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It’s too bad there’s no way to use hybrid approaches or use some kind of learning, but for machines! No heuristics to rank and prioritize content. We better tell every big tech com…

Gee, I wonder how Wikimedia could make this practice ethical? Maybe actually tell people it's going to those causes instead of Wikipedia? Naaaaaaaaah

I agree. We need more American (TM) companies with no competition. In every industry, there should be a Comcast sitting on top collecting rents.

I'm 100% with you. We have to keep the money flowing away from taxpayers and towards corporate interests.

> this has been done properly numerous times in the past I'm genuinely curious if you have any examples of this. I'm not aware of any modern product at scale that doesn't suffer fr…

Good. I'm so tired of all these folks saying that we haven't always been at war with Eurasia.

> it is possible to operate a Google account completely without a phone number This is only true for a limited time. I've tried to use a couple Google accounts this way and inevita…

Buy a handful of alternative domains that redirect to your primary (you could stand up a minimal url shortener on each domain). Even if you get unblocked this time, it could easily…

I was expecting the number of search results here to be much higher - like who cares if Google only serves the first million results out of a billion? Very interesting to see that …

Absolutely. But not your right to ensure that nobody can hear.

In this case, "the market" is essentially just Google - who incidentally created the market for SEO spam. I don't necessarily blame Google for the tight integration with Wikipedia.…

I saw a solid video a couple days ago called "Why I hate Wikipedia (and you should too!)" https://youtu.be/-vmSFO1Zfo8 I'd never given Wikipedia much thought, but it raised some ve…

I got an engineering manager who was a hardcore micromanager. He insisted on adding a lot of process, but refused to conform to any processes himself. He caused numerous false SEVs…

> People keep asking about examples of work that exemplifies "potential harms [that] outweigh the benefit of publication." How about large scale human vivisection? People are askin…

Apple's self repair program exists for one reason - to mitigate regulatory scrutiny. They have no incentive to make it effective.

> iFixit praises the M1 MacBook Air service manuals by saying “they’re in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional repairability point,” This is the service manual you'r…

> Twitter IMHO is not as evil as for example Facebook Twitter is just worse at executing.

Same. Don't love that kind of bait-and-switch UX.

I don't use Manjaro anymore, but I really appreciated it as a user-friendly bridge I was able to use to cross the chasm from Ubuntu to Arch. The i3 community Manjaro made me love t…

> Because of attitudes like this. I had no idea my attitude could magically make party elites care about this basic constitutional right! Thanks so so much for setting me straight.…

If any politician ran on bringing the 4th amendment back, they'd have my vote. But spying on the populace is bipartisan.

Whatever Australia has against Google, there’s no question that Google completely lied about location tracking being buried in the “Web and App Activity” setting. Washington DC, Wa…

This just doesn’t make sense from a financial standpoint. It seems doubtful the money recovered covers the cost of the audits.

They’ve required a phone number every time I’ve tried to sign up. They don’t have it in the sign up flow - they wait until you try to sign in and won’t let you proceed without it.

As soon as I saw the headline, figured it was Australia. It's a real stretch to call it a liberal democracy at this point.