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by orijing 15y ago
> Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie. > He emphas
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by orijing 15y ago
Coming up next: Hyper-local ad targeting that knows to-the-block your position. Current IP-address based targeting is not very accurate, but knowing where you are exactly by your router opens up another frontier of monetization potential.
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by orijing 15y ago
Well, that's one way of offering "opt out" without really doing so...
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You Want Me To Do What To My What?(parislemon.com)
2 points by orijing 15y ago|1 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
Another interesting point is that Congress can actually influence outcomes. For example, if you (the congressperson) have a lot of cash invested in the defense department, you'd likely push for as much defense spending as possible, even if
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by orijing 15y ago
It's interesting that he started the discussion with a reminder of externalities, pointing out that the negative externalities from fracking were not properly internalized. I'm surprised he didn't mention the FITs in Europe, and the cheap l
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by orijing 15y ago
That's a blatant lie. In light of the recent monopoly hearings in the Senate, Mr. Schmidt is clearly trying to persuade Senators that Google is weak and vulnerable. But Google published findings that show that in natural language processing
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by orijing 15y ago
Does that work with the Chrome Google+ addon? Because Ghostery would prevent it from contacting home...
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by orijing 15y ago
The downvotes are horribly biased and uninformative. I think an interesting experiment to try is to force downvoters to also give a comment, so the parent knows why he/she is being downvoted, so as to discourage that behavior in the future.
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by orijing 15y ago
> "There's China" I said. "And there's Taiwan." You knew her disposition. (You were her friend). What was the goal of that comment, to incent a fruitless political discussion? Edit: Whoa there. Why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious
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by orijing 15y ago
This is really interesting because very recently, a bunch of American solar companies joined together to sue Chinese solar companies for selling panels "below cost" (i.e. "dumping") [1]. I don't understand how that works. What is the cost t
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by orijing 15y ago
No, I was simply offering a potential explanation for why things happen. Also, I see no need to respond to your hyperboles. I mean, "criminal negligence"? C'mon.
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by orijing 15y ago
A company doesn't have a single conscience. It may have been a conscious choice by an engineer, or it may have been an unintended consequence of some other code change. Either way, I highly doubt it involved the check-off from a director-le
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by orijing 15y ago
If we stretch that further, then even a 1% share is not necessary, so why bother?
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by orijing 15y ago
> Salary offers ranged from $132,888 to $145,000. The average salary offer was $123,972. The median salary offer was $138,944. How can the average be that much lower than the min?
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by orijing 15y ago
> The candidates who were offered $120,000 was reporting directly to the VP of his research group The candidates or the candidate? It seems like this candidate is easily identifiable... How many masters' grads from Stanford (145 respons
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by orijing 15y ago
That's true, but if you have full control over who can see your information (i.e. "I allow it to be anonymized and used for genetics/cancer research in exchange for information about myself, for myself"), it's not a problem. I just get frus
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by orijing 15y ago
Unfortunately, at least in the current environment, such endeavors would be shut down by "privacy" advocates. I was a student at UC Berkeley when we wanted to offer every student a chance to sequence their genes. However, because of the eff
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by orijing 15y ago
> “It’s mostly just a rumor,” according to the report. What does that mean?
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Ask HN: What's your opinion of the "99%" issue?
6 points by orijing 15y ago|9 comments
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by orijing 15y ago
> If Amazon really is making $50 per Kindle Fire sale that translates to $125 million in revenue on day one The author doesn't know what revenue really means. Revenue is the total cash taken, not the cash left after paying the manufactu
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by orijing 15y ago
Isn't that what RockMelt is trying to be? I know it isn't developed by Facebook, but with integrations like notifications, friends, chat, etc, it basically is the Facebook browser.
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by orijing 15y ago
I totally agree. Not only does it make the tax code much more complicated than it needs to be, but it also discredits the "fairness" of taxes, damaging the very legitimacy of it.
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by orijing 15y ago
I'm not a patent lawyer, but I tried reading the patent application ( http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... ). It sounds like Facebook Connect/open graph, where you can Like something on a third party domain, or re
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by orijing 15y ago
That's wrong if you do the math yourself. Try this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sept+30%2C+1984+to+toda... It says 9855 days, which is 365 * (2011 - 1984), which is obviously not right and missing leap years.
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by orijing 15y ago
I'd imagine you can opt out of that by either installing another browser (like Skyfire) or going to some settings in Silk. I don't think Amazon will track your browsing without your explicit approval, and I'd imagine it would be much easier
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by orijing 15y ago
I agree that it isn't Amazon's fault for governments imposing duties, but I think the parent was referring more to the fact that Amazon wasn't upfront about the total cost before he had to go through the entire checkout process. I think wha
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by orijing 15y ago
I thought the goal of this plugin is to neutralize Facebook Connect (i.e. facebook on 3rd party websites), not to disable Facebook altogether?
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by orijing 15y ago
Thumbs up. That's exactly what I did. It seems innocuous enough, I thought, but it's still interesting that we trust fellow developers so much. I just wanted to point that out, in case people missed it.
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by orijing 15y ago
"This extension can access: Your data on all websites" This part made me chuckle a bit. We are so afraid of Google and Facebook tracking our searches/web pages, yet we freely install plugins from 3rd party developers that can easily gather

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