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by ta1243 2y ago
With their specific app? In the last 2 weeks I've used the Uber app in Washington, New York, Miami and Stoke (UK). One app, 4 cities, 2 continents.
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by ta1243 2y ago
My understanding in the US is you can simply walk away from a house in negative equity and not lose anything? In the UK, if you owe 200k, the bank takes over your house, sells it for say 150k and has 20k of costs you still owe them 70k, and
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by ta1243 2y ago
Sure, but how does serving me a 15 minute video help their bank account? If it were a youtube style video advert I could understand it.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Assuming you're not on an adblocker, what's really odd is every page has a video about the subject. Not an advert, just a video that you aren't interested in. I don't get it. If I'm looking up a specific year in the
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by ta1243 2y ago
I used to buy a magazine called "Computer Shopper", which I heard about via word of mouth. Even now I will go out of my way to watch adverts for things like films I might be interested in. Need to be careful with word of mouth tho
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by ta1243 2y ago
If ads were to benefit the customer, then they would be opt-in
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by ta1243 2y ago
Very few of that is free. openstreetmap - that's free. Google maps is an advertising and data mining platform.
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by ta1243 2y ago
About 20 years ago it wasn't, and Google's pagerank stuff was revolutionary and potentially nobel prize worthy (no idea, I'm not a scientist)
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by ta1243 2y ago
Yes. If a large company didn't employ those researchers, someone else would, and if they were for someone else maybe they'll come up with something which could damage the large company. It's not about building and owning the
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by ta1243 2y ago
Youtube videos still come with adverts, just not the google ones.
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by ta1243 2y ago
The adverts were better too. When I'm seaching for "vacuum cleaner reviews", there are adverts for vacuum cleaners. After I make my decision and buy one (online, or in person), I no longer search for "vacuum cleaner revi
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by ta1243 2y ago
But Google the company is an advertising company, regardless of what they use to spread those adverts. Weird to say it's not.
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by ta1243 2y ago
This is a great way to see the news -- 15kBytes to load https://lite.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/hurricane-milt... Loading the equivalent "full" browser is 1,000 times that size, and that's wit
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NBC News Lite Version(lite.nbcnews.com)
2 points by ta1243 2y ago|2 comments
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by ta1243 2y ago
The goal of almost all search engines is to direct people to adverts, not to give them the results. Even when you do get the results your after, and get sent to the page you want, the goal of that page is to serve you adverts, not to give y
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by ta1243 2y ago
Google doesn't really sell products though, not to businesses. It sells individual data to businesses, it sells advertising to businesses. The only thing the government will be interested in is the spying which they aren't allowed
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by ta1243 2y ago
Ahh, comes with an xfce edition, great. I moved from blackbox to xfce about the time I moved from a desktop to a laptop, mainly for things like access to wireless etc, I don't see a particular need to move again, will try to remember i
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by ta1243 2y ago
I've run ubuntu for most of the last 20 years and my desktop has barely changed. It was excellent in 2006, it is excellent now. It gets out of my way and doesn't change from one year to the next (or if there are changes they are s
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by ta1243 2y ago
Your inlaws can presumably print from their phone, using MDNS to find local printers, and sending the traffic direct to the printer. They can presumably also do airplay operating in exactly the same way. They don't need to know terms l
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by ta1243 2y ago
It can talk to the ntp server the network dhcp server gives out. If the dhcp doesn't give an NTP server then sure, try to talk to one (which should be configurable form the onboard webserver)
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by ta1243 2y ago
Sibling comment says windows 10 is the new windows 7. Presumably people will be saying "you can take windows 10 from my cold dead hands" in the future, just like people said it about 7 and XP
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by ta1243 2y ago
Was it? I remember people saying the same about 2000 and XP. I don't really know, haven't really admined windows since 98 or used it since XP Will people be saying the same about windows 10 in 10 years time?
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by ta1243 2y ago
OK, I was going for value to the customer. Obviously selling your data to the highest bidder is a given nowadays.
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by ta1243 2y ago
So expose this on an webserver on the device itself, advertise it via mdns, have the app talk to it directly from the same network, or via a custom IP for people with more complex needs.
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by ta1243 2y ago
I got an uber the other day, had to wait 5 minutes for it. There were some taxis sat outside the station, but I chose uber because 1) I know it will take card. Last time I took a taxi the "card machine was broken" and "I&#x27
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by ta1243 2y ago
We have the economy to get the maximum output for the minimum input Having 100 people working doing something that could be automated is bad for mankind. It's a total waste. Might as well have them digging a hole then filling it back i
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by ta1243 2y ago
I don't do much "smart home" stuff, but could someone explain the value of allowing your vacuum cleaner talk to the internet? Does it use cloud resources to process stuff remotely like I believe Alexa does?
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by ta1243 2y ago
I remember reading "One Day", quite a long way through the book. I was sat in economy on an Emirates flight back from Islamabad, it was 4th November 2010, and it hit my like a truck when I got to that bit. Might not be a "g
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by ta1243 2y ago
Cost benefit ratio would be very low
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by ta1243 2y ago
Is life not as valuable in the US? Or are there fewer crashes?

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