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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
The comparison with lack of blah at a shelter is telling, don't you think, when you think about how shelters are usually a place where people are "doled" out stuff? It is not merely a patronizing suggestion (which the billion
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Thanks! Your summaries are really helpful.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Hmm.. this is way too much friction. I call upon the tech giants to brainstorm and make the process more seamless. For example: why can't the govt take your picture and upload it to their servers at FB/Google/etc and get all
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> Facebook going out of business seems unlikely Is it? Because it seems to me that they are having plenty of issues with gaining the trust of advertisers too. Considering that advertising is the bread and butter of their business, th
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Not disagreeing, but I would certainly like some references if you could provide us any. In fact, it would be genuinely troubling if you cannot find any good sources. Here is why: this notion of fingerprinting seems to be an invention of th
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Oh, come on! Why did you have to ruin the fun? Don't you know we can have a ton of fun chuckling sarcastically to ourselves when we see folks like GP keep making these kind of shockingly delusional statements?
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> going to be forbidden unless you consent This was exactly my point a while back. That the default option should be to get explicit permission for each piece of data you collect AND infer, even if the inference is being done in si
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Unethical: lacking moral principles. Moral: of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong I think it is "clearly wrong" that Facebook creates shadow profiles
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Not really. At the moment, there are only two kinds of employees at Facebook. Those who care and are getting irritated each time these issues are raised on HN (see here [1]), and the dregs who bury their heads in the sand. I bet there is so
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> We really need someone to fight for our privacy and neutrality. Well said. I certainly hope it is not a PR stunt, but WordPress is probably the other big player in the fight for the open web. It might actually benefit all of us if
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
My first thought was: why only 70%? This may be a case where the savings (i.e. money from selling data in return for a big pile of cash) are actually passed on to the customer - e.g. transaction costs are lower for Visa/Mastercard for
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
That's because they can't do much with this info since they aren't also a giant ad network. Now imagine the same data in the hands of a company which has built one. They should probably start charging more :-)
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> he never jumped through the new hire hoops To paraphrase an old Steve Yegge joke [1] "What? How could they? He doesn't even know JavaScript!" [1] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ma
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Indeed, it is amazing how many 'soft' things surrounding the software can be improved without requiring to 'get into the zone' as a developer. Of course, you also need to do the actual work and not get bogged down in the
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
This might actually be a pretty huge opportunity for a company which can hand hold the transitioning from Windows to Linux in an enterprise. After all, if the new Windows OS is provably non-compliant, shouldn't the enterprise customers
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I don't like AMP for no other reason than I don't believe there are any genuinely decentralized initiatives anymore. "Oh, we open source it, you know", seems the common answer. If an initiative is rolled out from the i
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I don't disagree. If you have done this much research though, you could actually set up a little case study on this, write an eBook with nothing more than screenshots on how the price changes, and put it up for sale as something which
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I wonder what traits will define the Facebook transcender like the Windows transcender [1] mentioned in PG's essay. You can argue that since that essay (2005) the iPhone/iPad and Android and then eventually "all meaningful ap
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> What guarantee do users have that they won't be individually selected to receive a higher price? As long as Uber is not the only means of transport, this issue should take care of itself. Besides, as another comment points out
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I actually wish you all the best if you plan to build one. Having said that, you are identifying a niche product which can only survive by charging people money for searching, which more or less caps how ambitious such an idea could be.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
The saying usually goes that laws should be designed to a) disincentivize and b) not set bad precedents. This law fails on both counts. No investor/shareholder will actually worry about this paltry fine. All other companies will take
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Love the title of Neil Degrasse Tyson's book "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry". So apt for today's readers. Maybe "for people in a hurry" will become the new "for dummies" franchise? I did a quick
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
>> According to the Merger Regulation, the Commission can impose fines of up to 1% of the aggregated turnover of companies, which intentionally or negligently provide incorrect or misleading information to the Commission. Anyone read
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Except, their AI is simultaneously too stupid to preempt problems like the story we had with the Firebase customer. To generalize this a bit more, their AI is certainly too stupid to preempt similar problems with over-billing in general (th
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
You might have actually convinced people to not consider Scala. You are saying, Scala is great, except for these small things: 1. Modify your codebase to use microservices 2. Modify your IDE habits to be more REPL friendly 3. Modify your te
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Yes it was. But I am enjoying it. No one group has a monopoly on knee-jerk reactions, you see.
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
What are you even talking about? Don't you know that they do so much open source these days?
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
Triage report: "Non-critical (P25). No need to worry as this only affects a really small minority of our users. In our user surveys, we found out that too few people are actually happy when they are inside Microsoft Outlook."
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
..making up in scale what you lose in margin. I think Amazon pulls this off because their prima donna is the paying customer, not the programmer who thinks talking directly to customers is the worst possible reflection of their ability to a
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by thr0waway1239 9y ago
I am not so sure about basic income, there is already a massive section of society which receives it. I am talking about children, of course. And there is a reason they are provided with that basic income - they are not yet ready to be &quo

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