my facebook account), but fear of missing out always kept me from doing it. Whenever I seriously considered leaving the platform, I had a vague sense that I would "not belong to the herd" an
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by submeta 9y ago
Bye bye Facebook. I'm gone. Finally made it. Fear of missing out was keeping me from doing it. And for what? I was fearing to miss out on what? Being disconnected from whom? From people that I haven't met in years.
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by submeta 9y ago
Whatsapp groups? (I know Whatsapp was bought by FB)
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by submeta 9y ago
Honestly curious why Lisp has so much admiration and praise on HN. I played around with Scheme some long time ago, read SICP, learned a lot. And I know Lisp inspired many programmers like the founder of Ruby. But I would not think of Lisp w
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by submeta 9y ago
I tend to think that weight loss (or keeping your weight) works if you follow a set of rules (and form certain habits). - I lost twenty pounds some years ago by following a German author's book (which is titled "Schlank im Schlaf&
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by submeta 9y ago
> something Facebook been struggling with for a couple years is getting people to post more personal updates. This is what I perceive as well.
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Washington State bill would ban sale of devices with hard-to-replace batteries(venturebeat.com)
4 points by submeta 9y ago|0 comments
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How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs(wired.com)
2 points by submeta 9y ago|0 comments
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The joy of stats(economist.com)
2 points by submeta 9y ago|0 comments
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by submeta 9y ago
Exactly my thought. It Starts with basic principles, then shows how those principles are applied in three selected programming languages: C, Java, and then PHP?! There are a dozen alternatives that are more suitable.
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In the time you spend on social media each year, you could read 200 books(qz.com)
67 points by submeta 9y ago|22 comments
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On Jan. 1, California is basically becoming a different state(qz.com)
16 points by submeta 9y ago|14 comments
953.
by submeta 9y ago
Coinigy is not mentioned. An excellent competitor
954.
by submeta 9y ago
Haven't you ever caught yourself checking Hacker News, Facebook, any other social media site once too often?
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I realized my brain belongs to my phone(qz.com)
151 points by submeta 9y ago|85 comments
956.
by submeta 9y ago
> Make it work, then make it better (awesome for very rapid prototypes that evolve into mature products over time) This! So very true. Or as Donald Knuth says: `Premature optimization is the source of all evil.‘
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by submeta 9y ago
> hardware also seems to reach a point of just being good enough Good enough. That's the key. I too didn't replace my 6s Plus. Because it does all the things I need. And runs all the apps I use (Evernote, browser, photos, many
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Apple will reportedly unify iOS and macOS apps in 2018(venturebeat.com)
3 points by submeta 9y ago|0 comments
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What zero-knowledge proofs will do for blockchain(venturebeat.com)
3 points by submeta 9y ago|0 comments
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by submeta 9y ago
Can't help but think of: "The grass is greener on the other side of the fence."

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