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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes, I agree - it is an ouroboros (or whatever you call that snake eating its own tail). Ad tech has a byzantine complexity that is as complex on the business side as it is on the tech side: http://www.lumapartners.com/resou
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by mbubb 11y ago
In 2014, Google's ad revenue amounted to almost 59.06 billion US dollars. That year, advertising accounted for 89.5 percent of the online company's total revenues. http://www.statista.com/statistics/266249&#x2
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes agreed - a pernicious example is the "if we do/ don't do X the terrorists will win". I also agree just because I cannot imagine it that there is not a better model out there. It is not trivial though if we explode th
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes except that ad revenues are the lion's share of revenue for the companies that dominate the current internet.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Please, serve ads that have something to do with the stuff I'm looking at. I understand your point and feel yr pain but: How do you do that without some sort of tracking? Advertising as well as the 'recommendation engines"
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes, succinctly put. The 'hard choice' though is between suffering though bad or irrelevant ads or being tracked. I do not think there is another way of targeting ads. We haven't evolved past the DoubleClick/ Google way
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes true. There is no way to have targeted advertising w/out tracking.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes, "if you block ads the terrorists win"... but I am not so sure that Netflix / HBO and Wikipedia are models for the internet as a whole. Google runs the biggest ad exchange on the internet and Appnexus is a distant 2nd. I
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by mbubb 11y ago
This is the key point. Is that assertion true or not? Wonder if there is a good economic analysis of 'what keeps the lights on'. Looking at the internet giants like GOOG, FB, AMZN advertising is a big part of their model.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Tangentially saw this in Quanta magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150903-the-road-less-travel...
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by mbubb 11y ago
I love that poem. And Dickinson. This case reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the cave. Beyond that - the quick transition from Truth to 'success'. And the telling of fairy tales to kids to make the lightning less scary. Wonde
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by mbubb 11y ago
Interesting - but too cryptic - point. The article mentions a scholar, Richard Poirier, who was at Rutgers when I was a lit student there. I vaguely remember lectures on "Emerson as the American Nietzsche", etc but that was a life
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by mbubb 11y ago
I love the quip on loadbalancing. It is like that though really it is more like round-robin as the choice is arbitrary. We do not know about conjestion or trouble up ahead. In loadbalancing the choice is made by the system - in this case th
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by mbubb 11y ago
The poem is contradictory about that. Both appear equally travelled. The one chosen has a grassy patch up ahead. Its a great image of starting out on a journey/project and just seeing the first little bit of the path. There is no knowl
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by mbubb 11y ago
From the customer side - I dealt with Netezza and Softlayer before and after IBM acquisition. In both cases an almost palpable drain in support and intelligence. I hate to say it like that as i know that there are brilliant folks in IBM (Wa
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by mbubb 11y ago
Good point. In NYC companies like IKEA in Red Hook had local impact following Sandy. I was told in the late 90s, anecdotally, that in South Korea which has a festering humanitarian disaster 50 miles from its capital, the large conglomerates
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by mbubb 11y ago
Drudgery killing the soul. I was listening to "99 percent invisible" podcast about elevators and it was a person's job in some European palace to stay hidden in a tiny closet and work the pulley to raise and lower the king be
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by mbubb 11y ago
Ignorance and Indolence... There is an apocryphal story about Gauss (18th cent mathematician). As an 8 yr old he was given a punishment or busywork to add the numbers up from 1 to 100. The kind of tedious task intended to punish or control
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by mbubb 11y ago
Maybe in the sense that he did not bother to become an expert in optimizing the manual process but decided to circumvent it altogether. As for indolence - makes me thing of ESR's sentence in the "Art of UNIX Programming": &qu
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by mbubb 11y ago
Forensiq | NYC | Full-time | ONSITE (some flexibility) Forensiq has developed proprietary technology and sophisticated algorithms which allow us to accurately pinpoint fraudulent activity within the online advertising space. Using our serv
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by mbubb 11y ago
I feel you - I had a fair amount of anxiety around this and worked/ practiced to get better. That said it is not always possible to do so - everyone is different. I became a promiscuous interviewee for a while. Learned strategies for r
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by mbubb 11y ago
or the J Peterman catalog...
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by mbubb 11y ago
I have followed lobste.rs for a while but am not a member - do you have an invite to spare?
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by mbubb 11y ago
I am curious as to why DenyHosts is not mentioned in this context (beside fail2ban and sshguard. Is its use deprecated? I ask because I administer about 300 servers with DenyHost grandfathered on the servers. I've googled a bit to see
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by mbubb 11y ago
Not just 'some' of your servers. Looks like infrastructure is US based. https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/security.html Physical location security Our main servers are located at New York
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by mbubb 11y ago
Do one thing and do it well... I like how simple the interface is and how trivial it is to toggle between sending encrypted emails and non-encrypted. Great move opensourcing this. I respect the devs stated ethos and reasons for doing this.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Ok - I initially misunderstood that you were saying FastMail does the same thing as Tutanota. When I reread your comment I see that you aren't saying that - just that you secure transit with TLS, etc.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Genuine questions - I do not know as much as I should about this stuff: How do you send encrypted mail with Fast Mail? How is the following different from how Gmail (for example) does it? https://www.fastmail.com/help/o
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by mbubb 11y ago
Let me first say I am nto an expert in this area but have been in a similar position. These kinds of problems are frustrating. I cant tell by your initial description how many other things you have tried. Maybe the following is obvious for
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by mbubb 11y ago
This company looks interesting - https://www.tunnlr.com/ I learned about them from http://devio.us/ (which is great when it works...) I did the trial for 1 day and tried them out. Have no pressing reason to

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