alopecoid

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by alopecoid 6y ago
Oh, this whole "Boycott Facebook" movement is such a load of feces. Facebook isn't the problem. "Social Media" is such a misnomer; this is really just "people interacting" and where people interact, there&
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by alopecoid 7y ago
For a subset of users, Facebook leaked "page likes, birthday, and current city". Meanwhile, Equifax leaked the social security numbers of more than 145 million Americans, 200 thousand credit card numbers with expiration dates, and
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by alopecoid 7y ago
Nothing about this problem is new or unique to Google Maps. This was a problem in old phone books too (literally thousands of fake locksmiths, etc). And the yellow pages profited there too. Just because it's fashionable to hate on &quo
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SIPC insures money “intended to buy securities”. How is intent determined?
1 points by alopecoid 8y ago|1 comments
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by alopecoid 8y ago
There is: Use something else. I don't mean this in a snippy way, but truly. If it's that bothersome, why not try something else? It seems that most people instead think that they have the privilege to change the product to their d
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by alopecoid 8y ago
You should see how I defend Facebook or Apple.
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by alopecoid 8y ago
Sorry, but I think you are missing the point (please see my follow-up post). The point is, search results are not static even for the same inputs (search string, location, etc), even in privacy mode. That's great that you use DDG and f
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by alopecoid 8y ago
A contrived example to clarify further: Let's say that there is a link, foo.gov/taxes_in_retirement. Locations with a high concentration of retirees might click on the link more frequently compared to other locations. In privacy m
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by alopecoid 8y ago
Google can and should customize search results based on location, and it's not just about "local articles" as the article suggests. If enough people from the same general location click on certain results more frequently, the
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by alopecoid 8y ago
Note that the original title was too long for submission: "Poor news curation at Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters creating misleading iPhone supply chain panic"
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Poor news curation creating misleading iPhone supply chain panic(appleinsider.com)
1 points by alopecoid 8y ago|1 comments
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by alopecoid 8y ago
You and your theories... :)
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by alopecoid 8y ago
If violence is organized through a phone call, is that the fault of the phone manufacturer or the phone service provider? If violence is organized through the use of protest signs, is that the fault of cardboard and marker manufacturers? He
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by alopecoid 8y ago
> Kind of funny how the NYT publishes the original story to generate outrage [...] It's not just this; I think there's a clear agenda here by releasing this on the day of Google's earnings announcement.
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by alopecoid 10y ago
At least for the remote desktop functionality, there's Chrome Remote Desktop. The Android app is surprisingly useful. I didn't think it would be realistic to control a full resolution desktop through a phone, but I've succeed
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by alopecoid 11y ago
Dumb question: Since Google Ventures invested in Uber, does that mean that owning Google stock indirectly translates to a [small] pre-IPO investment in Uber? http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Uber-does-Google-own &quo
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by alopecoid 11y ago
Check out Jsonnet and HOCON. Jsonnet: http://google.github.io/jsonnet/doc/ HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md
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by alopecoid 12y ago
So there's no explicit way to distinguish between "new window" calls from other types of calls? I'm kind of shocked that, with all the effort that's been put into browsers in recent years, that the ability to "
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by alopecoid 12y ago
A bit off topic, but could someone explain to me why it's so difficult for a browser (or extension) to effectively block 100% of all pop-ups/pop-unders? I realize that these account for only a fraction of ads, but they are really