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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
So it's unethical if I am able to personally identify them? So if I have a house party open to everyone in the block but to enter they need to sign their name in a guest book and I have cameras all over my home to prevent property dama
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
If you are so baffled by it you can explain in simple terms why it's unethical?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
The author of a creative work doesn't have the right to force me to delete something from my laptop if I obtained it lawfully. If a creator downloads their entire collection onto my laptop I can use that to train my models and target a
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I do not see how that applies to observing people when they have no reasonable expectation of privacy. And when using all these websites I'm pretty sure they put at the top of the ToS that they will be using your information.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>Isn’t this more or less the gist of GDPR and “right to be forgotten” laws? That my personal data doesn’t automatically “belong” to anyone else just because I entered it onto a server? Yes the EU invented a new right for its citizens whi
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> IS there a good reason why you can't analyze the page you put your ad in and decide what category on ads will fit, so on tech pages put tech related ads. There isn't and this is what many people do. But that isn't the ar
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>Since tracking people took off in the late ’00s, adtech has grown to become a four-dimensional shell game played by hundreds (or, if you include martech, thousands) of companies, none of which can see the whole mess, or can control the
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Do you think poor people read the New Yorker?
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South Korea unemployment surges after minimum wage hike(upi.com)
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> For tutorials, I pay $30 a month for a PluralSight subscription, $12-$20 for the occasional Udemy video and watch vendor supplied tutorials from Amazon and Microsoft Good for you that you can afford that. We all know the dream of the i
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>- content creators on youtube & twitch >99,99% dispensable trash. Yes, the thousands of tutorials/guides and content that people enjoy watching is trash. Everything that I don't find agreeable is trash. >No need for
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
And how many such regulations that only add on "rounding errors" to the cost of creating housing exist?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I'm sure there are but that has nothing to do with my point. Anyway, I personally never use facebook because it is not something I find interesting. Do I feel pride in that fact? No I don't because I have an equally harmful relati
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
There are no ads without tracking.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> Do you think an immigrant would be treated as well in Texas as in California? Yes. I would expect an immigrant living in one of Texas' cities to be treated just as well as an immigrant living in one of California's cities and
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>Many folks that work in CA are from out of state and do it for career/financial reasons, not for political/social reasons. And they'd be fine with living in a suburb of Austin if it were materially more appealing than som
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
1.5% of a million dollars is a rounding error. You and many other people in this thread are extremely disconnected from reality.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>They win because they make more money. You have no data to back any of your hand wavy assertions. You are not smarter than the people that decide the business model for these publications. People are not willing to pay 10 or 20 cents t
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>Honestly, I don't think it would be a great loss to forgo most of the advertising funded content. Since you clearly haven't put much thought into this comment let's just start listing things that are funded by ads - News
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>And yes, it is for their own good to not have thousands of databases with their data littered across the internet. "With their data". Aka whether or not they liked a group pertaining to motorcycles or whether they searched for
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Showing ads is unethical now? >Maybe if the service is only marginally profitable without acting unethically it should shut down. Also I love this neo puritan thinking. I'm sure all the users of these services agree with your ideolo
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> I think the idea is instead of having 1 user pay you $30 a month, you have 10 users (or more) paying you $3 a month, you end up with a net win Intuitively, I believe it's much easier to find one person to pay you $30 a month for q
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
People need to understand that the alternative to ads is paying hundreds of dollars a month in subscription fees and then still not having access to all the services you would have had access to in an ad economy world. People in Europe will
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> It's possible that at $10/month they'd get 5x the signups. I highly doubt it. Also, while it is possible that the people at bloomberg are so incompetent that they did not consider how to maximize their profits, I'm
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
How do they win if they end up making less money? What you are paying for is journalists doing research every month to produce those articles so you could access them on demand. If you want that on demand access you need to pay them for the
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
How about, I won't even try interpreting it and watch a few unfortunate fools get fined so I can learn from their mistakes. Until then, none of my websites will be available in the EU until I can afford a legal team.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Thank you for posting an argument against a point I've never made. Hmmm, it's almost as if I didn't state that selling things was the only way to make money.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
And this innovation tax takes priority over all of the other things that need to be funded? What about the millions without healthcare? Also are we really going to trust some bureaucratic institution to dispense billions of dollars in a fai
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> The last part about value for customers is optional for as long as there are deeper pocketed investors I don't understand what you mean by this? Is this a comment about the current startup funding phenomenon?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Not at all.

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