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hated··on MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites unlawful content
It's called targeted enforcement where your friends don't get in trouble. Facebook has so much more clout than PH they can never get cut off from payment processors.
hated··on AirPods Max
Perhaps because when you walk into the Apple store for headphones you won't find the other brands there and these shoppers are only interested in Apple blessed products.
hated··on Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]
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hated··on R adds native pipe and lambda syntax
Might also be worth running a local instance of Postgres 13. Super easy to do on Windows without administrator rights.
hated··on R adds native pipe and lambda syntax
Pandas is used in some top 10 banks for analytics. Its performance is abysmal at the scale used there. Nobody wants to invest resources in training analysts to write high performance code so here we are. I have never viewed SQL more highly after seeing the mess that analysts make when writing imperative code.
hated··on Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web
Some professional classes in Eastern European countries used to have mandatory time they had to spend working in factories, probably for this reason.
hated··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
Which part?
hated··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
I actually enjoy working with all that bureaucracy because at least I know I'm not serving ads to people.
hated··on Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
Interestingly aren't amphetamines outlawed in South Korea? Muricans hand them out like candy to kids to do better in school. Adderall.
hated··on Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
Gangs are completely out of control in Western Europe
hated··on Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
Also most Americans don't realize what a wild west Mexico is for over the counter drugs. You can buy dangerous stuff like testosterone over the counter no problem.
hated··on Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
Reminds me of the padded wall torture chambers inside shipping containers that surfaced in the port of Rotterdam.
hated··on An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Historical data probably isn't as rich in detail as the new stuff they are collecting. I bet the old data is too coarse grained to be effectively joined across a variety of newer data tracking sources.
hated··on Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
Heh.

The product disrupted hormonal and water balance, causing edema to form throughout the body of the animals, reported by the Russian business consultancy, which brought studies from Bashkiria State University.

“Meat obtained from animals fed with Paprin contained an accumulation of abnormal amino acids that were incorporated into the membranes of nerve cells, thus disrupting the process of conducting a normal nerve impulse,” said Raisa Bashirova, principal investigator at Bashkiria State University, who added that it was even harmful to humans to paintings with Paprin:

“Factory staff and local citizens were presenting diseases such as canker sores and bronchial asthma. “ In the 1990s, almost the entire production of bioprotein in Russia was stopped. Gaprin, although it had proved to be safe and efficient, could not compete with rather cheap imported protein feedstuffs, which began to land on the local market in large quantities. Now, several decades later, bioprotein production in Russia seems to be getting a second chance.

From: http://benisonmedia.com/bioprotein-may-bring-self-sufficienc...

hated··on A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars
How much seeps into and gets trapped in the road surface vs run-off?
hated··on Google Poly is shutting down
Says the commenter with zero evidence to support their claims.
hated··on Google Poly is shutting down
Your one stop shop for all things killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/

hated··on QBE vs. LLVM
You already know why you don't do backups to a local hard drive. And you won't start doing it either. Don't kid yourself, cloud is convenience.
hated··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Your one stop shop for all things killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/

hated··on Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
It's used in the research paper. Take that for what it's worth. Personally I've never heard of the term.
hated··on Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
This study is amusing. The respondent group is 88% white people, 91% of the total group self-identifying with the literal string "liberal". Less than 1% latinx, less than 1% blacks, less than 1% identifying by the literal string "conservative". On top of that respondents were only targeted by Facebook and Twitter posts.

I guess it should be no surprise white liberals that respond to Facebook and Twitter posts are removing themselves from the gene pool. But maybe it's not only them as other demographics are highly underrepresented in this study.

hated··on Ethereum 2.0 launches
The problem is payment processors deciding who you can and cannot give money to. Crypto currencies solve this problem by not requiring traditional payment processors to make an exchange of value between parties.
hated··on Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
If anything USA ebike laws are the most lenient in the world
hated··on Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
Did regulation reduce drone usage? Or just lack of interest?
hated··on Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached
> Bitcoin's proof-of-work is basically a conversion of energy directly into money

It's a conversion of energy into coinage which can be used by people to repay their debts to others.

hated··on FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints
Watching ads
hated··on FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints
The large amount of debt ceded from society to jedberg in exchange for aiding and abetting the pollution of peoples' minds is morally reprehensible and disgusting to me
hated··on YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
I will never harp on privacy and security behind a couple of walled gardens. It is a wasted effort.
hated··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
Cheese free pizza is a regression. It reminds of native Hawaiians becoming addicted to SPAM after living on it throughout World War 2. Nowadays many Hawaiians take pride in their cultural heritage of SPAM recipes (and heart disease?)

Search for images of "hawaiian spam recipe"

hated··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
As far as I am concerned the Neapolitan pizza is the only real pizza. Compare it to the archetypical Dominoes Margherita pizza. American variants of "pizza" definitely deliver melted cheese, tomato sauce, and heated bread in large quantities but the layers of flavor that you find in a faithful reproduction of Neapolitan pizza to the Italian standard are completely missing. One of the first things Americans will notice in an appropriate Neapolitan pizza is that the cheese does not flood the pizza. Its quantity is reduced to appropriately contrast and compliment the thin layer of tomato sauce. And keep those wet veggies off my pizza.
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