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by mgraczyk 2y ago
I don't think that's true. Where I grew up everyone carried a knife like this and called it a "pocket knife", and the description on wikipedia, various stores, blogs, manufacturers, etc all use the term to refer to this
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The most popular pocket knife in the US (as far as I know) has a 3.75 inch blade. https://www.buckknives.com/product/110-folding-hunter-knife/...
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
In the US, sales of disposable vapes are not allow to anyone by anyone
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Disposable vapes aren't legal in the US but they are available everywhere
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An Introduction to Auctions(adrianriv.com)
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
$101M for a problem from 5 years ago, fixed quickly with no harm done to anybody, with users notified immediately at the time. I wonder how much of a fine Ireland would have levied on an Irish company in similar circumstances.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Banning online advertisements would essentially cripple small businesses in the US. Even local businesses today rely on online ads for foot traffic. Banning ads would send us back to the economy of the 1950s, where most profit accrues to a
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Exactly, historical authoritarian states got by just fine by reading the mail and listening to conversations. You don't need to know which fragrance I bought last week to oppress me, and it wouldn't help anyway
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Do you have any examples where the data was obtained from sources that collected it for ads? As I understand it, the sort of data that is collected for behavioral advertising isn't useful for identity theft and has not been used in tha
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Ads don't do that. Maybe you're thinking of organic posts, which are not ads? Or do you have examples of "extremist" ads? Having worked on this stuff, I can tell you that the data relevant to extremist rabbit holes is no
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Do you have a link for the first one? I don't think that has happened (although it could under Texas law as I understand it) Is there an actual case where data described in the article was used for anything like what you're sugges
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Needing to wear gas masks outside sounds like a pretty bad, tangible harm caused by a lack of pollution regulation. Do you have any examples of similar tangible harm caused by lack of regulation on data collection?
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
thanks, missed that!
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
FWIW they don't allow developers to self verify any more (as of this year).
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
This is exactly right. I just finished the process to get drive.readonly for my app. It was a huge pain in the ass, and Google was not very helpful. Google recommends you pay $720 for a CASA lab assessment, which consists of some random dud
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The main product actually works, this is for additional claims that were misleading. It isn't right to compare the settlement to the entire company revenue. Better to compare to the benefit gained by wrongdoing, or the amount of harm c
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
They don't know these details because they have never asked. It's not the sort of detail that would be useful for ads (except my home address)
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
> targeted the source of your RSUs or otherwise motivated I don't currently have any financial interest in any of these companies > but ADINT and RTB tracking will get you there for search terms. These are good things, do you ha
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The FTC press release is not talking about private messages, that is not the kind of data they are asking to protect. Private messages are already generally protected in the way the FTC is asking for.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
None of this data is included in the FTC report. They are not talking about this. My full name is Michael Graczyk, I live in San Francisco, none of these companies know any more detail than that about the questions you asked
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
No, I'm arguing that it's not actually a gun, and my evidence is that there are 2 billion "guns" that have been pointed at 2 billion people's heads for years, and nobody has been hurt. It's more like a flashlig
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
It's been ubiquitous for around 20 years now (Google started doing mass surveillance for display ads in the early 2000s) and nothing bad has happened, so yes that's my point. If nothing bad happens for decades, and that is inconsi
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Apple wasn't listed and (outside the app store) doesn't collect the data described in the press release.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
"these surveillance practices can endanger people’s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking." Is there any evidence that any of these things have ever happened as a res
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Secrets manager, but the secrets are JSON objects. Each secret contains all the secrets for a specific "environment". Then we use scripts in the repo to download the secrets and set up the env. We use the same pattern in productio
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
There are plenty of legal venues, and they are popular and widely used. The problem is that the value participants get comes from doing it in the city. It's not the same if they aren't rebelling
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Ambulances do not go 100mph, and cops almost never do that unless they are chasing somebody who is also going very fast Drag racing is unfortunately impossible to stop with force because we lack the political will to do anything like that i
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
By "making money" I mean profit. If you add up only Twitter's good quarters prior to Musk, it's less in total than Meta made in a single quarter in 2016, or roughly 1 month in 2024. Put another way, Meta makes more profi
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
There's a reason Facebook is printing money and X is not making any (and essentially never has). It's actually not the user generated content that primarily matters for ad revenue. Time spent on the site is necessary but not suffi
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Wait until they update the OS

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