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Bluestein
11,073karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
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"Have you ever been annoyed that Mac App Store pages in Safari automatically open App Store app? Would you like to stop that from happening? Good news, now you can! I've just released a free…
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"Full-Page Ads On Day 2: WhatsApp Tries To Allay Privacy Concerns Again"
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"Razer Project Hazel N95 mask on a pair of models, one of whom seems to be asking herself if she left the oven on before leaving home today." This caption is hilarious :)
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Spot on.
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Apple Car :)
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"Plummer had already contributed one side project, Task Manager, to Windows. His next, a shell extension to browse into and drag and drop to and from ZIP files, he opted to sell himself. A rival,…
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"Coinbase has faltered over 7 times in the past couple of months out of which 4 came this months alone and we are only 11 days into the month and all these during the peak trading hours leading m…
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"Perhaps it is the stoicism on the faces of the models or the soothing voice of the narrator but I feel safer after watching this whole video!"
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"Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
It’s completely decentralized with no server or central authori…
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"But if the stardom is the reward, what of their revolution? Don’t they have work to do, a vote to stop? For many in the mob that showed up in DC, the posing is the work. They have been so influe…
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"The Zimbabwean dollar was 'the name of 4 official currencies of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 12 April 2009.' During this period, it was 'subject to periods of above-average inflation, fo…
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"In signalling environments ranging from consumption to education, high-quality senders often
shun the standard signals that should separate them from lower-quality senders. We find that
allowing…
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"Hair scientist (!) Crystal Porter explains the science behind curly hair. (Hint: It involves mushy cells in teeny-tiny tunnels.)"
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"I hear Facebook has an entire department devoted to figuring out why Telegram is so popular. Imagine dozens of employees working on just that full-time. I am happy to save Facebook tens of milli…
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"A filter bubble – a term coined by internet activist Eli Pariser – is a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses wh…
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Honestly, the research done by PlanB is one of the most objectively interesting things done in that space ... And the live, updated graph is amazing work.- Also, this video ... - https://ww…
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"If Facebook’s endless privacy scandals have shown one thing, it’s that the company has far too much data on its users, and that they can’t be trusted not to sell, barter, or abuse that data whet…