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by kristianc 8y ago
Decentralization, Freedom and Privacy are taken from the Diaspora homepage. Also you’re conflating Privacy with Security.
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by kristianc 8y ago
Diaspora never gained traction because being worse at all of these things than Facebook didn't trump "Decentralization", "Freedom" and "Privacy". Indeed, for many, the centralization of Facebook is a selli
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by kristianc 8y ago
So, what the author is saying is that we should make something just like Facebook, only: - Harder to find - Harder to update - More expensive to run - Prone to falling over / being hacked - Non-standardized - Doesn't provide insta
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by kristianc 8y ago
They’re fairly similar - though the whole political spectrum is shifted to the left. The British Conservative Party is pro free market and low tax but socially liberal, with an Atlanticist foreign policy, and is in favor of single payer hea
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by kristianc 8y ago
There's an interesting phenomenon here in the UK where a lot of the quality journalism on the right is behind a paywall, whereas a lot of the quality journalism on the left is ad-funded and freely available. I can see that being a pote
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by kristianc 8y ago
So if private hedge funds had access to private polling data from YouGov which suggested that the £ was going to crash, who was driving the £ towards a cliff - and why would they not choose to have access to the same data?
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by kristianc 8y ago
> I browse with Firefox, an ad-blocker CookieAutoDelete and NoScript also, which sounds horrific, but actually works well I’m interested by this as every time I have tried to browse with NoScript it has indeed been completely horrific.
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by kristianc 8y ago
OL has different (and slightly derogatory) connotations in Japan.
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by kristianc 8y ago
When this was floated on Twitter the other day, a number of prominent VCs chimed in to say that due diligence would see this coming a mile away.
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by kristianc 8y ago
> So why doesn't Apple do this? I'd say Apple's product lineup is no less convoluted. Sure, the Apple site looks nicer, but the product lineup today is still pretty convoluted and it isn't easy to determine which is t
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by kristianc 8y ago
Yeah - who'd have thought that exposure to an allergen in small amounts could help build up resistance to that allergen? The levels of peanut allergies correlates quite heavily with early-years education and parents freaking out about
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by kristianc 8y ago
And I bet there are still some people that haven’t seen the XKCD...
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by kristianc 8y ago
You’re welcome to set up a company and pay yourself as little as you want - that doesn’t mean you can compel others to accept mediocre wages too.
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by kristianc 8y ago
Use them if you like, don't use them if you like, write a self-aggrandising piece to draw attention to how smart you are if you like too. This is faux-problematizing.
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by kristianc 8y ago
The banking and payments infrastructure is such that most of it is handled by intermediaries and other companies anyway. Most banks, for instance, do not issue their own cards or process their own payments - this is done by an intermediary.
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by kristianc 8y ago
Google is an advertising company and uses legitimate interests as a legal basis for collection when using personal data for activities such as serving contextual ads, ads reporting and to combat fraud and abuse. As for the third party websi
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by kristianc 8y ago
That’s exactly how GDPR works - Google will say that they are protected under the legitimate interest exemption.
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by kristianc 8y ago
If you’re using a signed in Google Account or a signed in Chrome Browser, Google will argue that the tracking is compatible with the services that you have agreed to as it helps provide a more personalized experience.
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by kristianc 8y ago
You don’t have a GMail account, though, as there’s no such thing as a GMail account. You have a Google account, and GMail is bundled in as a service. FWIW - ‘tracked all over the world on every website’ also comes with some significant cave
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by kristianc 8y ago
This was always going to be the case. Google benefits from having a direct relationship with the customer, meaning that consent is relatively trivial to get. None of these third party tracker companies have that relationship, so rely on sec
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by kristianc 8y ago
Honestly the original post on MR is much better than this, and has the benefit of Cowen’s customary concision and knack for getting to the heart of the issue.
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by kristianc 8y ago
GDPR has a broader definition of PII than is used in the US, and includes any data that can potentially be used to identify an individual (even IP address), so it’s almost certain that it is within scope.
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by kristianc 8y ago
I think this comes across as incredibly nuanced and thoughtful. Often we only see the outer surface of what people are actually like, and make judgments on their character based on that.
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by kristianc 8y ago
> And all that "copy, art, offers, banner ads, ux, reporting, email marketing" hasn't worked that well for Evernote. Apparently there's more to marketing than "copy, art, offers, banner ads, ux, reporting, email
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Lp0 on fire(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kristianc 8y ago
Right, and it's only reasonable to expect that if ML is a core differentiator for them, it wouldn't be provided by an outside group.
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by kristianc 8y ago
Not as weird a fit as it might seem. Coca-Cola's Ready To Drink coffee brand in Japan, Georgia Coffee, is incredibly profitable (accounts for around 12% of Coca-Cola's global profit, despite only really being sold in Japan.) http
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by kristianc 8y ago
Gassée's problem is that he sees everything through an Apple-tinted lens. There's almost no subject that he can't turn back to his comfort zone of talking about Apple. Here we're promised an alternative account of why th
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by kristianc 8y ago
> Loosers like to celebrate failures of people doing better than them. This zero-sum mindset that you're a 'loser' to even suggest ways a company might be a great company, without you know, the founder being an asshole is
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by kristianc 8y ago
> You want to sell a da Vinci? Well then you have to make private meetings with potential clients, and, you have to create ads that sell it as iconic. That’s sales, not marketing. You wouldn’t bother to create ads for a Da Vinci, as the

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