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by 908087 3y ago
Show me someone who answers "entrepreneur" when asked what they do for a living, and I'll show you a huckster and/or trust fund kid.
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by 908087 3y ago
Would be a shame if this happened to Peter Thiel or any of the other blood boy enthusiasts.
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by 908087 3y ago
Video games, movies, and music weren't able to hit users with micro-targeted ads/propaganda/"content" meant to modify individual behavior in ways often harmful to them or society as a whole. Unfortunately even that
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by 908087 3y ago
But you'll never be certain those "actual people" aren't just using "AI" to generate that content, either... so it really won't be anything like the early days of the web.
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by 908087 4y ago
The fact that you've got countless people who have never heard of you blocked, would seem to indicate that you have in fact got it wrong.
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by 908087 5y ago
Most of them, I would imagine. I've ordered KN95 masks from Amazon twice because I couldn't find them elsewhere and needed them for travel. The first time, the masks I received looked nothing like the masks advertised, and felt li
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by 908087 5y ago
Do you have any arguments to make against the points made in the linked post, or just personal attacks on the author?
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by 908087 5y ago
Tether's relationship to Bitcoin is that 80%+ of the trade volume in BTC markets is Tether.
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by 908087 5y ago
From what I gather, these mostly just lead us towards an even more dystopian future.
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by 908087 5y ago
As a society, we've been sleepwalking into a very dark place technologically for well over a decade now, and those of us who have tried to point that out have been routinely shouted down and called luddites for it. I fear we're fa
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by 908087 5y ago
Given the benefit Google has received from open source software, tossing $1M at this and patting themselves on the back for it seems more like a slap in the face to the open source community than anything.
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by 908087 6y ago
The world's most successful huckster, and being repeatedly proven wrong only seems to increase his success and cult following.
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by 908087 6y ago
I'm getting a 404 at your link as well, though it looks like someone archived it before it went dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210228143057/https://www.inc.c...
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by 908087 6y ago
> I think they're an awful addition to driver controls. To make matters worse, they're quickly becoming a full replacement for driver controls rather than an addition in many cars.
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by 908087 6y ago
I agree with you, which is why I don't use platforms like Facebook at all.
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by 908087 6y ago
> My company doesn't even hash passwords... I can't imagine anything even resembling a reasonable excuse for not doing something as basic as hashing passwords, and I don't even want to imagine what else isn't being do
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by 908087 6y ago
Am I missing something, or are they really being let off with less than a slap on the wrist, and no fines? Not really sending a great message here, FTC.
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by 908087 6y ago
Or switch to the ones they've already manufactured for this purpose.
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by 908087 6y ago
Is there such a thing as raping the right woman?
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by 908087 6y ago
Of my past 10 orders with Amazon, 4 of the items I've received have been either non-functional, the wrong item entirely (a knock-off of an APC replacement battery), or clearly used. Amazon has refused to publish every one of my reviews
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by 908087 6y ago
You'd also have to switch to another internet, where people weren't constantly posting AMP link landmines to dodge on forums and social media.
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by 908087 6y ago
Now if we can just get people to stop saying "Google it" instead of "search it" or something else which doesn't involve being a constant two-legged advertisement for Google, maybe others will start to realize they h
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by 908087 6y ago
There seems to be a strong urge on this forum to downvote anything that informs users of the things GDPR does to help them, most likely because a large portion of the people on this forum have a vested interest in being able to abuse users
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by 908087 6y ago
Most likely for buzzword value.
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by 908087 6y ago
Why not both?
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by 908087 7y ago
> Where are people going in public that'a such a secret? It really doesn't take much of an imagination to come up with dozens of examples, so I'll just give a couple: gay bars, abortion clinics
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by 908087 7y ago
More than NASA's annual budget... so that people can show off their running abilities. What an incredible waste.
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by 908087 7y ago
The best use I've found for it is figuring out which of the people I know are fake, shallow and attention starved... and then avoiding those people.
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by 908087 7y ago
What's the technical solution to Facebook creating shadow profiles of non-users based on data collected from users (friends/family/associates), data brokers, public records, etc?
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by 908087 7y ago
Seek help.

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