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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Facebook has already been fined by the European commission in 2017 to the tune of 110M Euros over this. It is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions Facebook paid for WhatsApp though - so small one suspect Facebook might have already
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Another consequence of this is that JS Date objects don't understand the concept of timezones, and only allows you to output dates in either the client timezone or UTC. This makes it extremely hard to, for example, display the arrival
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
I remember desktop Chrome ‘implementing’ date input a few years ago by using the number input’s spinner. If you press up the date goes to 0000-01-01. It was worse than useless because you can’t even polyfill in a JS datepicker since the usu
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
No, it usually takes a while. Last year's closed on 28 Jan, and results and data were released on 13 March and 30 May respectively.
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
> but 1% impact is pretty small The best you can say here is that it’s within the margin of error, in which case the effect is so small it’s literally unmeasurable. In that case the null hypothesis still wins, and you should not switch.
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React Kawaii – Cute React SVG Components(react-kawaii.now.sh)
151 points by mediumdeviation 8y ago|37 comments
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Somewhat ironically you've accidentally included the `/publish-accepted` part of the URL in your submission, which means when I click through the link, the Chrome store is telling me that "I" have published the extension
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Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are 'Testing' Unstable Updates(forbes.com)
8 points by mediumdeviation 8y ago|1 comments
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
There's a big difference between a video that streams in while the user watches it, and all the styles and scripts that are needed to render the page itself. If the former is too slow the user just keeps scrolling or the player switche
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Now I wonder why nobody has advertised herbal tea as health potions to gamers...
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
The -san suffix is a honorific used in Japanese. Trying to use it for someone from China would be a really awkward faux pas.
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
> I would quite literally live in any Chinese city before chosing Singapore. At least China would be cheaper. No you won't. However bad you imagine Singapore's police state to be, China's is several order of magnitudes wor
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Comparing man made emissions against natural is somewhat misleading. The damage caused by carbon emissions is related to its atmospheric concentration, which _is_ increasing at an alarming rate. It doesn't matter if man-made emissions
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Could have made the Pencil triangular. The new shape fixes yet another annoying ergonomic issue with the original - that it's really hard to hold comfortably for extended period of time. There's a reason pencils are hexagon, and p
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Regarding disposable plates and utensils, I actually don't see much of them unless you ask for takeout. I suspect in the area you're in the cost of dish washing is more expensive than the cost of plates and refuse collection. A ta
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
I don't know what it was like before, but when I signed up for it after Netflix went international in 2016, and my first reaction is: this is it? Using Netflix feels like giving up control, over both the viewing experience and the reco
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
How do you know that that's actually all data Google holds on you? Facebook has a shadow profile for every one of its users, one whose contents you cannot access. There's no technical reason Google can't build one, and they h
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Does https://www.goldstandard.org/ not do that already?
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
It means ground, as in the surface on which we live and build things on. 球 means ball or sphere. I wonder if that’s the reason why flat Earthers are rare in China and Japan - the very phrase ‘flat Earth’ is an oxymoron in these languages :)
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Note that Facebook can still track you across any websites that embed Facebook content or use the Like button, and associate those information with your account. A good adblocker will remove them and make sites load faster.
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
It's Jevon's Paradox [1] applied to the browser, where increasing the efficiency in which the browser can be scripted paradoxically causes websites to become slower and harder to build. Not because JavaScript itself (or any of the
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
DNT headers are a thing. They were proposed by Mozilla originally, and its use was suppose to be opt in (and of course so is any compliance by the site in question). Then IE10 turned it on by default, making it pretty much completely useles
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Our expectation of our algorithms are based on human performance. A human would never tag a black person as a gorilla, or vice versa, and if someone did it even once we could pretty safely conclude they're either extraordinarily incomp
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
And also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858019
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Exam result details now obtainable for free under GDPR(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mediumdeviation 8y ago|0 comments
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
It was designed for Venmo to prove to new users that the app has a large network and was trustworthy > Yeah, absolutely, so one of the biggest purposes of the social feed when Venmo first launched was around this concept of social proof.
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
But how would they measure bounce rate when analytics won't work when the user is disconnected? :) Anyway since we're on HN you should know that Chrome has a "offline" button in its network tab in its developer tool, use
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
I find the lack of granularity annoying. Your search history is generally less sensitive than your location, but both are bundled up in 'Web & App Activity'. There's no way to get Google to remember my search queries from
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
Enums are not JavaScript, and I've never heard of an Enum stage X proposal.
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by mediumdeviation 8y ago
> I suspect that humans will adapt to this new way of life we've brought upon ourselves. You can't beat the laws of thermodynamics. When the wet bulb temperature reaches the human body's natural 37 degrees Celsius, it&#x2

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