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throwaway462910 commented on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers   androidpolice.com/youtube... · Posted by u/prhrb
imbnwa · 3 years ago
I wonder how many subscribers watch YouTube on a smart TV? That's solely the reason I subscribe myself as I can't install an ad blocker there and as far as I know things like pi-hole cant block ads in Smart TV streams either.
throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
On Android TV there's SmartTubeNext, not sure about anything else, it's funny that Google's platform is the one that's easiest to block their ads on
throwaway462910 commented on Canada’s new tech talent strategy   canada.ca/en/immigration-... · Posted by u/faramarz
somerandomqaguy · 3 years ago
>Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration).

....... ?

Canada's number of permanent and non permanent residents increased by 1 million or so in 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/canada-s-...

throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
> Wait until you see what Australia is doing
throwaway462910 commented on Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says   reuters.com/legal/amazon-... · Posted by u/testrun
WA · 3 years ago
German here. Cancelling prime is full with dark patterns as well. I just looked it up. The wording is completely unclear. The text says:

"Mitgliedschaft kündigen Wenn du deine Mitgliedschaft jetzt kündigst, verlierst du den Zugriff auf deine Prime-Vorteile."

→ Continue

"X, warum auf alle Prime-Vorteile verzichten? Du kannst Prime noch 172 Tage bis zur nächsten Zahlung genießen. Du verlierst damit den Zugang zu diesen und weiteren Vorteilen, die in deiner Mitgliedschaft inklusive sind: ..."

→ "Mit Kündigung fortfahren"

The text makes it sound as if you cancel all benefits right away, but still pay for the full year.

throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
Similar in the UK, but I've used tor free trial enough times to notice the difference, if you're not paying it specifically mentions that you will lose benefits immediately. Interestingly on the "week for 99p" trial, you lose benefits immediately and get a partial refund, if you cancel soon enough? if you haven't hit a certain number of orders? Not sure. They'll also refund if you cancel at the start of a new month having not made any orders.
throwaway462910 commented on US approves chicken made from cultivated cells   apnews.com/article/cultiv... · Posted by u/tosh
dimal · 3 years ago
I think there have been studies that show that you’re correct. My question is how much room is there improve that efficiency as production scales and improves.

But even now, there’s the benefit of producing less suffering. No need to breed animals that can’t even support their own weight and spend their entire short lives suffering in darkness, crowded in cages with other suffering beings, awaiting death.

throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
Can't resist: there's already no need, even if we want animal products
throwaway462910 commented on Underage Enlistment in the United States and the Confederacy   commonplace.online/articl... · Posted by u/samclemens
JadedBlueEyes · 3 years ago
It's not quite so simple. Although the age of majority is 18 according to the Family Law Reform Act 1969, that is primarily relevant to financial contracts (debt), criminal sentencing, and tobacco. Drinking, you can drink in private from sixteen, although you can only purchase once at eighteen. You can start a company at sixteen. You bear primary authority over your medical records from sixteen, and your caregivers cannot access them without your consent. You can vote in some elections from sixteen. But you can't adopt until 21.

The TLDR is that in the UK, age limits are quite case-by-case, and tend to range from 16 to 21, although in more niche cases can range from 11 (the age you can open a bank account) to 30 (the age of suffrage for women in the 1918 Representation of the people act).

throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
Wanted to mention that 16 year olds could buy cigarettes until 2007, went to check the year, found that more interestingly:

You can smoke cigarettes at any age, but you are not allowed to buy them until you are 18.

If you are caught smoking by a uniformed police officer or park keeper in a public place when under 16, he or she can take away your tobacco and cigarette papers.

s.7 Children and Young Persons Act 1933

https://lawstuff.org.uk/at-what-age-can-i/buy-and-consume/

throwaway462910 commented on Reddit impacted by Alphv ransomware group   d17m4o70dfu80a.cloudfront... · Posted by u/_dev_urandom
Sunspark · 3 years ago
If true, this is interesting. As a knowledge repository, having an archive of it would be fascinating.

The size seems small to me. Only 80 gigabytes? What happened to all the video and images that Reddit hosts? Not everything is imgur or other sites.

That said, 4.5 million is too much that they are asking. It's only data not IP or trade secrets as far as I know. I think they certainly could get 500k for the deletion. I would hope that they would donate some of that VC pocket change to worthy causes.

throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
Given the mentions of confidential data, secrets about censorship, and GitHub artifacts, I would assume that public posts/comments aren't part of it? (if it is actually true)
throwaway462910 commented on Show HN: Text a photo to send as a postcard   postcardbot.com/... · Posted by u/traviswingo
arjvik · 3 years ago
Is MMS compression an issue? I typically never text photos from my android and instead rely on WhatsApp so they don't get compressed
throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
FYI, they are still compressed, just not to such a massively noticeable level
throwaway462910 commented on Why Roses Smell Nice   worldsensorium.com/why-yo... · Posted by u/dnetesn
JoeAltmaier · 3 years ago
This is all about chemistry and genetics. But nothing on 'why roses smell nice'.

It's really a puzzle. Why on earth should Homo Sapiens consider a rose's smell to be 'nice'? Dogs like roses' smell about the same as shit. They don't give a damn.

Further, why are rainbows pretty? Why is a waterfall inspiring? And on and on.

You have to have some kind of special model to explain this, I think. Something beyond simple reproductive survival. But I don't know what.

Anyway, interesting that we all smell slightly differently! So indeed qualia is a bigger issue than we may have thought.

throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
I've seen the argument before that humans find flowers pretty because they indicate fertile land, where there are flowers there will be animals, etc. Impossible to really know, I suppose.
throwaway462910 commented on EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling   theverge.com/2023/6/14/23... · Posted by u/HatchedLake721
thfuran · 3 years ago
But that's not the claim being made.
throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
It's the claim being pre-emptively argued against though
throwaway462910 commented on Apollo will close down on June 30th   old.reddit.com/r/apolloap... · Posted by u/timf
Kalium · 3 years ago
No, but power users are disproportionately to be invested enough to use third-party clients. Further, many power users play key roles as moderators. Community moderators on Reddit rely extensively on API access to enable the moderation tools that Reddit never really built.
throwaway462910 · 3 years ago
On the other hand, you might also expect that being so invested, they won't quit over third-party apps, time will tell.

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