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Will non-desperate FB employees continue to want to work for a company with a poor reputation amongst the press?[1] Will internet users outside of HN begin to reflect on what Facebook is doing behind the scenes? Will they care? An executiv
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"7. One aspect of bitcoin-related energy consumption that won't disappear so easily is the residual carbon footprint left by bitcoin mining, which is currently dispensing as much CO2 a year as 1,000,000 transatlantic flights.&quot
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According to this, Wall Street is still concerned: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/facebook-may-make-tons-of-mo... Facebook has begun running TV ads to counter anti-Facebook sentiment: https://www.
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Ask HN: In search of: rosetta/codegolf alternatives
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"So depending on your usage style, it's between "changes multiple times a day" and "no change"." For me, for each ISP, it's been "no change". Can only relate personal experience.
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"Anyone with large enough traffic will use some edge network like Cloudflare which would also get a different address depending on your location." What if the request is always sent from the same location? What if when the user mo
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"Between 11am until 1pm UTC today, DNS traffic-the phone book of the internet, routing you to your favourite websites-was hijacked by an unknown actor." Is it worth keeping a record of the IP addresses for "your favorite webs
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"He finishes this up by warning the audience not to think they're too smart to fall for the implications of social media, and stated that those who are best-and-brightest are the most likely to fall for it, "because you are f
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"Recent controversy over Facebook Inc.'s hunger for personal data has surfaced the notion that the online advertising industry could be hazardous to our privacy and well-being. " The NYT can publish stories centering on this
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- the data that Facebook collected about you from various other sources, e.g., data brokers Mr. Zuckerberg and other Facebook staff assert: "We do not sell data." Does Facebook acquire/purchase data about people from other so
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Is Apple collecting the minimum amount of user data possible? Do purchasers of Apple hardware decide which "features" Apple should offer? Do these purchasers decide what tradeoffs will be made between (a) not collecting user data
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"In Sri Lanka, it keeps families in touch even as many work abroad." "It provides for unprecedented open expression and access to information." "But where institutions are weak or undeveloped, Facebook's newsf
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The question is whether all the data that is collected from online consumers is actually required in order to fulfill the ever-growing number of online transactions. What data is needed to purchase a product or subscribe to a paid servic
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Maybe of interest: https://www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf Lawyers who prepare submissions to the SEC in the US have long been advised to use "plain English".
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"Art. 7 GDPR Conditions for consent 4. When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consen
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http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/jaron-lanier-interview-on...
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According to a recent article[1], once an advertiser/attacker has collected a large quantity of email addresses, she can "import [them] as contacts" on Facebook, thereby revealing which Facebook profiles they are associated w
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Anecdote: In the early days of www search engines, before Google, I recall this total number of documents searched being much more important to www users. I believe when Google began vying with AltaVista as the most popular search engine,
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Why did ICANN require "thick" whois data from registrars? Ms. Jelinek's letter suggests that collecting this user data , possibly for the benefit of various "stakeholders", was outside the scope of ICANN's char
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"But Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn't a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platform made data available to third-party developers by design. The s
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Up until now, wasn't Facebook collecting large quantities of data about users from data brokers? Why were they acquiring that data about users? In the leaked memo from a Facebook senior executive, what did he mean by "questionable
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"Dewar, a professor emeritus of computer science at New York University, believes that U.S. colleges are turning out programmers who are - there's no nice way to say this - essentially incompetent." "A lot of it is, `Let
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OLPC had an Open Firmware Forth bootloader. True? False? Why did OLPC require a "developer key"? (develop.sig) Will there ever be OpenFirmware-compatible hardware where the Forth bootloader is signed by the owner of the compute
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How can it be possible for the "buyer" to assess the cost of something if it was never offered for a price other than 0.00 Can the "alternative to free" be "considered" if that which is "free" has nev
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"There are a few mentions of Zynga (which we were investors in) in the various article chain which caused me to reflect even more on the 2007 - 2010 time period when free-to-consumer (supported by advertising) was suddenly conflated wi
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Not 1970.
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Not 1970.
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What if the "stuff" already exists? What if economics had no bearing on its creation?
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Could this property be of interest to the user that wants communications free from advertising, e.g., if she understands that the "social network" architecture created by the users of the software is such that there is no incentiv
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"Social network " vs "Social media " It is arguable that the primary purpose of Facebook originally was to allow two friends to communicate over a third person's website. There was no "news feed". Is th

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