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I strongly believe that over time, all information would be modeled with an expiration timestamp. The fact that I use to visit a coffee shop 5 years back is nei
by ashishb 8y ago
I strongly believe that over time, all information would be modeled with an expiration timestamp. The fact that I use to visit a coffee shop 5 years back is neither useful for me or the advertisers.
- sarreph 8y agoThat’s an interesting meta-idea. Have any more thoughts on its implementation that you’d care to share? I started going off on a mental tangent about how an algorithm would extend a WiFi hotspot’s expiration on your frequency / number of connections to it.
- ashishb 8y ago> Have any more thoughts on its implementation that you’d care to share? In its most rudimentary form think of it as another "last used time" column in the database. A periodic job can delete all entries which are older than a certain last used time.
- YaxelPerez 8y agoRight, but nostalgia is a powerful thing. I'm sure if advertisers knew you watched some movie 20+ years ago they would target you even harder to make you watch the unwarranted reboot/sequel.
- donatj 8y agoThat seems like a case of something I would want to be advertised though.
- samatman 8y agoThis reminds me of the expiration dates on supermarket salt. Data which reflects its time of creation is nearly always better than that which does not. Numbers do not expire.