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by unfunco 10y ago
When I was about seven years old my grandfather took me to a Sunday market and bought me Blazing Saddles on VHS, it was the first time I understood what comedy was (at seven, my laughter mainly came from watching the campfire-farting scene)
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by unfunco 10y ago
The article links to a story about Free Basics, specifically the sentence: And the whole thrust of his company’s strategy is to persuade billions of future users that Facebook is the only bit of the internet they really need. I think
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by unfunco 10y ago
> The biggest factor is that we have recurring costs: the sync server and the licensing fees for Ideal Sans, Vesper’s typeface. We’re losing money every month. The costs of running the server I can understand, but if the app had value th
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Metrics(economist.com)
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by unfunco 10y ago
Trump is being forced to U-turn on his beliefs because he wants to win, given four years in office he's not required to U-turn on anything, he's already in office. Disguising incompetence as some new form of democracy is dangerous
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by unfunco 10y ago
Command + Tilde. ⌘ + ~
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by unfunco 10y ago
The quote: > The BEST way to get famous is make amazing stuff. That’s it. Not blogging, networking, etc. That reads like making a product was never the goal, his goal is attention, I don't think I know one programmer that's pro
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by unfunco 10y ago
One is an advertising company and the other also has an advertising division, your data is used to target those advertisements, they're both absolutely selling your data.
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If that's what they're trying to do, then they're doing it badly.
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129.9% secure.
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34 comments so far, some of us find it interesting.
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I don't think they are, as mentioned, Australia doesn't have the equivalent of a National Security Letter. FastMail has a very short and very easy to understand privacy policy: https://www.fastmail.com/about/p
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Unsurprisingly, Amazon can probably help you there too. The Kindle is an excellent device for reading.
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SoundCloud for sale for $1B say reports(idmmag.com)
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I actually agree, I (maybe consciously, maybe subconsciously) choose to read the news from the left, since the United Kingdom doesn't really have balanced news. The BBC, for example, might as well be the official state outlet of the Co
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by unfunco 10y ago
Farming is heavily subsidised by the EU though, only this morning the Independent was reporting that farmers are now regretting the decision since their funding could be lost, and that they voted leave because they didn't understand th
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She also said "Brexit means brexit." Roughly translated to: "an undefined portmanteau means an undefined portmanteau."
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I voted to remain, I believe that being in the EU is beneficial to the United Kingdom. This article, however, at the very beginning suggests: > Britain has been a powerhouse of discovery since the age of science began. Newton, Darwin, Cr
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Federal judge rips Uber apart over dirt-digging investigation(theintercept.com)
60 points by unfunco 10y ago|31 comments
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Google, Yahoo, Verizon, Marissa Mayer, all spring to mind.
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by unfunco 10y ago
My gosh, that is terrifying.
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by unfunco 10y ago
Billboards don't reach into my pocket and try to steal my identification, nor do they spontaneously come-alive and follow me around the city in which I saw the billboard. My TV also knows very little about me.
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by unfunco 10y ago
The title of the article itself is clickbait, and the article underneath "9 key rules for CEOs to live by" is also clickbait. One quote from the article is: "The way I would define it is, it has a headline that tries to trick
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A Hacking of More Than $50M Dashes Hopes in the World of Virtual Currency(nytimes.com)
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Here's the thing about AdBlockers... Ironic, considering I'm trying to read an article about privacy, and the entire reason I use an adblocker is to try and protect that privacy.
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by unfunco 10y ago
A handshake is not a valid contract, and in any-case, the other party agreed to a moderate salary until a series A on that same handshake.
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$26.2bn for a list of recruitment agencies. They could have bought the same data on the dark web for much cheaper...
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by unfunco 10y ago
Server recommends starting at 0.1.0 – starting at 0.0.0 essentially means (to me at least) that nothing has been written and nothing has been released. Initial versions (IMO) should begin with 0.1.0.
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As far as I can tell the west is moving equally as fast if not faster.
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From the Gantree README: "The name is derived from the word gantry which is a large crane used in ports to pick up shipping containers and load them on a ship. Gantry was already taken so I spelled it "tree" because the prima

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