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by wyck 8y ago
"Presumably also over the Bering land bridge" , certainly a big presumption giving that boats are a preferred means of long distance travel, but proving as such so far back must be practically impossible.
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by wyck 8y ago
It's a little deeper than that, cats were revered because they killed snakes, scorpions, rats, etc, around the house that did harm, pharaoh's having a particularity good pick of the litter, breeding was a part of temple life. The
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by wyck 8y ago
It doesn't take long for the tide to turn when you compromise core values. Sugarcoating isn't going to work, I for one see your this trajectory as particularity troubling, if Google doesn't hold onto the reins of what little
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by wyck 8y ago
I agree, reads like a pure bio PR, the title says it all. Lots of trust building about his personally,the usual pantomime of nazi's and Russian bots, no bias there.. So we should't trust content pushed by people centric platforms,
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by wyck 8y ago
Anonymity is very comforting, you brought your discussion to the table without stereotype or preconception getting in the way, much like this very site and the reason why reddit is so popular. It is the basis for free discussion, a foundat
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by wyck 8y ago
Hopefully Craig Murray is not on suicide watch.
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by wyck 8y ago
So you're saying we are going to digitize emotional bias and pretend it's more intelligent decision making, and then hand that over to a corporation. Sounds like a winner.
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by wyck 8y ago
Not true in Canada, AirBnB breaks municipal and in some cases provincial laws for short term rentals. Thousands of houses are in no rent zones and AirBnB knows damn well. The tactic to combat these rentals is to use provincial & city in
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by wyck 8y ago
Maybe because they always put developers fist, this acquisition is a perfect fir for the brand and legacy. You comment makes no sens, "I don't understand if you are a programmer', no offense but what rock do you live under
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by wyck 8y ago
> People who answer phones to take bookings perform an extremely limited set of questions and responses, But that in itself is not even true across the industry, some(most) phone bookings are very complex, otherwise they would just use a
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by wyck 8y ago
You mean Facebook is launching a dating service for divorced moms?
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by wyck 8y ago
And jobs, a huge threat to job sites.
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by wyck 8y ago
I would assume there is a backup chute that can be deployed, probably with an altimeter that can auto far if manual deployment fails.
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by wyck 9y ago
There is a real downside to this not spoken about. If/when you get hooked into an adrenaline based lifestyle and for some reason have to leave the lifestyle behind (financial, family, injuries) it can be extremely devastating to not do
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by wyck 9y ago
Exactly, because the DNC (Hillary, Obama) used the same data techniques. The head of Hillary's election marketing even tweeted about this and was a catalyst for the recent news, but not a peep from the media. It was the Russians....lol
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by wyck 9y ago
America needs to look at citizen privacy laws like they have in Canada and the E.U. For example if I log into the Facebook business manager for a company I can see tons of data on Americans but not nearly as many details for Canadians, it&#
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by wyck 9y ago
A brand founded by a deceitful, insecure, and altogether immature person is a problem when is effects so many people's lives. News at 11.
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by wyck 9y ago
Unfortunately these things don't work because the general public needs something simple, centralised, rich in content, and which has the momentum of actual people using it. Technology doesn't help, it's about timing it the ri
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by wyck 9y ago
Geo-location is the scary metric, peoples habits / when/ where is a trove of data, it can be analyzed much more deeply.
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by wyck 9y ago
Sorry to be clear, I meant that to find information you always had to do bit of digging, it's true the algorithm has changed a lot.
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by wyck 9y ago
Facebook capitalised by being in the right place at the right time, a time when the internet was opened to the non-tech savy, the "regular" world spilled into what was already a social experience. This is why Facebook now has the
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by wyck 9y ago
Nothing has changed with Google (Bing and Duckduckgo are the same too more or less). 10 years ago it still did essentially the same thing, it's up to you to use the more advanced features to filter the results. For example if you type
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by wyck 9y ago
There's more than a few very large tech companies that have let politics and emotions take over from innovation and excellence. It's opened the door to mass demotivation because people know inherently what is fake and posturing ov
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by wyck 9y ago
I think the initial intention of creating a "good" search engine was there and a great social benefit, but after that it kinda went to hell.
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by wyck 9y ago
I enjoy seeing FB sabotage thier brand into the ground, not because of it's service, but rather because of it's sess pool leadership. My feed is basically a bullshit mill of news instead of actual "freinds" experiences.
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by wyck 9y ago
Pretty obvious when you read practically anything these days that PR has taken over not just promotions but the entire narrative.
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by wyck 9y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Google's new motto perhaps.
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by wyck 9y ago
> And everyone gets their hands on everything! You walk by, you see what someone is making, you play with it and trade ideas, you sit down and work on it together. This happens constantly. Abandon your virtaul dreams hackers.. start to
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by wyck 9y ago
Well Donald Ewen Cameron lived in Montreal at the time and had the means, The CIA was interesting in his work on Psychic Driving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_driving . His move to Montreal was funded by the R
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by wyck 9y ago
Is that why there is a virtual monopoly on internet connections and mobile options in Canada, and why Canadians pay some of the highest rates in the world for connectivity? Is this why Canadians only have one central news source, is the CR

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