jonbronson

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by jonbronson 7y ago
Spot on. It was an otherwise very thorough retelling of the Google timeline.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
Personal action alone will be insufficient to stem the tide. Without shutting down fossil fuel development and use, we don't stand a chance.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
yes indeed!
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by jonbronson 7y ago
While there are a lot of truths in this article, there's also a thread of misconception running through it, embodied most prominently in the line "Without some ownership of one’s feelings and thoughts, it is difficult to take resp
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by jonbronson 7y ago
This post is a cautionary tale of why Legends are important.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
> this is the lite version of what you are asking for I'd say this is the heavy version. A new startup can put together and run a GDPR compliant web app for over a year for far less than $15,000.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
As both a gmail user and developer interested in applications to help me manage my personal information, this is incredibly depressing to hear. The idea of a verification process itself is great, and I applaud that effort. But some of these
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Terribly sad to see that the Fossil Fuel industry has waged such an effective stall campaign for as long as it has. We're all the victims for it.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
The real question is, did they decide not to because they realized it was unethical? Or because they felt it was too risky to public perception?
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Stupidity and malice can often be two sides of the same coin. I once worked with an individual who shot down a project idea, but then executed it in secret for two weeks before revealing it as his pet project. After confronting him, he ini
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Ranked voting is sorely needed in the US. Plurality vote, the predominant US vote tallying system in the US, actually maximizes voter dissatisfaction. That is, if your candidate loses you are most likely to end up with a winning candidate t
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by jonbronson 8y ago
What's more plausible in this scenario: One or two journalists run a fake story, possibly for financial gain or simply notoriety, or that hundreds and even thousands of engineers and managers across multiple tech companies are all comp
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Are you tailoring your resume specifically to the jobs you're applying for? This can be a big issue for people who have a long broad history of experience. The more experience you have, the smaller percentage of it will appear 'im
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by jonbronson 8y ago
The average home computer user has terrible security practices. Frankly, their email is safer being managed by a competent business. So who is the intended market here?
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Nice. Oddly, the published date is listed as Sept. 26, 2018.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
There are already a number of media outlets picking up these stories, including gizmoto and business insider. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Just takes time to propagate outward.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
What I find troubling about this incident is not so much the change itself, or even how quietly they did it. It's the doubling down when users became critical. Rather than a "Okay wow, we clearly misunderstood the impact of this c
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by jonbronson 8y ago
I agree it's worth acknowledging that it is the tech crowd that is concerned, and that's exactly what we should expect. This was a stealth-release feature that doesn't really explain itself and has no clear way to disable. It
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by jonbronson 8y ago
For people already logging into Chrome, perhaps. For people who have chosen to not sign into chrome, this is a breach of privacy and of trust. Without warning, we've been force-signed-in with no clear way to disable this setting.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Users who already sign into Chrome are not affected by this issue. But for people who do not already sign in, we have now been force-logged in without consent. That is the problem everyone is outraged about.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
How is regulation to protect people from being taken advantage of by malicious data-mining practices "worse" than the actual practice of maliciously mining data to rip people off?
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by jonbronson 8y ago
"Because the experience is so nice." If the experience is "so nice" why are so many people outraged? The data suggests this is a terrible experience to look up and suddenly see you've been auto-logged into a browser
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by jonbronson 8y ago
This can't be overstated. The update did not even mention this feature change, making it even more difficult for non-techies to know something has changed, and what it means.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
The lesson to companies should be, don't provide a Hobson's choice up front like this. Offer the webpage you meant to offer, and simply don't try to nickel and dime all the data out of your visitors.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Yes software itself is safe. But eventually you'll want this stored online. At that point, the company hosting your data will be obligated to comply, but by design, cannot. In that sense, it's worse than simply incompliant. It&#x2
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Not to mention a violation of GDPR.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
It seems weird that deletion is prohibited. As we grow as people, sometimes we no longer want to associate something with ourselves. A photo we don't want to remember, for instance. This feels like an unnecessary restriction.
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by jonbronson 8y ago
This is just inaccurate. GDPR is derived from warranted concern over rampant data abuse. And it's actually much easier to make a startup GDPR compliant than it is to overhaul a large company with rigid systems already in place. If anyt
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by jonbronson 8y ago
Sure, ultimately most rendering is about producing 2D images as output. But the whole OpenGL pipeline is designed around taking 3D data, and providing abstractions to enable that rendering. Rasterization and depth sorting are only one piece
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by jonbronson 9y ago
And how are they allowed to get away with demonstrably false technical errors on record? There should be some checks and balances here.

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