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Re:Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase' on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:36PM (#27722835)
Apparently Bezos is worried that someone out there might not know he's a dickhead yet.
Re:Apple and Google investigated by UK competition body on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:40AM (#27514400)
This will go nowhere and everyone involved will be working for Apple and Google in a few years' time.
Re:Manifest v3 Update on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:25PM (#27308747)
>DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers.

"Yet"?

I thought I'd seen bad analogies before, but I had no idea what was possible.
Re:What's going on here, with this human? on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:43AM (#26992664)
I read the description of a "self-authoring" mind. Can someone ELI5 how it differs from the description of a "psychopath"?
Re:Nuclear fusion plan at former Aberthaw Power Station on Sunday April 25, 2021 @05:26AM (#26931439)
I wonder who's spouse, in-law or sibling will get most of that £222m.
I feel like I wasn't supposed to see that.
Re:Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix’s CEO on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:27PM (#26797768)
This is written in the style of someone who spends 20 straight hours at a time edit-warring on a wiki.
Re:What Is the “Mffam” Policy? on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:14PM (#26542838)
It means, "offensive or repugnant to NFSN," which is a reasonable definition for them to be using imho.
>At Google there were interviews exactly like what Manara prepared us for: data structures & algorithms problem-solving.

I'm surprised this hasn't become the main point of discussion here yet.

Edit: I mean Google's interview technique, and how people prepare for it

Someone should paste Zuckerberg's face in the middle of the logo whenever they see one of those.
Re:Bangui magnetic anomaly on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:17AM (#26012633)
It's probably that vibranium deposit. I saw a film about it.
Re:Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:52AM (#25760932)
Facial recognition software to count board members? Would that be applauded?
Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:11AM (#25526569)
>Certainly I think ... covids and some other groups, show that intelligence is rather easy to come by

Oh shit I hope not!

Re:Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:14PM (#25470058)
I don't think you would need exact duplication for these situations to arise.
Youtube is the problem. Anyone can put whatever shit they want online, which is fine in itself, but put your snake oil on Youtube and Google's Skynet will expertly find rubes to sell for you and show it to them.

But on a few occasions, like this one, advertisers get nervous.

Maybe! The real problem is to help people avoid people they want to avoid, not banning clients on technical grounds. A genuine attempt at solving the problem wouldn't be based on universal bans. There could be groups who have their own blacklists. Find the groups you agree with and tick boxes to subscribe to their ideas of who should be banned.
Re:AirPods Max on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:23PM (#25349305)
Is cancelling your nose really a price worth paying?
It doesn't even matter whether someone is cheating. All that matters is whether they're ruining the game. You don't need a rootkit to determine that.
You forgot to use cowsay.
Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:59AM (#25080781)
"a world where a certain subset of people with the technical knowledge have computing freedom"

Even that is optimistic.

Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:46AM (#25033781)
We're making good progress toward a world without sharks. We can do it!
Re:Privacy-preserving features in the Mobile Driving License on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:44PM (#25011847)
"In some cases, this means you may get advertising in the mail"

It's nice to know Google is concerned about this dystopian possibility.

Re:Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its corals since 1995 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:49PM (#24780740)
People like to talk about technology saving us, but there is only one technology that can stop climate change now. I can't remember what it's called though. It's kind of a big wooden frame with a big metal thing that slides vertically. Used to be popular in France at one time.
I think you proved the parent's point.
It's the AT-5000 auto-dialer all over again.
Re:Read Me on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:14PM (#24463610)
I can't tell if the joke is deliberate.
If the police are acting like Judge Dredd and murdering people then a weak and ineffective police force is exactly what you have.
Either you think America used to have Soviet style communism, or you have serious reading comprehension problems, or you're a parodist.
"Facebook did not answer questions about why a partner manager would cite ad volume as a reason for not acting against a group of pages."

Oops somebody said the thing out loud.

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