chronotis

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by chronotis 7y ago
I still remember the moment I hit the Yahoo! home page and saw a banner ad for the first time, and said to myself, "here they come." I didn't project out to surveillance capitalism though, was still a bit too young for such t
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by chronotis 7y ago
True, and (so far for me, anyway) it's usually been a slow-motion transition so there's been enough time to get ahead of the wave. Or at least keep up with it...as long as you're paying attention.
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by chronotis 7y ago
Bringing this point back closer to home: I've been a "software professional" of one shape or another for over 20 years now. In my case, that's come with a never-ending need to constantly retool: new languages, new SDKs,
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by chronotis 7y ago
IANAL, but the closest I could see (with a friendly interpretation) would be: investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding
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by chronotis 7y ago
I wasn't exhaustive in my storytelling. Most of that growth came from M&A activity. Financial engineering.
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by chronotis 7y ago
I'm not sure whether to feel vindicated to see someone else echoing my own internal thoughts, or to feel nauseous about reliving those years. I was fortunate enough to have been at a company that was making money, but I still remember
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by chronotis 7y ago
This entire thread is a perfect example of confirmation bias.
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by chronotis 8y ago
I was living in Orange County (CA) when my son was born. It would have been _very_ easy to find a midwife and a pediatrician that were totally fine and all-in on "alternative vaccination schedules." I can't speak for all othe
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by chronotis 8y ago
Yes, but that's also a torpedo to the way programmatic ads are currently bought and sold. (FWIW I am in favor of such a change, but there are a lot of very large tech companies selling data management platforms whose core value prop is
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by chronotis 8y ago
Setting aside penalties for a moment, what is the minimum set of changes to programmatic advertising practices that would bring it into compliance with GDPR? Would removing the targeting categories that relate to intimate data be sufficient
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by chronotis 8y ago
To this day, I can say "doompa choompa doompa choompa doompa choompa choompa choompa" and my brothers and father will know exactly what I'm talking about.
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by chronotis 8y ago
Why is this article popping again now? It's from over 2 years ago.
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by chronotis 8y ago
This was what was particularly interesting to me - that they went to the effort of writing a purely technical article on the particulars of how parts of their environment operate, and to publish it on their platform even when that's no
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by chronotis 8y ago
Unbelievable, no. I'm making a meta-observation about a pattern of social commenting on this particular subject that spans many sites.
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by chronotis 8y ago
Sometimes I feel like there's a bot-army monitoring all channels for new articles invoking the words "climate" or "global warming" and forwarding those pages to a waiting battalion of troll-soldiers.
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by chronotis 9y ago
My family has always made jokes about or accused me of being unusually lucky. I didn't really believe that was the case; over time, my standard response to these suggestions is that we can manufacture luck. That wasn't based on an