SaintSal

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by SaintSal 9y ago
Maybe we were just too early. When I first wrote that post, years ago, I expected most people to ignore it as tinfoil-hat stuff. But as time has passed, people are becoming more aware. (Also, the implications are becoming more costly.) I
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by SaintSal 9y ago
> Musicians find gigs through it. Businesses list specials, trips, blogs, etc. Also students are highly reliant on it. These types of loose connections but strong network effects are hard to break. However... > Way cheaper than sendi
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by SaintSal 9y ago
Creating an account with a fake name doesn't help. Facebook will ascertain your real name through a combination of: - knowing who you communicate with - tracking your online behaviour (on and off site) - collecting your name and conta
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by SaintSal 9y ago
Salim here. I agree with the 'mindlessly easy' part. I've noticed the lack of convenience, especially in sharing the little moments. As for replacing a personalised news feed, I still use Twitter and find that email newslette
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by SaintSal 9y ago
I'm the guy who wrote that post - My guess is the front page might block urls that have been posted before. This post finds its way to HN every 6-12 months as a fresh post. Still, it's really nice that it still gets attention fro
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by SaintSal 9y ago
The issue with technical interventions is that you're still allowing FB to collect information on you via other means via their TOS. I haven't read the latest TOS but at the time I did, they could trade your data with your bank b
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by SaintSal 10y ago
Would love your thoughts. This has been a side project for a while, but thought I'd kick it out and see if it's worth giving it some more attention. The approach was to find the mentors that moved the needle on the top performer
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Show HN: Interviewed the best startup mentors I could find - wrote a book(mentorimpact.com)
2 points by SaintSal 10y ago|1 comments
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by SaintSal 12y ago
Thanks - I'll update the post.
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by SaintSal 12y ago
If only we could have webpages on our mobiles, eh? :)
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by SaintSal 12y ago
Thanks - that's helpful feedback for me to see how this can be read. I think that even if someone doesn't have anything to hide, there are still issues that are relevant to them. So that section is just to address the issue fro
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by SaintSal 12y ago
I thought of this too. The problem is that adding noise doesn't throw off the existing signals. All you can do is try to introduce new patterns, like try to convince the linear regression that you're left-wing and right-wing. R
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by SaintSal 12y ago
Sorry - I just picked a theme and never thought to browser check. Weirdly, I run FF on Linux and it looks okay. Anyway, I'll try to tweak the font. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by SaintSal 12y ago
Thanks for raising that. I've clarified in the post: There are marketplaces to buy and sell consumer data orginally started around credit agencies and direct mail companies, then growing with the browser toolbar industry when Internet
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by SaintSal 12y ago
Good point, thanks. I should be clearer - Facebook sells ads but reveals data to third parties, who sell data.
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by SaintSal 12y ago
Good point on it sounding nutty though. I just added a reference to this http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...
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by SaintSal 12y ago
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-22916329 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/03/facebook-linkedin-g... I think I had a few more in the sources section at the bottom of the post too.
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by SaintSal 12y ago
They've introduced an optional feature that records media around you. Based on their past record of changing defaults, I think it's a reasonable possibility that this feature will be turned on by default in the future.
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by SaintSal 12y ago
wyck - I quickly wrote this for my immediate family and posted as-is. I'm actually a big fan of Thiel and see the positive sides of the theory as well. To someone not from our tech startup world though, I wanted to be clear about the
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by SaintSal 12y ago
tl'dr; A couple of months back I posted an article about Gmail retention (see here) in which I showed that Google not only saves copies of your unsent messages, but virtually every iteration of any message you type is potentially saved
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Gmail message retention bypasses Mailvelope encryption(forensic4cast.com)
2 points by SaintSal 12y ago|3 comments
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ECryptfs Security Audit(defuse.ca)
77 points by SaintSal 12y ago|61 comments
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How StackOverflow uses Scrum for managing sales(developingsales.com)
2 points by SaintSal 12y ago|0 comments
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by SaintSal 13y ago
I created an email list if anyone who wants to be updated: http://eepurl.com/FeE2z
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by SaintSal 13y ago
I also see the potential for global companies - Some of the stories I've heard around African Fintech point to a more grounded approach, with systems built around political redundancy and growth coming from old-fashioned cashflow. I&#x
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by SaintSal 13y ago
Having spoken to a few charities, there's potential that the accelerator model could offer them a bigger bang for their buck. So it feels like there's potential to work with them to get things rolling, which means we can focus on
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by SaintSal 13y ago
Ha! That's funny. But seriously, we're talking about using tech to solve education, distribution and financial problems.
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by SaintSal 13y ago
"Our Academies programme is rooted in the conviction that effective indigenous leadership will be the key to progress in the developing world... " I like this attitude. A lot of our accelerator clients ask us with a kind of cultu
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by SaintSal 13y ago
Thanks! How can I learn more about what you're doing?
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by SaintSal 13y ago
"people just need a gentle steer in the right direction and a little positive encouragement" I'm interested in what you mean by that. To help me better understand, are there particular stories you're thinking of behind

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