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ShinyNewFeature

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    In many jurisdictions in the US, there is a requirement for the casino and lottery operators to pay a certain percentage (typically 90+%) back as winnings. Do health insurance comp…

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    Comment #27428087

    I do not think Tor necessarily requires 3 hops. See https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/497 . It's just that 3 hops provide significant incremental benefit over 2 hops.

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    Comment #27427695

    It's a 2-hop TOR.

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    These are all great features. Wonder when Google will catch up? Seems like they are actually moving more in the opposite direction.

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    Comment #27026181

    Right, but what Google did was to slow down only the non-AMP ads. If the goal was to build a better user experience, they should have slowed ALL the ads.

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    Comment #27022062

    The challenge is that the notification acceptance rate is so low on mobile devices that it makes it meaningless to implement such features [1]. Practically, user is most likely to …

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    Comment #27022029

    As a user, I think what's holding back web is not the lack of APIs but how much web and browsers have repeatedly ignored user preferences, and optimized for tracking and ads. Go to…

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    As a user, I think what's holding back web is not the lack of APIs but how much web and browsers have repeatedly ignored user preferences, and optimized for tracking and ads. Go to…

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    Comment #26452051

    Can anybody explain why Chromium tech writer chose to sprinkle "up to" everywhere in the numbers? For example: "we’ve improved browser responsiveness by up to 9%". This makes the a…