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clarkenheim··on How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
You gave consent to see ads when you signed up. Why would the presence of an ad blocker withdraw that consent?
clarkenheim··on Concorde ‘B’
According to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc First/business class seats are where the airlines make all of their money, so Concord would be economically viable today.
clarkenheim··on An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami
The words "umami flavours" is a lot more palatable than MSG.
clarkenheim··on What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
If Facebook need to answer this question then so do Google, Twitter, Amazon and basically anyone else with a big enough footprint.
clarkenheim··on Ban Targeted Advertising
This is just as bad an idea as banning encryption to stop terrorism.
clarkenheim··on Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payment card details
It will only be replaced with another echo chamber.
clarkenheim··on German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
You can stop Facebook from using you as well in the EU.
clarkenheim··on 'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into sky
this is awesome, thanks
clarkenheim··on 'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into sky
How did you "check the orbits for your evening"? just curious, i would like to check my own from time to time and have a look on a clear night. If it is something a layman can do?
clarkenheim··on Using page speed in mobile search ranking
You've never been able to opt out of any of the google search algorithm features. I don't see why you we be able to opt out of this one.
clarkenheim··on Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
I don't necessarily think this is true. Advertisers want to be able to attribute revenue to the types of ads that they show, that way they can spend less money on advertising and focus it on the channels which actually work for them. Cookies are the best way of attributing online ads to online sales.

TL;DR they want effective attribution, not to wreck your browsing experience.

clarkenheim··on Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
The features in Safari only harms the smaller companies who's domain is not in the visited sites list. the behemoths like Google who always have a first party cookie dont have a problem with the feature and therefore get even more control over online advertising.
clarkenheim··on RIP the Broccoli Tree
A couple of those are not the same. When it happens by genuine accident it is not the same as vandalism.
clarkenheim··on North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016)
Would love to see an attempt at one of these for the British Isles.
clarkenheim··on How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry
i could not agree more. Ohhh these Strawberries look great.... taste like water
clarkenheim··on How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps
link?
clarkenheim··on Get started making music
Similar concept using Daft Punk samples instead: http://readonlymemories.com/ plus some filtering and looping capability.
clarkenheim··on Which automation tools/scripts do you use to save time and feel like a boss?
A clipboard manager is an absolute have to have. Having the last 40 or so clibboard items available to me instinctively has increased my productivity and the speed at which i can do anything on a computer. I use the one that is part of the Alfred power pack, but there are plenty of others out there. https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/
clarkenheim··on Code.mil – An experiment in open source at the Department of Defense
Trying to portray a message of transparency after few years ago being exposed by Snowden for running a non constitutional spying program on all US (and non US) citizens. I thought the motive for positive publicity from the DoD since that happened would be pretty obvious.
clarkenheim··on Code.mil – An experiment in open source at the Department of Defense
Thinly veiled publicity stunt by the Department of Defence here.
clarkenheim··on Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
if youve not read it already, here is an excellent interview with Andrés Sepúlveda who has helped to "rig elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade" partly through using twitter bots and similar techniques. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-elect...
clarkenheim··on Moving persistent data out of Redis
Reading more into this point in the post than i maybe should but "Take advantage of our expertise operating MySQL." sounds like they have more engineers familiar and comfortable working with MySQL than they are with Redis.
clarkenheim··on Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network
ello 2.0
clarkenheim··on Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising
There is a great Radiolab episode on this very subject, also touches on the vault of top secret historical documents from the British Empire. http://www.radiolab.org/story/mau-mau/
clarkenheim··on Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com for $3B
Top Tip; you can get through the WSJ paywall by googling the url after the domain and going to the top link: https://www.google.com/?q=wal-mart-in-talks-to-buy-web-retai...
clarkenheim··on Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig
That 303 just isn't a 303.
clarkenheim··on Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait
Could you not just use another email address?
clarkenheim··on Simpson's Paradox is Back
I can not be the only person who thought that this article would have something to do with Groundskeeper Willie!