malsun

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by malsun 11y ago
Even though you are being down voted, I agree with the sentiment, perhaps it could have been put more diplomatically. I really don't understand why someone would publicly admit that they don't have control of their own money. I se
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by malsun 11y ago
It's mostly a male, working class dominated genre in terms of audience, so it's ignored and ridiculed for not being glamorous enough to fit mainstream media's mindset. That's a good thing because they would slowly chan
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by malsun 11y ago
Being able to swap the battery has been a feature in mobile phones for decades, I wouldn't buy a phone without it. Same with laptops. My current Apple laptop is eight years old and still going fine purely because I was able to remove t
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by malsun 11y ago
Referrer is the correct English spelling. It's so easy to accidentally create a bug by forgetting that the standard relies on a spelling mistake.
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by malsun 11y ago
There's two things non-technology people don't seem to know about TED when they mention it to me. First that TEDx events have little to do with TED. Second the prices for proper events are in the elitist levels of society. It&#x27
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by malsun 11y ago
There's also services like Blogger, which I don't think have advertising, but since Google is probably the biggest player in the ad industry then I guess its existence relies on ads. Even web browsers like Firefox indirectly rely
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by malsun 11y ago
I guess I'm fine with it as long as it's opt-in - by that I mean, so long as the customer has to actively look for the option. If all ISPs did this by default then a lot of content on the web would disappear several months down th
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by malsun 11y ago
It's not just some markets and some people. They're a VC backed multinational that moves into markets and offers big discounts over local businesses. They are getting a taste of their own medicine with an improved flavour.
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by malsun 11y ago
I think it's better to enjoy life than worry about nutritional guidelines, which might extend our time in some retirement home. Especially something that's been in our diet for a long time. Just don't overdo it.
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by malsun 11y ago
To me it seems like a mindset issue rather than a predisposition - having gone through it. Employment is mostly about taking on the burden of someone else's stress and handling it. When your stress becomes too much the employer hires p
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by malsun 11y ago
I left Twitter last year when it looked like the 'professionally offended' were becoming too influential. They didn't affect me as I keep a low profile, but it was like seeing an omen and noticing friends were buying into the
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by malsun 11y ago
The Daily Mail (and The Sun for that matter) know the profits come from customers who are least likely to use the internet. That's why the Daily Mail differs so much between the internet and newspaper versions.
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by malsun 11y ago
My main issue with Twitter is it grew out of the weird environment that is San Francisco and has all the baggage of people who live within that. That wouldn't be a problem if the service was a normal startup, but it's a platform f
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by malsun 11y ago
Before Twitter there was a phase where journalists would monitor discussion forums (think vBulletin). I know this because I would take part in speculative discussions and the next day it turned into front page news stories. No sources but o
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by malsun 11y ago
Amazon Prime reminds me of how the telecommunications industry sell services. They have customers signed up to a bundle of services like: landline, mobile, cable/satellite TV and broadband. If the customers don't want TV they are