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> Can we reduce “surveillance capitalism” by reducing the incentive to collect personal data?

Reduce? Sure. Reduce in a meaningful way? Ambiguous, but the cynic in me says probably not.

> Personal data is primarily collected and used by the advertising industry

This is just one (and in my opinion, the most benign) facet of surveillance capitalism. You also have to consider these companies like Taser[1] and Amazon[2] that sell facial recognition software to the police. It's not fair to say surveillance capitalism is primarily/mainly/only an ad-tech problem. That type of talk can actually be quite deceiving because the iceberg (surveillance capitalism) is much bigger underneath the surface (when you go further than just ad-tech).

> If we were to simply ban the use of personal data beyond a few key items like age, gender and zip code for delivering ads there would be less reason to collect more data

But what is "personal data"? We're talking quintillions of bytes pinging and ponging on a daily basis. The idea that we could have surgical precision in determining what is/isn't personal data (or even a rough idea) is kinda laughable. In theory could we do it? Absolutely of course. But in reality? I'll let you have a good laugh just thinking about the powers that be working to "make the world a better place".

> Advertising companies will still earn ample profit from their ads with contextual targeting (e.g. showing ads related to search terms or related to the topic of a post or news item being displayed on the screen) and coarse grained targeting

Ad-tech companies don't want "ample" profit. They want _all_ the profit. That's capitalism. Your question/statement is a bit of "having your cake and eating it too". You think Zuckerberg (as an example) would be happy with say...10 billion dollars of net worth? No. He wants it all.

> This creates a more level playing field between large and small companies perhaps enabling increased competition.

As long as we have entry portals owned by monopolistic walled gardens (e.g., the Apple app store, Chrome web browser, Facebook (and its subsidiaries)) there is no such thing as a leveled playing field. You're asking team Google to play basketball "fairly", but team Google owns the officials, the ball, the hoop, the court, the stadium, and the concession stands - they can do whatever they want.

IMO

If we want to stop surveillance capitalism we have the most daunting task there ever was or could be - educating the public. If people knew "hey that's your data and you're not making any money off of it" they'd be much more inclined to give a damn. Only when we can find a way to make people realize "Hey Jon Doe, you could've made $300 last month off of your data, but $LARGE_COMPANY is keeping it all for themselves. Get what you deserve!", can start to make a dent in people's minds.

steps off soapbox

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/taser-maker-wont-use-facial-reco...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/10/21287101/amazon-rekogniti...
Does this work for paper wasps as well?
Rules and expectations are helpful

But all the rules in the world can't solve for bad actors - both speakers and listeners.

There's a fluidity to human interaction that rigidity of rule sets will never totally compensate for.

And too many rules can be counterproductive and be empowering to bad actors who thrive in increasing beaucracies, at the least by making it difficult for everyone else so they look good by comparison. Then the whole focus gets lost. More time is spent navigating, adhering to, debating rules than the primary focus...

And trolls love thst shit.
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> I can't believe anyone is defending the current UI given we have an obvious example right in front of us of how it can fail.

Well, it's also an example of the saying "when you make something foolproof, God invents a better fool". They made enough mistakes here it's clear these pilots were a ticking time bomb; the only way we're fully preventing that issue is to replace pilots entirely with an AI.
Delete it from your viewing history.
Currently, App Store doesn't just review safety and UX, it also reviews whether or not Apple simply likes your idea or if you are competing with a feature they've integrated into the OS.

If the App Store remains the only method for installing apps, and Apple continues to reject apps that they simply don't like, then it's not a healthy platform for consumers in the end.
suggest? why not prove coronavirus is dangerous for people with a functional immune system?
In 2016 the relationship between Julian Assange and the US is about as hostile as possible. He was seeking asylum against this very extradition process that is ongoing. A big part of that drama was also that the US secretary of state under the previous years, ie the U.S. government's minister of foreign affairs, was a candidate for the 2016 presidential campaign and thus is it likely that there is a personal grudge between Assange and her.

And he was given documents that could hurt her. He used them.

It seems pretty clear that neutrality has not been on the tables for Assange ever since he sought political asylum. As pointed out above, this does not mean he has fabricated documents, or knowingly distributed fabricated documents, but since 2012 he has been in an active conflict against the government of the USA and in particular the foreign affairs side of it and thus leaks should be seen in that context.
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The excessive speed helped? Can you explain, I would imagine that going faster would cause more engine damage while being dragged.
And a good example of why the 10 degree grid is arbitrary and meaningless - Denver is an hour south with a metro population in the millions. But it didn't make the arbitrary cutoff at 40N.
This is why I absolutely despise DoH. SysAdmins have no direct control over it. In my organization we have blocked direct IP access from userspace VLAN's to all known public DNS servers thus forcing all clients to rely on the company DNS servers, which is not the most ideal way to do things.
suggest? why not prove coronavirus is dangerous for people with a functional immune system? lock 1 person with corona with a few healthy people, wait 2 weeks and see what happens.

Medical study: 455 persons exposed to a person with Covid19, non of the 455 persons became sick by the virus.
Conclusion: very low infectivity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32405162/

https://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0954-6111(20)30166-9/...
Where in the report does it say that it was the plane and not the pilots that retracted the landing gear? As far as I know, there is nothing in the flight software that automatically deploys/retracts the landing gear, it's under the pilots control.
even better would be to kick google (and microsoft to a lesser extent) out of any and all government services, including gmail, analytics, captcha, android, forms, js, fonts, apis, storage, etc. it maddens me to have to turn over sensitive data to google to get government services nowadays. they've crept into every dark corner and crevice of government.

the governments we have are already wanting to surveil us plenty, we don't need a shadow entity doing it too.
You comment reminds me of a quip floating around the maintenance side of commercial aviation that's along the lines of "this industry is full of bean counters trying to find dumb corners to cut to save a penny because it's illegal to cut all the smart ones".
and it used their own proprietary toolchain, as a layer on top of visual studio iirc, that kind of worked in debug but actually no, I remember we had to purchase a specific nokia to run in dev mode, as not every nokia supported it or was actually supported by the toolchain at the time.

and I remember another pain point was feature detection, but can't recall the specifics.
Purescript is from a different family and has different goals. Overall though more languages and more choice is a good thing. Typescript (I'm thankful it's around) is just the path of least resistance and has therefore become the defacto.
It's not hard per se. It's hard to do correctly only when you side with the advertisers' interests.
Either "contradiction" or "self-contradiction" would serve.
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It happens to be a hobby that has significant potential externalities, so of course it's heavily regulated. But OP's point is that the initial barrier to entry is so high precisely because once you get past it, nobody is looking over your shoulder, and the limits are lax enough that even very disruptive activity can still fall within them.
I bet that if you two would have a conversation, and you would discuss all the nuances of the situation, and you would actually get through the whole reasonig, you would write a different comment.
Unfortunately they missed the greatest application of them all: https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
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One whose competitive advantage is due to tehcnological innovation and not circumventing labor laws. Or was that rhetorical?
I like chatting with support via that sort of widget, too. I've used it many times, and it is far superior to the old popup window chat interface.

However, I've never noticed those widgets lying to me and claiming that I've got a message waiting for me in order to steal my attention.
"Never proven false" is an Orwellian turn of phrase, because WL's concern with accuracy is obviously not overriding:

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/757599082928082944?lang=en

Also: why would I care that Hammond was prosecuted? Hammond was caught dead to rights.
From what I can find the Airbus also requires the weight on wheels and the wheels speed sensors to have spun up before it will apply reverse thrust. Obviously the brakes also only work when the wheels are down. Auto-spoilers wouldn't deploy automatically also.
People must have their privacy, that is for sure.

If I invest something in your company, and you are sick, should I know it?
One of the recent features I most love in Gimp is "/" to search through the commands.

(More and more graphics programs are adopting it.)

Once you're used to it, you can create the ellipse selection and type "/stroke"...

I guess that unless the Gimp developers change their mind and allow for vector drawing inside of Gimp, it's as comfortable as it can get...
>> where somebody was fired for a Facebook "like."

At what point does a person at a company digging through someones social media posts constitute stalking?
Nobody's perfect. Tulsi was the only presidential candidate to credibly (because we remember the false promises of W, O, and T) speak about reigning in our omnicidal war mania.

If you're referring to her "cozying up" to Assad... a) he's also Muslim, b) [EDIT:] why tell lies? When Tulsi joined the diplomatic mission to Syria, it was entirely appropriate given her service on the House Armed Services Committee. She never said anything to support him. She just said she wasn't afraid to talk with him. Furthermore, the international inspectors who actually inspected the supposed gas attacks [0] determined they were obvious false flags. Then the OPCW home office threw out their analyses and just had bellincat write some bullshit. Of course it's easy to pretend one doesn't know about this because NYT etc. will never retract their cheerleading for war.

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/22/ian-henderson-opcw-whistl...
You could even program in Python!
But would also mean there was more energy to be converted to lift when the plane increased its attitude to take off again :)
"Ребят, как же это вы без гравицаппы пепелац выкатываете из гаража? Это непорядок!"
I'm confused by this. Aren't apps sandboxed fairly hard? How would TikTok get any data outside of what's allowed by Apple/Android's app APIs? If they're getting more information than that, isn't that up to the OS to limit?
This is how babies/kids learn init?

As in they jump around collecting nuggets and surprising people with what they have collected.

The advantage kids have is their brains are different (see Allison Gopnik + Explore vs Exploit Dilemma) and they are surrounded (hopefully) by people paying attention to what they are learning, correcting them when they get lost, nudging them in the right direction, making sure they are housed,fed and watered etc.

Same thing works out well with Adults when you place them in the safe caring confines of a research lab.
I mean their own Pakistani government is known for harboring terrorists and it is also where Bin Laden was found.

It's not the best of countries.
What I mean is - and I get that these are somewhat different technologies - snowflake offers a more seemingly comprehensive platform for data by aggregating it and focusing the product on that aggregation for future use.

Compared to Cockroach DB which seems like a niche SQL replacement?
It might also be an issue with motivation. Would you want to work on something that's basically a clone, so there's no creativity but purely porting + solving annoying platform-related bugs? You'd probably tolerate it for a bit, but then it's just playing catch up all the time. It seems like a recipe for employees trying to switch away to another team or company.
And how does that prove the published contents as false?
That's not what I gathered from the comment. It seemed like they were saying that Hillary had desired to run against Trump, according to those leaked emails. Is it false that Hillary wanted to run against Trump, back when many (including myself) didn't think he had a chance?
J2ME also asked about permissions for everything. Miss that!
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Tizen is a derivative in name only. Samsung effectively took complete control of the group from all the other companies on the Meego project and it seems like they only continued work to keep pressure on Google.

Nokia owned Qt and Samsung didn't want to pay fees or buy Qt outright, so they went with the mostly unknown Linux Enlightenment project (didn't hurt that it's main dev worked for them at the time). Likewise, Nokia owned rights to SwipeUI, so they opted for a remake of the Android UI.

If they'd gone with something like a cleanroom implementation of SwipeUI or webOS, I think Tizen could have been a success. Instead, it just feels like a bad, outdated edition of Android. If users wanted that, they'd just use Android instead.
Is the government allowed to sell that data?
Or like samsung phones, where they just stop giving you updates after 2 major releases
Wow. I had no idea the guy being HackThisSite was involved in the Stratfor leaks, nor that he was imprisoned for it.
This seems to fly in the face of the prevailing opinions on this site about Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex having his full name printed in the NYT.
I'm wondering this myself - and I think it's worth doing the math to sort out. To me, the essential question is "Is it possible to grow produce in a decentralized fashion?" i.e solar panels on the roof of a large apartment complex generating enough power to sustain the building.

Could a hypothetical FarmPod3000™ exist at a reasonable scale? I mean, people built greenhouses before right? Could such a system be economically viable at the size of a shipping container? A family home? Staten Island?

To be clear, I don't think the FarmPod3000™ would disrupt 90M acres of corn farms - we actually eat <10% of that anyways[1].

We should factor in the +/- environmental & public health impacts of such a system to the viability calculation as well.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/14/how-c...
This reads like an article of 5 years ago... Did time stand still?
No STL

No std::string

Custom exceptions (no explicit try...catch, I think only ints could be 'thrown')

2-phase construction for C-classes.

Explicit lifetime management (to be fair RAII wasn't a thing in 'normal' C++ at the time either)

Link by ordinal

One interesting thing was that there were mandated, and strictly enforced, naming conventions and coding style.
For example, above I mentioned C-classes. You had to use these in certain circumstances by inheriting from a CBase class. This gave you a virtual destructor and zero-initialised the memory. R-classes were resources classes mainly for things that needed Open and Close functionality.

I joined straight out of university and probably learned more about softare development in my first 6 months at Symbian than in 4 years of uni. There were some incredibly clever people there.
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I really like the idea of Idaho and Montana as the Inner Mongolia of the United States.

Clearly, Mongolia itself is analogous to Canada.
Some hives have enclosed floors. But modern hives, at least in the UK, now have a mesh floor. Which is there to reduce the numbers of a parasite, varroa. The mesh allows the parasite to fall out of the hive.
Thanks for the info - very helpful. Are there any specific use cases that you can point to? I dont doubt that the tech is robust, just that the use cases arent too obvious right now.
True. They first ask their editor what the agenda is that week and then selectively and out of context craft the narrative. Case in point NYT in the past decade. Or WaPo. Or Fox in ages past.
It's hard to wear a mask when you have a tube down your throat and/or have trouble breathing.
Some context is usually welcome. This paper is:

Von Hilgers, P. and Langville, A.N., 2006, June. The five greatest applications of Markov chains. In Proceedings of the Markov Anniversary Meeting (pp. 155-158). Boston Press.
> That was based on China's super aggressive approach to COVID management

Elon made specific predictions about the US. If he was using China's data to make predictions about US laws and American behavior, then I repeat and stand by my words that Musk is therefore extremely bad at risk management.

China and the US are extremely different countries. There is no logic to basing American response predictions on China's actions; it is obviously flawed to the point of not being useful and also being harmful.
Helped is probably the wrong word. I mean't that the aircraft had a lot of excess speed to get back into the air again, had it been at a normal approach speed you would probably have slowed down enough that it wouldn't have been possible to get it flying again.
No democracy has lasted more than a few hundred years. I think the constitution needed an expiration date. California’s proposition system is slightly better, but not great.

We probably need about a half dozen amendments at this point. Here are a few:

- “Right to privacy”, including against privatized surveillance.

- “Right to civil protection” (end qualified immunity and binding arbitration / class action waivers)

- Ban slavery, and ban profiting off slavery (no, we don’t have a blanket ban, and yes, forced labor is a huge industry in the US)

- Move closer to proportional democracy. All votes should count equally, regardless of where you live. Currently a Californian vote in a federal senate election is worth < 1/20 of a vote from a small state. Similarly, if you are not in a swing state, your vote for the president basically doesn’t matter at all.

- Some sort of police reform. Maybe spell out “equal protection” a bit more clearly.

- Campaign finance (and revolving door bribery) reform
... which is exactly why DoH is gaining attention.

But I keep wondering: Can't the ISP trivially correlate the accessed IP addresses with their corresponding sites even without DNS query data?
Actually there is a gear override lever behind the copilot's seat in a hatch in the ground.
Could this be implemented with iptables rules on a per container/jail basis, like with K8s?
Don't you just set a canary domain - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli... - and then it's disabled for your network?
Not sure I'd call the pre-Uber taxi system well-functioning, and in a lot of cases, Uber and Lyft have increased competition.
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Apparently there's chatter in recent days on China's internet regarding the Three Gorges Dam, and how it's setting / warping due to reservoir backpressure (pictures in link): https://www.theepochtimes.com/experts-warn-of-chinas-three-g...

Apparently there's heavy rainfall this year. 300-400 million people live below the dam. I'm unfamiliar with domestic travel restrictions within China, but I can't imagine it's gotten better with the ongoing pandemic, so you can't really plan ahead and move out of the way until the rainy season ends.

I want to believe there's something wrong with the camera that made that specific image distorted. Or that the government recognizes the problem and is fixing it. I like it when things are boring.
Somewhere out there is a video of the Super AGI who controls the universe discussing if they should euthanize this universe or not, because humans are too aggressive and don't love mathematics enough to have any future.

-- "What if we dispatch the queens?"

-- "We already did that a couple of centuries ago. Didn't help."
This is quite scary actually, something I didn’t think would happen. I can see people faking engineering degrees or even medicine as they can then try to evade all work and get away by relying on the team. Pilot is not that, they have to fly it and they kill themselves too if things go wrong.
"since 2012 he has been in an active conflict against the government of the USA and in particular the foreign affairs side of it and thus leaks should be seen in that context."

Thanks, I think this the lense that should be used when viewing all the facts. It's very hard to view Assange as impartial, but it's too soon to tell if he's anyones agent but his own.
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Laravel[1] is pretty close, and PHP has some big advantages over Ruby for performance and deployment.

If you had told me 5 years ago that I'd be recommending PHP as an alternative vs. RoR I wouldn't have believed you, but the PHP world has improved in ways that I wouldn't have thought possible.

[1] https://laravel.com/
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Yeah they are.
That's wildly simplistic.

There are many other deadly communicable diseases than just COVID, like the average flu for example.

COVID is worse than the average flu, but not radically worse by SUBJECTIVE OPINION.

Why exactly is COVID the HARD LINE for you while the flu is totally ok?

Do you not see there is a very large grey zone between:

[the regular flu] <---> [hypothetical plaque that kills 50% of everyone]
[totally accepted, [totally rejected,
society doesn't do society implements
anything] extreme measures]

As we head towards the right side of the grey zone, you would get very high consensus that extreme measures are worth it. But COVID is much closer to the left side of the grey zone which is why we see much less consensus.
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It doesn't really matter anyway but Koa.js(and express.js) creator TJ Holowaychuk switched from Node to Go at ~2014 and hasn't look back. After all these years he's still the number one contributor on github. It's very sad seeing how poorly maintained all these nodejs stuff is. 5 years ago everyone thought that express.js is gonna disrupt the world and replace "legacy" web stack
One of the most famous moments was the waving of an imaginary list with known communists embedded in the government. Regardless of your view on the 'realness' of those who actually were communists, the point is that it was largely speculative who was part of them. The concerns of the BLM protestors are not that there are hidden racists, but overt bad actors with tangible track records of oppressive behaviors.
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