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by wdr1 8y ago
> Last year, Google conducted 90% of the world's internet searches. Does that mean all of China is <10%? That seems surprising.
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Is the NYT Fingerprinting iOS devices to enforce their paywall?
12 points by wdr1 8y ago|6 comments
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by wdr1 8y ago
> This is a great time to call out California and its Prop 13 (1978) where property taxes are capped at 1%ish and can grow no more than 2% from time of purchase. This is incorrect. It's limited to an annual increase of 2%. That&#
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by wdr1 8y ago
The API comes with a TOS that severely restricts what you can do with the data.
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by wdr1 8y ago
> Microsoft: embraces open source Oh please. Microsoft has not embraced open source. Is their web browser open source? No. Is Word, Excel, or Powerpoint open source? No. Do they even push for open standards of those products? No.
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by wdr1 8y ago
Not the tech giants, but GDPR too.
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by wdr1 8y ago
I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I enjoyed Masters of Doom . Barbarians Led by Bill Gates is an older book, but interesting to get a sense of MS was like in earlier times. Isaacson's Steve Jobs is obviously focused on Job, but g
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by wdr1 8y ago
Funny. This site is blocked at the Legoland Hotel for being a hacking site: Access Denied http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti... The web page you are trying to access has been blocked. The URL
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by wdr1 8y ago
> I will remove all these when the ad companies and websites start to behave themselves, which will be never. Maybe, maybe not. The problem with straight up blocking of all ads is obviously it cuts of funding for content creators whose
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by wdr1 8y ago
> I would be very wary of a company who claims this legislation is onerous. ... and elsewhere ... > On the other hand it also was not very hard for us. We are not a creepy company. > This is not to say that preparing for GDPR didn’
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by wdr1 8y ago
> Advertise on a dog community site is probably pretty spot on if you want to target dog owners... Big brands struggle with UGC. Witness the events of YouTube & brand safety. But even without that, what you're saying just isn&#
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by wdr1 8y ago
> GDPR Twitter data export and it included me in a bunch of incorrect, non-sensical and contradictory ad targeting groups. This is expected. It's not desirable, but it is expected. The problem is your comparing it to an absolute.
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by wdr1 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure that, the more we learn about how well advertising works, the less money people will be willing to pay for it. That sounds like a statement from someone not very familiar with advertising. Minimally it's contr
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Or cancelling your cable.
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by wdr1 8y ago
Is it fair to say no remote teams were involved & most people sat close together?
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by wdr1 8y ago
I'm mid-40s & an engineer in LA. One meal a day & 3-4 hours of sleep sounds brutal. Sorry you're going through that. Your experience doesn't seem representative of what I personally know, nor that of my friends &
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by wdr1 9y ago
Microsoft should attempt to verify issues quicker than 3 weeks, particularly when all details are provided?
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by wdr1 9y ago
> Web platforms are governments. No. Governments are authorized to use force. They have military. The have a police force. Web platforms are not governments.
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by wdr1 9y ago
It seems reasonable to wait for GDPR to take effect & see the results before adopting it as a global standard.
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Crazy thing is Reddit didn't even revoke his access. (Why does a CEO need access to prod?)
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by wdr1 9y ago
The right to be forgotten != Google
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Senior VP of Ads and Commerce Jon Alferness Leaves Pinterest(adweek.com)
2 points by wdr1 9y ago|0 comments
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by wdr1 9y ago
+1 In reality, people aren't upset about privacy. They're upset Trump won.
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by wdr1 9y ago
It was. You needed to be his FB friend, which at the time was limited to 500 (if I remember right). But if you were, the Graph API gave the same access as it did to others. Honestly, it would be almost better if that wasn't true. Th
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by wdr1 9y ago
It is a major player, but in the same way that IBM is. What it is not is a Netflix, Amazon, Facebook or Google.
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by wdr1 9y ago
That doesn't say much. It's regulated in the US too, including digital. What matters (and what is different) is what the specific regulations are.
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by wdr1 9y ago
> I think the the headline people are seeing is more like "Group doesn't follow website's terms of service from five years ago, and ends up helping Donald Trump win presidency." Exactly. The Obama campaign already ack
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by wdr1 9y ago
> No. Which company is more powerful with your information? That little ISP who has no real use of it, or Google, the most powerful ad agency with ties to American agencies in the world? Not to be rude, but you clearly don't work in
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by wdr1 9y ago
> You could farm it out to two people and if the results disagree, then payment is decided by a third. But then you've just doubled the (paid) workload, and you've not really solved collusion by a significant portion of the wor
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by wdr1 9y ago
It sounds like Marriott wanted to be in a position to say someone had been fired, and he was offered up. Either way, pretty shitty on Marriott's part.

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