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The 2010 Census: Will your answers stay private? (2010)(csmonitor.com)
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by dictum 9y ago
It's disheartening how, while that generation of Macs from late 2000s to early 2010s is holding up (and perform quite well) as long as they don't suffer significant physical damage, models from the past few years are so limited in
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by dictum 9y ago
I can't wait for the 2023 thinkpieces on how the Digital Homeland Protection Agency or some such has been taken over by purveyors of ungood ethics and we must do something about it .
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by dictum 9y ago
Off topic, but since we're revisiting the skeletons of the past decade: Act I - https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2782947/path-ios-app-user-... Act II - https://twitter.com/davemorin
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by dictum 9y ago
Conversely, even the low-level AI projects/systems currently deployed for stuff like ad targeting would fare better at finding cures for cancer.
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by dictum 9y ago
That's a very misleading comparison, even as an informal, rough comparison for the sake of argument. Such a comparison would have to take into account the amount of human-driven cars and automated cars - not just taking a picture of a
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by dictum 9y ago
There are parallel issues that muddy this debate where it concerns Facebook specifically (CA's self-reported extortion/blackmailing scheme) and issues that concern Facebook, but were/are standard practice, and widely requeste
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by dictum 9y ago
You don't get to a 100M+ net worth by following the virtuous advice of your parents.
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by dictum 9y ago
(Warning: controversial and conspiratorial opinion; fake news if you will) I used to think Zuckerberg's pandering to the Chinese government was a power grab, an expansionist desire. Now I think it's a hedge strategy. He knows he
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by dictum 9y ago
I can't trawl through all of their terms of service to confirm whether they do it, but AWS alone is a valuable resource for analytics collection.
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by dictum 9y ago
There's some irony in the fact that the ongoing scandal is about Facebook partially relinquishing control of information to a third-party (in fact, all third parties), and that the implied remedy was for Facebook to keep total control
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by dictum 9y ago
I feel like I should have stopped reading at "founding bro" – surely there are better jabs to make at the man than to infantilize and ascribe him a personality he doesn't even have. Though the author advocates for privacy, he
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Path iOS app uploads your entire address book to its servers (2012)(theverge.com)
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Data gathered from browsing websites that share data with FB (by third-party tracking or by direct acquisition of data from other companies, I'm not sure if FB does the latter) and from apps that include FB libraries (a surprisingly hi
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by dictum 9y ago
No need for ad partners; their share button scripts are enough for this task. (Google Analytics is the leader on this technique, compounded by secondary tracking inside Google search results, but FB is one of the leading third-party request
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by dictum 9y ago
I agree on the bigly-level stuff (it's very similar to the facile jokes about George W. Bush being dumb) but this quote specifically is clear cut. Of course Trump is not calling Mexico/Mexicans rapists (though he does disparage Me
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by dictum 9y ago
"When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping ground f
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by dictum 9y ago
A pipe-smoking ficticious entry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by dictum 9y ago
I do adhere to the view that wrong is wrong even when others do it , but I'd like a better look into the big data fantasy of the past decade, and that includes a deeper look into the times when this social/data/analytics&#x2
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by dictum 9y ago
This doesn't answer your question specifically, but there's the possibility that FB wanted a heated political environment inside its platform so it could sell more ads for all parties involved in the race, keep people engaging wit
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Inside the Cave: Obama's Digital Campaign (2012) [pdf](enga.ge)
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Frankly, after the misguided whimsy of "what's a computer?" I don't expect much from them. (It was the first Apple ad to mock a segment of its own customers, as opposed to mocking competitors' customers, a dubious b
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by dictum 9y ago
Recent sociopolitical debates on professional matters have a distinct corporate aura/tone, perhaps by way of most participants working at such corporations. When those debates leave the world of corporate work and enter the world of vo
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by dictum 9y ago
"FAILING Broadcom keeps churning out illegal garbage. Loser Dems call it "undocumented silicon" - complete BS. Sad!" (I'm wary of redditifying HN but I just had to let this out.)
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by dictum 9y ago
I agree with regards to appliances like Bluecoat, but is TLS as a black box to keep users from seeing what the device is sending over the wire better?
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To a non-British ear, Shoeburyness is what sounds weird ;)
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> I'm no psychologist but I think it's just kind of part of the human condition that our needs > our wants. Morals are less of a need than employment, maybe? Just spitballing. Morals are part of the "self actualization&
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by dictum 9y ago
I don't want to advocate for nihilism, but most institutions are unethical in some way, or pave the way for evil third parties. There are exceptions, of course. They just hire less often, pay less, want an specific cultural fit etc.
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by dictum 9y ago
Couldn't the forks host their own mirror of the addons site, or inject their own CSS into the official Mozilla Addons pages? For people using forks for the old extension system, why use an outdated engine lacking support for new featur
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by dictum 9y ago
This reads like a page from https://www.amazon.com/Words-that-Sell-Products-Services/dp/...

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