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by agakshat 6y ago
The linked page [1] says that Whatsapp does not share contact list with Facebook. I have a lot of anecdotal evidence which suggests otherwise, where adding new contacts would immediately have them show up in my list of suggested friends on
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by agakshat 6y ago
I think the Reuters news website [0] comes close to this ideal. Generally neutral reporting of facts with few, if any, embellishments. [0] https://mobile.reuters.com/
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by agakshat 6y ago
Argo is majority owned by ford and also partnered up with VW
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by agakshat 6y ago
Yep, to the extent that I’m surprised Aurora is considering purchasing ATG at this point. I don’t know what they have to gain from such an acquisition - especially considering their head count (and associated cash burn) would triple after t
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Uber in talks to sell self-driving division to Aurora(techcrunch.com)
27 points by agakshat 6y ago|6 comments
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by agakshat 6y ago
For a work laptop that only serves as an interface to a personal workstation set up in a server room, Macs are so much more enjoyable to use. No worrying about wifi drivers, being able to use the Mac touchpad etc.
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by agakshat 6y ago
Plus a significantly more polished OS, which is the reason I enjoy coding on my Mac.
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by agakshat 6y ago
Any development which the British did was purely to serve their own purposes and improve the efficiency and speed of their looting the country. Why should we be grateful for that? The opportunity cost there for the Indian subcontinent (if n
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by agakshat 6y ago
Definitely so. Indian children are always taught about our glorious freedom movement in detail, glorifying leaders like Gandhi and Bhagat Singh. There are sadly still remnants of British culture throughout, like statues or names of streets
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by agakshat 6y ago
My personal experience with Youtube recommendations has been really bad for a long time now. The only videos it recommends that I care to watch are from channels I'm already subscribed to, so no big victory there - any content from new
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by agakshat 6y ago
> Why do we need to be constantly logged in to YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, and Twitter?...These apps all work fine anonymously Instagram most certainly does not work without logging in. I don't have an account, and it only lets you
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by agakshat 6y ago
Whether or not a camera-based solution will work reliably in the future is not the issue at hand here. The issue is the vast, vast gap between the current capability of Autopilot vs. what it is marketed as, and how this false advertising
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by agakshat 6y ago
As has become the norm, this punch will boomerang back and have the opposite effect. China's brain drain [1] further reduces and the engineers who would've built companies here will do so in China now. [1] https://macro
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by agakshat 6y ago
Thank you for sharing that. Really strongly recommend everyone to watch this video, a rare glimpse at the people inside this nightmare
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by agakshat 6y ago
I would guess it’s a matter of cost and how deep the tunnel needs to be dug.
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by agakshat 6y ago
Impose a carbon tax and watch how fast renewables, nuclear etc. become financially viable and self-sufficient. The role people have to play here is to get on to the same page so loudly that politicians can’t ignore our voices anymore. Swit
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by agakshat 6y ago
I hope not, but I expect that with a few days of browsing history it’s trivial to predict ethnicity.
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by agakshat 6y ago
This is such a ridiculously good deal for Amazon. The collection of talent alone is worth more, let alone the tech Zoox has built up which Amazon can put to so much good use starting from inter-warehouse deliveries, and slowly getting close
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by agakshat 6y ago
Very often, it’s the phone networks which are selling our location data to these brokers. There is virtually no regulation on this, and for phone companies it’s basically free money.
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by agakshat 6y ago
The report mentions ethnicity is inferred from browsing history, which they are also able to purchase from data brokers.
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by agakshat 6y ago
What does Apple hope to accomplish with this overreach? 1. People who really do believe in astrology are not likely to stop doing so, if anything, being marginalized is likely to make them more extreme in their beliefs. 2. People who just w
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Apple’s Push for Privacy(wired.com)
3 points by agakshat 6y ago|0 comments
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by agakshat 6y ago
Thanks for sharing the link, that looks fantastic!
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by agakshat 6y ago
Didn’t realise Notion was being used to write blog posts too. It does make quite a bit of sense to use the same interface to take notes and then occasionally combine and refine those into a blog post.
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by agakshat 6y ago
I agree that most people don’t care about privacy, but also consider that in the many years it will take for any competitor to emerge (even if they started today), the situation will have improved.
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by agakshat 6y ago
Yeah, but it ends up hurting usability to a large extent. Also, I’m at a point where it’s tough to take Google at it’s word about location history etc. With Apple I’m more comfortable letting them have my data, just because they have a bett
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by agakshat 6y ago
As someone who cherishes privacy (can’t use Android with continuous Google tracking) and abhors walled gardens (Apple), I think the market is ripe for a new player. Is it the natural course of things that every public company will eventuall
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by agakshat 6y ago
The issue is that this clickbait anxiety is what Facebook et al. are good at anyway. But investigative reporting has mostly been done by established news orgs. So by losing the news media, we would still have more than enough crappy clickba
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by agakshat 6y ago
I agree that the old media is worried about losing control of the narrative. However, i think that sweeping all negative coverage of Facebook under this rug is not helpful either. There is a real loss to the community if newspapers don’t ha
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by agakshat 6y ago
Just gonna put this here https://duckduckgo.com/about

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