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by whalabi 6y ago
> Facebook said that Apple cited an App Store rule that bars developers from showing “irrelevant” information to users. This is incredibly draconian. I know it's Apple's platform but when ¼ of Earth uses that platform, letting
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by whalabi 6y ago
Hypothetically speaking, what would you see as the downside of Apple allowing users to install alternate app stores? Presumably almost every user would just use Apple's app store and be satisfied with that, but for everyone else they&#
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235M Instagram, TikTok and YouTube User Profiles Exposed in Data Leak(forbes.com)
1 points by whalabi 6y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 6y ago
You might be interested in the PinePhone https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ Here it is running phosh: https://youtu.be/mjaJJ6o-mbM It's pretty close to being a usable GNOME Linux phone
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YouTube's persistent flaws make it a hard app to love(unlikekinds.com)
3 points by whalabi 6y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 6y ago
That's the first I've heard of that side of the story, and I'm pretty appalled because everyone I know believes "Bing scraped Google" - which I think was how Google framed it. I wonder how common misunderstandings l
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by whalabi 6y ago
That's exactly what I was trying to understand, and how I was trying to understand it. Thank you
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by whalabi 6y ago
Whoa. I get the green/brain bit and can kinda tweak my perception to hear both, but needle and storm? When I hear both from the same audio they sound so very different and I can't fathom how they come from the same waves.
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by whalabi 6y ago
Incredible.
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The futuristic war tech in America's newest aircraft carriers(unlikekinds.com)
3 points by whalabi 6y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 6y ago
> I'm sorry, excuse me? Are you saying that non-minority, non-women don't suffer anxiety? To be fair, OP did say "That effect is magnified for anyone who is unlike their interviewers" But, I do agree some evidence fro
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by whalabi 6y ago
It sounds like your house or apartment isn't a good fit for you, is it an option to move? Somewhere with people who you have lots in common with. It doesn't always work out but sometimes it does and can be great. That, and it soun
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Homebuilt Aircraft(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by whalabi 6y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
I'm of the opinion that whether something is alive or not is arbitrary, and depends on your definition. Humans just came up with the word to describe a class of things. You could define biological life in a way that includes or exclude
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by whalabi 7y ago
So I think this is a perfect example of what happens in tech interviews. OP is using knowledge of a specific technology as a heuristic for "has experience in role x" But this always makes me wonder, couldn't you see that expe
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by whalabi 7y ago
Definitely a quittable offence
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by whalabi 7y ago
This makes me wonder if the core of the problem is the lack of control over your own environment somehow
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by whalabi 7y ago
Letting people choose how they work, how revolutionary!
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by whalabi 7y ago
That sounds a little distressing. Have you found a positive?
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by whalabi 7y ago
(this was posted ages ago but) have you ever held a concept in your mind without knowing the word for it? And you can feel the concept just as well as if you did? I imagine it's a bit like that. Maybe these people have exactly the same
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by whalabi 7y ago
I didn't know about that, thanks
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by whalabi 7y ago
As far as I know a function of flossing is to disrupt bacteria in places that your brush can't reach. Presumably another is to dislodge food stuck there. I can imagine that floss + rinse would accomplish both well enough, especially if
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by whalabi 7y ago
There's only 6 million notable places, people, businesses, abstract concepts, historical occurrences, species, theories, etc? Does this mean wiki is actually missing a lot? Or are there less things of note than one would think?
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by whalabi 7y ago
Well hang on, making human life multi-planetary is extremely valuable, if not essential for our future survival. And we can use technology to make Mars hospitable.
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by whalabi 7y ago
Does this mean there's a whole lot of cheap scooters being sold somewhere? Any idea where?
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by whalabi 7y ago
Yeah there was a bunch of alternative shells for Windows going way back... I completely forgot until I saw this but I used to use one in the 90s or early 00s. LiteStep I think, and you could install different themes. https://en.w
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by whalabi 7y ago
> 90% of the people I interact with are unfocused, disengaged, deliver-crap-and-call-it-good-enough, family-first execution-last folks. We have way too many executives who contribute less than nothing to our group's output. These ex
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by whalabi 7y ago
Yeah Kushner hasn't exactly fixed that situation like he thought he would.
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by whalabi 7y ago
You know I think the thing is with some billionaires, they don't have to be useful for society to become a billionaire, they don't have to be moral, that don't even have to be smart. Often they just have to be "charismat
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WeWork Founder Adam Neumann 'Helped Kushner Craft Mideast Peace Plan'(haaretz.com)
18 points by whalabi 7y ago|5 comments

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