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enraged_camel posted:I see, you just want to be technically accurate. Kind of like the "actually, it's 'ephebophilia'" thing the alt-right kept screaming during the alabama special election when it turned out roy moore was into underage teenagers and people called him a pedophile. Dude that's some hosed up false equivalence.
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They could shoot it down pretty easily but Gatwick is surrounded by residential housing so it's probably not a good idea. This has happened before (although it's been clueless hobbyists this is clearly intended to disrupt) so you would think they would have invested in better tech for it or maybe those cool trained falcons.
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luxury handset posted:as bad as traditional newspapers can be at least they don't openly encourage nazis I see someone isn't acquainted with the British press.
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Insanite posted:It would be grand if this resulted in a bunch of people ditching smartphone social media, but that's a lot to hope for. Its more likely that this would upset the EU possibly leading to the EU presurring facebook to sell whatsapp.
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Kickstarter is certainly not dead but I do think the 'sheen' has rubbed off at this point. There have been so many huge failures and cons that people are much more sceptical about funding a project. Kickstarter is a great thing and I hope it sticks around but I'm also glad the absolutely mad craze and naivety around it in early days is coming to an end.
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There Bias Two posted:I imagine this all includes all their precise location and biometric data that surely won't be used to track consumers even more closely? They have that already if you have an android phone as only the highest tier fitbit includes its own GPS, the rest use the GPS on your phone. It's probably in a response to apple more heavily pushing and integrating apple watch into their ecosystem and because wear OS has been such a failure.
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How are u posted:I will never install any of this 'smart home' poo poo, loving christ. It blows my mind how people get so excited over it. Smartphones always listening is bad enough. At some point they will just become the standard for new builds.
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My TV is exclusively used for streaming and switch. So keeping it dumb isn't reallyan option for me, it's the TV aerial I don't have plugged in. So far I've been lucky that apps still get updated and so far LG aren't pumping out ads to places other than the store app (at least not on my set) . I'm sure that will change at some point though. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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There are 13 states were public urination can get you life on the sex offenders list. 6 others can put you on it for paying a prostitute Or if you had sex with a teenager when you were a teenager Or if you allow your teenage daughter to have a sexual relationship with her boyfriend under your roof Or if you open your spyware infected laptop around children and it has porn popups on it I get the sentiment behind wanting to filter out sex offenders but I think you need to fix the register first before you can rely on it for such a thing.
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extremely online posted:leave out all the guys who pissed in public, although I don't think anybody should be dating those guys either. You realise you're effectively saying with this you shouldn't date anyone who's had the misfortune of being homeless at any time in their life?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's a rugby term that more or less describes up to a dozen men interlocked in one big pile fighting over a ball. What's most funny to me about the term is its an 8v8 of too opposing sides fighting over a goal, which is kinda the antithesis of what agile is meant to be (but actually ends up accurate)
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Lambert posted:Aldi deliberately only has a tiny area for customers to bag their stuff because they want people to move off fast. I've been wondering this since I started shopping there and if that is the reason honestly I'm not convinced it works. It just makes it difficult to juggle everything and pay as well.
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The UK ones have no shelf. At least the 2 in my town don't. It just means I always restrict myself to small shops there.
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Shrecknet posted:Why is NetFlix even in that top tier, tf do they do except make the interface worse and make it autoplay when you're browsing. You can turn off the auto play in the options now. While Netflix aren't as big as the others, their impact is huge in the software world, they were kind of pioneers in microservices space for example.
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Sage Grimm posted:Just lol if your company hasn't dropped the mask entirely and made them count as "workhour estimates" "according to the average engineer" We paid that consultant a lot of money. You just expect not to do exactly what he says regardless of how stupid it is?
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What's with these people constantly having VC in their twitter bios like is something to be proud of? Your just a bank manager with less regulation.
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I argue us brits have loads of amazing individual dishes and export a lot of it (chocolate and cheese are two good examples) but I do agree with don't have this love and passion about cooking that say the French or Italians do and it leads to a lot of kids growing up not really knowing how to cook well. Senor Tron posted:My fav thing about that stereotype is that the stats have the average Brit with more of their teeth left than the average American. It's just that America is more about the flashy white grins. The flashy white US celeb smile is mostly pleasant, however I've seen quite the number of them (mostly news broadcasters for some reason) who have taken it to ridiculous degrees where it makes their teeth look like plastic. Almost like the mouth equivalent of huge fake tits. I've always wondered were the stereotype came from about the teeth. Compared to the rest of Europe, British teeth are no different. I'd guess maybe its because of the Americans consuming so much British TV and music that it just got stuck on us? Who knows, frankly as a country who invaded and occupied over half the world, often in incredibly brutal ways, having 'bad teeth' and 'bad food' the things people most associate with is us is getting off incredibly lightly. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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knox_harrington posted:Lol. Glass houses, etc Thats probably the biggest objective I have to the whole British food bad thing. I don't mind it from the French (or any of the other countries with amazing food) but coming from the country that gave the world spray on cheese in a can, it's pretty rich.
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Sex Tragedy posted:pure drivel In the UK this was definitely true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead#Racism,_anti-racism,_and_politics
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Linkedin makes about $6-7 billion in revenue a year. Microsoft bought it for $26 billion in 2016. So a few years yet before they turn a profit on the investment, it'll happen though.
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NaanViolence posted:On top of that, it got Trump elected. Lol no it didn't. The media did by covering anything and everything he did because he was good for ratings. quote:Trump received more extensive media coverage than Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders combined 73% of Americans see his tweets not through twitter, or reposted on Facebook, or any other online platform. But TV. He could have been posting on loving MySpace and the effect would have been the same. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Sure but your argument seems to be twitter is more evil because of it. Trump being elected was bad but Facebook has been vastly more influential in recruitment for hate groups, influencing various elections and spreading conspiracy theories. Oh and being directly involved in a literal loving genocide. Twitter isn't a good company. The world would be a better place without it likely but its actual impact isn't as great as people think, Facebook is in a whole other league of its own in terms of damage done to society.
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adoration for none posted:I think Elon has always been a shithead, it's just that not until recently have we been able to see inside the festering dilapidated cesspool of poo poo that is his mind. There really is something mentally wrong with most people that actively try to acquire billions in wealth off others Most CEOs don't try and court the common people. They stick to their fancy parties with other rich people and are content on the world hating then. Elon got a taste of adoration from the libertarian crowd and got addicted.
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As someone who has suffered a complete office redesign to be completely open plan and am now working from home full time. I'm far and away more productive now that I was before. It was bumpy to begin with but a few plugins to block distracting websites during certain times of day set me straight.
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FAANG was a stock trading term for high growth stocks which at the time didn't include Microsoft. To be honest it's not a very good term but no one has come up with a better one so people keep using it.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53718541 So twitter bought vine, shuttered it because they couldn't figure out a way to monetise it, and now they are thinking about buying tik tok? How is this going to be different?
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Buying to just shutter is an incredibly risky and costly move as what's stopping another competitor from just springing up? Your also just opening yourself up to anti trust lawsuits from every direction. So no twitter didn't buy it to shutter it and they didn't buy it because they hate minorities. Twitter is evil but in a far more banal way than that. They bought it because it was cool and trendy but they are too stupid to know why, so they ended up with a platform they had no idea what to do with or how to make money from. The 'corporate' ideal is to do what Facebook did with Instagram, purchase it before it starts to damage your business and then merge the user bases as much as possible while maintaining or even increasing the market stranglehold it has. Facebook has been far smarter with its acquisitions often keeping the product completely separate with the original creator in control until it reaches a certain threshhold of market dominance, then forcing them out (like they did with WhatsApp) Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Platystemon posted:Twitter fears antitrust lawsuits about as much as they fear the California grizzly. In the US maybe. But EU antitrust is a little more serious.
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jaete posted:[citation needed] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google As for current stuff going on https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/08/04/eu-launches-antitrust-probe-into-googles-planned-acquisition-of-fitbit/#76b6cbb8622f https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/apple-eu-antitrust.html https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-e...e-idUKKBN21P229 There's literally dozens of currently ongoing probes into big tech. The EU has a lot more willingness to go after them. There is a reason slack (a US company) filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the EU and not the US, cos in the EU they might get listened to https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/slack-has-filed-an-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft-teams-in-the-eu/
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paperwind posted:Are Keruigs connected to the Internet yet, and if so will they release DLC to enhance the coffee-making experience? The best example of this is still lightbulbs. Beside efficiency, they have been pretty much perfected. But wait! How about people turn them on with their phone! But it gave the world this comedy gold so its ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo
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I just wanted an excuse to post the funny lightbulb video but goons gotta be all protective over their wifi bulbs.Private Speech posted:Even things like movement-activated lights - these days they are often radar-based thanks to inexpensive chips and technology improvements, which results in a much more pleasing performance than classic pir lights (which are based on heat sensing). This stuff was also perfected years ago in South Korea. 
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I'm a Spotify casual and I (quite gladly) haven't had an MP3 on my computer in years. Same. It looked like it was gonna go the same way for movies for me too thanks to Netflix, then the streaming wars kicked off so it's back to  for some things.
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NaanViolence posted:I've never been ignorant enough to pay money for a streaming service. The last free one I used was last.fm before it died. External hard drives are huge now, just torrent a CD once and you have it forever. Lol ignorant? You think people only pay for streaming because they don't know how too ?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54221897 I'm admittedly disappointed about this even if it was just for the dumb reason of looking forward to the fallout and drama from teenagers if it did get banned. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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I don't even understand what the message is, it's one of those blog posts that says a whole lot without actually saying anything.
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Corporate ethics is an oxymoron. Corporations are structured in a way that self interest is all they can do, it just so happens in tech atm hiring is one of the hardest things, so "good ethics" gives you an edge there as tech bros want to feel less guilty about their insane salaries and generally destroying society with their work. If the issue of "not enough good devs" was solved Corps would all instantly drop the act. Although I'm still kind of confused what exactly is the stuff other companies are meant to be doing that coinbase won't anymore. Do companies actually come out in favour of political candidates in the US? Or for particular laws? Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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Even Facebook got caught lying to companies about their ads (the auto video play scandal). The whole ad industry is just smoke and mirrors.
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/politico/status/1347216854457208836 Nah he just sees the writing on the wall. Facebook need to get in front of this before politicians rightfully realise how much they are to blame for all of it.
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Social media certainly makes keeping up with friends over distances easier but there's something to be said for allowing people to enter and leave your life naturally. I imagine if most people were honest they probably are only interested in 15% of their Facebook 'friends ' lives.
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When people in this thread are talking about social media they are talking about a very specific type. Stop trying to be the smartest guy in the room.
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mandatory lesbian posted:I dont disagree with buying a bike but lol at the carbon footprint argument, no individual is gonna make a dent compared to companies so its basically null as a reason I get your point but you can say a similar argument about boycotting or voting. But it's still a good reason to do those things. Dumping your car is pretty much the biggest life change you can make in terms of positive environmental impact.
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