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by username444 7y ago
Facebook puts a lot of time and effort into obfuscation of course code. They generate random classes and IDs and interweave containers (divs, spans, custom HTML elements) on each page load so that software can't tell what is content an
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by username444 7y ago
Facebook isn't targeting you. The advetisers are. Facebook's real sin is a garbage UI meant to confuse advertisers into spending money on audiences that don't align with the advertiser. Google is much, much worse with this.
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by username444 7y ago
I wonder if placing the doorbell facing the door, rather than street, is a workaround for this. Most people have porches, with a column, and while running wires could be tedious, it means you'll never have valuable footage for law enfo
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by username444 7y ago
Most spammers won't go through the of "gaming" it. There's no upside. There are far easier targets to focus on than sending more mail to a single recipient who is more sophisticated.
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by username444 7y ago
I was about to counter that self hosted is an option, but that doesn't technically qualify as an "email service". I'll note that the privacy centric services are only good as long as they're still maintained by a fo
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by username444 7y ago
But a great replacement for plastic grocery bags. And packaging for dry goods. It doesn't have to replace ALL plastic uses. It's perfectly fine if it's just a replacement for specific uses. Eg. Using a glass bottle instead of
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by username444 7y ago
AdSense pays out $2-$3 CPM Other ad networks pay out $20-$30 CPM Add are, sadly, a good way to monetize
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by username444 7y ago
I think you're missing the point as well, and that may be a generational difference. You value security and loyalty, because that's what your generation was raised with. My generation has no delusions of job security. It does not
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by username444 7y ago
Isn't economic retraction the opposite of economic growth?
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by username444 7y ago
It depends on the food - some with already long shelf lives would be fine, but other foods simply aren't meant to be around for long. But the public health isn't the concern of the food companies. It's putting out products th
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by username444 7y ago
Which is actually partly artificial, because they're not allowing lake Ontario to drain: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/38580/201... But the "flooding" is NOTHING like What
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by username444 7y ago
I agree 100%. I've never had a consultation with one of Google's reps where the suggestion didn't increase my spend, while giving a worse ROI. At this point, I don't believe it's incompetence, it's systematic m
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by username444 7y ago
Not exactly this, but yes. Plus, let's go to yellow pages and randint(1,999999) for a business listing and spend some time browsing that. Plus, a random selection of Google trends in various niches. Plus, maybe the best selling items i
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by username444 7y ago
People blame AdWords for getting no result when they don't know how to use basic targeting and settings. It's extremely easy to turn off non-google.com ads (ie. no partner network) and restrict geographic settings to just your tar
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by username444 7y ago
This. And it's not just how it's used today. It's how it can be archived and analyzed 10 years down the road with all the additional information gleaned from you in that time.
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by username444 7y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ... And that's using 7 year old tech. If one day I develop diabetes and start researching insulin and products, I don't need a c
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by username444 7y ago
How, for example?
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by username444 7y ago
I almost wonder if best practices in the future will incorporate "data hygiene" involving 15-20 minutes of random browsing of topics you're completely uninterested in, just to add noise to your profile. Why yes, Pampers, I am
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by username444 7y ago
They do have an option, but they choose a lifestyle that consequently requires one. You choose where you live. You choose what job you take. You choose to have children. Etc.
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by username444 7y ago
Perspective is important. Messaging is already so inexpensive as to be free, it's time to move towards the other end of the pendulum. We need privacy and accountability more than the ability to further reduce the cost of a message from
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by username444 7y ago
Completely agree.
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by username444 7y ago
The argument that 0-100 being an intuitive and useful daily use scale is actually a good one. However, everything else falls flat. Nobody actually uses decimals with celcius, because nobody can tell the difference between 8.2 degrees and 8.
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by username444 7y ago
Until we find the next opium to balance the trade deficit?
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by username444 7y ago
Lumping all advertising into one box isn't just disingenuous, it's harmful. Is the farmer advertising his grass-fed, hormone-free beef as a better alternative to what's currently standard grocery store garbage, doing harm? Th
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by username444 7y ago
Mail fraud, wire fraud, intellectual property theft, copyright infringement/piracy, subpeonas, a law from 1806 about people with white hair, i-dont-like-your-face, etc. My point isn't so much that this one specific violation would
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by username444 7y ago
Which is irrelevant, because they'd manufacture some other charge to get him on. Every single person on the entire planet can be charged with dozens of things by a u.s. prosecutor with enough time and incentive. That's how the law
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by username444 7y ago
I still use cash for entirely legitimate daily transactions, and for the same reason criminals use cash. Same goes with Bitcoin and cryptography. I don't need banks monitoring and selling my purchase history to their "affiliates&q
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by username444 7y ago
The consumer IS the problem. Coca Cola can manufacture better bottles IF the consumer were willing to pay for it. But they aren't. Would you pay twice the price for the same coke, but in a glass bottle? It's the consumers demand f
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by username444 7y ago
Unless you have sufficient millions to cover those millions of spending.
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by username444 7y ago
Great idea. Until you realize that no level on minimum wage is adequate in SF, while $10/hr is livable in rural Arkansas. It's not a silver bullet even with COL factored in. Higher staff costs? Replace them with automation. You ca

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