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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
I’m surprised that so many people are missing this. Google and Facebook may come off better than most tech companies, but surely the real winners must be whoever was not relying on your personal data to begin with? E.g. tv, radio, and print
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Yes, a hidden factor seems far more likely. There is probably some secondary variable that affects both your mortality rate and your perception of your own fitness. This seems much more likely, even to the point of seeming obvious.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Yeah, you could imagine something like this. You could train a model about the types of ads that would be effective using the online data of those who consent (or Americans). You could download the model on each EU person’s computer, evalua
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
I wouldn’t say they should take their word for it. They should hear the argument and decide if it is reasonable and supported by the data.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
You don’t know that, because you don’t know how many ads they would be showing in the alternate reality where they only show non-targeted advertisements.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Can they? I was under the impression that GDPR does not allow “accept tracking or else pay money”. If it does then that seems like an easy, obvious solution to the problem. So easy and obvious that the fact no one is implementing it makes m
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
That’s probably ok though, as I imagine those features are somewhat less important to advertisers.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
You could probably take it a step further and say that it is in the user’s best interest to see targeted rather than generic advertising, because you can show fewer ads and make the same revenue. I don’t know if regulators will buy it thoug
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Eu cookie law is one prior example of this. That worked out to “business as usual” in the end, didn’t it?
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Installed base is pretty meaningless in a world of web fonts and mobile apps. Everyone will need to download the font once. Not a big deal.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
So your proposal is basically the status quo? Personally I don’t think the status quo has much value compared to her solution. Having a few blessed date formats and an escape hatch is a better way. (That’s how we do it where I work. There i
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Sad. It “should carry over”. What a joke. You don’t have to guess. You can test it.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
(Same person, different account.) > Our understanding of what it means for the sun to be "in the sky" will likely undergo several revolutions in the next 100,000 years. I wouldn’t bet on it. > Your perception that the sun is
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Historically, all kinds of words meant all kinds of different things than what they do now. A word means what people think it means. It is a symbol used to communicate an idea. We can wish that prescriptivist interpretations applied, but on
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
On the other hand, exceptions such as this have proven very important to the American economy over the past half century or so, especially within the last twenty years. When your exceptions are numerous enough, or large enough, they sort of
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
I’m not sure the idiosyncratic tenets of Christianity or Judaism can serve as the foundation of sound economic (or other) policy. I need something more compelling than “a myth invented more than two thousand years ago says it’s a bad idea”
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
What possible protection could you have in a non-master password scenario? If you’ve decided that you don’t want the user to have to enter a password, it’s game over from a perspective of trying to keep the password from being retrieved by
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
It saddens me that the basis for such important decisions today is what people were doing more than two centuries ago. Not even what they thought was a good idea, just their actual practices! It was a different world back then. I understand
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Even in Tokyo, much of the place is single family homes or mid rise apartment and condo complexes. There are a number of huge skyscrapers here and there, but they are not as densely packed as manhattans.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
That is a very rude thing to say.
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
I read my mortgage note cover to cover, and also the Facebook T&C front to back. They both seem pretty easy to understand to me, tbh. The standard CA home purchase contract is the scariest of the three, because there are so many options
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
> However mortgages are something that rarely have side effects surprise the signers. I really don’t agree with this. Are you aware of the existence of adjustable rate mortgages?
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
For practical purposes, you can’t secure a dwelling without signing a long, complicated contract (be it a lease or a mortgage note). Yet dwelling is a necessity, even more so than a phone. And, in these contracts, so much more is on the lin
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
No matter how plain the language is, it cannot benefit someone who doesn’t read it. You may argue that the lack of plain language in T&C causes the lack of reading. But there’s a natural experiment here in the form of those same U.K. fi
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Was a time long, thoughtful, informed comments on this site garnered plaudits rather than gripes. Considering this is one of the only informed, reality-based comment in the entire thread, I think it’s best to engage with and appreciate it,
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
Is this a standard you would like to be subjected to from someone who is responsible for your money? For example, if your bank, through an accidental, non-fraudulent error, allowed a criminal to extract your account’s entire value as cash,
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by hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
> People suing if a bug in my software causes them to lose access to their account or coins Everything else sounds pretty reasonable, but this doesn’t. If you cause someone harm, you should expect that they will attempt to recover dama
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by hshehehjdjdjd 9y ago
Same here. A bar in a coffee shop would have compared favorably to that desk in size and ergonomics. Craziest thing about it was how at the time I was getting paid absolute tons of money, but in many ways my status at work felt more like my
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by hshehehjdjdjd 9y ago
https://m.timesofindia.com/home/science/How-Kargil-spurred-I... This seems to have moderately more information. It seems like maybe they wanted to use GPS capabilities in their guided weapons systems, and the US w
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by hshehehjdjdjd 9y ago
If Facebook purged your information, how could they verify your identity? They don’t want to provide the ability to check if an arbitrary person was leaked, because that has its own privacy issues. So in this context I wonder what you expec

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