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by gerash 7y ago
These stories have turned into click baits. The data in question here is nothing compared to what your credit card company, bank, Amazon or TurboTax has. Unlike many folks here I find value in this and can't see it harming my privacy.
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by gerash 8y ago
It seems Israel is doing just fine economically and technologically. So I don't get why US politicians still justify giving out O($billion) every year in foreign aid while there are ample opportunities to spend them in their own countr
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by gerash 8y ago
What kind of argument is that? Do you choose to either prosecute a burgler or put a lock on your door but not both? That said, the media industry as a whole has pushed more than what's necessary to protect its content (eg. DMCA, extend
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by gerash 8y ago
IMO it's got more to do with the fact that providing a power user feature such as "run a regex search on the closed captions" would implicitly define an API which needs to be maintained. It could complicate the backend foreve
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by gerash 8y ago
What's hilarious is that the reason is Google is pushing back on sharing user analytics with BBC. For another company it'd be the pinnacle of respecting user but you just seem biased against Google so there's nothing they can
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by gerash 8y ago
It saddened me when Boyle and Smith won the Nobel prize in Physics for inventing CCD which powers digital cameras and is of no use other than surveillance by big brother. Don't get me started about Alexander Graham Bell /s
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BBC Pulls Its Podcasts from Google Podcasts and Assistant(theverge.com)
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by gerash 8y ago
Apart from how absurd the justifications and the amount of these billion dollar fines are, who would be the recipient of this fine if paid?
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by gerash 8y ago
I believe having privacy laws is a good thing but given EU's track record I am skeptical of their implementation. Their cookie disclosure regulation IMO has collectively wasted perhaps millions of hours of users' and website desig
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by gerash 8y ago
> Let's not forget this same company also promised to "don't be evil", and then changed their mind. I've heard this ridiculous statement so many times. Do you think a company needs to put "don't be evil
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by gerash 8y ago
On tangent note, what is it with health data that many, in US at least, find so sensitive seemingly more than their bank account login information. I genuinely don't understand. Is it that the majority have some secret pre-existing con
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by gerash 8y ago
I've used Unix make for personal projects (during and after school) and bazel at work. "bazel" is more about type checking the build artifacts, caching and guarantees about hermetic and reproducible builds. The distributed co
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by gerash 8y ago
Google should indeed fix every single UX issue, however minor, given its operation scale. That said, such overblown criticisms reminds me of the quote "There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about
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by gerash 8y ago
Placing an inactive mic does raise questions naturally but shipping updates to hardware is not easy/possible. So you'd want to future proof your hardware throughout its lifetime. Had Google announced in their marketing that there&
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by gerash 8y ago
Yes, the app is ridiculous. No, tech companies don't need to become morality police for the world. Perhaps removing scams and malware should remain the bar for policing apps.
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by gerash 8y ago
Here's a relevant social experiment: https://youtu.be/yZlOw3rsPBM
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by gerash 8y ago
> damage to the computing industry What are you talking about? Citation needed.
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by gerash 8y ago
Say what you want about FB but I can tell the vast majority of teens and young adults, in US at least, won't use a phone that doesn't have Instagram.
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by gerash 8y ago
I can't tell if these posts are astroturfed or not. Every other day there's a top post on HN to use DDG (which is mostly a wrapper over Bing) as the default search.
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by gerash 8y ago
I agree. I've seen Facebook doing shady things but I don't think this is one of them. As a company they want to collect data for whatever reason (a research project, training data for an ML system, creating a new product, refining
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by gerash 8y ago
One UX issue with the cascading menus in Start menu was when you had to navigate several levels deep to open a program. Since the menus expanded and collapsed on mouse hover every once in a while accidentally moving the mouse in the wrong d
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by gerash 8y ago
and power cables because they can power those computers and are obviously dual purpose.
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by gerash 8y ago
There is so much emphasis placed on precedent in the US justice system and I don't understand why. With that line of argument I could also argue anything you do or say within the confines of your house is also public's business be
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by gerash 8y ago
This is due to promotion incentives. There's a much higher chance of getting promoted if you make up something new from scratch, stamp your name all over it and then during performance review demonstrate how many users it impacted so t
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by gerash 9y ago
Perhaps one solution could be to keep your personal data encrypted but then if you need an online service you'll need to somehow let the services access it. That's the part where it gets tricky. Either the code working on your dat
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by gerash 9y ago
I didn't say those who don't pay for a service have no right to complain. I'm opposing the constant characterization of what Google and Facebook do [successfully and other companies do too but less successfully] which is coll
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by gerash 9y ago
I personally prefer Google over FB. I haven't deleted my FB account because that's my contact list of some sort but I am not very active. I guess I prefer the Snapchat model where what you post doesn't stick around forever. I
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by gerash 9y ago
This is really not big news. If I were Apple, I would also sort cloud storage vendors by price including building the whole infra in-house, throw away the non secure or risky ones and pick the cheapest.
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by gerash 9y ago
The way I see it is Google is offering a free and optional yet pre-installed service, namely Google maps, and is sometimes asking its users to contribute to its POI dataset. It'll be both good for Google and its users if the informatio
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by gerash 9y ago
I'd love to be able to make a phone call to the destination when I'm inside navigation mode. That'd be really handy.

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