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ChessNetwork has my favorite analysis of the world championship games. His AlphaZero vs Stockfish series is also very good. https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork

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8년 전discuss

Compare ad tech that news websites use to what Cambridge Analytica did.

1. Ad tech:

As I browse, my interests are accumulated into basic interest groups, demographic data, and maybe recently visited websites that use tracking.

The result: when I visit a news website, I might see an ad for tennis racquets (because of interest), or a local bank (because of location), or DigitalOcean hosting, because I recently visited that site.

2. Facebook's platform, used by Cambridge Analytica:

I install a Facebook psychological quiz app (supposedly from the prestigious Cambridge university), and give it permission to access my data.

Through that, Republican campaigns also access my grandmother's account, with all of her photos, likes, and comments. They use that data to learn her deepest fears.

They hire designers and writers to create fake news websites, and get their propaganda stories to appear in her Facebook news feed, where they appear to be legitimate right next to the news about the local sports team.

The result: when I visit for Christmas, I have to try to calm her down, that Hillary Clinton isn't actually running a late term abortion clinic out of a pizza parlor. And she won't believe me.

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8년 전discuss

The whistleblower said they had access to private messages. Are those ever publicly available? I don't see any privacy settings for messages in my FB profile.

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8년 전discuss

I'd like to see which country the ad / news post / video is coming from. Stick a little flag icon on it.

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8년 전discuss

... and all of their ‘friends’, totaling over 50 million

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9년 전discuss

You won't be able to connect to a shared drive using AFP anymore, if you get the new file system APFS when you upgrade. Apparently you only get APFS if you have a pure SSD drive (not Fusion).

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018

  APFS and file sharing
  - Volumes formatted as APFS can't offer share points over the network using AFP. 
  - APFS supports SMB and NFS, with the option to enforce only SMB-encrypted share points.

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9년 전discuss

> Apple has traditionally been very user hostile

Here's an interview with Steve Jobs on privacy regarding location data:

https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo?t=23s

Apple takes care of their users.

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9년 전discuss

I've always been surprised that Reddit hasn't had many trackers - basically just Google Analytics and Doubleclick. Especially since their parent company is so heavily into tracking on news sites.

It will be a real shame if they start gunking it up with trackers - many news sites are basically unusable without ad blocking.

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9년 전discuss

https://egghead.io has excellent ES6 React, Redux tutorial videos, and step by step code examples.

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10년 전discuss

Replace health insurance with health savings accounts?

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10년 전discuss

What's an issue that Trump talks about?

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10년 전discuss

Doesn't Opcache take care of that? Using a large framework isn't really a problem because all of the classes, configuration, etc is all kept in ram.

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10년 전discuss

What good is your personal information if it's not to show you personalized ads?

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10년 전discuss

That's what I don't understand either. It's already the case that news isn't shown to a lot of people unless it gets a lot of engagement.

What's different? Is Facebook now saying that it won't show the posts of publishers, even if people are liking/sharing/commenting?

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10년 전discuss

In the movie "Her" the main character's job is to help people write thoughtful letters to their loved ones. I'm sure the film meant that to be ironic, but that seems like a realistic 21st century job.

When all the industrial jobs have been automated, couldn't they be replaced by jobs that help us fulfill our emotional needs? Or is there some set of core jobs that fundamentally produce value for the economy?

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11년 전discuss

Couldn't ad networks move from javascript to server-side?

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11년 전discuss

Which phone company?

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11년 전discuss

I'd be amazed if warning labels had any affect at all. The real factor is the price.

The last time I smoked, a pack of cigarettes cost about $2.50. Now it's over $7.

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11년 전discuss

It seems crazy that election day isn't on a Saturday.

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