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by greesil 6y ago
Have you considered that it's not brigading, but a broad swathe of unrelated people genuinely feeling a certain way?
902.
by greesil 6y ago
Easier to just seize the servers at that point, no?
903.
by greesil 6y ago
Relevant for current events, but maybe not for Hacker News? Unless by hacker you mean "the person who hacks the door down".
904.
by greesil 6y ago
Some companies have a more open and transparent review process. I'm not sure if it would help with a clique, but at least people have to put information in writing which when push comes to shove can be verified. And, reports can review
905.
by greesil 6y ago
I googled around for the Navy psychological screen and found http://annex.ipacweb.org/library/conf/03/bing.pdf .25 correlation between test outcome and and attrition. I wonder if they're doing better now
906.
by greesil 6y ago
The system works
907.
by greesil 6y ago
That's literally what insurers are doing with Fitbit + corporate wellness plans right now.
908.
by greesil 6y ago
Sure. The "don't be evil" motto seems like more of a guideline, really. But they're not selling data to 3rd parties here, and especially not something that is obviously personal like health data. Whereas in the AMP cas
909.
by greesil 6y ago
Or deny housing to minorities, or radicalize people prone to extremism, etc. Yeah that's one of the downsides of hyper targeted advertising. Should the acquisition be blocked because it allows better targeting?
910.
by greesil 6y ago
Discriminating when showing ads is literally what the document linked to in this HN post is complaining about.
911.
by greesil 6y ago
There are a few lawsuits going in the USA. To which one are you referring?
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by greesil 6y ago
Selling ads is not axe-murderering. But yeah they're gonna sell ads. It's what they do. I'm just hard pressed to explain how serving ads by fitness condition is going to harm the consumer, or why you can't just write a l
913.
by greesil 6y ago
Edited my post. Alternate timeline, counterfactuals, interdimensional cable.
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by greesil 6y ago
I'm going to write something unpopular, but your data is probably safer from sale to insurers with Google than with a pre-acquisition Fitbit. Google already has a fantastic revenue stream, and only has downsides from doing something &q
915.
by greesil 6y ago
To sell ads?
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by greesil 6y ago
"capable of harming consumers through personalisation of advertising and increasingly also by enabling targeted product offerings" So this is going to be harmful because some health insurance company is only going to offer ads to
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America’s Hollow Middle Class(vox.com)
1 points by greesil 6y ago|2 comments
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by greesil 6y ago
But if organized crime didn't have the resources to buy off the government, military, and police wholesale the magnitude of the problem would be much smaller.
919.
by greesil 6y ago
As a caucasian male, Narcos has made me want to visit Mexico and Colombia and eat yummy food. Reading the New York Times has made me scared of visiting Mexico. Colombia seems okay though.
920.
by greesil 6y ago
I have used something like 20% time to help manage technical debt, keeping it from consuming our team in web of pain and complexity. Usually we come up with a week or two of time every quarter to take care of these things, instead of a day
921.
by greesil 6y ago
Thank you.
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by greesil 6y ago
Wasn't each of these acquisitions allowed by the FTC?
923.
by greesil 6y ago
Can anyone who is following this closely provide a good link to a summary of what has actually been fixed?
924.
by greesil 6y ago
How do you feel about minivans?
925.
by greesil 6y ago
Everyone's going to have to wear really nice sunglasses into the battlefield.
926.
by greesil 6y ago
That's a rather tenuous link. Because a famous person said the same quote in a different context doesn't mean it actually has bearing and what we are discussing. If you don't like the first hypothetical, maybe focus on the se
927.
by greesil 6y ago
You're asking the wrong question. What measurement would you use to measure success?
928.
by greesil 6y ago
We are talking about media companies exercising discretion and control over content, not about what is constitutionally protected. I think a more relevant legal discussion would be on the tension over safe harbor provisions vs exercising ed
929.
by greesil 6y ago
How would you improve critical thinking at scale?
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by greesil 6y ago
Not every Twitter account is equal. Some have more followers than others, have more each to other platforms, or are more central to current events.

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