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by beager 8y ago
I love me a good Facebook bashing article as much as the next guy, but these numbers have no context to implicate the CA scandal as causative. Is this related to seasonality? Is it outside the bounds of normal fluctuation month-over-month?
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by beager 8y ago
This kind and volume of automation pervades written digital communication now, and has already been creeping into voice communication (scam calls and robodials). Google bans botting against its own services, but can realistically only ban t
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by beager 8y ago
So he’s a shovel salesman, which is the conclusion he reached as to how to get rich in SV
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by beager 8y ago
As it pertains to private citizens, I would not recommend something like this to archive or verify their personal data. But for government records, campaign records, etc, I would think that those laws do not apply to that information.
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by beager 8y ago
This is also an issue for major blockchains in deployment now, specifically Bitcoin. There is the potential for illegal content, or links to it, to be stacked on BTC’s blockchain [0], and so anyone who holds that blockchain would also posse
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by beager 8y ago
I do agree that a tamper-resistant store would be useful for things like journalism, legislature, official government communication, campaign content for politicians, etc. A distributed ledger for these would also be good because then you’r
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by beager 8y ago
Is it enough to know that things are "Sold by and shipped from Amazon" or whatever the phrase is, rather than "Sold by XYZ TRADING INDUSTRIES LTD"? Or does the quality issue find its way into official Amazon distribution
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by beager 8y ago
If your toaster can collect 500 signatures door-to-door, I don’t see why not.
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by beager 8y ago
I believe AI/ML can reduce government costs and boost efficiency by automating staff duties. But if I leave actual governing to a machine, I am left with an entirely new, but not necessarily smaller attack surface for corruption. Tradi
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by beager 8y ago
I think we are beyond the point where services can lead with being a social network and succeed. Every service that supports multi-user interaction is a network, and every network that supports personal expression in its interactions is a s
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by beager 9y ago
Are you suggesting that security should be regulated like payment cards and food safety? Because I'm on board.
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by beager 9y ago
That’s probably some incrementor in a DB that has fallen out of sync. At high scale it’s inefficient to run SELECT COUNT(*) for things like activity counts, and under normal use, being within 5 of the actual count when people often accumula
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by beager 9y ago
I use this, but have no expectation that it improves privacy for me or that it actually deletes anything. If something I type goes over the wire, it’s out of my control forever. Deleting my tweets is strictly a tool that I use to unburden m
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by beager 9y ago
> How many people do you think there are who are genuinely interested in hearing about opportunities to transfer wealth out of Nigeria for an unknown prince? Depends on whether they’re doing it on the blockchain!
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by beager 9y ago
There’s no “right thing” here. These companies will do what they legally can to ensure their bottom line is as healthy as possible. If that means making broad strokes, cutting corners, and inflicting collateral damage on customers that are
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by beager 9y ago
Not necessarily! Other fingerprinting details can surface identity even when user agent and IP are unreliable. If you've got a specific screen resolution, you're tagged. If you've got a specific version of some piece of softw
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by beager 9y ago
I would start by recognizing that the physical and mental health of your employees is also a "limited resource". Many companies, from scrappy and small to profitable and mega-huge abuse their human capital because health and welln
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by beager 9y ago
Not sure where you got most of that from the article, but I think we’re going to find that the data does support the theory that voters were intensely profiled and targeted with stories to make one candidate seem “unpalatable” or another on
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by beager 9y ago
Essentially admitting that the amount of information harvested was not unauthorized but rather by design.
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by beager 9y ago
I agree with you, maybe the advice should be “do this immediately, regardless of stage or size”
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by beager 9y ago
I would like to see each particular item tagged not as "Seed", "Series A", "Post Series A" but with more tangible events or metrics that would trigger needing to take those things seriously. For instance: --- &
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by beager 9y ago
You may not even need to cross-reference it, Facebook asks you what your political affiliation is and displays it on your profile (or did, at one point)
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by beager 9y ago
There’s great wisdom here from an obviously enlightened crowd, but I will say, as a php dev for 9 years, permissive attitudes toward bad advice about programming did hold me back as an engineer. I know php is the butt of many jokes about ba
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by beager 9y ago
classified me as a bot, with 4 original, handwritten tweets.
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by beager 9y ago
That sounds like an attitude aspect, which may have contributed to the growth. Even if you’re drowning in demand, you’re leaving value uncaptured if you don’t aggressively sell.
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by beager 9y ago
Should be easy enough for networks to detect and remove these, by identifying content where character ranges in words routinely fall outside the charsets of languages. That, or some sort of fuzzy CV hashing, which is cool, but more intensiv
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by beager 9y ago
> I know that back when I was around 18 - 22 or so, I would often spend a saturday night just cruising with the radio playing, windows down, and enjoying the ride. Fairly sure that the parameters of driving for Uber/Lyft preclude ev
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by beager 9y ago
I've always thought it'd be a great thing to have an app or service that acts as a "lobby" of sorts to pair you with like-skilled folks for workouts, pickup sports, runs, etc. For instance, if I run an 11 minute 30 secon
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by beager 9y ago
This has been my experience, and I wonder if part of the efficacy of macronutrient-centric dieting is about cultivating self-control. That would be an activity that would be hard to measure in a study where the participants know they’re par
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by beager 9y ago
If we're going to entertain the analogy further, Freedom Caucus is an association of funding targets for "VCs" (PACs and super-PACs) in which Russian investors/state agents are possibly LPs (see: reports of Russian money

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