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I assume they did and figured nobody would mistake a chips brand with an FX service. Legally I'm sure it's not a problem.

Neither is making a black box a good use of Apple's talents, yet here we are.

Thank you for taking the time to write this very in-depth comment, I can say I understand some of these words now!

Their opaque rules have conditioned their counterparties to punish Google as hard as possible for a screwup.

Good for karma, bad for everyone though.

A long year really

"You put the Dinosaur in Dinosaurs"

Get outta here!

All these metrics are very short-term and the user dissatisfaction builds up over time. It makes sense for everyone involved (the short term is all that counts for investors and CEOs), but I personally can't wait to see Facebook eat itself.

This is not entirely correct for French. Though there is an Académie Française in France, it doesn't directly dictate rules to other French-speaking nations and cultures.

This is because France doesn't contain the majority of French speakers in the world, and even if it did there doesn't seem to be an incentive to follow any rules they may publish.

Source: I live in Québec, we don't defer to the Académie.

This is not really "huge", sorry.

For one thing, it's still an intrusive method which requires brain surgery. I expected something like radioactive isotopes but no, this is easily summed up as "better electrodes". As good thing for sure, not a game changer.

For another, the writer is a tech journalist and therefore more than likely wrong or inaccurate on important facts.

Is the point of Wine not to avoid giving Microsoft money?

Goes to show how great that comic was.

cultural "requirement": clothing that is required to fit into social circles. The shirt would be a good example of this, aswell as the tie.

So... fashion?

No wonder science journalism has a hard time keeping to the facts, even with direct access to the paper we're upvoting and misunderstanding a paper of trivial significance...

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Only if you define intelligence tautologically as "this one innate attribute that makes you smart".

It's more like the very least we could collectively achieve while remaining functional.

Paper straws were never actually better for the environment.

But sadly this is not something Google and Microsoft would collaborate on. I would rather expect them to ready the lawyers.

I imagine lack of maintenance is a deliberate choice.

Depends which users. A lot of teenagers are "mostly on Instagram" or "only use it for Messenger". And teenagers are apparently an important population to marketers.

I know FB owns Instagram but the point is, Facebook as a platform may be past its prime in NA.

Wonder where this title comes from?

What makes a sense of achievement "false"? As far as I can tell, this isn't defined in the article. Is climbing mount Everest a "true" achievement? What about winning a chess match? Solving a riddle? Is there something about games that make the the achievement any lesser?

Not sure what you mean by scientific way, as there's no real way to test this objectively, maybe you've just had crap luck

On the subject of social skills, there have been many books on the subject, traditionally titled under Asperger's: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12108.Top_social_skills_...

Friendships, like all relationships, must be nurtured to survive. A lot of neurotypical people are kinda crap at nurturing friendships naturally but they try to do so often in subconscious ways.

If your social skills are below average you may not pick up on the subtle clues, so you'll have to make more explicit efforts to maintain the friendship, and explain to your friends what kind of gestures go toward nurturing it when it comes to yourself, ie you mostly consider time spent together, or chats, or phone calls, gifts, what have you.

I'm not a psychologist but I'm a neurotypical person with a few high functioning autistic friends if you want my opinion on anything.

How could this type of blackmail happen if someone was already reviewing the videos manually? Takedowns being automated is fundamentally at odds with free speech.

Isn't this the default behavior / reason for containers to exist?

Part of this inaccuracy is on purpose.

People can really freak the fuck out when you can predict what they need accurately. For example the real case of a store advertising specific baby items to someone who didn't know she was pregnant.

This is why "suggested items" often have one wildcard thrown in: They don't want you to realize just how much they really know you.

Of course this doesn't explain failures, but I wouldn't rule out smart ads just yet.

I do it with the free email address that comes with my domain name. In this case I'm using gandi.net but I'm sure most domain name providers have a similar deal.

Just to counter-nit-pick, the word "bible" is very often used as meaning "the most popular book about a certain thing", the book doesn't have to be accepted by everyone in the movement. And Atlas Shrugged is almost certainly the most popular libertarian book.

It sounds like you're saying she wasn't a libertarian because she labeled herself as an objectivist but a) it doesn't matter what she labeled herself as and b) it can be seen as just a subset, I struggle to think of any incompatibilities between the two, especially since libertarianism is used with much looser meaning.

I've had a very similar experience on Linux. Love to build projects with Python, hate to use other's Python apps (unless they're packaged, in which case I don't even have to know).

It's weird because it's a valid point, but they go on to elaborate using absurdly misguided arguments.

They're mostly developing on the importance of being smart, all the while misunderstanding what being smart is (it's not grades jesus christ) and failing to establish a correlation between smarts and fitness for a particular task.

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