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by vrc 5y ago
So I couldn’t tell you all of them because I don’t keep track of when I need to disable it and refresh to make a page work (and that’s not that big an inconvenience for me). But I used to have to travel a lot for work with strict travel cap
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by vrc 5y ago
uBlock origin is the only ad blocker worth trusting. Privacy Badger is fine but breaks things too often. PiHole is good but requires too much know-how for most. ABP and Brave both do the same garbage ransom-taking with their ad replacement
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by vrc 5y ago
The Soviet-era one was an Afghan saying, “you have watched but we have time”
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by vrc 5y ago
At the same time, mangoes in the US are not good. One out of many will have the right flavor. But in mango regions, you do have far more extreme and distinct textures and flavors. So it may not be shilling a country’s product — if you read
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by vrc 5y ago
For Google, you should type in Google.com/ncr . The NCR means no country redirect and you get standard google. I traveled a lot and learned this trick along the way. But your point is well made
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by vrc 5y ago
I believe Latin has the same property as well, however I’d assume when spoken within communities, both had preferred offerings. As in, folks weren’t arbitrarily ordering their words. But it does create really expressive options for prose an
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by vrc 6y ago
I remember a story from my time at Google of Andy Rubin calling in the entire Android team (or maybe leadership+PM), looking at the PMs, and asking, “what do you all do here?”. I also remember that team worked late almost every day and had
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by vrc 6y ago
I track mine on my Apple Watch which records it in the Health App. It's basic graph and I can download it if I want, but I've found tracking day-over-day/week-over-week is a good enough signal. For example, I did dry January
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by vrc 6y ago
This is basically how the WHOOP band works. Anyone with an Apple Watch curious to see can find your tracked HRV in the Health App on your iPhone. However, looking at heart-rate (HR) itself will be misleading. Big swings in HR or high HR in
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by vrc 6y ago
IME it’s not “no customer service” as much as “less customer service” in many of the non-tip places. The staff checks on you less often and you sometimes have to actively flag them down or end up waiting for quite a while. For an American w
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by vrc 6y ago
I found the line, "And much like linguistic false friends...such as... jungli, which means wild in Gujarati, not jungle" amusing because it's right for the wrong reason. "Jungli" means "person from the jungle&q
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by vrc 6y ago
Thai food and often involve palm sugar in what you’d consider savory dishes. And depending on the brand of coconut milk that’s used you could be nabbing extra carbs there too. So even without noodles and rice you may be sneakily pushing up
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by vrc 6y ago
I’ve grown up driving in east coast cities and I will say that there is a lot of honking and anger and cutting off of people, but drivers in general are very spatially aware and there are unwritten rules about how to cut in/merge etc.
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by vrc 6y ago
I believe the article says it was prompted by the recent discoveries of these characteristics in platypuses and wombats
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by vrc 6y ago
Do you mean spider.io? I believe the internal team at Google had egg on their face when they had to admit they hadn't built anything and had to instead buy this company. But yeah it's definitely a sign that a network is maturing -
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by vrc 6y ago
Because of the lack of tactile feedback, touchscreens often lead to distracted driving by forcing drivers to take their eyes off of the road to carry out simple tasks. As an example, take HVAC and radio functionality -- in older cars with b
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by vrc 7y ago
Canned salmon and pickles seem to be unpopular too. Sure, pickles aren't a necessity, but if people are buying up canned tuna, sardines, mackerel, clams, and mussels, what gives with canned salmon? More for me, I guess.
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by vrc 7y ago
My guess is GP is suggesting water for disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, or other situations where water supplies will often be compromised. I say that because GP differentiated between pandemics, and natural disasters, and specifical
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by vrc 7y ago
Yes, but the training ends up converting to a license or title if you've completed it properly, and we judge whether or not a person is competent in that field based on whether or not they hold that title or license. For example, when
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by vrc 7y ago
Here's one challenge with micropayments: how do you charge micros? There are a few challenges here. One, the cost of payment processing is high, and so you can't "pay as you go". If you bill in arrears, you may still fac
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by vrc 7y ago
Yeah. The only way to overcome this is to bundle. And bundling with pubs is hard. How can I charge a single, Netflix like payment to access content from huge publishers (NYT, WaPo) and small niche blogs? How do I divvy the cash up? What&#x2
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by vrc 7y ago
This is the crucial issue, but I think price discrimination by user-persona is way more downstream. Even assuming there's a sufficient population willing to pay, I believe the challenge is, how does the publisher value its content v. t
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by vrc 7y ago
I was the lead for a large tech company's efforts in this area for a few years (not anymore, so take my comments with a grain of salt). I spoke to many of the major publishers globally as well as some niche site aggregators, aggregated
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by vrc 7y ago
I believe the plurality of motels in the US are owned by Gujarati's [1][2][3]. Hence the moniker: "Patel Motels". I'd venture to guess a lot of the Tamilians in the bay are in the IT sector [1] https://www.nat
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by vrc 7y ago
No. Some parts but the OSS stuff released before was more in line with what the company uses. Google doesn’t require dogfooding of GCP.
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by vrc 7y ago
Officially: https://www.blog.google/topics/ads/helping-publishers-recove... Beyond that, even though I've been out of the game for a few years, I have to be careful what I say. But I've been planning on
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by vrc 7y ago
It's shockingly high. Most western countries see an average of 26% - 40% ad block rates (by pageview) across the web. Some sites skewing to an older, less tech savvy audience, see between 8% and 15%, while tech heavy sites can go as hi
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by vrc 7y ago
Anecdotally my grandfather from India used to tell my father something similar as a child (and then him me), and he was born in the 1910’s in a village and very unaware of Jobs throughout his life. So I am confident that it’s from some Indi
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by vrc 7y ago
It is, and few care. "Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent." [0] Problem is that the authorities are too underfunded and understaffed to actually handle this, and the wording in the regul
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by vrc 7y ago
Most companies hide behind the claim that if users block IP tracking, since they "can't" get geo without IP, it's opt-out. Oath in particular will use any excuse to opt-in by default, but so will most news sites. Regulat

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