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benswieskowskion Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

Did you consider the possibility of false positives? Even the most modern and well considered justice system runs into this issue. Or is this not possible when detecting video game cheaters?

benswieskowskion Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches

You should check out Olio Devices. I think it's clearly the best designed of all connected watches.

https://www.oliodevices.com/

benswieskowskion How Airbnb.com actually does things that don't scale and succeed with a scale

If Andrew Warner told the world that Airbnb does things that don’t scale, and succeed with a big scale (have you heard of their $1billion valuation?), I, just one individual airbnb user, had a full taste of how they actually execute on that idea (don’t scale) and make the process look so easy.

This sentence makes my head hurt. I don't understand how they do things that don't scale. Seems perfectly scalable to me.

benswieskowskion Groupon leaks entire Indian user database

Groupon takes security and privacy very seriously.

Just not seriously enough to encrypt passwords.

benswieskowskion Leadgen Advertisers: All Your Customers Are Belong to Google

This article raises some interesting points, but ultimately I'm skeptical that it will go as far as described here. Mainly because one of Google's greatest strengths is providing a high quality user experience, and I just can't see them sending a user's contact data directly to several call centers as a result of one click. I think going down this path could be a really bad move for Google, and it's in their best interest to keep at least one party in between themselves and aggressive telemarketers.