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by toper-centage 4y ago
> The value you provide not only has to beat Google, but also Netflix, Bitwarden... It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to search the whole Internet, something you do every single
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
What if what I'm trying to translate is sensitive information in itself?
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Isn't racism fundamentally a type of caste/class discrimination? Not as well defined castes like seen in India, but "black people" are discriminated as a result of slavery, "asians" as a result of mass immigrat
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Any negativity or anger seems to be in the article for purely comedic effect.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
> You trading potential tracking by thirdparties with potential tracking by yourself. You're not making any sense. Proxying all requests is the only way to shield you from being tracked by third parties. If DDG wants to track you th
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by toper-centage 4y ago
> Another way in which farmers combat soil compaction is by aeration and tilling. The problem is that constantly aerating and tilling the soil is destroying microbiomes and fungal networks. It's one of the fundamental principles of
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by toper-centage 4y ago
If there was any other obvious way to influence google it would instantly be gamed. Both my companies tried to increase their relevance in certain keywords and by competitors reporting their websites.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Those already exist. You can simulate things like color blindness, tunnel vision, low contrast vision, and blurred vision, among other effects.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
It's not even just that HIV mutates quickly. After the initial attack, it infiltrates the immune memory cells and injects itself into your DNA and lies dormant for a long time, while these immune cells reproduce happily.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
That's pointless gatekeeping. Having the most expensive pencil doesn't make you draw better. For most professionals in most fields, more than 1080p is a waste of energy.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Good defaults are important. There have been constant legal fights against abuse of defaults for decades now (IE, Chrome, search engines, etc). It's time Apple gets served a lawsuit to stop abusing its position as the default software
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Fun fact: the reason why browsers sometimes zoom in on an input is because the input's font size is too small, less than 16px, which is considered not accessible. So it's ironic that to counter that behaviour some people make the
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by toper-centage 4y ago
I'm not an Apple user, but that has been pretty much the role of Apple since ever: dictating what you can and can't do in the name of "good user experience". This decision makes sense in the POV of forcing apps to use ne
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Apple is the only stifling innovation. They own 30% of the smartphone market is the west, so the EU wants them to be regulated as a fair platform where competition can exist. The US should take a hint.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
At this point we need to be able to set our reported location manually on our phones natively. I don't want any number of apps to be able to sneakily collect such data. Android sort of allows it through 3rd party apps, but Google has a
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Version 68 is the last one that supports CPU over-heating when holding down the spacebar, and it's fundamental to some people's workflow in emacs.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
There are different brains out there, and they think differently, and understanding that is half way to developing empathy, but also extremely important when developing accessible applications. Maybe I don't want to see the clock whene
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Honestly some great ideas (better antenna, e-ink display for basic SMSing, quick dial, probably huge battery life), but they can't be serious about the rotary dial. > Previously, phones with physical keys required a clamshell (flip)
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Imagine a world where Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Apple were cooperating and building interconnecting blocks of a modern browser since the early 2000s. Instead, MS discontinued Edge, Mozilla has only 2% market share (still big in global ter
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Not using Google is by itself value added.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
The UK playing victim is the reason Brexit happened in the first place. No wonder their residents continue being brainwashed in that sense.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
> I’m okay with spending some amount of time If this "some time around" is more than a few, stick to Ubuntu. I wouldn't use a system I just learned to build as my main workstation. You can still keep a separate distro a le
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by toper-centage 4y ago
It's funny because if you go watch the iPhone launch presentation, Jobs was all about the web, and having web apps on your phone. Fast forward and PWA are just recently possible, barely supported, and Apple would really prefer you not
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by toper-centage 4y ago
Not just that, but changing machines is a chore. I'd be happy to only upgrade when my machines starts to disintegrate. Sadly, corporations don't agree with that.
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by toper-centage 4y ago
I realized some time ago when I learned of Aphantasia that it is a spectrum. From 0 to 10, 10 being perfect photographic memory and zero being total Aphantasia, I feel like I'm somewhere in the middle. I can recall images, sounds, meme
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by toper-centage 4y ago
How would you verify that?
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by toper-centage 4y ago
However, there's literally no incentive for the owners and investors to protect that initial plot. Etsy is so big, that it won't ever fail overnight. As long as it's profitable for a few years and everyone gets a fat check ou
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by toper-centage 4y ago
While some of those were hard misses, maybe were indeed possible scenarios if nothing had been done. Since the 60s governments world wide have enacted progressively stricter regulations for industry emissions, industrial waste treatment, ca
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by toper-centage 4y ago
That explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.

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