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by tylerl 7y ago
I donno, I think this shows that Bloomberg has a knack for government work. Pay people an extraordinarily inflated price for something that sounds straightforward on the surface, only to have them execute on the letter of the contract in ch
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by tylerl 7y ago
If it's true astroturfing then it is by definition a professional operation. Astroturfing has to be directed by an institutional authority, otherwise it actually is grassroots.
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by tylerl 7y ago
"Astroturfing" is a political concept. It's about making a top-down initiative appear to be a bottom-up one instead. Fake "grassroots". AstroTurf, see? What you're talking about, as best as I can tell, is calle
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by tylerl 7y ago
Google has a long history of pushing back for on government requests for data relating to its customers, and they have years worth of history establishing that initial government requests are always overreaching. Is anyone surprised that th
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by tylerl 7y ago
Ya, concrete details were conspicuously missing. Like petabytes? Exabytes? I suspect that the "largest dataflow job ever" is significantly smaller than the kind of crap Google regularly throws at the backend that dataflow runs on.
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by tylerl 7y ago
Except no. That's where the regulators fundamentally agree with the regulated company. This is a different but also common phenomenon. Well established companies tend to favor strict compliance requirements with harsh penalties and dif
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by tylerl 7y ago
Say I was a freelance salesman. I buy and sell expensive things that I can't afford. I line up the deal and make it happen. This month it's a cruise ship. It costs $500 million from the manufacturer in Amsterdam, but I can get a c
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by tylerl 7y ago
> "Serverless" is just "someone else's servers". Clearing that bit up: Cloud is "just someone else's servers". Serverless is "someone else maintains the infrastructure." It's one
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by tylerl 7y ago
"You should not trust them because they show ads that are easily mistaken for legitimate content!" ... Declared the news site, in a paragraph sandwiched between two ads carefully disguised to look like legitimate content... You ca
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by tylerl 7y ago
Sounds a lot more like abuse detection signals firing based on Apple Pay using virtual card numbers. Apple says that their virtual card numbers protect your privacy because they're untraceable. Ok, but that also means that your using
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by tylerl 7y ago
To the extent that Google has any of that data, they have it because the user wanted them to retain it. You probably never read your old email drafts, but people would be upset if Google deleted it without them saying to do so. Everything G
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by tylerl 7y ago
If you're using a service hosted by someone else, then it doesn't matter if it's open source; you're using someone else's closed environment. In that case you're just as well off using Google or Microsoft. Prob
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by tylerl 7y ago
This want a case of "purposely hinder", but rather the zfs nodule broke because of some kernel changes. The kernel is careful to never break userspace and never break its own merged modules. But if you're a third-party module
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by tylerl 7y ago
Right, because they should instead publicize all their discoveries except for the Apple ones. Because obviously.
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by tylerl 7y ago
Sounds like a lawyery money-grab. > ...John Yanchunis, the attorney bringing the suit, told Business Insider, adding that "all indication is that the security is lax on these machines." "These machines" are only ever
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by tylerl 7y ago
I'm confused by the tagline: ”Zwitterion lets you get back to the good old days of web development." Like, what made the good days go bad? What is this supposed to be better than?
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by tylerl 7y ago
Bear in mind that the very worst accusations against Google have been for considering possibly working within the demands of the Chinese government in the future, with the whole dragonfly thing. You're saying that the Chinese governmen
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by tylerl 7y ago
> Why were they using company resources for personal meetings? So that coworkers don't schedule you for meetings during your doctor appointments.
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by tylerl 7y ago
This strikes me as a whistleblower fail. The story isn't, "I know that something bad happened", as whistleblowing is supposed to mean. Instead they complain that essentially, "I am not personally privy to the consent req
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by tylerl 7y ago
I first saw this in the Linux kernel style guide back in the 90s. The idea was that you should be able to read a function without scrolling. So that meant it would fit on screen in a standard terminal. It's a bit extreme for practical
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by tylerl 7y ago
Losing access to ALL Google services happens because of abuse signals. I don't know of any other instances where global bans happen.
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by tylerl 7y ago
That's not really the question. You kinda missed the whole point. These companies exists because they serve a need. There's proven demand; killing Facebook will create a Facebook-shaped hole, which will immediately be filled by th
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by tylerl 7y ago
Right, because the web activity itself can contain location information independent of the _explicit_ collection of location history. It comes down to the granularity of privacy concerns and the complexity it introduces. If you disable the
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by tylerl 7y ago
Well that's ... nifty. The previous uproar on this location history thing was us getting all up in arms about how search history and location history were combined; turning off one would turn off the other. Now we're furious that
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by tylerl 7y ago
Sure, but there are tradeoffs to consider: JSON may be difficult and inconvenient to use for human interaction, but on the other hand it's also really slow for machine reading and writing. Plus you have the added bonus of it being an i
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by tylerl 7y ago
My 5th grader has never had homework. Each year the new teacher says the same thing: homework has been conclusively proven to not only provide no benefit, and actually to increase negative outcomes. Each teacher says she stopped assigning h
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by tylerl 7y ago
Bed times aren't mandated by a government board. School start times are. Also, later school start times have in other states led to better academic performance, better behavior, etc., independent of any control for bedtime. This decisi
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by tylerl 7y ago
Yep, a solution exists through. Here's how you get there: * Strong identity: employees must be strongly identified before acting. * Multi-party authz: nobody ever acts alone. One person can't be trusted, two people might be, M of
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by tylerl 7y ago
"Google is willing"? You make it sound like there's a person making a decision. The system is automated, there's no mechanism for employees to be unwilling . A lot of effort goes in to ensuring that audit trails are non
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by tylerl 7y ago
I think that misses the point. There's a mile of difference between adding sufficient accessibility to serve a demographic vs adding new legal requirements. (Especially new requirements for which customers are financially incentivised

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