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by sqdbps 8y ago
A Couple of things: Mainstream news outlets on this side of the atlantic didn't do much reporting on this vote which might signal tacit support on their part (at least for the link payment portion of this thing which is frankly the sil
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Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money(hoover.org)
1 points by sqdbps 8y ago|0 comments
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The EU have come to the conclusion that they probably won't have a major internet company so they are willing to destroy the whole market to help legacy industries and assuage the anti American notions of their members.
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Phase-change memory accelerates neural-network training(arstechnica.com)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Give it a rest already NYT. 1. they are mischaracterizing the nature of that "access". 2. they could've reported this tidbit in yesterday's story, clearly they are trying to squeeze every last drop from that pebble.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
What's an example of that?
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by sqdbps 8y ago
I wouldn't call them "crows" exactly, some of it is well meaning, but they are definitely being selfish about promoting their causes with disregard to the damage they might do to their employer.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Not exclusively.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
It would be nice if Google employees just did their jobs instead of trying to sabotage their employer every other week.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
... in the latest chapter of scapegoating internet firms for Trump's election.
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Why We Disagree with The New York Times(newsroom.fb.com)
346 points by sqdbps 8y ago|304 comments
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Nor is Microsoft or Amazon. There aren't many clients out there the size of the DoD and the cloud business is all about locking in large clients.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Congrads google activists you have hurt your employer's business and business prospects and prevented your colleagues from working on really interesting AI applications relegating their life's work to sorting photo albums. Oh, and
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The irony of this particular piece is that they are publishing emails expressing concern about how the media might frame and distort such an item and doing just that. The email discussion is mainly about potential revenue if they were to wi
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by sqdbps 8y ago
They don't 'sell data' they show you ads based on relevant data, it's a deliberate mistake that defeats the argument. The major issue here is that user consent won't be sufficient anymore, I don't mind the busi
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The jury is still out on the effects of GDPR and claiming Google as the only opposition here is incorrect and is a tired scare tactic, the "developer alliance" isn't 'big tech lobbying' and this piece of legislative
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by sqdbps 8y ago
"The bill also requires companies to offer people the same communications services whether or not they agree to have their data collected." This is the most insane part of this clueless and destructive law. It's like europe h
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The GDPR: Ghastly, Dumb, Paralyzing Regulation It's Hard to Celebrate(techdirt.com)
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The EU's New Copyright Proposal Is A Complete And Utter Disaster(techdirt.com)
12 points by sqdbps 8y ago|0 comments
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White House policy seeks fewer lawyers, more engineers at space companies(arstechnica.com)
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The Privacy Scandal That Should Be Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica(slate.com)
5 points by sqdbps 8y ago|1 comments
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The author does a good job of pointing out the hypocrisy in complaining about government subsidies yet refusing to make his company more competitive because that would jeopardise the government subsidies his company gets. The last is notewo
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Feeling harmed and actually being harmed are different things. There is also something to be said about the general societal ill of feeling entitled to compensation for the slightest of perceived harms.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The relevant regulator not the courts. Also in this case there was no harm done and certainly the plaintiffs can't prove any. Google acknowledged the bug that was fixed back in early 2012!! this lawsuit is a money grab, most of them ar
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Another reason to scrap class-action lawsuits - other than they clog up the courts with mostly frivolous claims seeking payoff and that lawyers get the bulk of the winfall while dividing the scraps among their clients - it would also do awa
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by sqdbps 8y ago
I don't see the "political corruption"" angle. The rest (your distortions aside) was already addressed by him and the company on many occasions still the animus directed at him is extraordinary.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
And there you have it: the New York Times will side with censorship and against free speech as long as it's to the detriment of a tech company.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
It's not about if you liked it or not, it wasn't meant for public consumption. It's someone's thoughts shared with colleague as part of the intellectual process and that is being demonized.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
When did tech reporting become the thought police and a guardian of the status quo? They seem to react to anything more exciting than a new phone release with fear and scorn. Exploring concepts and ideas is how progress happens and it'
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by sqdbps 8y ago
I agree that the nature of their employment isn't being made clear and I'd argue that this was done to mislead, if the author had knowledge that people close to the project resigned they would have published it in the headline.

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