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throwaway35784
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Comment #21632009
It's not ideology.It's Pavlovian science. If you reward behavior, you get more of it.
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Comment #21629965
Unreadable on mobile due to all the tracking.
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Comment #21629826
This is precisely the way a market for lemons works. Scumbags like you thinking it's ok to prey on the less knowledgeable human beings we live with.
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Comment #21629768
No. You have to build on the new browser, because that's what is on your new computer, then hope it runs on the old computer with the old browser.
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Comment #21629708
You're not a fan of them but you'll gladly pay them your money? Sounds like righteous hypocrisy to me. I'm not a fan of them and I've never paid them any money, neither one. They a…
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Comment #21629531
The article is wrong. It absolutely does cost money and time to test on old browsers. You need multiple computers or vms set up. You don't build websites using old computers runnin…
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Comment #21623668
As with all things it's a cost benefit analysis. It costs money to support old browsers and a lot of money doesn't come from them do do the math. I was trying to buy movie tickets …
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Comment #21596505
Aside: Costumers, er prospects rather, love my products until the end when they ask, "so... how many people work there?" As though that would indicate how likely it is that the pro…
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Comment #21596418
I like the style of the code. Can talk about your inspiration for it? I haven't seen Javascript written in that way before. It's clean but, at least to me, unintuitive. What is you…
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Comment #21595590
No. They are restricting just one type of targeting. >Google is extending a ban on political campaigns targeting advertising at people based on their supposed political leanings. >…
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Comment #21591766
> I’m frequently asked about what Airbnb did right This is the problem. They didn't do it right. They broke TOSes. They committed fraud. They misled home owners and renters. They b…
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Comment #21591740
If they are image maps with links where to learn the leaf nodes this would be the bees knees.
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Comment #21588186
Why is everyone answering the question like I'm talking about the police? Is it legal for any person off the street to install a GPS tracker on someone else's car?
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Comment #21588143
That perspective on the law is a non starter. It's just not true. Picking and choosing what is okay to infringe is by definition being an arbiter of copyright law.
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Comment #21588080
What does the 4th amendment say about non law enforcement persons installing a GPS tracker on my car. Can I go and buy a gps tracker and install it on your car? If not, why is Face…
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Comment #21585393
So because it's worth it to you it shouldn't be pirated? As if your opinion on what laws are worthwhile to follow are somehow better than the actual law? Nothing should be pirated.…
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Comment #21585322
Why don't laws about installing a gps tracker on a car apply to installing a gps tracker on my person? Facebook is exactly breaking the law at least in many states. Its so clearly …
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Comment #21574313
Do users have access to the audit logs of those who have accessed their information?
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Comment #21573750
You're turning a factual story into fake news. >but how many are actually doing it? A lot? A few? No one knows except Google and fitbit. As it is, is exactly "some"and since a lot …
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Comment #21570491
49.8% in BC. 33% to Canada and 16.8 to the province.
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Comment #21570422
The average person in the top 1% in China has over $2.1 million CAD. That's 14 million people, which is half the population of Canada. Canadian homes are their safe deposit boxes. …
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Comment #21568448
It's a scientific fact that donations influence behavior. It is impossible for these organizations to remain unbiased in their approach to privacy when they take these contribution…
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Comment #21568395
Do you really believe they want gdpr? Or might they be more interested in keeping it out of America? I see no evidence they care about people's privacy, rather the opposite is intr…
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Comment #21568373
And we crashed the site too.
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Comment #21560915
Layers of understanding. That's what we are talking about. How many Layers must be understood to know something is broken? Or what's broke about it? It's broke. I know that. I don'…