lalos

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by lalos 7y ago
I didn’t now TV ads offered targeting and tuning ads to highly specific groups of people, why didn’t Cambridge Analytica use tv ads instead of FB? The issue here is the micro targeting based on the personality of the uses stringing them alo
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It'd be fun to have optional licensing info of said code snippet.
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They should use this technology to charge Youtube video ad views depending on how many people are watching the ad on a phone. Multi-user presence will be interesting to see how it gets used as an API.
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In 10 years, we'll read HN comments of how someone started to code after outsmarting Screen Time on their device. These are the type of experiences that give you that thrill of what else could be possible by understanding how technolog
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Might be that they are feeling pressure in the environment making them more aggressive for whatever is remaining of their habitat. Also, a shrinking ice habitat will make it more probable that they will cross paths. This are just thoughts,
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Every time I see this kind of news, this cartoon comes up in my mind: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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Interesting naming problem what about EnsureDirectoryTree() or EnsureDirectoryExists()? This name kinda implies that you only care about success and not if it has to create it or not.
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It's one way of doing it, yes. See this project that does it https://github.com/gollygang/ready
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That's how Google operates, all they see is bits flowing one way and another and the algorithm makes the connection. That's the problem, there is no safeguards or way of saying don't make those connections since they leak per
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Ironically, they are actually making a comeback.
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Assuming they live in the US, that is against HIPAA and in my experience it is taken very seriously since what you described is crime punished by a fine of up to $250,000 and up to 10 years in jail.
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Someone should do a zero-day privacy bug (feature?) blog. End result is the same, breach of data and trust but some are mistakes and the others are coded on purpose.
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Language is not clear enough, scan is different from metadata. I can see a lawyer defining scan as checking every word of the content and metadata being account Foo sends email to account Bar. That would be enough to make the connection. Fo
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Here are some ideas: - If you have a call with your doctor that probably is specialized in that specific condition, that metadata would be good enough to guess that condition. - Some doctors send appointment reminders via email, if you use
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Could also be selfishness, I remember reading an article about leaked internal Facebook employees where some employees would pressure others to not talk about privacy or sensitive topics because it would hurt the stock price further and the
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Not mentioned in the article, Nüshu translated literally means 'woman/female book' in Chinese.
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Depends on who you donate to, see this for example: https://www.newsweek.com/donated-body-sold-army-brc-arizona-...
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I could see this as an effective pedagogical tool when learning to program.
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It's not theft, it's 'voluntary parting'. Lawyer speak probably.
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by lalos 7y ago
Reminded me of this interview with Peter Thiel: https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133942478501888000 Interesting investment decision but to their defense they might be diversifying.
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The fine should be 10x the actual cost to properly dispose it, it might be a better "deal" to just get the fine than to properly do the job.
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You can tack this tax to jet owners too, easily charged by airports that receive them and also based on amount used. Trying to make it as equal as possible and de-incentivize excessive flights.
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Pipe dream but it would be interesting to devise some increasing tax based on the number of flights you've done per year. They already ask for ID when you buy flights so it would be easily track-able. First flight 10%, second 20%, thir
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by lalos 7y ago
Or it's just providing value through differentiation that can't be achieved by competitors without cannibalizing their revenue model. Seems like smartphones offer almost the same feature set, everything is easily copied/impro
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Thanks for taking the time to answer and for such a great response. Impressed by your observation skills and high introspection which made you arrive at this conclusion.
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Why/how did you come to that conclusion? I'm surprised to see that self-reflection and conclusion of following rules is a character flaw.
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by lalos 7y ago
Anybody know of an easy way to block all Facebook SDK usage from iOS? The simplest that comes to mind would be through a custom DNS server, but even if you don't log in using FB SDK on apps they still ping back in someway or another to
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by lalos 7y ago
Why not add an ability for the author of the parent tweet to censor the tweets they please and other users can tap on 'show tweets hidden by author under this tweet'. End of story, people who are into the crazy discussions can see
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Can someone describe what is a 'senior'? This might be controversial but I see senior title promotions being thrown around just for retention reasons, could it be possible that once you start looking for another 'senior'
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Probably AMP sites? I wonder what will be the carrot and stick in this scenario for ad buyers.

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