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Unfortunately, US carriers are selling the location data based on your SIM card, so even "dumb phones" are still subject to tracking.

AirSage is very clearly offering non-anonymized (read: private) information about individuals. That is, they offer "insights like the home and work locations of people". > AirSage …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626702

Market research indicates that most people actually love RSS.

And it competed with Pocket.

8k has four times as many pixels as 4k, so at the same bitrate/pixel it would be around 48mbit/sec

> In programming specifically, many studies have shown order of magnitude differences in the quality of the programs written, the sizes of the programs written, and the productivit…

There are many regulations that affect data, like HIPPA and ITAR. How can Windows be used in such an environment if the data collection can’t be stopped?

If a .iso is provided, I can't see why flashing a custom "Helm iso" is any different from flashing the default "Raspberry Pi iso", and there are a lot of people who can flash the r…

> as good hardware is expensive They don't need to sell hardware to achieve what they're doing. In the current form, they are mainly selling a service (SMTP relay on EC2) disguised…

Why?

I think we need proper privacy measures, since the misuse of data is not necessarily an "antitrust issue". For instance, would breaking up Facebook really mean that the newly forme…

This sentence right here is incredibly vague: > Marcus also accuses Acton of “slow-playing” the implementation of a feature that would let businesses message WhatsApp users and ult…

> “And you can start testing [that] by sending them different kinds of advertising to see some kind of behaviour in the [listening] patterns.” There will be a day where you can get…

Counter argument: Vague language is the best way to enable selective enforcement. Large companies who can afford the best lawyers will be able to find interpretations that are in t…

This is the exact opposite of what economics would predict. If you have a greater risk than your friend, then you will pay more because your expected risk is higher. In perfect com…

> They get famous not because of their well thought out positions but because of their charisma Studies have shown that people trust pundits with gumption, not well-thought out or …

> Telemetry for telemetry. Nice. It's just a matter of time until some developer poses the question: "Are people who opt out of telemetry more likely to use Linux? Or live in Europ…

Like a newspaper, magazine, or TV station?

I'm sure one of their metrics is "time on site", which often doesn't distinguish between "spends more time because they enjoy the product" and "spends more time because they can't …

Honest question: What happens if a Russian or Chinese search engine doesn't comply? How would the EU block them? This is especially important if the Russian or Chinese entity has n…

Data collection fits "Industry standards" because the industry is inherently corrupt -- Adtech requires immense user data because they chose to target users rather than content.

> would not recommend at all to maths-minded folks. Why not?