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by kinsomo 8y ago
> AI Winter was referring to how the potential of current AI methods is limited Not exactly. "AI Winter" refers the historical periods that followed unsustainable hype that surrounds AI methods prior to those times. Skepticis
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> "uncontrolled and unsustainable population growth" definitely is. Sadly, what we have is the latter No we don't. IIRC, birth rates are dropping everywhere and the world population in on track to plateau mid-century befo
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Would it be possible to skirt these policies by having a system-wide ad blocker that's only partially configured? Either the user has to modify their systems settings to use the local VPN or take some action to load or enable the bloc
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Maybe they should focus on the quality of ads, because currently they are complete garbage. And privacy invading. I prefer low quality ads because I can be more confident that they won't effectively manipulate me. I like to avoid
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up on office but once they introduced that stupid ribbon menu I ditched it. Appa
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> These funding rounds just mean we are using existing tools. The AI winter is regards to discovering new AI techniques, not re-applying existing discoveries to business. There's so much hype around "AI" right now that I w
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Well, one way of looking at is: Google may or may not make shitty products that steal your info, but they don't kill people. > The military kills people. And, ironically, if the US military is ineffective at killing people, mor
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> There are many places one can be tolerant without having to contribute to the US government. But if you don't contribute, you could weaken the US government to the point where it can't resist an unambiguously intolerant foe.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
So, what's the context for this for those of us that don't know? Who's Mary Meeker, and why should I care about her trendspotting? Just wondering if it's worth it to wade through 300 slides.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Airlines have banned robot suitcases due to fears of battery fires: https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/american-airlines-just-ban... https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/17/another-smart-luggage
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by kinsomo 8y ago
>> Wow, they (Google) really keep everything.. They've still got my trip to Europe from 5 years ago on there, not sure how that's useful to them at this point haha. > They know you've traveled to Europe, they know al
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> People just assume Amazon is the cheapest for some reason They were for a long time, especially when they didn't collect sales tax. Many people just stopped comparison shopping and haven't realized the situation's cha
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The problem AI runs into is that with too much faith in the machine, people STOP thinking and believe the machine. See https://youtu.be/R_rF4kcqLkI?t=2m51s In medicine, I want everyone to apply appropriate skepticism t
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> But eventually the general public wises up to the unfulfillment of expectations, and drives their attention elsewhere. Here we have the AI winter. And more importantly, business and government leaders wise up and turn off the money ta
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> [a] Right To Privacy is that it violates "free speech" Copyright is settled law that definitely limits the kinds of speech people can engage in. Couldn't you construct a right to privacy by first saying an individual has
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> GDPR...creates magical rights where none exist. You don't own information about you. Data is data. You could literally say that about any property right ever. For instance: common law creates magical rights where none exist. Y
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> Just rent seeking by an incumbent. I disagree with the immediate labeling of a potential consumer protection law as "rent seeking." Such an attitude totally excludes any improvement in the consumer privacy situation, unles
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Do they ever have any that are valid for domain renewals? Just tried DOMAYN5 and it doesn't seem to be good for that.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Not everyone has a public/business phone number, those cost actual real money No. Google Voice numbers are free, I use one as the throwaway phone number for my personal domains. https://www.google.com/voice
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by kinsomo 8y ago
It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I'm not sure I agree that it's Facebook's fault that people use its platform to target ads illegally, but clearly you shouldn't be targeting job ads to people by age. It seems reasonable to me that an automated ad
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Good Design is simple. > A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. I think this has principle been taken way too far, and it certainly shouldn't be regarded as
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> But Callahan [VP of a tech industry group] doesn't think a privacy law should be written by advocates like Mactaggart and put on the ballot. > "Without any sort of process ... the proponents came up with this law," Ca
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Ironically, this article is not available without opting in to their tracking. Could someone post the plaintext link? What are you seeing? I didn't see any consent popups on Firefox or Chrome (even with uBlock & NoScript disa
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I was under the impression that the size of the online porn industry is in the billions. And yet, the article states that Thylmann bought pretty much every competitor with just $362 million. That doesn't add-up. What am I missing?
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> I would like to hear more from individuals that actually take the time to read every single EULA that gets thrown at them No one actually does this. I read somewhere that it would take an estimated 71 days per year to read all of the
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Makita also sells a robot vacuum: https://www.robotshop.com/blog/en/makita-drc200-industrial-r...
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Quality and relevant ads is exactly what targeted marketing is about. Not really. Targeted marketing is about particularly narrow conceptions of quality and relevance. IMHO, the logic of targeting and tracking has severely twisted
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Your ad-network should practically "steal" your content-targeting information to divert on-topic ad money to entirely unrelated sites Do you have a link to support that? I believe it, but I'm looking for an article that
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> How exactly will higher quality news publishers pay for their existence? Most people are conditioned to not pay for it. So where does the money come from? I can't find the link where I read this, but targeted ads tend to be detri

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