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by b1daly 9y ago
There is (or was) a “bug” in the business logic, as is now apparent. Assuming it is the case that CA gained access to this information by lying, it means there were inadequate safeguards in who could access. The data. The only reason you co
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When you have a Facebook account, you are explicitly granting permission to FB to use your personal information and social graph to sell ads. There is nothing deceptive about this.
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How would you know this? Given that Trump won on the slimmest of margins, if CA’s work resulted in a net increase in Trump’s margin, the “ROI” is huge.
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You’ve thumbnailed elements of the problem, and left out the heart of the matter: The cabalistic forces of uber-rich conservatives (reactionaries) marshaled these propaganda tools to convince justifiably agreived voters to vote for a candid
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Given the problems with replication, and the selection biases, I’ve decided it’s a safe bet to ignore the implications of articles about health studies! It’s shocking how many dietary and medical practices have been championed, and then lat
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What and how will they lose? What kind of potential harms do you foresee happening to the users of social media, as a consequence of that use? There has been some discussion here about China’s plan to increase use of social media as a means
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Commenters on Internet forums don’t see them as surveillance platforms, from which they must hide their views. These are platforms for speech. People crave and seek such platforms, and frankly I think they provide a valuable service in diss
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I’m just replying to your comment as it jogged lose an example of what I see as a missing piece of the issue. Namely, a course of conduct in self protection needs to have an understanding of what the potential harm is from a given threat. A
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For those advocating for more awareness of the loss of privacy, some more precision would be helpful. What Facebook does is not the same as a “surveillance company”. To throw out the term, with the obvious negative connotations, might attra
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Stone cold killers is not the right description here. These soldiers, conscripts, were put into the most bizarre, dangerous, depraved situation you could imagine. The stress must have been unreal, in the jungles. They suffered a situational
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I think we do want to go that route. As opposed to supporting and arming dictatorships that suite our supposed interests at a given time. Then turning against them, or arming their enemies when they don’t. If the US consistently practiced b
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Jeez, I’m making a rhetorical point that the US army, which is not technically a mercenary army, as it is the official army of a sovereign state, has turned into an organization whose operations are driven by business interests.
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The Spotify interface relies heavily on the “...” option. This menu always provides the option to go to album, artist, like the track, and share. This suboptimal in one major way, which is that this three dot link is hard to target!
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All things equal, I (US Citizen) prefer that our military be effective and efficient. It troubles me though that there is virtually no public discussion on the unprecedented geographic scope , and time length, of today’s employments. This w
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Yeah, those are bad things, but Pinker’s thesis is that things are improving. All the historical societies I’ve read about had astounding levels of savagery and brutality. Along with disease and no real medicine. Why is it so hard for peopl
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The general thrust of “mainstream” thinking on “enlightened” thinkers of the past is that they offer a framework for freedom and justice, however I’m perfectly framed, and in spite of them falling short of living up to the ideals they espou
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I agree with your point that we should consider the evidence, and conclusions, presented to us as the work product of scientists. Especially as much of the information is shaped by innumerable cognitive biases. However, I’m fascinated that
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A not unreasonable hypothesis. Yet the bulk of the destruction is the result of ghastly military actions, aimed at direct destruction of the society. To worry about the contribution of climate change is not pointless. Close to it though.
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Uh, all of these things are happening already, and will continue to happen. The biggest causes of unnecessary misery in this world are political (which of course encompasses the physical environment.) The questions are what the best course
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Define screwed. I’m not sure what I think about the “climate change” issue, but I maintain a reserve of skepticism towards proclamations of apocalyptic doom. A) Humans, and all living things, are screwed from the get go. A guaranteed calami
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I think the problem with how these new concepts are presented, is that they are taking these ad hoc methods of doing arithmetic and trying to turn them into algorithms. My guess is that this is driven by the need children have to know how t
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This is one of those truisms about life. That it is well understood is expressed in the cliche about “having to play the hand you were dealt.” Lewis is making an observation here about the bias of the lucky, which blinds them to the objecti
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I’ve assumed the trend away from high content websites was driven by the need for responsive, phone friendly sites. There is so little screen real estate available, that design considerations lead to these websites that are a big pretty pic
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In such a purchase flow model, where are customers placing their orders? Meaning, are they driving traffic to a general ecommerce site like Amazon?
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It’s interesting to me that the most successful general ecommerce sites have a visually utilitarian appearance, with emphasis on function over form (so to speak). Brand websites have the extra burden of trying infuse their sites with a uniq
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I think it’s pretty clear that “depression” is a normal psychological state, and that it is functional. It would be surprising to find such a common, and profound, behavior in a long running, successful species if it wasn’t. As the example
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S&P 500 is primarily a ranking by market cap. It’s a measure of how much the market values a stock. I can see it being a component of size (how “big”). There’s no doubt that the big tech companies are colossal entities. The market cap o
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If someone is lacking marketable skills, and is forced to take a “make work” job, I would hardly call that a “vanity” project. This was done in the Great Depression, to try and keep the economy going. There are ways to create work that is v
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Your contention implies that there are no differences of import to how a company is managed, if business failure is inevitable. Sadly, I think this is not that rare of an opinion amongst a certain class of managers who disproportionately co
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What is it wasteful of? What if someone working such a job feels better about being alive, because they have a role to fill in a community? Why is having people doing forms of “make work” worse than letting people waste away into despair? W

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