zerostar07

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by zerostar07 8y ago
But how can we trust you re unbiased?
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> If I need to lure users into using my platform by pretending to be "free" so I can get a monopoly going You just described every startup in SV, but in any case facebook did not have ads platform in its growth phase.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Well the mastermind of GDPR is a Green Leftist so...
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I agree that there have to be limits , but it's not an 0/1 question. Facebook should even be treated as a special case because it's a monopoly, but again it's not 0/1. I doubt they can offer the same service without
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by zerostar07 8y ago
In europe ISPs dont have monopolies. Thats legitimate - the government should interfere to make sure there are options. This doesnt make the law right though because then > they are in such position because majority of consumers do not c
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Sure, put a sign "We are tracking you" on the page header in bold red. I'm all for transparency. Now you know that when you enter the space you 're tracked. Why are you able to demand that it's turned off?
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> There is no excuse for not being able to come up with a viable business model without productizing users and making them subject to social and political manipulation. How so? TV and media have been doing it since forever - not as effic
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> The bill also requires companies to offer people the same communications services whether or not they agree to have their data collected Again with this madness. Please convince me how this does not violate the right of people to come
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Right to remove results
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Gdpr hysteria has not even started - wont be until the first rulings start coming.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
China , Russia have strategic interest to protect. The EU , i'm not so sure what it is protecting, and reading this law it's really hard to tell if we are supposed to have some kind of advantage now. It seems more like an extreme,
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Add to that, that an EU website is already more likely to be dependent on ad funding, as VC money to burn is scarce.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> zero problems with GDPR Do they comply with right to be forgotten etc?
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by zerostar07 8y ago
And then take one step forward and make them actually untraceable by requiring anonymization/obfuscation at the ISP level? Seriously the reason why GDPR considers them PII is because the ECJ has judged that if you have access to the IS
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by zerostar07 8y ago
that would imply you can e.g. memorize a list of emails and then verbally tell them to another business for a price.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
best i ve read so far: https://writershq.co.uk/privacy-policy/
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I 'm actually of the opposite idea - let the two fields evolve by their own darwinian process as this will yield more interesting results. DL itself has created its own scientific questions and puzzles that may lead to important discov
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Neuroscience has been in constant winter, mainly because the methods are too crude and small scale, and that by observing 100 neurons out of billions makes it impossible to tell the whole story. The deep mind papers are interesting, but the
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I think the scientific pessimism preceded the funding cuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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by zerostar07 8y ago
An AI "winter" is a long period in which [edit: funding is cut because...] researchers are in disbelief about having a path to real intelligence. I think that is not the case at this time, because we have (or approaching) adequa
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by zerostar07 8y ago
i dont believe facebook allows targetting by company and in general this shouldnt be allowed to targeted advertising.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
considering that a simple IP+timestamp can be PII, if you have ever seen anything from facebook's cdns , then maybe yes.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> to a specific person to exist Advertising was always trying to find the right target. Technology allowed this to become a lot more efficient. As long as targeting is anonymous and certain limitations are set, i m fine with it, we don&#
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I 'm not sure how well it will reflect in the court of public opinion if the EU's first ruling is that basically every website is not allowed to use ads to pay itself. There seem to be certain groups here in Europe who relish on t
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by zerostar07 8y ago
There are no experts on the law, even lawyers arent. The only one who can authoritatively produce interpretations of the law is the european Court of Justice. For that to happen a country's Supreme court must refer a case to them for
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Most games contain calculated random rewards or else the game would be boring and predictable. However to call this gambling it's quite a stretch as you can't cash out. Whoever decided to make those "boxes" look like slo
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> it pigeonholes your internet experience. it seems like your issue is more with the inefficiency of the various algorithms rather than the use of data per se. And you re right, e.g. right now my supposedly AI youtube is full of the same
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by zerostar07 8y ago
if you 're likely to receive requests, you re most likely to receive them now that gdpr is in the news.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
the part where you are not allowed to profile the user based on a piece of information for which it is impossible to obtain consent (IP address). The law does not mention privacy, correct, but its entire rationale is based on the idea of pr

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