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by cjhopman 8y ago
> Rietveld -> Gerrit That's a bad example. Gerrit is not a new name for Reitveld, it's a totally new implementation (with similar inspiration). And both of those were publicly released under those names. Your underlying poin
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by cjhopman 8y ago
That's nonsense. Should they block access to facebook from the web browsers on those phones as well?
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Amazon Silk does that whenever you log in to facebook (or any other site, for that matter). The data they capture during that presumably isn't even covered by a similar data use agreement.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> I run websites that get traffic from Amazon Silk browsers. I've never signed a data sharing agreement with Amazon. Of course not. Because the fact that a user agent like this has widespread access to the data that the user has acc
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Sure. It was a reply to a (dismissive) question asking what's the worst a regulator could do... it wasn't necessarily meant to be a reflection of what's really happening.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Do you know about the Amazon Silk web browser? If you log in to facebook in that browser, Amazon may download and store your friends' data on Amazon's servers. And that's even without any agreement with facebook. I can think
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> how much harm can the regulator really inflict on the general public? They can make regulations on social networks that are infeasible to comply with for any company not making 10s of billions of dollars a year, effectively cementing f
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> paid Microsoft with users' data That sure sounds like a misrepresentation of what happened here. From the article: "These partners signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other p
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> your reply completely fails to grasp the problem, like so many others. That's because you're just making up a problem that doesn't exist. The replies are all talking about what is actually happening, not your fantasy wor
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by cjhopman 8y ago
You do realize that facebook will share user's private information with any random web browser that the user enters her credentials in, right? Is that "ridiculous"?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Would you also be surprised to find out that Mozilla (Firefox), Google (Chrome), Samsung (Android Browser), Microsoft, etc. all have access to that data?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
If you sign in to facebook in Opera mini, opera will store your facebook data on their servers. How much does that upset you?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
If you're not as up in arms about the access that web browsers have to user's facebook data, then I'll assume your response to this issue is just another instance of hn's fb derangement syndrome.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> promise changes and do an apology tour in response to any regulatory or public backlash after it happens Except they aren't apologizing for this. And they shouldn't, it's a non-issue. The next article is going to be abou
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by cjhopman 8y ago
And does it upset you that when a user signs into facebook in one of these browsers, facebook allows the browser access to that user's data and even data of that user's friends? Even when those friends have explicitly disabled sha
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Interesting theory. Do you apply it to men in predominantly female occupations and vice versa?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
I am appalled at the apparent ignorance/disbelief in so many comments from people who don't find it obvious that location history data from Google/FB can be used to improve the user experience.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Right. They sold off a large part of their company and so, in Q1, they made a profit.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
If they did, they wouldn't need the media to find the problems for them. Without CR reviewing every update, how confident can you be that they won't regress the braking?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> versus, say, 'literally' being misused If you don't also complain about the use of "really", you are just signalling.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Yeah, that sounds totally logically sound. It explains why yelp reviews don't in any way reflect the quality of businesses and why aggregated movie ratings don't reflect the quality of movies.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Do you know how much sf spends on homelessness each year?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> Be less concerned about being a CEO and more concerned about creating things of value. Isn't that basically how the article is representing these people? That they don't care about being CEO and just want to be where they can
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Ah, it's not 1 hour, it's 1 mile. It's in the article. Still clearly not "accelerate up to speed as quickly as possible and try again". "As its name implies, CR’s braking test is meant to determine how a vehicl
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> The whole brake from 60-0 10 times quickly seems like a stupid metric > Sure 60 to 0 or 80 to zero, but what sane person is going to accelerate up to speed as quickly as possible and try again. Isn't that an argument for CR&#x2
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> If human spaceflight had the same number of annual fatalities as the current number deaths in the US 48 states while flying homebuilt/kit/light sport aircraft, both NASA and the news media would be freaking out. What a nonsen
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by cjhopman 8y ago
However, it's possible that they prioritized this early investigation to look first at certain categories of apps that may be more likely to get suspended. Also, it's possible that they are just being really conservative in suspen
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by cjhopman 8y ago
I wonder if it's easier to get permits to build there if the current place is in that condition.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
You're making no sense. What does it mean to "feel happier" but not be happier?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Chrome's password manager has a much, much better security record than any "proper password manager".

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