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polyomino··on U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker
Facebook isn't selling your data. They're selling access to you.
polyomino··on DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
It's unknown whether disparate startups would do a better job with things like attacks from state actors compared to the giants. Obviously, as things become more consequential, people would rather have entities they can hold accountable. However I think our mechanisms of holding entities to account are ineffective, big or small.
polyomino··on Oculus Quest 2
They mentioned businesses getting accountless and/or alternative authentication methods in the keynote.
polyomino··on Oculus Quest 2
No, advertisers do not "get access" to that data.

They get the ability to target ads against people who match some characteristics. Facebook's business is literally built on advertisers inability to access that data. If they had access, advertisers would advertise elsewhere and Facebook wouldn't get a cut.

polyomino··on Oculus Quest 2
You can sideload apks on quest and you can use steam if you connect it to your pc.
polyomino··on Apple Fitness+
How hard could it be to synthesize that with deepfakes?
polyomino··on A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation
It's also possible that the domain was primarily spread by bots. There are countless possible reasons why any low quality domain could be blocked.
polyomino··on Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content
Facebook and Google are valuable because they have this data and their customers don't. If the data is harder to come by, Facebook and Google just win out over smaller data collectors.
polyomino··on Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
Apple's app ecosystem was built on privacy erosion. They should pay out reparations to users if they want to keep their own app store.
polyomino··on Cloudflare, Google, Bing Destroying the Infrastructure of the Free Web
Very click-baity title IMO.

I think they're right about Cloudflare making legitimate scraping more difficult. There's little reason to believe that it's to protect the big players in search though.

polyomino··on Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
Not by default.
polyomino··on Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
The alumni admissions point is an interesting one. I wonder how one's propensity to donate is affected by their perception that they were chosen by the institution vs. they were selected by a deterministic process.
polyomino··on Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]
You really wouldn't want to do that. Android phones still need @20-30% more powerful hardware to get comparable performance.
polyomino··on Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google
They pop champagne in Mountain View every night.
polyomino··on Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members
Facebook should teach people how to do that.
polyomino··on To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo
This could be a good forcing function for them to get their act together on cloud. However, I've heard that teams internally can't build on google cloud for various reasons. It may even make more sense for them to directly spin off onto AWS. Even "seperate" companies like Waymo build their systems on the internal google infra.
polyomino··on Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue
That would be a terrible move. Nobody would want to work with a company that acts so childishly. It would also alienate all of the people who support the cause.
polyomino··on Facebook reports second quarter results
Apple, Google, and Amazon are each an order of magnitude bigger
polyomino··on Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick
Apple -> Android

Google -> Bing

Microsoft -> Amazon

Twitter -> Trump

Messenger -> Whatsapp

Facebook -> Instagram

Instagram -> Reality

polyomino··on Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%
The only reason that many companies are able to operate at all today is because of the technology they use. Tech should be less affected overall compared to the rest of the economy.
polyomino··on MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets
You don't need a mining cartel, infura runs all the working nodes.
polyomino··on Swift Playgrounds for macOS

  Animations introduce each new coding concept at a high level before you dive into the puzzles
This sentence says the opposite of what is meant to most non-technical people.
polyomino··on Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
That would Be categorized as type 3 emissions, which they intend to cover.
polyomino··on The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
yes, but be aware, bcash is plagued with scammers, so as a precaution you should move your coins on bitcoin to another wallet before attempting to use a bcash wallet which could steal your bitcoin private keys.
polyomino··on Cryptocurrency in the 2020s
Governments make use of money laundering and they're willing to pay quite a bit for it
polyomino··on America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Study Says
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...

If you’re this study posted here before, it was just extrapolating based on weight of ice vehicles and is therefore largely useless in estimating the air quality impact of regenerative braking vehicles.

polyomino··on How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...
polyomino··on How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...

looks like they're just assuming electric vehicles behave like light trucks because they're heavier than most passenger vehicles and therefore attribute 67% more emissions due to brake wear and don't account for regenerative breaking. (They estimate 2% more emissions from tire wear than lighter vehicles).

polyomino··on Billionaire’s Guide to Buying Your Kids a Better Shot at Elite Colleges
Financial engineering. They set the prices which they pay themselves to appear philanthropic.
polyomino··on Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis
Would this detect edibles?
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