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by lotu 8y ago
The problem is this type of vertical splitting doesn't solve the problem of large tech companies. It's like treating a burst appendix with a kidney transplant. The problem of Amazon is that it is effectively the only online shopp
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by lotu 8y ago
Unfortunately, that journalist is being investigated for crimes so that is somewhat inevitable. This also, is the opposite of a journalist going to jail to protect a source, Manning is the source and everyone already knows that.
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by lotu 8y ago
Your brain isn't developed (it keeps developing till at least 30) to the point that you are capable of acquiring that expansive world view during those first 12 years. There is a reason we don't trust teenage drivers, and part o
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by lotu 8y ago
Malware and spyware wasn't generally sophisticated enough to do this type of data collection and targeting. This is a ton of work, as evidenced by the 10s (maybe 100s?) of thousands of engineers employed doing it today. The data Malwa
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by lotu 8y ago
As of Android 6.0 they use the Apple permission model where the app doesn't ask at install time, but at run time and has be able to deal with the permission being denied.
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by lotu 8y ago
> Simply make "I want to see targeted ads" an opt-in choice, then. I suspect the take-up would be a fairly small percentage of the population, but if it would satisfy your needs (and others like you), then I'm all for it.
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by lotu 8y ago
Nuclear kills less people than Coal mostly from asthma, but coal even causes more cancer because on a normal day it emits far more radiation in the form of small particles of radioactive dust present in coal. The real danger of Nuclear is i
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by lotu 8y ago
> A new petition calls for Amazon to donate reusable items to families in need. So Families in need are going to get 1000 copies of each of 2017 worst books? Or random electrical equipment that only has a specialized use?
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by lotu 8y ago
People who have been hurt by the fact that synthesized data often doesn't exactly match real data.
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by lotu 8y ago
This is my problem with many "privacy advocates" on the internet. It often feels like the end goal is not, to help consumers, or make it clearer what technology is doing, but to get rid of large tech companies on principle or may
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by lotu 8y ago
It has been pointed out else where in the thread that they do have mics in them. It is possible that Nielsen is only looking for audio from TVs and Phones, but Google also wants general audio for speech recognition. But I'm not sure.
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by lotu 8y ago
From professional and personal experince, remarketing ads, what you are describing, are much more effective ($ spent / products sold) for the advertiser than traditional ads. So why do ads follow you even after you bought the product?
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by lotu 8y ago
That is correct! Google, Amazon, and Apple despite having vast resources don't have the ability/desire to pay for the bandwidth, storage, and processing needed to have 24/7 recording and analysis from every smart device, esp
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by lotu 8y ago
Why do you assume RSS is immune to bots? The attacks on the election focused on Twitter and Facebook because they where dominate not because they were uniquely vulnerable.
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by lotu 8y ago
I think 'pause' is a better word than 'off'. The reason is that a person is more likely to think that turning 'off' location history deletes the old location history, which it does not. 'Pause' ma
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by lotu 8y ago
Maybe depends on how they though it would play out in the media. Unfortunately the whole opt-in vs. opt-out is too complicated to be explained in most reporting. Google might have worried that not respecting Do Not Track for IE could be i
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by lotu 8y ago
Why not setup email forwarding and just wait a few years for people to get the message?
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by lotu 8y ago
I don't think GDPR would prevent this I read though it for work before it was implemented I don't recall anything saying algorithms can't make decisions about people. Our company uses algorithms to decide what ad is displaye
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by lotu 8y ago
When Instagram was bought by Facebook I think it had 13 employees. Would they not of had to comply with GDPR then?
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by lotu 8y ago
So this means if you want to clear all your cookies you have to sign out of Google? I really don't see what the big deal is it looks like the button is pretty darn clear about what it does and does not do, perhaps they could include a
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by lotu 8y ago
Bandwidth isn’t the main cost of running a website you also have to pay people to make content. Compared to that bandwidth is free.
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by lotu 8y ago
> How do humans handle edge cases anyways? 30,000 deaths per year suggest that humans fail at these edge cases all the time. Maybe ate their best a human outperforms a machine but as any person who drives if other drivers are at their
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by lotu 8y ago
It is called understanding context. This isn’t a thread about weird tech glitches it is a thread about Donald Trump accusing Google of liberal bias; something that apprentlly involves showing more black people than neccassary in search res
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by lotu 8y ago
Are you literally suggesting that for some of the most important queries that people make Google should just return no results because it is too hard to decide who is on top?
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by lotu 8y ago
The term concentration camps referse to any camps where you rounded up a bunch of all people belonging to some group with no due process, and typically including whole families (this is what distinguishes them from prison). By this definit
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by lotu 8y ago
If your displays are openable and have the right connector you could just use them. However, as someone else pointed out whiteboards work in a lot more situations.
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by lotu 8y ago
I have trouble calling this scary when the data we are talking about is upvotes and private messages associated with an alias (not necessarily associated with an human) that are over a decade old. From the standpoint of the person who took
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by lotu 8y ago
This was actually how the very first iPhone did it’s location tracking when it didn’t have a GPS chip in it.
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by lotu 8y ago
It appeared to do even less than that, because they don’t have a ground truth of throwaway and main account associations. It sounds like they where just able to re-associate an account with it’s origional name after removing the name by lo
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by lotu 8y ago
I federal id card is a political non-starter in the US because of a a bunch of reasons. First the federal government currently lacks infrastructure to issue IDs effectively. The states handle drivers licenses at DMV which handle a lot o

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