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Why are you not satisfied? Do you have additional data on why this could be a real vulnerability on their end?

A significant portion of content creators do it as a full time job. Ads is a stable revenue stream for these content creators. You as a consumer are free to move to any decentralized video platform you like, but the main bottleneck for any significant shift in market share depends on content creators, and ultimately, on advertisers.

> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.

How else do you use voice search for a music video on Youtube? If I open youtube and do a voice search. I'm expecting the search to be constrained to the app.

My original comment said:

> So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.

I meant that even if you control age, gender, ethnicity, a very trivial predictor (i.e., always predicting the majority label) could yield similar performance. What I meant to say was that their model may not perform as well as they made it sound.

My interpretation of control is fixing all other variables (the ones they mentioned) except for the one being measured (political orientation). If that's not what they did I'm happy to learn.

Please state what you want to say. No need to be passive aggressive.

> "Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity."

So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.

Because in one case the target is the individual. The other case your data gets aggregated and sold as bulk in the form of ad impressions (tracking).

A better comparison would be, the gov uses your census data to mail you flyers.

I think the concept of privacy directly conflicts with anti-censorship. The most private system is also 100% censored.

Sounds like this would have a negative impact for startups where the majority of the compensation comes from equity right?

> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?

How are you going to pay for it? Subscription model doesn't work for search/social networks.

> I have profound sympathy for the victims of authoritarian regimes, and I absolutely do not believe that the way to help them is to collaborate with the very system that oppresses them. Pretending otherwise sounds like Newspeak to me.

I have relatives in China. Censorship is the least of their worries when the current Baidu monopoly is allowing promoted results that are sometimes flat-out evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wei_Zexi).

> Below, another group of migrant workers drink bear in their dormitory after their shift in 2013.

They really need to proof read their articles.

I think so (unless the job is remote), I think expense has to be taken into consideration when salary is being calculated.

What you said is not entirely true. Daraprim (the drug you are referring to) costs $10 out of pocket for insured patients. For uninsured low income patients it's free of charge.

That's because your interview process is already biasing the result. To get a fairer comparison you should take a random sample from both groups (out of all the applicants) and see (although self selection bias is still in play here).

ML is not magic, it's just statistics.

Allegations of a security breach is useless without evidence backing it up. So far, Bloomberg has provided zero evidence.

I have worked in healthcare related systems before that needs to be HIPAA compliant, even for those systems public disclosure of a vulnerability is not a requirement. No software is bug free, and many seemingly benign bugs are security vulnerabilities.

Try and name one company that reports all their bugs (security/non security) discovered internally.

I have never worked at any company that publishes every security bug discovered internally. This is ridiculous.

Is average payout really a good indicator? There could be more part-time drivers.

"Publishers are probably costing their audience more in battery life and bandwidth than they are ever making from the ad they are showing". Have you done any calculation? The bandwidth/battery life cost for serving JS negligible. It's nothing compare to fetching/rendering images/videos, or even your mobile OS.

You have no idea what you are talking about. JS doesn't nearly cost as much as images, and most ad-related JS are minified. For many websites ad serving is the only profitable model. You won't make money off subscriptions unless you are one of the big players and don't have to worry about growing your user base.

But that's true isn't it? What's with this entitlement that sites should be ad-free while still providing value? I own a blog, there is no way I could have a profitable subscription based model (believe me, I tried).

That's not what this article is saying. It's not curating anything...

The Chinese government is going to censor its citizens regardless though.

Are you sure this approach is popular? AFAIK none of the top ad platforms allow you to inject scripts. Do you know any?

Scripts from the ad should be iframed no? Doesn't make sense that an ad could run arbitrary JS within the same browsing context as the host.

I'll trade my entire browsing history for your SSN