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by bertil 6y ago
Facebook (not me, I don’t work there anymore) is storing information about *your friends*, namely a hash of *their* contact list, with their explicit consent to do so. Those numbers are only used to help friends find each other in the site,
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by bertil 6y ago
I’m neither ignorant or lying. I don’t see why storing hashes of a number makes it a profile. The argument in the links shared is that Facebook is storing ad targeting information from people who are not connected, which is not true. Your a
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by bertil 6y ago
The riots were because filling a car tank would get expensive. I’m not sure people would not notice, until a majority of the population is driving electric.
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by bertil 6y ago
Are there direct flights though?
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by bertil 6y ago
I like your idea of forcing sites selling airline tickets to be honest about their cost and delays, but… after the fiasco of cookie-warning pop-ups, that’s a particularly promising can of worms. > if you're already arriving or leavi
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by bertil 6y ago
I’m a direct source on that point. You are quoting indirect sources.
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by bertil 6y ago
The problem isn’t simple. To take one example: Banning racists requires that you have a clear, well-understood but also nuanced view about what is incitement, dog-whistle, free speech, etc. Having large teams enforce those require that ever
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by bertil 6y ago
I’ve been one of the very first critic of the company (suggesting they’d become a monopoly and current laws wouldn‘t be fitting, submitting a PhD about that in late 2004). I’ve worked at Facebook (twice) working on controversial projects an
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by bertil 6y ago
No, that’s a lie. The local junta used Facebook like they would have used any convenient mode of communication. Facebook wasn’t able to detect it because of a complex issue involving automated translation of non-Ascii languages. They were c
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by bertil 6y ago
Car companies have had many documented effort to kill control and mitigation efforts. Most debate are fairly straightforward and aligned: less pollution, less death from speed. And they have done very little in that direction. Facebook aggr
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by bertil 6y ago
There are no shadow profiles.
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by bertil 6y ago
> I don't remember a Bank losing the data that "Henry likes donkey sex shows". Loosing, no but they sell it constantly. That’s the most offensive part of the Cambridge Analytica scandal: personally identifiable, politicall
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by bertil 6y ago
> This is not a failure of one team "before privacy was at the forefront" (when?). If that was not a rhetorical question (and I suspect it was) from 2006 to 2016, the main concern around Facebook was monopolies and interoperab
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by bertil 6y ago
The vast majority of the coverage of Facebook has large factual issues that most employees would know about. Seeing their work, or the work of people they admire, misrepresented just makes employees distrust the media. It’s easy to have Gel
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by bertil 6y ago
Am I the only one to read like an acknowledgement that Waymo didn’t achieve what it was supposed to do and he was asked to go for lack of performance?
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by bertil 6y ago
I’m surprised to have not read anything about Brexit. I’ve worked at half a dozen software companies in the UK, and the majority of my colleagues were from the EU — many in situations that made leaving tricky. Other cause for concern, the l
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by bertil 6y ago
I would hate to oblige you, but if you could share either the principles behind that lesson plan, or the plan itself, that would help a lot of teachers. They might not always be strong on respecting intellectual property, but they sure love
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by bertil 6y ago
_How to make everything_, especially since the “Reset” is closer to the overall arch, but more as a proof of concept far less contemplative. What it lacks is Malick-esque sequences it gains in how… average, as in, not great is the host. The
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by bertil 6y ago
It’s striking how much he sounds like my grand-mother who was born in 1920 about 400 m from there (Luxembourg). Same attention to language without being aristocratic or effete; same reluctance to sound slow.
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by bertil 6y ago
For an learner who wants to understand, I’d strongly recommend _Le petit prince_e and _L’homme qui plantait des arbres_. Both about an hour long, beautifully animated, adapted verbatim from books that have easy to find translations. Both as
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by bertil 6y ago
Auvergne has a lot of the sounds that are almost impossible to get right: 'au' has few equivalent other than the Scandinavian 'å' (and they rarely make the connection), 'v' is muted, the wet 'gn' soun
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by bertil 6y ago
Computers with email open —Client– is what we saw in tweets, but my understanding is that injecting malware or replacing routers would more relevant. I definitely expect that changing computers can happen with a transition but it’s all to
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by bertil 6y ago
Roasted crickets are actually very tasty. I’d compare them to Cheetos. To each their own, sure, and I won’t tease you for refusing, but I can completely see then as something you wouldn’t be surprised to find in a corner deli, as complement
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by bertil 6y ago
> Assuming natural plants and some efficient way of using natural light That’s the surprising result of "closed" greenhouses: standard solar panels convert to electricity that convert to LEDs at the right frequency that offer
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by bertil 6y ago
> It's going to be awesome either way. That might be a better definition of science than “It’s like messing around, but taking notes.” I love how everyone quotes it, and SpaceX deserves the credit for making that attitude popular. B
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by bertil 6y ago
The intent expressed is likely laudable, and the helpful approach overall preferred by the HN crowd -- however, the context, specifically associating drug consumption with addiction might not be popular among people who use psychoactive sub
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by bertil 6y ago
Zit-popping channels on YouTube are fairly common. I’m not familiar with the details but it seems people who can’t afford a dermatologist find care that way. Their full face is never filmed so I’m not sure there are blatant issues. An inter
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by bertil 6y ago
The title, I didn’t get. But the sub titles as references to St Paul’s letter to Corinthians? That was slick.
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by bertil 6y ago
Just above your comment was a caricatural: “Is the internet I built bad? No, it must be other people who are stupid.” that made your comment take a colour very different from what you intended…
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by bertil 6y ago
My understanding was that hollow point bullets allow the shooter to hurt someone without risking the lives of the people behind them. Not hurting “people just behind [your enemy]” is presumably less a concern in a war zone (than in a civili

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