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by benedictevans 5y ago
No - it's pointing out what advertising is trying to do, which is not necessarily about privacy at all. Meanwhile, it's apparently also worth pointing out that advertiser do not show anyone ads. Newspapers do. The media you enjoy
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by benedictevans 5y ago
I don't work in ad tech at all and never have. I'm just interesting in trying to work out what's doing on and what might happen. I also try to avoid moral panics and hysteria.
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by benedictevans 5y ago
In different parts of your iOS settings, Apple will ask you it it's OK for ads to 'track' you, OK to 'personalise' ads and OK to 'measure ad effectiveness'. Framing is important.
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by benedictevans 5y ago
Not disagreeing - I meant that generally, not specifically. You can still target by knowing something about the user, rather than relying solely on the content itself.
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by benedictevans 6y ago
I argued that content moderation probably isn’t the answer and we need to something else. I really don’t know how anyone could possibly read what I wrote and believe I was saying we shouldn’t do anything. Frankly, I struggle to see that as
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by benedictevans 6y ago
I did think I’d made it extremely explicit that I don’t think any of that at all, but perhaps not (although the way you throw in a rather childish ad hominem sneer suggests you’re not thinking very clearly). What I actually wrote is that th
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by benedictevans 6y ago
Thanks for reading. However, that’s not what Marc meant by ‘software eating the world’ and it’s not how I described consultants.
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by benedictevans 6y ago
Tesla hasn’t eaten the audio industry - that’s what investors are speculating. Battery prices are falling because of technology and (mostly) volume, not particularly because of ‘China’
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by benedictevans 6y ago
There are no projections about the future in this presentation. And it does very directly reference the panic about Japan and point out why China might be different.
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by benedictevans 6y ago
It’s very clever to say that ‘technology’ goes back to the ancient Greeks, or the invention of bronze, or maybe the first chipped piece of flint, so ‘there’s nothing new about technology’. But this is also desperately pedantic, and adds not
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by benedictevans 6y ago
See slide 53
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by benedictevans 6y ago
Keynote. I used to use PowerPoint, producing identical slides.
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by benedictevans 6y ago
Thanks for the comment. My piece contains half a dozen specific examples of exactly the thing that you claim it misses, and most of the second-half explains why the things you think are okay are in fact complicated and subject to lawsuits.
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by benedictevans 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand this argument. The fact that a platform succeeded despite security holes is not an argument against removing those holes. You might as well say that the malware explosion on Windows wasn't a problem be
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by benedictevans 6y ago
Well, you clearly don't read anything I write - this piece ends by saying Apple's IAP model is unsustainable and needs to be dismantled, and my previous post said big tech companies are going to become as tightly regulated as bank
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by benedictevans 6y ago
Sometimes frontier technology doesn't turn out as planned. Welcome to the tech industry - you will encounter more of this as your career continues ;) So: Magic Leap built a technology demonstrator, on a rig that was bolted to a table (
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by benedictevans 7y ago
I would like version control, tracking and sign-off per side, common central library (change this slide and it changes everywhere - good luck doing that with OLE)... I want workflow. Using Slides etc is like moving from Excel to Sheets inst
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by benedictevans 7y ago
The founders also created Solidworks ;)
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by benedictevans 7y ago
Amazon hasn’t raised money from investors since the IPO in 1997. It’s had positive free cash flow since 2003.
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by benedictevans 8y ago
A database consultant once told me that half his gigs were telling people with a database to use Excel
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by benedictevans 8y ago
That's the point - to explain how people in the field are thinking about this stuff. Most people outside SV don't know what the experts in the field are saying. Indeed, many people in SV don't know this ;) If you already kn
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by benedictevans 10y ago
Thanks for reading! I wrote several paragraphs discussing the complexities of how changing (not removing) parking would both remove some kinds of traffic and add others, and did not at all suggest it would lead to traffic disappearing. I al
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by benedictevans 10y ago
Thanks for reading! I discussed both of the lines you quoted at some length, bringing up and discussing all of your points, I think, and linking research from experts in the field.
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by benedictevans 11y ago
Read point 3 and the link below.
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by benedictevans 11y ago
It's a collection in one place of my previous posts - there is nothing at all new here ;)
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by benedictevans 11y ago
I aim to meet comments at their own level ;) Have a look at the first posts. Was that not an accurate description?
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Great. The post isn't about search, or YouTube.
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Most people don't have a flight every week, so flight updates are not a common problem. And most people don't go on holiday every week either, do they?
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Yes, I spend a lot of time trying to work out what's going on.
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by benedictevans 12y ago
Most people in tech use lots of google services all the time and think they're very important to the broader market. But many people have little or no use for them or use them only occasionally. So, it may be that services like maps or

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