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Comment · 6 years ago
Becasue more and more browsers are limiting access to cookies not only depending on first-party context but also third-party context. So tracking users by web bugs becomes less reliable. By redirecting throught the domain, they can set and access cockies in a first-party context.
Comment · 6 years ago
And yet, Tesla costumers constantly poll as the most satisfied of all new car owners. Maybe there are more important things than bumps in the paint?

Just guessing, I don't own a car.

Comment · 6 years ago
Great Wall, Geely and others have tried for many years. The problem isn't "stigma" but simply terrible test results for safety and quality. That's why most Chinese who can affort it buy Western or Japanese cars too.
Comment · 6 years ago
They don't. That's just one of the things Westerners like to say about poor countries.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's just one of the tales of the "aid" industry.

Turns out, the real key is jobs.

But try investing there, and the "aid" people will call you a neo-colonialist.

Comment · 6 years ago
If a 100 km asteroid hit earth tomorrow, then all known intelligent life in the universe would cease to exist.

Why not allocate 0.00..001% of our resources to ensure that the only intelligent life we know of in the entire universe, has a life insurence.

Comment · 6 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_...

That guy had won several awards for his "reporting".

Comment · 6 years ago
Turtleneck guy would have survived easily. But he started to trink herbal tea to cure his cancer. Surprisingly, it didn't work.
Comment · 6 years ago
> DER SPIEGEL: Would it make sense to colonize Mars as a Plan B, as planned by Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk?

It was never a "plan B" against global warming. Its a "plan A" in case of a catastrophic natural event.

Comment · 6 years ago
Interesting.

Maybe we should call it "jaydriving" when a driver acts entitled and doesn't slow down.

Comment · 6 years ago
That's a very good point. In the future, an AI may well be able to find all identities of a person based on ways they express themselves, etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
Early 2000s. One of the Schroeder reforms.
Comment · 6 years ago
Under Swiss law, there is no "national security letter" equivalent.

Also, mailboxes are encrypted client side.

Comment · 6 years ago
They are in Switzerland and Swiss judges are pretty independent.

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