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by uniqueid 6y ago
I wonder if anyone has conducted a study on how many internet comments on articles alleging bias are variations of 'now hang on a second, there may be an innocent explanation here'.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Is this technology going to identify anyone Twitter won't? I mean, correctly identify because it'll probably belch up a lot of false positives, too.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
one of those situations where I'm supposed to be supportive of the use of facial recognition No, it's not. This is the Hoan Ton-That supposedly protecting us from the crazies... "Founder Hoan Ton-That’s has lin
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I'm always amazed that so much, let alone any , music comes from young people in Europe. It's hard enough to find spots to practise loudly in America. There can't be many places (affordable places, at least) in English citie
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All actual conservatives , or all present-day Republicans ? If we're talking about the latter, we disagree over whether it's a bad thing. I don't necessarily have a problem with the existence of sites like Parler that cater
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Here are the things I used to do when I was bored, before the internet existed, as far as I can recall: - Phone a friend and chat - Phone a friend and go for coffee, a walk, a drive, or just hang out at theirs or mine - Phone a couple frien
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They are scarier than your Roomba.
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This is the kind of question that has obvious answers that few entertain seriously. Optimism Bias, etc.
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Cheers. I enjoyed reading your post. The amount of research you put into it showed.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
The thing this article doesn't cover is that while you can (and imo should ) make all these changes, Google will still track much of what you do online. The internet is rotten with linked media, amp pages, blogs, and ads hosted on G
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Well, an arbitrary quantity of icons combined with a really smart algorithm would be better (eg: one that can distinguish whether to crop or scale in order to create small icons, and, when scaling, can handle stroke widths). I'll bet v
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It's a web browser, a media player, and a vehicle to sell iCloud subscriptions.
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Source: American Institute for Economic Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'm happy with Fastmail. It's certainly more pleasant to use than Gmail ever was. I miss nothing, but absolutely nothing, about Gmail.
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Unfortunately for my argument, my claim isn't founded on much beyond my gut feelings at the time. It would be easier to find articles that invalidate it. Certainly the ancient magazine article I mentioned (was it Discover? SciAm?) was
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yep, I also stuck with AltaVista for a couple years (or maybe Fast? Long time ago) because the I didn't find Google's results significantly better. I don't think it was the operators. In the late 00's Google's ope
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it blew everything else away pretty much immediately. Right, I forgot people actually believe that. Um, they were a little better, maybe noticeably so by one out of a thousand people. But wow, that's not why people switch se
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes. I didn't want to be nuanced there, though, because the nuanced version is: nobody wants the kind of 'smarter AskJeeves' that technology is currently capable of producing. Had I written that, the next thing you know, so
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Google Search today is repeating the same mistakes I remember from the late 90s. For the first decade of the web, there were a handful of search engines competing, rising and falling in popularity. The best were altavista, and fast. One thi
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's basically my view. It probably takes a long time for intelligent life (or intelligence in a form we are able to recognize, anyways) to evolve on any planet. If we don't see signs of it, it must be because the universe is st
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by uniqueid 6y ago
TextSniper.app It does simple OCR, but it's so well-designed that it changed the way I use my computer. It's effectively copy and paste, except now I can copy text from scenes in movies, images I come across online, copy-protected
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I was delighted to learn of it. The C file is so small, I just added some lines to check if my displays are rotated correctly, and correct them if not. I added a LaunchAgent to spawn the program every ten minutes. Now when my stupid Macinto
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Should a company be expected to obey the local government and local laws, even if they seem unjust? The best example I can think of, in my life time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Apartheid_Movement The
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by uniqueid 6y ago
How does that work? Does it automatically rotate the affected screen, or do you have to manually launch it?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
On the plus side: 75 years without a world war, so that's nice.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Oh, I'm not thrilled to have Microsoft track me. Google disturbs me much more, though, mainly because their footprint is larger (Youtube, Gmail, etc). Also, I don't live on Windows, which limits the amount of my data MS can get i
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Have you tried the comparison within the last year? You will probably find that while DDG Search is still just as bad as you remember, Google Search is no longer much better. I use Bing quite a bit, too, which is even closer in quality to G
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Youtube PR has more pressing issues with 'problematic' content this week. It would suit them fine if the internet argues about James Bond instead https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22162779/chri
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by uniqueid 6y ago
The universe is so large, that I'm sure there are millions of planets out there with life. However, since we've had decent tools to look for signs of life for decades and found nothing, for any one person to say they secretly mad

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