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by tomComb 6y ago
Google is the one company that did walk away from a billion person market - and a strong, established position in it - when asked to censor, and you want to boycott then too? It's no wonder companies don't bother doing the right t
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by tomComb 6y ago
There thing that really bugs me is that the net fees to the restaurant are usually hidden from the user, so when users who care (which I admit was probably few, until this recent wave of indignation) couldn't take this into account. I
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by tomComb 6y ago
> What if I could pay on a per-article basis? You would probably fall into the trap of picking and choosing (and paying for) the articles that say what you want, and so they would pander, and here we are. We need people to carefully choo
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by tomComb 6y ago
Sure, they were done, but not nearly as effective - hence all the effort to gather data for targeted ads. If you want completely integrated ads you'll need about twice as many to get the same revenue. And I'm not even sure what&#
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by tomComb 6y ago
Yes, "Chrome only" is bad, but the web, open standards, and open source are the solution to the problem being discussed, so putting Chrome in the same bucket as IE6 seems quite backwards to me.
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by tomComb 6y ago
I interpreter the Huawei example quite differently than you. In attacking Huawei, the U.S. is using it's tech power to further it's economic and geo-political ends. There are, of course, legit reasons to be concerned about Huawei
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by tomComb 6y ago
The new LG Gram laptops are also 16:10, and are a fraction of the weight of the XPS laptops.
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by tomComb 6y ago
> one of the biggest pain points I have seen is people not knowing where to place new pages. There is "Notion anxiety" about not wanting to mess up the board. > One thing we've done to address this is by adding two comm
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by tomComb 6y ago
Agree, except for that last part. At this stage OP won't know which backend language/tech will be best suited to whichever idea ends up taking off. So, best to just use whichever is most popular (and with the best trajectory) sinc
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by tomComb 6y ago
I don't agree - to me it seems that one can easily identify and therefor avoid clickbait without clicking on it.
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by tomComb 6y ago
Isn't it consumers who are favoring clickbait (which then drivers publishers to do the same)?
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by tomComb 7y ago
I'm puzzled by your comment. When I grab a link using their Chrome extension they don't alter it in any way. And the fact that their format is essentially markdown means that nothing is lost when you use the markdown export fea
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by tomComb 7y ago
It's worth noting that Apple News take a 50% cut of the revenue. On the web, a publisher is free to do whatever they want so when Google can insert themselves into that, it is a fraction of the cut that Apple takes. It's the sort
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by tomComb 7y ago
> I have no idea who this guy is or if his ideas are valid but Then why are you sharing/promoting his viewpoint? There are endless starting points for any debate, picking the right one is critical.
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by tomComb 7y ago
If Google didn't have a long history of this sort of thing (interpret that as you may) the open web would have lost the battle for mainstream users to the proprietary platforms long ago.
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by tomComb 7y ago
I'm not clear on how #1 is related to the SIM swapping problem. Yes, I encounter a lot of services that put way too much weight on phone number (maybe because phone number has some legal status) but not the big platforms. For Google,
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by tomComb 7y ago
If nobody bought Fitbit they were going to keep declining and then die. This way the employees keep their jobs, Fitbit can maintain our increase investment so users and competition benefit. That's what you want isn't it?
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by tomComb 7y ago
And they almost hit $52 once, but that is irrelevant now. They are in serious trouble and needed this buyout- that's why they put themselves up for sale.
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by tomComb 7y ago
Saying they rent it is almost as misleading as all the people that say they sell it. It implies that the renter gets the data and they don't and that distinction is key. But I too am not sure what the right way to describe it is. I g
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by tomComb 7y ago
As a Fitbit user I'm relieved. Fitbit was starting the death spiral and now they are purchased by a company with tons of money and a real interest in making Fitbit more successful. I think this is a save for fitbit employees and users
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by tomComb 7y ago
If you have an Android, or even want the option of an Android in the future. I wish Apple would want some of their stuff cross-platform - I don't like the all or nothing nature of the Apple ecosystem (I consider 'exclusives'
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by tomComb 7y ago
I've been getting the same impression. It's the sort of thing that can happen when a company is on hard times and cutting corners perhaps. Glad to see them purchased by a company with deep pockets and a real interest in making Fi
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by tomComb 7y ago
The other Asian countries were quite willing and ready to join with the US in action against China, eg. the TPP, but Trump seemed to have no interest in enlisting allies in this battle. Imagine how much faster this trade war would be over i
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by tomComb 7y ago
The pixel 3a is quite cheap (comparatively), fairly small, and got great reviews.
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by tomComb 7y ago
Their Node runtime (based on 8.x) is now the fastest, but I note that Node 12 includes the version of v8 that supports snapshots. Node 12 goes LTE next month and from what I understand, once snapshots could give Node another significant st
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by tomComb 7y ago
> This won't be IE versus Netscape since... Well, also since Chrome if open source, cross platform, and standards compliant, and IE was none of those. And Google (unlike Apple) allows competing browsers, based on modified Chrome cod
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by tomComb 7y ago
> "closing off what's left of the open Web." Seems a little over the top to me! Also, Mozilla is very good at standing up to Google. They beat them on webasm, rust is arguably supplanting go, and most of all, it was Mozil
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by tomComb 7y ago
He says that Steel (and some other materials) are the most important issue because we don't yet have any proven good or easy way to reduce the CO2 impact of their production. That leads me to the opposite of Gates' conclusion. At
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by tomComb 7y ago
Yes, I have allowed autoplay on the video sites, but it is now click-to-enable on all those others sites that are just using it for ads. Go to about:config in Firefox, and change "media.autoplay.allow-muted" to false. Chrome has s
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by tomComb 7y ago
I agree that that is the crux of the matter, but I'm not sure that the two sides are irreconcilable. Google and site owners want to do targeted ads. I'm not sure that users hate targeted ads specifically. I, for one, am not a si

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