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by eterevsky 5y ago
For me the best feature of Brave is the ability to reward the content publishers without watching their ads, basically YouTube Premium for web. I just wish more publishers would opt into this program.
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by eterevsky 5y ago
So, from what I understood from the article, the value of Triplebyte to the employers is that they are pre-screening the candidates. How are they planning to keep this value if they stop doing it?
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by eterevsky 5y ago
I agree that this might be a concern, but since Audacity is open source sending any sensitive information like track metadata would likely be caught very quickly.
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by eterevsky 5y ago
I'm not claiming to be an authority, I'm just commenting on my experience. > 1) people's location data they weren't aware was being kept (dozens of stories and nuances now), Location history is currently off by defaul
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by eterevsky 5y ago
> First, illegal obviously doesn't matter to Google. I'm just an engineer and I have good visibility only in the project that I'm working on, but at least from what I see, the privacy policy is taken very seriously. All pr
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by eterevsky 5y ago
So, first of all, as someone who works for Google, I don't think you should be worried about it. Using personal data is currently pretty strictly regulated. Using 3rd party analytics data in such a way would likely be illegal (IANAL an
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by eterevsky 5y ago
CHF is somewhere between USD and EUR. 150k pre tax, around 110-120 post-tax.
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by eterevsky 5y ago
I work for Google in Switzerland and I have plenty of polish colleagues. The salaries here start around 150k per year, including bonus.
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by eterevsky 5y ago
I don't see how declaring this race a draw would deter from the excitement or from the entertainment value. If anything, it would add to it, since this is such a rare occurrence.
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by eterevsky 6y ago
As someone who lived in such country and has a lot of friends who still live there, I wouldn't care about it too much. The governments of such countries are usually not interested in find every single citizen who's interested in s
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by eterevsky 6y ago
Ok, I agree that it is plausible that eventually more than 8 bits will be used. But in that case, the users will likely change their cohorts at a much higher rate, which will make them less useful for tracking. > someone can belong to mo
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by eterevsky 6y ago
While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don't see how FLoC is particularly harmful. I've read several articles about it, and most of them just say something like "you are being put in a advertising cohort --
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by eterevsky 6y ago
Have they tried to follow recommendations and edit the description?
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by eterevsky 6y ago
David Deutsch points out that the Spaceship Earth view is a bit inconsistent. Its supporters often claim that we need to preserve Earth as much as possible, and keep it in a "natural" state. At the same time if you live in a space
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by eterevsky 6y ago
The difference is that Amazon holds huge market power on ebook market, is practically a monopoly. So in my opinion it should not be allowed to arbitrarily decide which books to sell and not to sell on their marketplace. Imagine next time th
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by eterevsky 6y ago
I don't see how it could work even in principle. If mining is profitable at all, what would stop a single miner from impersonating multiple miners? If it doesn't work, why would it be profitable to an intended user with RPi?
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by eterevsky 6y ago
I don't understand why the author treats referring to Dijkstra's paper as "appealing to authority". To me it is natural to defer to a well-written paper instead of repeating the same arguments in your own words, regardle
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by eterevsky 6y ago
As a user, I'd definitely pay a moderate subscription for this service. I think it's super useful.