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by mtgx 7y ago
It might be better using other advertising channels if your competitors are pissing away VC money drastically raising bids and making it virtually impossible for any "proper" business to do well in digital advertising utilizing th
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by mtgx 7y ago
One of the many reasons why "surveillance capitalism" is terrible for humanity. Once the wealthy and powerful know everything there is to know about you, they can take any arbitrary decisions they want against you - in all places,
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, especially when they can extort patent fees with their patent protection racket from anyone that builds a Linux or Android device. Microsoft continues to make billions of dollars a year in royalties by accusing device makers of patent
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by mtgx 7y ago
He didn't fear the charges, he feared the extradition - and that's exactly what happened - Sweden dropped the charges anyway, but he ended-up being extradited.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Or they never had any strong charges to begin with and the whole plan was to hand over Assange to the US, just Assange said.
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by mtgx 7y ago
"Anonymized data" can always be deanonymized. There have been plenty of studies about this. It also reminds me of a recent post-Cambridge Analytica story about FB trying to get patient records, for which they said they "would
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by mtgx 7y ago
It certainly is, and that much was obvious as Intel "committed" to fixing Spectre V1 in software as opposed to hardware. Worse yet, it doesn't think a hardware solution is necessary. Except, that pretty much all recent Spectr
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by mtgx 7y ago
I donțt know about Brexit, but I think Musk hinted years ago that he might do a Gigafactory in Germany or France. The reason for this is because that's where all the car workers are, and Musk will want to be able to attract that talent
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by mtgx 7y ago
I guess the idea is not to just "hang in there (but keep doing what you're doing)" but rather "hang in there (while innovating around your problem/change course, etc, until you get it right)".
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by mtgx 7y ago
Google has been perfecting this language over the past few years, with press releases/blog posts of fame such as: "We're evolving Google Fiber" (read: We're killing it) or "We're releasing the End-to-End e
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by mtgx 7y ago
The answer has always been obvious. Facebook (and Google, etc) would rather keep the tens of billions of dollars in profit they make each year and keep growing that number, too. They don't have need for "cost centers" such as
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by mtgx 7y ago
Very disappointing. I was considering buying one of their routers next. Not anymore. This is unacceptable for a router.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Microsoft broke local search completely on latest Windows 10 updates if you've ever tried to block Cortana. They count this as a non-issue because from their point of view you're not supposed to block Cortana/web search. I&#x
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by mtgx 7y ago
They feared for their safety. The only possible response was to immediately annihilate the potential threat, no questions asked. Better use the rocket launcher and be safe than sorry. The "modern" American policing system is such
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by mtgx 7y ago
All of that is true, but according to IBM's own definition of "quantum advantage" I think Google at least achieved that. All in all, it seems more of a battle of semantics, and the two companies talking past each other. It&#x
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's basically why Windows 10 is also so much buggier than previous versions: Nadella cut a good portion of Microsoft's Q&A team.
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by mtgx 7y ago
No, Eric holder's legacy will be not going after bankers because that could hurt the economy. His solution was to rather leave the criminals in place instead of suffering any sort of short term pain (if that).
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by mtgx 7y ago
Before people start praising Estonia for its e-voting system, which inevitably happens on such stories, let me remind you that the system was indeed open to compromise: https://www.zdnet.com/article/estonias-id-card-scr
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by mtgx 7y ago
A vanity place with pretty people pushing random products in their feeds. How is that "nice"?
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by mtgx 7y ago
What's even sadder is that a good portion of world's governments see this as an ideal they need to follow. China's online surveillance, censorship, "perfect citizen" scoring, and public facial recognition systems
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by mtgx 7y ago
Or manufacturers can stop making "smart" devices just so they can fill them with ads and malware, leaving customers exposed to unlimited amount of threats. It's not like they're just "giving you the choice" eit
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by mtgx 7y ago
Mikrotik has had quite a bit of security issues, too. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/unpatched-vulnerability...
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's not just "one unpatched router". It could be millions. Or millions or billions or IOT devices in the future that are unpatched. That does have the potential to create some damage if anyone takes control of them. Maybe
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by mtgx 7y ago
I feel like because all of this is so new, we haven't had time to fully think about this stuff, and law enforcement is abusing this. But if we take things one by one, we could see that some real restrictions could be put on the use of
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, but in that case it's not the TV network that gets punished, but the advertiser. The parent is saying the same should happen here.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Did the US gov really make any money on it, or did it pay the banks through another channel (such as non-returnable Fed-printed loans) so the banks can "give back the TARP money." (a PR win for both the gov and the banks, but stil
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by mtgx 7y ago
Because everything he does feels like it has another two-level deep plan behind it. Kind of like: Level 1 (Zuck's thinking): I'll tell them "We're building Thing X to improve Y in the world!" and most will buy it li
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by mtgx 7y ago
Don't forget FB was once only for college students. And now grandparents and 2 year olds are on it (unfortunately). Even Reddit was once only for a very specific audience. Now it's in top 5 most visited sites in the US. I think Zu
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's probably not for them: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveill...
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by mtgx 7y ago
I agree. Both OSM and Sygic are way better navigation apps than Google Maps, even more so if you don't have internet connectivity.

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