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Comment #26732187
I mean, 1.2M views for the whole channel is... almost nothing, in terms of $? Surely not enough to affore new comfy bed and pillows?
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Comment #25694770
Parler is dead, aka banned by apple and google 1-2 hours ago.
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Comment #25553114
But how much can you acquire without triggering some FBI/police alarm? I honestly don't know, but I think it's harder now than in 1995.
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Comment #25552977
Something does not add up here. Making RV full of explosives and exploding it in a right place not a small feat. Oklahoma City Bombing, for example, took 8 month from start to fina…
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Comment #25537088
Maybe my mind playing tricks on me, but it seems to me this object is human-shaped with something attached on his back (jet-pack?)
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Comment #25533186
Honest question, no snark --- which consumer space problems were solved, if I don't play Go and don't have FB account to recognize me on a group photos (both of these two statement…
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Comment #25533151
How true. "Those evil Trump campaign staffers turned election in his favor using amazing evil micro-targeting FB techniques which are complete scam and do not work at all". Pretty …
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Comment #25532503
>they mean that it was uncommon for a typical consumer to experience it back then. Siri from Apple was launched in 2011, as some other commenter noted below. Also, "On June 14, 201…
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Comment #25531670
Of course it was awful. It was 1997. But you can't claim that something "wasn't possible 5 years" ago, if 7 years ago said feature was included in inexpensive consumer product (LG …
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Comment #25531624
They confessed. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/business/media/facebook-a...
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Comment #25531377
>Presumably if you had a blog aimed at high-earning college educated people you could get a pretty high ratio of (target demographic/all viewers). Correct. The problem of course is…
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Comment #25531325
>recognize voices. All these things were not possible 5 years ago. FTR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking Dragon Systems released NaturallySpeaking 1.0 as thei…
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Comment #25388289
Honest question -- do you think that without Facebook there will be no tensions between anti-maskers and people who insist on wearing masks everywhere? Is FB really to blame here?
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Comment #25387981
OK, agree. But then, don't shift the blame to 'malicious state actor'. This is their decision and they own it in full.
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Comment #25387333
30% is HUGE, and this is why I do not buy the idea that you can get such percentage of votes because of some evil state actor who posts ads on facebook, with independent press, TV,…
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Comment #25386322
Being originally from Russia, I know how things work there. I mean, government contractors aren't saints in every country, it's a well known fact, but in Russia they are on a whole…
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Comment #25386277
Stealing goverment money under the premise of "we will rule the world comrade, so please allocate 100 million dollars to us ASAP" and pocketing it to buy London properties, obvious…
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Comment #25386185
Yeah, I know. Russia would have a lot to gain from: -- Trump being re-elected -- Yellow Vests riots in France -- Brexit -- Alternative for Germany party rise in Germany and all of …
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Comment #25385884
>How do you think populist leaders gain such a large voice so quickly in those EU countries? There are two options here. 1. People are not really happy with current status quo so t…
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Comment #25385551
I haven't seen a single article even trying to suggest that politics in Germany or Netherlands is affected by Facebook is any way. (And for USA, you can see such articles on HN fro…
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Comment #25385488
Honestly, americans who are thinking in all seriousness that "we can have democracy or we can have Facebook" are just deluding themselves. I wonder why facebook usage isn't "sowing…
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Comment #25066884
There is one simple option to preserve whatever you want. Pay for it, dammit.
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Comment #24758465
I never said it simple. Choosing between driving dodge ram or prius also affects others, because pollution. All I said that freedom is having mutiple choices.
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Comment #24758324
Freedom is having a choice. Between, say, having fun in overcrowded bar till 3am or staying in your apartment alone, ordering delivery and watching netflix. Quite simple.
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Comment #24394357
What worldview? This is purely objective point. If you have 5% of AMZN, Besos has 95%, I have none and AMZN stock doubles in value, you can easily calculate the outcome in terms of…