vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com
Calling Gab pro free speech is pretty rich. They ban people for being Democrats or being critical of gab itself. They just don't ban people for anti semitism.
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vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Google’s approach to Black schools explains why there's few Black engs in Tech
No the point of the article is they didn't hold them in the same esteem as Harvard and Stanford. Which seems...fine?
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Tim Wu Explains Why He Thinks Facebook Should Be Broken Up (2019)
GDPR is an absolute disaster which has already stifled innovation and entrenched incumbents
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)
that would incredibly regressive. it's an awful idea
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)
That's like the most obvious thing in the world to catch and TT definitely checks for it. So this seems weird
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
retail investors are a very small minority of short positions. hedge funds do most of the shorting in the market
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
> You can measure conversions without relying on personally identifiable information. Adding e.g. a non-personal tag to your URL will enable you to track the source of a conversion
That literally is what we're talking about
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
apple is leaning into services and advertising heavily right this instant
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
so you were a total dick to a random person and you're writing this story like you're the hero?
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
I mean try using a smartphone with a banned apple or google account. A PS5 is a brick if sony bans your account. This is standard industry practice
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
on the contrary, these things can roam up to 5 miles from their nests
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
There's a lot of things you can "both sides" but only one side is undermining democracy because their positions are unpopular.
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues
Where would anyone get the idea that a columnist shouldn't criticize other writers at a paper? Everyone who works there is supposed to have the same ideas about everything?
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Factorio 1.0
So glad you mentioned this I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. I quit playing this game because I couldn't sleep afterward. So weird nothing else has ever affected me like that
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Hiring Without Whiteboards
I really don't understand the idea that take home is somehow more fair or accurate than whiteboards. I've judged and taken both whiteboards and take homes. Take homes are more annoying for the candidate, and in my experience much more subjective from the interviewer. In my experience take home is the absolute worst way to pick a candidate.
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
There are ways. Lots of podcasts etc are RSS and behind paywalls. Agree we should make it easier and companies are starting to pop up that empower and enable the distributed internet rather than destroying it, even as spotify is making major moves in the other direction.
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague
This quote is awesome thanks for sharing
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
ugh why is ipv6 impossible to understand :/
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
Also increasingly apple is moving to compete in services. Every incentive in the world will be to adopt the practices the other guys do. Putting your trust in apple right now on the privacy issue seems pretty misguided.
vvG94KbDUtRa | 5 years ago | on: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
I don't agree with you, but even if I did, the "pretense" being referred to is "we don't actually want violence inflicted on the other party". I'd say that's a pretty important pretense to keep
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