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by tareqak 7y ago
In some other countries, foreign election monitors are routinely invited to monitor elections. They aren't all-seeing or all-knowing, but they can at least highlight irregularities in the voting process.
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by tareqak 7y ago
The last paragraph in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-24/facebook-... says that the FTC will be dealing with Facebook and Amazon while the Justice department will deal with Apple and Alphabet.
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by tareqak 7y ago
More specific news about the antitrust probe: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-24/facebook-... .
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by tareqak 7y ago
The last part of the opening sentence has it (emphasis mine): Facebook Inc (FB.O) beat analysts’ estimates for revenue on Wednesday, even as the world’s largest social network agreed to pay a $5 billion fine over data privacy and announced
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by tareqak 7y ago
Why is the legal expense $ 2.0 B? Is that only including lawyer fees and not the $ 5 B from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20515235 ?
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by tareqak 7y ago
Maybe here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20515235 ?
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Facebook revenue beats estimates; discloses antitrust probe(reuters.com)
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by tareqak 7y ago
Rohit Chopra is not the head of the FTC: he's one of the five FTC commissioners [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission#Curre...
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by tareqak 7y ago
DoorDash (YC s2013) [0]. [0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ (search for DoorDash)
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Apple’s Heir Apparent Is More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs(bloomberg.com)
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Microsoft to pay $26M to settle probe into Hungarian kickback scheme(washingtonpost.com)
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Google Settles Job Seekers’ Age-Bias Claims for $11M(bloomberg.com)
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by tareqak 7y ago
I believe you can use the Google Goggles app to read QR codes, but I no longer have an Android phone to try it out. It’s not a default app for whatever reason.
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by tareqak 7y ago
I believe you can use the Google Goggles app to read QR codes, but I no longer have an Android phone to try it out.
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by tareqak 7y ago
Let’s take a step back here, and ask a few questions. 1) Is it possible to care about something that you don’t understand? 2) Is it possible to care about something whose existence you aren’t aware of? I personally don’t think anyone can ha
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by tareqak 7y ago
I totally agree. I wonder to myself sometimes, "where did this person's empathy go?".
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by tareqak 7y ago
The second app is also categorized under "Social Networking" in the Apple App Store for me. They both have a same/similar blue background in their three pictures in the install preview. I can't read Cyrillic, so I don&#x
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Tell HN: There Appears to Be Another Signal App on the Apple App Store
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Self-Licensing(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tareqak 7y ago
Over the last few months, I've had a thought that only very recently I've been able to put into words: it's more profitable to appear to be a source of truth than it is to actually be a source of truth.
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by tareqak 7y ago
EU commission press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_... EU commission press release [PDF]: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api&#
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by tareqak 7y ago
I just had a thought, and it might be a very bad one: why can't robocallers be de-platformed in the same way Facebook and Twitter de-platforms accounts they consider to be harmful on their platforms?
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by tareqak 7y ago
That sounds sort of like the Olympics but for steroid-users.
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by tareqak 7y ago
I think something imperfect would be welcome given the current set of consequences: just removing the Fourier Transform of a song given a start time and and end time should get rid off enough to keep copyright holders and content creators s
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by tareqak 7y ago
One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_of_Poland#Coronation_(...
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by tareqak 7y ago
There is a related issue that I have some personal interest in: removing specific audio from video. Background: There are streamers on Twitch who will play copyrighted music as part of their streams. Twitch allows them to do this, but then
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by tareqak 7y ago
To be fair, it would probably take more time and money irrespective of litigation to be sure that there was illicit bias than to just delete everything and call the exercise a failure.
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by tareqak 7y ago
I just missed the deadline to edit my post, so I am replying to myself. Looking at the parent comment again, I seemed to have just restated it without adding anything new of my own. I meant to add that my reasoning for why Amazon pulled d
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by tareqak 7y ago
From my reading of that article, I think the recruiting tool was fed resumés and a data point saying whether or not the corresponding candidate was hired or not. As a result, the tool not only developed a bias against women, but was effecti
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by tareqak 7y ago
Exactly, you can't simply cap peak APM, you need to cap the maximum APM too.

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