aljones

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by aljones 5y ago
Why the hyperbole?
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by aljones 5y ago
Chrome is heavily promoted on some of the most high traffic websites. Users of those websites are told they should use Chrome. So they do. There's nothing Mozilla can do about that. Mozilla doesn't enforce antitrust. No upheaval w
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by aljones 5y ago
Is there a "scientifically-looking" paper that shows that users love it?
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by aljones 7y ago
What does the date of the interview have to do with whether or not he was central?
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by aljones 7y ago
How big of an effect do you think this had? Most people didn't answer yes.
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by aljones 7y ago
YouTube app is nice but so is the web site.
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by aljones 7y ago
You are skeptical that Bezos would delegate publicly describing the results of the investigation to the person he publicly hired to investigate?
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by aljones 8y ago
It is not a very conspicuous signal. I don't know which one of my friends use Amazon Smile. I don't think the dark pattern would work well if Amazon Smile was only social signalling. Seems to me it relies much more upon the fact t
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by aljones 8y ago
I can't say that I like the wikipedia reminders, but I don't dislike them. They remind me to pay for a service I use daily. So I do and they don't remind for a while. It is fine.
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by aljones 8y ago
You can change where it installs by setting an env var.
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by aljones 8y ago
Supply and demand are related.
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by aljones 8y ago
No downside? The externalities of oil production and consumption are well known.
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by aljones 8y ago
You're claiming they'd commit fraud.
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by aljones 8y ago
You're claiming they can be compelled to lie.
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by aljones 8y ago
Same way you do when they may have enough revenue.
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by aljones 8y ago
"An attempt to place an ad posing as Hillary Clinton was denied."
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by aljones 8y ago
Now matters quite a bit to me. I'm unable to predict the future well.
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by aljones 8y ago
There are more important things than money.
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by aljones 8y ago
Police shouldn't have incentives to increase revenue.
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by aljones 8y ago
Ideal competitive markets allow for little profit. Significant profits are a sign that a market lacks competition. One can certainly not expect a company to voluntarily lower prices based on a value judgement. It requires competition or, in
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by aljones 8y ago
That is not an accurate restatement of the policy.
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by aljones 8y ago
You think Apple is upsetting casual users?
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by aljones 8y ago
Indeed. They have lots more data about you that they don't consider to be your data. They think it is their data.
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by aljones 8y ago
When you install a package, nuget will install old dependencies of that package.
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by aljones 9y ago
The US and Russia avoided conflict with each other before and after the atom bomb, and also before and after the UN made it illegal. I'm not sure either were essential or even effective deterrents.
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by aljones 9y ago
It is at least a hypocritical opinion. Podesta's emails were not bulk released. Wikileaks did put their own spin on them. Do you know that they leak what they get? Cause there are credible accusations by former members that they do
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by aljones 9y ago
Its not planned, it just works out that way.
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by aljones 9y ago
Next.js does it.
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by aljones 9y ago
It isn't surprising. I don't believe anyone claimed it was.
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by aljones 9y ago
Chrome's growth was bootstrapped with very pushy ads on the highest traffic website on the internet, that typically doesn't allow ads. They also paid to bundle it with unrelated installers.

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