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by harryf 8y ago
One reason is deflecting blame to shareholders. The executive board can claim "We hired the best to help us..." > You'd think any well-run company could get the same sort of insight from its own people. The paradox is many
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by harryf 9y ago
> And, in addition, we have to establish that parents should regulate their kids' use of online/social media tools in such a way that we reduce the devolutionary effect on human interaction that is occurring now. Basically: yes
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by harryf 9y ago
That's a great start! Haven't yet looked seriously at the details of GDPR - good to see it going that way.
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by harryf 9y ago
> Most people won't fiddle with the controls because they may not even realize what all the fuss is about. Good to see this _starting_ to become part of the discussion; that most users are not educated and motivated enough to take p
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by harryf 9y ago
That's pretty amazing if true. Eric Schmidt and Google seemed to be pretty firmly behind the Clinton campaign in 2016
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by harryf 9y ago
> I wonder how confident Thiel was of a Trump presidency back in May 2016 Well how many other companies are there with the capabilities of Palantir? If the answer was "none" then he knew for sure the Clinton campaign couldn&#x2
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by harryf 9y ago
I'm also not from the US but from following US politics the two competing sides seem to react to different types of outrage. With Obama in power and the GOP "in opposition" you have this "low brow" story around Obam
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by harryf 9y ago
"Seen as OK" by UK press / establishment politicians in the sense that no real outrage was generated or hearings held or laws changed. Unlike what seems to be about to happen with Facebook...
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by harryf 9y ago
> The fake news long predates the internet - Boris Johnson built a career printing false articles about the EU in the Spectator Indeed although that's always been seen as OK because those are "our guys" manipulating public
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by harryf 9y ago
So long as the news-story "Putin elected Trump" exists, this isn't going away. Only once we're sure that it's only "our guys" can use Facebook to manipulate public opinion will this go away. That probably
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by harryf 9y ago
The "why now?" question has a simple answer: "because Trump". The public basically believes that Facebook enabled to Putin to get Trump elected. So suddenly the issue of all that data we've been sharing has gone fro
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by harryf 9y ago
I used to think that too - as an "old person" think "it's just me being old". Then I showed The Circle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(2017_film) ) to my two teenagers (11 and 13 at
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by harryf 9y ago
I think Google is doing this right. Yes they're not showing you everything they know and yes the UI could be a lot better but fundamentally I feel like I'm in control here. I know Googles business model means selling me as a produ
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by harryf 9y ago
The principle is already well described in Crossing the Chasm[1]. You need early adopters and then figure out from there how to go a mainstream audience. You probably also need some groundbreaking shift in the medium to create an opportunit
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by harryf 9y ago
My experience of deleting my Facebook account back in 2009 (and reading this the process hasn't changed) is once I finally deleted it, it was stolen by someone else within a few weeks (I'm guessing automated / bots trying to
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by harryf 9y ago
The current version of Redhat - RHEL 7 - which most banks, large enterprises etc. are using comes with a system python version of 2.7.5 and you need to jump through hoops to install Python 3.x ( e.g. https://stackoverflow.com&#x2
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by harryf 9y ago
> because users OK all that when they sign up Reminds me of the "Facebook Security Simulator" game that was made around that time - https://www.grahamcluley.com/facebook-security-simulator/ and the term &q
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by harryf 9y ago
Ah what I meant was that prioritizing loneliness over privacy is a kind of a bug; satisfying a more unconscious need over taking conscious decisions to be smart with your own privacy.
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by harryf 9y ago
I loved Silence on the Wire (your [2]) - really changed my perspective on how much we "give away" passively
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by harryf 9y ago
Facebook exploits "bugs" in the human psyche, such as our need to avoid feeling lonely (by sharing intimate details of our life) is far more compelling than any abstract fear of "big brother". That is until big brother i
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by harryf 9y ago
Last Week Tonight did this bit brilliantly when they interviewed Edward Snowden - https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1437 - in essence we need to get dramatically better at telling this story so everyone understands.
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by harryf 9y ago
> Of course it is. It's the only solution. One viable alternative is legislation, such as the EU has been doing to some effect. Of course the laws lag the technology by some years and we have a wide range of political views on thing
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by harryf 9y ago
This. Killed mine 7 years ago. Nobody died. Still fully employed. Still getting invited to more-than-enough social events. And my family appreciate getting hand-written Christmas cards once a year.
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by harryf 9y ago
Indeed although generally it's usually a bad idea to misappropriate the exception throwing / handling mechanism for other purposes, as it's probably be less well optimised, performance-wise, than other parts of a VM.
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by harryf 9y ago
Getting to non-fatal is just a future implementation detail
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by harryf 9y ago
Nicely done
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by harryf 9y ago
How about an example of the results it produces on your website? Might convince more people to give this time if you can show some output, given either a known T&Cs like Apple's or if that's a legal issue, use a T&C templa
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by harryf 9y ago
Yes but there's a gap between "can be audited" and "is being audited". If they got caught doing anything malign they can just pull the "oooops we didn't mean to" defence as they've done before[1]
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by harryf 9y ago
It's potentially not just the app. The Facebook SDK is embedded in probably 50%+ of _all_ the apps we use e.g. In top 10 most popular cocoapods - https://libraries.io/search?order=desc&platforms=CocoaPods&s...
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Why the age of finite state machines is over – game devs perspective(aigamedev.com)
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