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by l9k 8y ago
The original ACLU title is: Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots . It was spread on the news with the same conclusion. It puts directly the blame on Amazon and its technology and doesn't menti
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by l9k 8y ago
The way it spread with such virality in the news (NYT, etc...) makes me think it really was engineered clickbait
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by l9k 8y ago
I agree with your comment. Now the question is: Is amazon responsible and should it get the bad press? Or should we blame the local cop and his training? Or the police software implementing the technology?
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by l9k 8y ago
I agree with you about the tracking/monetization problem. My first comment was just about cost and (spatial/temporal) availability, in response to the parent.
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by l9k 8y ago
No need for name-calling on here please. For the large majority of people (95%+), as per my last message, the library is not always preferable in terms of cost, distance and availability, that's all. There are reasons most people don&#
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by l9k 8y ago
Compare internet to library: Free: Transportation to go to your library (2x train ticket, or car + gas): minimum ~$5 / day so $60 a month, plus library card if not free Instantly: ~30 minutes to go, 30 minutes to get back home, dependi
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by l9k 8y ago
But people are familiar with photographs. There is no way the software wouldn't show the picture that's been matched before an action (arrest...) is taken
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by l9k 8y ago
Why not just work with the few last speakers / experts on the culture and language so that it's not offensive? A lot of those people are proud of their language and would like to see it live and thrive again.
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by l9k 8y ago
And in French
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by l9k 8y ago
I think that, to them, it's not dirty laundry. In today's society, people accept to have more and more of their life in public and be a lot more open (for better or worse).
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by l9k 8y ago
“Venmo is an unusual app because it combines social media with financial transactions,” said the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Christine Bannon. “One of those is usually fairly public and one is usually very private, so it’s hard
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by l9k 8y ago
Almost everyone knows it's public. They just accept it.
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by l9k 8y ago
For non-native speakers, it's particularly difficult to pronounce and/or understand English composed word when they are "joined" with the same consonant (eg: newsstand, withhold, ...)
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by l9k 8y ago
The "Big Cars" part of your comment is really US-centric. In Europe, Japan, and other places, many people want small cars. Some people want faster but most people don't care because there are speed limitations on the roads an
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by l9k 8y ago
What about the people who manage their 1&1 server from their OnePlus One?
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by l9k 8y ago
Moreover, adding to the confusion, it is (Google) ONE for (Google) DRIVE
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by l9k 8y ago
Keyword here is "helping". It's only reducing the probability to get a malware.
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by l9k 8y ago
This is usually true for any big website you browse on the internet. Any click on Facebook or Amazon is influencing the content you're going to see. Google has a user history website where you can see everything they recorded from Sear
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by l9k 8y ago
Just like in Google Search, it still makes sense to show the results he was interested in previously even though he's not been there. Maybe he looked at a location first for information, and to know where it is, and needs to look for i
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by l9k 9y ago
This site is better viewed zoomed out to 60%
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by l9k 9y ago
I'm not sure it would be really helpful. Not all jobs (on LinkedIn) are IT jobs, far from that. The real advantage would be to map everyone and every company to get intelligence on the users and potential users of their products (Offic
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by l9k 9y ago
Most people didn't commit murder 20 years ago but may have had a car accident or organized a loud party with weed while in college. People change and your neighbor now has a family and lives quietly. It seems unfair the world should kn
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by l9k 9y ago
There's no Install button when the (desktop) browser window is too small except at the end of the page in the footer. Even if hiding it for mobile seems like a good idea (not the target), someone looking at the website on mobile would
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by l9k 9y ago
Really hot and beautiful models exist. They are just rare. They are the 1%. But out of 500M DAU, that means they are 5 millions, and they are the most popular because of their beauty. The unrealistic expectation comes from the fact that pe
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by l9k 9y ago
Would it be possible?
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by l9k 9y ago
I actually thought it was a recent quote until the end. 200 years later, still true.
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by l9k 9y ago
With all the Sans typefaces that exist, it must resembles at least one of them. What would happen with the similarities in terms of rights?
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by l9k 9y ago
These have existed for a long time, on paper contracts.
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by l9k 9y ago
Or just (virtually) replace billboards with personalized content
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by l9k 9y ago
AFAIK Musk never claimed to be an inventor.

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