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by trendia 8y ago
Unfortunately, US carriers are selling the location data based on your SIM card, so even "dumb phones" are still subject to tracking.
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by trendia 8y ago
AirSage is very clearly offering non-anonymized (read: private) information about individuals. That is, they offer "insights like the home and work locations of people". > AirSage uses its massive source data and patented algor
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by trendia 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626702
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by trendia 8y ago
Market research indicates that most people actually love RSS.
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by trendia 8y ago
And it competed with Pocket.
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by trendia 8y ago
8k has four times as many pixels as 4k, so at the same bitrate/pixel it would be around 48mbit/sec
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by trendia 8y ago
> In programming specifically, many studies have shown order of magnitude differences in the quality of the programs written, the sizes of the programs written, and the productivity of the programmers. The original study that showed huge
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by trendia 8y ago
There are many regulations that affect data, like HIPPA and ITAR. How can Windows be used in such an environment if the data collection can’t be stopped?
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by trendia 8y ago
If a .iso is provided, I can't see why flashing a custom "Helm iso" is any different from flashing the default "Raspberry Pi iso", and there are a lot of people who can flash the raspbian -- there have been 5 - 10
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by trendia 8y ago
> as good hardware is expensive They don't need to sell hardware to achieve what they're doing. In the current form, they are mainly selling a service (SMTP relay on EC2) disguised as hardware (imx board inside a fancy box). Wh
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by trendia 8y ago
Why?
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by trendia 8y ago
I think we need proper privacy measures, since the misuse of data is not necessarily an "antitrust issue". For instance, would breaking up Facebook really mean that the newly formed constituents respected privacy? And would antitr
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by trendia 8y ago
This sentence right here is incredibly vague: > Marcus also accuses Acton of “slow-playing” the implementation of a feature that would let businesses message WhatsApp users and ultimately help with monetization. What does "monetizat
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by trendia 8y ago
> “And you can start testing [that] by sending them different kinds of advertising to see some kind of behaviour in the [listening] patterns.” There will be a day where you can get a "discounted" automobile that forces you to l
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by trendia 8y ago
Counter argument: Vague language is the best way to enable selective enforcement. Large companies who can afford the best lawyers will be able to find interpretations that are in their favor. Smaller companies would be unable to do this and
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by trendia 8y ago
This is the exact opposite of what economics would predict. If you have a greater risk than your friend, then you will pay more because your expected risk is higher. In perfect competition, your rate would be equal to your expected return (
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by trendia 8y ago
> They get famous not because of their well thought out positions but because of their charisma Studies have shown that people trust pundits with gumption, not well-thought out or balanced ideas. Superforecasting, one of my favorite book
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by trendia 8y ago
> Telemetry for telemetry. Nice. It's just a matter of time until some developer poses the question: "Are people who opt out of telemetry more likely to use Linux? Or live in Europe? Or have NVidia GPUs? Or... " and gosh d
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by trendia 8y ago
Like a newspaper, magazine, or TV station?
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by trendia 8y ago
I'm sure one of their metrics is "time on site", which often doesn't distinguish between "spends more time because they enjoy the product" and "spends more time because they can't find the things they
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by trendia 8y ago
Honest question: What happens if a Russian or Chinese search engine doesn't comply? How would the EU block them? This is especially important if the Russian or Chinese entity has no locus or presence in Europe. (for instance, would you
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by trendia 8y ago
Data collection fits "Industry standards" because the industry is inherently corrupt -- Adtech requires immense user data because they chose to target users rather than content.
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by trendia 8y ago
> would not recommend at all to maths-minded folks. Why not?
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by trendia 8y ago
The first one: If you zoom in close enough, the horizon looks flat. (Alternatively, the plane is not high enough for the earth to look round with that focal length) The second one: All that matters is that Mercury isn't in the line bet
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by trendia 8y ago
"Those who look/think like themselves" has much more going than just sex/race. An individual choosing another board seat will likely a preference for people who went to the same Ivy League schools, who have the same weal
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by trendia 8y ago
You should work for the pharmaceutical companies to get Xanax added to the water supply. Just imagine how much crime would go down if everyone was too chill to steal or murder!
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by trendia 8y ago
Google's "opt-out" features are so difficult to uniformly turn off. The article points out that Google still tracks location data when you turn location tracking off because there is some other option in a different screen
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by trendia 8y ago
Liars provide more details because they get bogged down in the story, whereas truth-tellers give you a broad overview and can still provide a coherent story when pressed for details. One study found this by analyzing insurance claims [0] [0
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by trendia 8y ago
This would make demand less elastic, pushing restaurant prices up for the rest of us.
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by trendia 8y ago
What actions and what sort of payment?

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