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by travoc 5y ago
It’s new in the sense that it suddenly afflicts my family on an almost daily basis.
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by travoc 5y ago
Is there a word for this new world where we find ourselves without the ability to appeal our problems to human rationality, where instead we are continually subjected to the whims of automated systems that no human fully understands?
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by travoc 5y ago
You speak as if you have the power to lock him up if he has coronavirus. Unless he lives in Australia, you don’t.
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by travoc 5y ago
Monkeys can do it, but can they sell it?
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by travoc 5y ago
Facebook is (was?) used by the masses. Twitter is mostly the same group of influential people talking to each other. Source: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-pew-study-echo-chambers
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by travoc 5y ago
AdGuard on iOS or Brave on Windows reliably removes YouTube ads for me.
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by travoc 5y ago
I think it’s more than fair to highlight Google’s attempt to enlist thousands of users to lobby the government on its behalf. Why would a bit of transparency and exposure to this information bother you so much?
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by travoc 5y ago
The brilliant Zillow AI got fooled by old fashioned American DIY home improvement catastrophes.
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by travoc 5y ago
> maybe Zillow is just no good at predicting housing prices. You can spot check the historical “Zestimate” for a few homes over a few years and notice the drastic spikes and troughs where the inaccurate Zillow price was instantly correct
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by travoc 5y ago
Don’t forget to lie about it when you get caught.
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by travoc 5y ago
For those who think government has too much power, getting nothing done isn’t as bad as it seems.
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by travoc 5y ago
Did you know that Amazon is being sued for using client data to compete against them right now?
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by travoc 5y ago
Migrate away from commercial database products to commercial cloud products. Why give away your money when you can give away your data too?
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by travoc 5y ago
That is probably true in most cases. Choose your poison.
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by travoc 5y ago
Using a VPN would protect the privacy of your IP sessions from Verizon, although your VPN provider would now be able to see all of your session information. I suspect a VPN user would show up in the Verizon data file with many large TCP ses
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by travoc 5y ago
You can download some of the data that Verizon retains from your own cellular use here: https://www.verizon.com/support/download-and-view-vpd-file/ When I did it, I could see they recorded IP addresses, time stamp
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by travoc 5y ago
Lobby your government to make selling or using cyber vulnerabilities by nations an act of war? Very unlikely give that the US does this as much as anyone. We are all potential victims in this new form of warfare.
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Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous(wsj.com)
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by travoc 5y ago
I would say they were the first group that got many Windows sysadmins to start thinking about OS security.
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by travoc 5y ago
Most of these things were once said about sites that used SSL.
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by travoc 5y ago
My address is a mailbox store in Missouri.
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by travoc 5y ago
Who else is going to find a study that might show meat is good?
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by travoc 5y ago
The US government has made over $3.4 trillion in budgetary outlays in response to the pandemic. It comes in many forms, not just $1,200 checks. $3.4 trillion is a lot of money to add to the economy in 2 years.
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by travoc 5y ago
Are we allowed to have an opinion about which company is better for our privacy?
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by travoc 5y ago
Who is claiming Facebook doesn’t have a right to remove users? Why do you feel the need to argue a point that nobody is making? We all know what Facebook is allowed to do. Here we are discussing what Facebook SHOULD be doing, and how they c
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by travoc 5y ago
I wonder if you would feel differently if the 30% premium you were paying to Apple on every digital purchase were transparently shown on the transaction.
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by travoc 5y ago
Snippets of the source documents are presented in the WSJ Facebook stories that preceded the naming of the whistleblower. They are paywalled here, but you might be able to find the stories on certain archive sites. https://www.ws
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by travoc 5y ago
Facebook likely knew the identity of the leaker right away. There was little advantage to maintaining the illusion of anonymity at this point.
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by travoc 5y ago
The whistleblower is taking a huge legal risk here. I wonder if the Wall Street Journal has really explained the consequences to the leaker.
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by travoc 5y ago
You seem to be unaware of the massive labor shortage affecting the US right now.

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