Facebook will not change until there is sufficient external pressure - be that an authority, competition, etc. - to force it to change. End of. We've seen the same story for the last couple of years; Facebook is bad with privacy, Facebook makes token attempt to improve privacy, Facebook gets busted for being bad with privacy, and repeat.
Yep. I see this shared on FB every few months with the usual take of "LOL, WhAt aRE tHesE KiDS dOiNG?" Well, they're being active in a social environment, and having fun. And I can't find anything wrong with that.
Well I of course believe every bad thing I hear about one of these sites, although I did do an extra validation layer on SAML one time for 1000 dollars that took 4 hours work all in all so that was good, but I think the thing that is sort of off is that if you update to reflect the difference in time but still keep it in present tense some things, such as the been in the house for a week after losing the money, start to seem unbelievable.
Losing your primary source of income for the last seven years for an apparently bullshit reason doesn't strike you as adequate justification for extreme distress?
It was pointed out upthread that the first version said 5 years and then 7 years and asked people to draw conclusions from it. People were drawing the conclusion that the original poster had updated their posting to keep with the amount of time passed. I just pointed out that if that were the case then they did not just spend a week indoors after 7 years, they did that 2 years ago when they did the original posting.
Probably to clarify they matter they should have said - 2 years ago my life was nearly destroyed by Freelancer.com, et c. etc. but they did not, hence the whole thing seems a bit off, perhaps because they are not very good at constructing a narrative in English.
I had supposed this point very clear from what I posted before, but it appears not, this saddens me as it may mean I am not very good at constructing a narrative in English either.
Of course there are any number of ludicrous ideas one might entertain as to why the posting was updated in the manner it was - perhaps after losing their source of income after 5 years it all ended up well and they continued with that source of income for two more years until the exact same thing happened to them in which case fool me once, fool me twice applies.
It's there, but further down. The list goes Austria to United States, then Afghanistan to Zimbabwe... for some reason. Canada is in the second block. Again, for some reason.
So W3W is effectively domains for lat/lon and/or street addresses. This feels like an idea trying desperately to justify it's existence. Or to paraphrase, the answer to a question no one asked. Reviewing the critiques of this concept only seem to reinforce that.
Agreed. I made a comment about this about another article a few weeks back that went too heavy on the visual story telling. Yes, it's cool that it looks like a magazine and all, but very difficult to focus on and hold the narrative.
Second, thanks for the link to the map! Maybe I missed it for the aforementioned issues, but I rather expected an article about a map to contain the actual map.
The argument for switching to Firefox seems weak. I don't doubt there are very solid reasons to do so, however the author's argument comes down to "I, personally, just trust this one more, and I'm lazy and don't want to worry about it." Okay.... that's nice.
Chrome tracks you even if you're not logged into your Google account. Another good reason to support and use Firefox is that we don't want to end up with only one browser engine, giving Google complete control over the future of the web and the rest of the internet.
Clarification. What is the steam tax you speak of? I understand when people use the term 'Apple tax' (for example), they're referring to a premium price on a premium product and the follow up premier prices that come with it. But as far as Steam's prices go - assuming the term is used in relation to the price of the products - I don't see any particular inflation over the price of games in a brick and mortar store. In fact, even comparing Steam prices to GOG or the Humble store, I don't think I've ever encountered any discrepancy in prices that points to a "steam tax".
