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by wdr1 5y ago
I used Clubhouse for a bit, but I didn't really care for it. It came across as a smug version of AM talk radio.
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by wdr1 5y ago
> I’ve never met a person inspired by what we thought the Internet would be in the 90s who isn’t sad that it went the way it did. waves hand I got online in 1991. Spent faaarrrrr time much time on Usenet. Almost got in trouble at my
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by wdr1 5y ago
A good recap on the Musk aspect: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17576302/elon-musk-thai-cave-r...
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by wdr1 5y ago
Turning impression logs into people counts turns out to be a pretty difficult problem. Even with cookies it's still very complicated. Facebook has publicly acknowledged screwing it up several times. We could go back to the days of ta
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by wdr1 5y ago
TBH, this doesn't reflect well on the VP. It sounds like they were foolish in terminating him (and poor in how they handled it), but an org shouldn't fall apart like that because of a single individual -- particularly a senior one
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by wdr1 5y ago
> However, because of the bug in the app, people can view the GIF properly *can't
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by wdr1 5y ago
The closing off subreddits is particularly annoying. The Reddit mobile has a longstanding bug in how handle it handles GIFs. I have a bot (u/CalvinBot) that posts the official Calvin & Hobbes strip to /r/calvinandhobbes
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by wdr1 5y ago
It's not your definition of censorship. There are many definitions of censorship. Government censorship is not the only valid version. To wit, Wikipedia even states "Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institut
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by wdr1 5y ago
Is there a way to fix this but still keep the lid open? I open use the smaller screen off to the side for things like my calendar or Spotify.
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by wdr1 6y ago
You forgot a forth group: advertisers.
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by wdr1 6y ago
I dunno... Gmail was a pretty good April Fools.
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by wdr1 6y ago
> I had to quit reading any FIRE (financial independence, early retirement) blogs because they were full of people headed down this same path: Extreme frugality, bare minimum savings, assuming their lifestyle would never change and nothi
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by wdr1 6y ago
> I said this once and I'll say it again: To counter such threats we need a healthy heterogeneous ecosystem. How does that balance against the thread of each platform/ecosystem having its own variants of security issues?
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by wdr1 6y ago
I like that Oakland has only banned combustion leaf blowers. Here in Santa Monica, they also banned electric ones (because they "kick up dust which causes pollution") which has resulted in nobody following it all.
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by wdr1 6y ago
University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack said that the best personal finance advice can fit on a 3-by-5 index card. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Index_Card - Max your 401(k) or equivalent employee contribut
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by wdr1 6y ago
Easy. One app. When I traveled to India (pre-COVID), it was great that I could just open the app & get where I needed -- even if I wanted to travel via tuk tuk. It was more annoying when I got to Ireland, had to figure out the app to u
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by wdr1 6y ago
It still puzzles me that the WHO gets a free pass for loudly asserting as fact that COVID-19 is NOT airborne. https://www.facebook.com/WHO/posts/fact-covid-19-is-not-airb...
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by wdr1 6y ago
I can't tell if the site is down or blocked by my ISP?
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by wdr1 6y ago
I don't believe I can time the market. In 2008 I learned my lesson. I had switched jobs with options that would expire 90d after I left. So I exercised them & put a decent chunk of change in the S&P500 somewhere in late summe
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by wdr1 6y ago
If that's what you believe, then you simply haven't been paying attention. Arnold has been pretty consistent & vocal.
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by wdr1 6y ago
What do your friends use?
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by wdr1 6y ago
> This is the wrong direction, we should be on standard time year round No federal law is needed for this. Each state can decide on its own to stay on standard time the full year. Notably Arizona still doesn't.
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by wdr1 6y ago
There's a lot of bad reporting happening in Los Angeles. There were a lot of headlines recently about "0% ICU capacity", which led most readers to think there are no ICU beds when there have been about ~50 since mid-December.
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by wdr1 6y ago
The use of the "fraud" here is curious, as I don't think it's what's most advertisers would use. "Waste" would be a better word. Fraud generally indicates a bad actor or something the advertiser was unawa
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by wdr1 6y ago
I completely disagree. Disclaimer: I work at a megacorp, but as someone with 25 years in companies of a variety of sizes, I think I have some perspective. Early in my career I worked as an IC at a non-profit, a small tech company, a start
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by wdr1 6y ago
When I start each Apple app I'll have the same prompt? That's the experience Facebook, Google & others will face, and it's not what Apple does in iOS 14. There's also a different setting specifically to disable track
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by wdr1 6y ago
I like Mark Rober, but $250 is a bit steep.
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by wdr1 6y ago
I don't support FB, but the point that Apple is excluding themselves from the same control is questionable at best.
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by wdr1 6y ago
I just have two Chrome profiles. One for work, one for personal.
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by wdr1 6y ago
Alex's response is no longer available. (His link to his Facebook post is dead.) Anyone have a mirror?

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