theanarcrist

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Meta’s Threads Didn’t Launch in the EU: Is That Showing the Failure or Success?(techdirt.com)
2 points by theanarcrist 3y ago|0 comments
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by theanarcrist 4y ago
My current theory on this, particularly for Google, is they're just taking advantage of the macroeconomic moment to cut some fat. Slowing growth or outright letting people go is a no-go in times of macroeconomic growth. Big companies,
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Everything Is an Ad Network(mobiledevmemo.com)
4 points by theanarcrist 5y ago|0 comments
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I Look for Aliens for a Living, and No, I Don’t Study UFOs(slate.com)
2 points by theanarcrist 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple-Facebook privacy battle making life difficult for small businesses(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by theanarcrist 6y ago|0 comments
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by theanarcrist 6y ago
I agree and find the attempt at a breakup a bit frustrating. This is an action that could have profoundly disruptive effect and it's not really clear what the positives or negatives would be. For instance, FB has invested massively i
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by theanarcrist 6y ago
I suspect part of the motivation is to scoop the reporter's own story as a passive aggressive reprisal. It also serves to reduce the chance of future reporters on negative topics to talk directly to Coinbase since they've already
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by theanarcrist 7y ago
I believe this is the article that they're referring to: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/07/10/google-employees-are... Basically after listening to a bunch of audio, the reporters found some
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Arctic Cauldron: Across the Arctic, lakes are leaking dangerous greenhouse gases(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by theanarcrist 8y ago|0 comments
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How deep learning helps understand physician specialties from insurance claims(amino.com)
1 points by theanarcrist 9y ago|0 comments
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by theanarcrist 12y ago
I take issue with the idea of "giving bicyclists any special treatment above the behavior of cars." Bicycles are not cars and treating them as such creates perverse incentives that make both biking and driving more inconvenient a
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Qi: An interesting Lisp with pattern matching (lambdassociates.org)
9 points by theanarcrist 19y ago|2 comments