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by drhayes9 15y ago
>What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could happen Ecio78 outlined a scenario in which relevance targeting "outed" him in a way he didn't want. I'm analogizing Facebook relevance ads
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by drhayes9 15y ago
Relevant ads outed a gay teen on Facebook: http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertent... Maybe not widespread, but definitely not entirely hypothetical.
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by drhayes9 15y ago
Heck, I'm not sure most people know what a search engine is . Wasn't "Google" one of the most-often heard answers to the question, "What is a browser?"
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by drhayes9 15y ago
I think one reason people aren't sharpening pitchforks and lighting torches is because every other search engine is one click away. Switching search engines is pretty frictionless compared to switching OSes.
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by drhayes9 15y ago
Amy Hoy is a big proponent of bootstrapping. Her 30x500 class seems to rock (according to the sample materials she has out there), and she has some choice words on the subject: http://unicornfree.com/2011/fuck-glory-startups-are-one-long..
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by drhayes9 15y ago
The reactions I'm seeing are mostly people zeroing in on the "paid services sometimes shut down" counterargument. And, yeah, that's true. But I don't think charging your customers for your service means that you will never consider being ac
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by drhayes9 15y ago
I'm totally with you -- they have fun, that's what they want, end of story. But they did say that people who use the cloud don't care as much: > If you just want to use someone else’s computers, it means you don’t love computers — at
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by drhayes9 15y ago
He's not talking about products, he's talking about work environments.
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by drhayes9 15y ago
This. A thousand times this. I was talking to a friend of mine about the "Digital Dark Ages." He didn't believe me that we were unable to view data that we had sitting around on computers anymore; one of my prime examples was computer games
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by drhayes9 15y ago
Those are good points and I'm glad you explained them further. It's the expectation that you talk about that we should be careful about. It's too easy to answer, "What did you expect?" as a dismissal, rather than talking about the real issu
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by drhayes9 15y ago
Your first two points are classic victim-blaming. "You are going to get unwanted attention." Well, yes: there are assholes out there. But you seem to be implying that she is at fault for attracting the assholes, rather than saying there sho