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by seangrant 7y ago
This is something I've wondered... Do all Facebook/Google employees drink the Kool aid? Are there no privacy proponents?
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by seangrant 7y ago
Rule-based ad blocking limited to 30k, as stated in the article. That's why people are upset.
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by seangrant 7y ago
Extreme moderation that makes conversation as boring as possible. That's how subreddits like /r/science stay sane.
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by seangrant 8y ago
Because cost is prohibitive.
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by seangrant 8y ago
How would it look if someone else got the patent and completely blocked Google? It's not even a question for large companies. The issue is this archaic patent and copyright system where someone "owns" an idea... Absurd.
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by seangrant 8y ago
Never underestimate the power of fake internet points.
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by seangrant 8y ago
Not in America
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by seangrant 8y ago
It upsets me a lot how these financial institutions have complete power over us. God forbid a bank writes a loan to a scammer in your name, cause to them it's your fault. Absurd!
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by seangrant 8y ago
A consenting adult pays another consenting adult with more experience to do a life threatening task together. One dies. How is this not okay? What are you expecting? For people to never climb Mt Everest again?
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by seangrant 8y ago
The point of the crystal clear rules is to reduce how much the human operator needs to think about what they're doing. Should you teach your workers every legal nuance they need to sell a car (and hope they follow them), or do you setu
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by seangrant 8y ago
Snapchat is not a "dick pic network" and if you've read the article maybe you could understand how someone can have a personal connection to a website, it's users, and the culture around it.
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by seangrant 8y ago
Why would they shut down all their locations at once, losing hundreds of thousands in income, if not for the media and social attention it would receive? Simply put, why close business when these trainings can be done staggered or off store
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by seangrant 8y ago
The fact that they're doing it all on one day at the same time implies it's mostly about the PR
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by seangrant 8y ago
Sounds like your life has been gracious to give you many different experiences. I think the distaste is mostly from people who've worked their lives in an office job. Yeah it's cake, but are you gonna do it for 40 years and die ha
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by seangrant 9y ago
The fear comes from exactly that. People aren't worried about targeted advertising. People are worried that swathes of their data isn't "theirs" anymore and can suddenly be used maliciously. Sure maybe not by Facebook. B
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by seangrant 9y ago
Wait, what?? I can inject my own Javascript into Google ads? How is this done?
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by seangrant 9y ago
Seattle area here. All my life I remember waiting in lines 10-20 minutes if you go to a store on a busy day (fri/sat/sun). It's just simple math sometimes where there's so many people with $400+ carts trying to check out
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by seangrant 9y ago
Costs $1 when the same can be accomplished with a native web app. Seems like a quick cash grab rather than "art" or anything.
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by seangrant 9y ago
if you have an extra raspberry pi laying around you can install an ad blocker for your entire network with pi-hole.
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by seangrant 9y ago
I'm an Instagram user that genuinely enjoys clicking on a lot of ads - to buy dumb cheap stuff. Pins, clothing, general apparel gets sent to me and it's exceedingly obvious when the quality of the ads start to degrade and soon eno
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by seangrant 9y ago
As soon as those computers are cheaper than human labor, of course it makes sense. I wonder what our idea of low skilled jobs will be in the coming future.
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by seangrant 9y ago
You think they're not working on this kind of stuff already? How many of us have an ez-pass on our car?
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by seangrant 9y ago
Sending a tweet with intent to physically hurt someone, yes. Shouldn't it be?
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by seangrant 9y ago
Not really disingenuous when the point was he was looking at his "watch" and then calling plays. Looking at your phone every time would be an obvious tell.
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by seangrant 9y ago
My understanding is that their objection is to having a black box AI that can make or break a hire. What's to stop them from not hiring anyone because "the box said no"? What's to stop the hiring process from being entir
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by seangrant 9y ago
I stopped using Reddit because I became aware of the strong astroturfing. It is impossible to be a member of any popular open subreddit without being exposed to branding and political ideas. This extends to something like the_D where any wh
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by seangrant 9y ago
We still have plenty of time.
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by seangrant 9y ago
You're speaking like "Facebook" is its own entity. The first responders will be the friends of the victim who clicked on their video feed. How could the software itself understand what is and isn't self harm?
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by seangrant 9y ago
Are these venture capitalists even seeing a return on their money? I was under the impression that with how much Uber receives and loses, the only people gaining are paid Uber employees and riders getting discounted rides. Where does the pr
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by seangrant 10y ago
It represents the death of the original Club Penguin though. Nowadays it's all commercials. Disney-themed penguins and adverts for the latest kids movies.

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