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by anf 3y ago
It's not binary: bosses and investors want to know who will obey the rules as you see them for a variety of reasons. They'll fund / promote based on the needs of the projects you will likely face.
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by anf 4y ago
With tillerhq.com, you can set up a pretty nice workflow to review your spending daily, weekly, or whatever cadence makes sense to you across all of your accounts, and it's only $79/year! :)
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by anf 4y ago
I like Elon, too, but "no qualifications to run a rocket company" is simply delusional. He majored in physics at Penn and econ at Wharton and went to grad school at Stanford studying material science (for two days, just enough to
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by anf 8y ago
I don't think likes are meaningless — they tap into a very primal need for social status and peer approval. It's a stupid game, but like many other stupid games, it's effective!
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by anf 8y ago
As someone who left Facebook awhile ago mostly because life got busy, those ads seem to solidify an (alternative?) narrative of why I left rather than urge me to come back.
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by anf 8y ago
Is there no laws w.r.t. negligence that can be used to punish negligent actors? If a door manufacturer is negligent in their construction of the door and someone gets robbed as a result, in violation of how they expected their door to work,
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by anf 8y ago
Do you send user data anywhere in a way users may not expect? If not there's probably nothing to comply with. It's really the opposite of bureaucratic law — the entire thing is quite readable and reasonable.
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by anf 8y ago
Because he's lazy and thinks he'll get away with it. He'll come into compliance after penalties outweigh the costs of changing the way he does business. This is probably the reaction of the vast majority of folks dealing with
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by anf 8y ago
Seems like you can both be right in different circumstances. Humble Bundle got to a nice acquisition married to GCP. Snapchat has successfully unwound. I haven't looked into it in depth but it seems examples on both sides abound.
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by anf 8y ago
nvm, the article mentions it. cell phones check in with the tower while they are on, which is a way to track where someone has taken their cell phone. afaik, there's very limited privacy protections around this in the US because they a
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by anf 8y ago
Yeah, totally with you — don't trust devices you (or your employer) doesn't own. I'm borderline still where I trust my employer's devices with my personal passwords sometimes, but even that seems a bit iffy.
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by anf 8y ago
What's a call record? Like a single phone call or an SMS? Pinging the tower doesn't count, does it?
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by anf 8y ago
If you can prevent a company from acting unethically and you have the capacity to do so, are you not ethically obligated to try? (switching sides of argument, I know)
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by anf 8y ago
fair point. my thoughts were that spending your time building $10 widgets and getting paid $5 by someone who is negligent with their use of people's passwords is akin to working for a company that pollutes public waters: some of your p
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by anf 8y ago
Key logger + making a cron job that copies everything off your drive = 5 minutes of work? I hope you trust the folks you use this setup on...
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by anf 8y ago
You should quit. I know you have reasons, but continuing to work at a place like this is not ethical.
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by anf 8y ago
Definitely doesn't have to be on purpose. Try building a scalable database to billions of users on ad revenue and make it retrieve all data from years ago within the time constraints that users want to see newsfeed items in, you'l
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by anf 8y ago
Did they re-appear after you had remembered deleting them, or were they just not fetched when you looked the first time? I think Cassandra might be to blame where it returned a bunch of wall posts but not all of them when you looked back in
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by anf 8y ago
Is there a way to get them to delete everything? Under GDPR, Europeans certainly can, but then they also lose all of their Facebook friends?
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by anf 8y ago
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by anf 8y ago
[citation required] but even if true, getting site owners to opt-in to exchanging their user's privacy for psychographic and demographic correlations seems materially different than Facebook's "no opt out" on a relativel
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by anf 8y ago
Does GA share data outside of GA? Last I looked into it, I came away thinking that data is kept to privacy standards equivalent to e.g. Google Sheets.
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by anf 8y ago
Has anyone unlocked a phone using a picture of the owner's finger? That would be neat!
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by anf 8y ago
Two-user encryption obviously can be made secure. I think we're done here. Your splitting of the hair on "secure but fragile" depends on the assertion that the US government has no interest in maintaining the security of co
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by anf 8y ago
If it is "fundamentally" insecure, why do Google and Apple and Microsoft and all the other tech companies use it on their employee laptops?
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by anf 8y ago
That's totally irrelevant to the point that two-user encryption is fundamentally insecure, made insistently by even those who should really know better: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09&#x2F
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by anf 8y ago
That sounds like a good endorsement. Those of use who are competent and honest have been pretty tired of the FUD and downright lies around the benefits of single-user encryption. Specifically, if admin master keys are so dangerous, why do
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by anf 8y ago
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by anf 8y ago
Don't gather data you can't manage it ethically. Facebook has a responsibility to protect user data they have collected, and if they can't then they shouldn't.
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by anf 9y ago
Why would they ever discard that? Why would there be a granularity where ML suddenly stops working? Why would you even stop at one model per person, instead of one model per mood, or modes of thought at different stress points?

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