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by henearkr 6y ago
I do not work in this field and I don't know much (maybe better ask qdot76367), but I've discovered recently that VRChat ERP is a thing. Not virtual but still weird in another dimension, there are also animated realistic sex dolls
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by henearkr 6y ago
Thanks, yes that's true that if the {legal, moral, medical} context was better most of the problem would be gone. People able to workaround the difficulties of this drug may well be fine. My point was that, in the current context, the
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by henearkr 6y ago
But in the case of heroin there are huge side-effects on health of the user and on the security of the surrounding people.
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by henearkr 6y ago
It's what some people need. People who don't need it just won't use it. It's not a "smoker / passive smoker" effect, they will not disturb other people.
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by henearkr 6y ago
The connectedness of the new generation of toys, combined with worlds such as VRChat, are contributing to make the loneliness of "not skin-to-skin sex" a thing of the past. Also you start to see (unmanned) virtual characters sophi
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by henearkr 6y ago
Happy humans are less likely to wage war. So, lowering frustration and helping raising levels of serotonin and endorphins, even by using tech, is intrinsically good for the world. Also, it seems that an active sex life (be it with tech or n
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by henearkr 6y ago
Some vaccines that are compulsory in Japan and China (and other Asian countries) but not in the rest of the world are also suspected to geographically shape some immunity differences. For example the vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis is
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yeah but the point is that Google knows better than merely conform to the Law, especially in this era of irresponsible governments. They can and often do more responsible things than just what is required. It is not true for every industry
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by henearkr 6y ago
And no I don't work at Google.
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by henearkr 6y ago
"Monetize" is an harmfully vague choice of words. Research teams for medical or pharmaceutical ventures "monetize" health data (to develop e.g. drugs or tools) but they do it in an ethical way, through anonymized or aggr
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by henearkr 6y ago
But you know that insurers have only benefits to keep you healthy (because then you only pay your monthly fee and they don't need to refund you any medical expense), so there are lots of these health-preserving programs, as there alway
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by henearkr 6y ago
To reassure you on the point #1, no that would not make sense given the huge number of people browsing random ailments either by hypocondria or by mere curiosity. Honestly at this point I would have no more health cover whatsoever, as I am
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by henearkr 6y ago
But... this is very unnatural in the middle of this discussion. Anyway... Thanks, and you the same.
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by henearkr 6y ago
I don't know the details, but do you have certainty that they are not planning to anonymize the data before transferring it to Google? That's what pharmaceutical or medical ventures usually do, so that seems the sensible way to go
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by henearkr 6y ago
I just think that everybody is overlooking Google's corporate culture and thus are imagining purely virtual evil scenarios that will not happen, like the health data sold to marketers. From what I see of Google and the past public outc
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by henearkr 6y ago
Fitbit has these data already, in arguably more vulnerable places... Your concern is legit, but then the whole concept of connected wearables should be avoided.
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by henearkr 6y ago
What is not true is your position that the company culture is not responsible anymore at Google. The company culture at Google was proven by the facts to be responsible not long ago (the refusal to negotiate with China, the refusal to make
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by henearkr 6y ago
A = Google B = responsible C = not responsible D = again not responsible? or do you mean evil? So, to reply to your argument: When Google makes something not responsible, or, worse, evil, the numerous "responsible" people that hav
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by henearkr 6y ago
That's not true. I've met some people who work in financial-oriented companies, or companies with very aggressive marketing and IP protection... well they live up to their caricature. At some end of the spectrum you have Google, T
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If was sufficient, and they maybe knew it. The memo was probably centered around the interested teams. If the project had been maintained, you probably would have seen further actions... it's just like in the civil society (I mean, in
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by henearkr 6y ago
I am sorry if I misunderstood your tone, but I only detected "emotional contents" namely insult-type content, and very poor quantity of arguments. I'm not a closed one, I am genuinely interested by what you think that could p
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by henearkr 6y ago
I understand the risk, but I just feel that everybody is fretting while overestimating this risk and overlooking everything that already exists that can also very well keep this risk in check. Starting by the fact that any misdeed would be
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yeah I understand that they are doing only a categorization of the ads they are showing, without the marketers being the ones to choose their targets, and so from the Google point of view there should not be any data leakage problem... I se
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by henearkr 6y ago
How is your reply teaching us anything? I explained how it works, and gave examples. Your turn to be convincing.
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by henearkr 6y ago
There has been and there is still a lot of self-checking at Google... The own health data of Google employees too is in danger if they do dumb things with it (as I suspect that, like anybody, these engineers enjoy health wearables), so it w
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by henearkr 6y ago
Can you help yourself and look at the 2 examples I have given in the other comment. Thanks in advance.
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Here I read that at least 4000 people signed a petition opposing the Maven project, and the project was abandoned as a consequence. Had it not been abandoned, probably even more engineers would have joined the march. https://gizm
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You forget that there is a lot of self-checking of the company by other employees, and in the past you have numerous examples of the crowd undoing the misdeeds of the few.
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Googlers are not Wall Street sharks... not confuse species... Googlers go on strike if a juicy deal is made with China in exchange to some complacency to state-censorship. Or when it's an Defense contract with any country. Wall Street
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by henearkr 6y ago
Enough with that. Googlers are not that stupid, there would be huge internal strikes if the health data was sold to, say, health insurance companies. They are not dumb, their own health data privacy is in stake too, after all. By the past t

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