bobdole1234

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by bobdole1234 8y ago
Facebook doesn't sell data, they ads. Those ads are targetable by categories determined from private data, but Facebook doesn't give anyone else the data, that's literally why people would purchase ads through their exchange
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
They're not third parties because these API's are protected by user login credentials as near as I can tell. That means you provide your login information, and your device can access your Facebook data, as you expect a clien
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
If these people are so easily swayed and manipulated, what exactly is informed consent supposed to cure?
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
But you are materially supporting their bottom line.
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
Google spent billions to develop the huge data processing systems and algorithms to eventually leave Yelp behind, like a freight train leaves a horse behind. Yelp missed the industrialization of their industry by machine. Knowing what you&#
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
You understand that Apple uses Googles infrastructure to provide services, right?
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
They've got an OpenCL SDK for it now, that brings it under the same interface that a lot of folks have been using for the Phi and other many core tech Intel has been pushing for HPC. It's not really that hard to get rolling at thi
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
So, Google pulled down 9.9B in profits last quarter. That means if they've got 88k employees, they could hand out somewhere around an EXTRA $450k to every single employee every year and still be in the green. Facebook looks roughly t
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
I think he said "$300k".
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
Releasing that information means those advertisers no longer need Facebook to do the ad targeting. They can then use other exchanges to do targeting without paying Facebook anything. It is in Facebooks interests to guard that information ca
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
I don't know, how much do you estimate any given road contributes to the GDP of the US? It's infrastructure that enables the rest.
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by bobdole1234 8y ago
Since they're using it internally to make facebook work, I'd say it's a core product and a lot of engineering efforts are being expended to make the company run better. It just also happens to be something you can sell to oth
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
That's a trick question, there are no competent managers in government service for the most part. They either burn out from managing without the ability to recruit competent staff, or they moved elsewhere to make drastically more money
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Since XFS works by multiple allocation groups spread across the volume, that would require you to migrate data out of the area you want to reclaim, which would require a pretty significant reshuffle of the volume contents. It's easier
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Google might have just lumped you into the idiot bin, there are people who WANT their searches to look like spam. Google will happily show people what it thinks they want based on how they've interacted with the service (or sometimes
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
I'd say it's harder to quit eating badly than it is to quit cigarettes: You can live a long life without ever touching a cigarette again. But you won't get far with going cold turkey on food.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
He's referring to a group that is selected based on their intelligence. In that case, it doesn't really matter what the distribution of the larger population is, because you're only talking about a group that is selected for
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
It's a UI thing. Most of them set a range so the standard operating speed on a highway is roughly at the top of the gauge. In this way, people can gauge their speed when driving different vehicles my glancing at the position not readin
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
It's Google, there are literally thousands of open heads at any time. If the white guy passed the hiring bar, they'd hire the woman, the "colored" as you put it, AND the white guy. Then they'd offer them recruitin
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
If Damore was belittled, it was because he was obviously too daft to know how to keep a job in Silicon Valley. It turns out they send you to these handy classes so you know all the rules that let you stay employed. And they send you over an
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
You think Google is going to just let work go un-done because they don't have a diverse candidate in the role?
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Funny what they posted today: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/11/google-claims-its-spectre-...
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
More likely, Google made their own mitigations, that they're keeping for their own competitive advantage. They've had a lot more time with the problem than anyone else has, and billions of dollars to gain by solving it better than
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Google said they've finished patching, and it was all done before the bug became public. That means the people who have the best information about mitigating this issue have a fix that apparently has minimal performance impacts on thei
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Well, since Google knew about this bug across the boundaries of a few quarterly reports so far, and hasn't signaled radical departures in their operational expenses, and has specifically said the impact on them was smaller than many ex
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
There's no law against processor bugs. Especially ones you fix when you're informed about them.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Intel has a never ending parade of security related bugs that get fixed and nobody cares. This isn't meaningfully likely to affect any of the contracts that Intel has with it's major customers, and it's not like competition i
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Apple is actually paying for Google's capacity. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-stra...
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
About 3GW of computing power. No really. Apple lacks the raw computing capacity to be able to pull this off, even if they had the algorithms and data already.
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by bobdole1234 9y ago
Turns out that really is a concern for a lot of people. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-b...

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