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A different group of people is running with the money this time.
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Many of the ICOs flat out stated that the tokens you're receiving entitle you to absolutely nothing, and hold no value, but somehow people have convinced themselves that the people behind these ICOs are going to give them something in
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Only if EOS and Tezos didn't already buy the property they were looking at.
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Exactly. Plus, getting average people to switch from services like S3 "because blockchain" is even less likely than getting average people to switch from WhatsApp/Telegram/whatever to Signal "because privacy".
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They never forgot why they were there, it's just that the reason (self enrichment, both financially and in terms of power) isn't the one US citizens believe it's supposed to be.
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DNS queries are data, and can give a motivated party plenty of insight into a user's internet usage habits.
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> - National Geographic site fetches jQuery from Google and the website is unusable Try this. It might help with a lot of the issues you're experiencing. https://decentraleyes.org/
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> You are getting a dedicated VPS, so there is no cross traffic sharing between other subscriptions. You can also disable logging if you don't want to graphs. ...but neither of those things tell me that you don't still have a
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Uber drivers are just trying to mimic the sort of behavior the company they "work" for is so well known for.
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Why would someone route their traffic through your servers, opening themselves up to a whole slew of potential privacy issues, and pay you for it, to accomplish the same thing they could do on their own for the cost of a Raspberry pi?
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” The possibility of using AI to surveil and manipulate Facebook users (and non-users) on a mass scale (and probably give his preside
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So would a man who has access to and control over a large portion of the developed world's "private" communications and "news" consumption.
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He already seems to think he's a president, and has apparently been traveling with a convoy of ex-secret service agents.
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Stealing and generally lacking a moral compass helps, too.
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> Now she works at cafeterias with names like “Epic” and “Living the Dream” It's like they went out of their way to come up with the most cringeworthy, Silicon Valley stereotype confirming names possible for their cafeterias.
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"Google/Facebook: Please step outside and look up for 10 seconds to verify your identity"
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> store their own knowledge (privately and securely) alongside the the public knowledgebase at stackoverflow.com I know this won't go over well here, since many depend on Stackoverflow for their "programming skills", but t
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Are we going to pretend Google and similar companies don't have employees and reputation management firms astroturfing sites like this one when bad PR strikes?
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> Google Sheets backend for privacy Umm.. what?
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I think you completely missed the point of my last post. I don't use Facebook, but that doesn't exempt me from their surveillance efforts, or the societal effects of their massive reach. If it was as easy to avoid as you seem to
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Only if starvation is the only option to prevent it from happening. Inclusion in Facebook's data collection is no longer realistically optional, thanks to their collection of data about non-users from friends/family, public record
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Luckily for the government, Google's innovation in mass surveillance helps them fill in the gaps.
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> I think trying to capture more of the world's resources for Google, Facebook, etc. do have a large impact in aggregation, Capturing more of the world's resources for a small number of massive advertising corporations is not b
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If a bank somehow lost your money, would you say "this is amazing" when they responded to bad PR by saying they'd look for it? This is basic customer service, and it's a sad statement about the current state of things wh
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The vast majority of Facebook users accept the things Facebook presents to them as fact. Very few of them would ever see a Bloomberg article unless it showed up in their feed (which is something Facebook's black box has final say over)
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Not when the 6th guy controls more bubbles than the other 5 combined, and more than any government in history.. and also happens to have direct access to most of the private communications of the people on that platform. Bloomberg doesn&#x2
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Ethics and responsibility seem to have taken a permanent back seat to profit in the "tech" industry.
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Those discussions will include "which products are depressed people most likely to purchase?".
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The main thing you're achieving with this, is providing Facebook with a marketing data point. Chats with woebot == user suffering from depression Combined with Facebook's previous psychological experimentation on users, your entir
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In this case, the "dust, sweat and blood" could end up on the face of someone suffering from depression who ends up in an even worse situation as a result of that "move fast and break things" entrepreneurial spirit. This

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