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by travoc 5y ago
I’m afraid to ask why having antibodies from a previous Covid infection isn’t as good or better than taking the vaccine.
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by travoc 5y ago
It’s not.
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by travoc 5y ago
How do you think Costco gets a fresh banana from South America to your local store for 20 cents?
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by travoc 5y ago
Even cigarette companies eventually stopped targeting children for harmful products. Social media will get there some day, with enough legislation.
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by travoc 5y ago
Any time legislatures have a hard time defining the line between legal and illegal behavior, courts tend to take a “we’ll know it when we see it” approach. Justice might be served but rule of law is diminished.
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by travoc 5y ago
I worked at a company that blocked the native clients for every conference system except WebEx. The Zoom and Skype web experience was not good, particularly since all endpoints were loaded with half a dozen Infosec agents and sending all tr
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by travoc 5y ago
The sleepiness of a vaccinated Covid victim is not a scientific way to measure their risk prior to vaccination.
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by travoc 5y ago
The part where they lock you in your house to keep you from getting sick was the crowning achievement.
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by travoc 5y ago
Install AdGuard on your mobile device and the web becomes usable again.
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by travoc 5y ago
People have lost access to Gmail and Google Docs for things they’ve posted to Youtube.
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by travoc 5y ago
If Protonmail deplatforms you for something you emailed, the blast radius is contained to your email, and not your Google Drive, YouTube channel, etc.
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by travoc 5y ago
Resetting your protonmail password doesn’t seem to unencrypt your previous emails.
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by travoc 5y ago
For me, it’s mostly about keeping Google or Verizon (Yahoo) from reading all of my receipts and notification emails to build a marketing profile of my entire life.
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by travoc 5y ago
That’s why making your business completely dependent on AWS or GCP is absolutely insane.
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by travoc 5y ago
Health care consumers are absolutely free to pay providers directly even if they carry insurance coverage.
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by travoc 5y ago
There are plenty of trailer parks all over the country that will let you plop your yurt down and even plumb it in to local utilities. You may not enjoy your neighbors very much.
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by travoc 5y ago
You can use a Keepass database synced across devices with iCloud, etc. That lets you escape the Chrome spyware dependency. Keepass extensions integrate well with all browsers, even those on iOS.
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by travoc 5y ago
Being trusted to deliver counterfeit goods that are easily returned is very different from being trusted to steward one’s life savings.
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by travoc 5y ago
Banking has always been about trust… something that Amazon will never have.
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by travoc 5y ago
The Wall Street Journal published many of the slides in 3 stories this week (and I presume there are more to come.)
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by travoc 5y ago
These types of problems could be fixed by doing the three things big tech hates: 1. Hire human beings 2. Empower them to fix problems 3. Let your users talk to them
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by travoc 5y ago
You can have mine.
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by travoc 5y ago
You’d be surprised what has become popular on LinkedIn.
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by travoc 5y ago
You would really pay a 30% premium on all your digital purchases just to be warned about a subscription expiring next year? You might be an edge case.
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by travoc 5y ago
Well, if it didn’t say that on his file before the stop, it does now…
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by travoc 5y ago
Is that what’s happening? Because it seems like they’re still funding an awful lot of flops to find a couple of successes.
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by travoc 5y ago
Running sewage-contaminated water through the subways does not clean them.
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by travoc 5y ago
No, my household has shifted everything to Brave or Safari with AdGuard.
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by travoc 5y ago
How can be mobile first if they block you from using a mobile browser after the first click? Reddit employs dark patterns to force user tracking.
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by travoc 5y ago
Are you kidding? The main site renders itself completely useless within 2 clicks if you are unathenticated. Reddit has become a case study in dark patterns.

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