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by xp84 3mo ago
There are lots of ads that don't work, but I can tell you from experience that there are a lot that do. A company I worked for a couple jobs ago basically just added a new pretty color of a clothing item, then ran ads with models weari
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by xp84 3mo ago
I'm in agreement with you that most computer users haven't bothered to learn anything about how to use their browser or computer. But still, let's say I agree that there's even an important problem to be solved. We can (
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by xp84 3mo ago
Maybe a lot of people actually agree with him, and would rather we expect more of people, rather than simply defining criminal activity as an unconscious effect of one's being somehow oppressed, or one's great-great-grandparents b
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by xp84 3mo ago
One more thing re: my potentially distracting analogy. > Drivers are forced to take lessons and get licensed for the precise reason that we know people can't take the responsibility on their own. Ok, I see what you mean here, but I&
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by xp84 3mo ago
> some apps actually use IndexedDB or whatever to store user data. Not any notable apps used by noobs though. Unsophisticated users don't include Local Storage in their mental model - they simply believe that "When I log into G
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by xp84 3mo ago
> Do you have a right to consume online services while retaining privacy? This is the part I don't understand. I'm actually all for regulations like being able to demand they delete the saved data they have on you, restrictions
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by xp84 3mo ago
No, I'm just saying that it's okay to burden humans with the responsibility to learn a few basic ideas about how to operate their own computers if they want to control their data privacy. Simple, easy tools are already there, such
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by xp84 3mo ago
Let me be clear, I can't stand the social-media industrial complex and the advertising universe. I've seen the bottom that we've raced to, with absolute bullshit popping up everywhere and entire sites full of slop with clickb
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by xp84 3mo ago
We ask more sophistication of drivers to understand the rules of right of way than we would be asking of users to hit Settings -> Privacy and Cookies and read the plain language there. Sorry that you need the government to "help&quo
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by xp84 3mo ago
If the password isn't effective, then they will know it was the fake one.
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by xp84 3mo ago
Interesting. Can you share any research tips that helped you arrive at that conclusion? I don't want to overdo it. Dosages in mainstream products are often even higher than the 1.5 so it's obviously easy to go way, way too high if
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by xp84 3mo ago
> unequivocally better and worse performers in terms of on-time arrivals, by a lot. I don't think it's a very good metric to compare them with, though. Those numbers are going to be heavily weighted by conditions at their hub a
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by xp84 3mo ago
Makes perfect sense - If transit is slower than cars, people will be willing to pile into the car for an incremental trip, and this will continue congesting the roads until the times (including parking of course) are within the margin of er
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by xp84 3mo ago
It's wild to me that anyone thinks that would be a reasonable law (whether or not it is law, I have no clue, I don't live in UK or EU). If you made a website and you said "To view the private content on my website, you have t
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by xp84 3mo ago
Because it doesn't mean anything specific and breaks entire business models (merely logging that you landed from an ad click and seeing if you check out counts as 'tracking,' doesn't it?) if interpreted purely literally.
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by xp84 3mo ago
It literally does not matter what you pick on these things - most of them don't work anyway. Think about it: Of course they don't. All the third-party javascript is already on the page. Anything you do inside the sandbox with UI p
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by xp84 3mo ago
There isn’t all that much actual first-party code in these apps, but if they made a “Hello World” but kept the same third party library deps, they’d be starting at 300MB, and once they add all the visual assets that’s another 200MB… I have
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by xp84 3mo ago
I really feel this comment. The most tragic part to me is that these older type of organizations, I’d actually argue would be great for what people like me would benefit from. People are so isolated and lonely and “third places” are known t
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by xp84 3mo ago
Not quite sure what you mean. Is it that fare dodging is fine because the taxpayers at large already pick up most of the tab? Or that fare dodging is worse than you’d think because it makes an already quite expensive thing for the public bu
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by xp84 3mo ago
When reading the headline I was thinking we were talking about evaluating things like whether a nurse asked the right questions of the patient from a best practices point of view (say you have <insert condition> and the best practices
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by xp84 3mo ago
This is an interesting point here. Due to having infinite money already, that's a possible dynamic we might see. OAI admits "Yup, obviously you got us. Let's write a check." And Apple might just respond "Nah, we are
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by xp84 3mo ago
Weird take. With as much evidence as they have (unless they're just wildly fabricating everything in their lawsuit complaint, which... really? All Apple's lawyers are just making up claims in court documents? Sounds very career-en
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by xp84 3mo ago
It's the Apple Watch Edition of cars.
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by xp84 3mo ago
Somehow I highly doubt anyone will leave AWS over this unless their use of AWS is way more low-complexity than the average account. People make similar pronouncements after every us-east-1 outage makes the news, but I feel like AWS would be
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by xp84 3mo ago
"Have you considered using Reserved Instances? You could save up to 2 trillion dollars next month. Book a call with your AWS rep."
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by xp84 3mo ago
Interesting. And hard to square with my perception of banks as completely mercenary and ruthless. I had a decade-long personal boycott (I know, LOL) of Amex after they, because, with otherwise perfect credit, I forgot about a $30 department
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by xp84 3mo ago
Next question we'll find out is what if you owe the bank $1.7 trillion?
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by xp84 3mo ago
Relevant to this, I've recently noticed a trend of mass tort cases being opened up in the past couple years, and they seem to do very well. The way these seem to work is attorneys identify a company who has clearly ripped people off, a
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by xp84 3mo ago
You make a pretty fair point there. It would have been better to announce a timeline even if it's like a year. If nobody wants else to help, at least we would have forced our allies and enemies to all go on the record that they won&#x2
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by xp84 3mo ago
> child-safety hash scanning Suddenly I'm reminded of an old baby picture in an album somewhere, of me not wearing any clothes. If the other kind of "safety" scanning[1] is done, it might be possible to get arrested for a

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