Maybe of interest: https://www.whotracks.me/ - A growing list of profiles on trackers and tracking landscape on popular domains.
How PayPal Shares Your Data
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Re: How PayPal Shares Your Data
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then what? You find they are doing almost the same, move to the biggest forrest you can find and start living on berries and rabbits? Or you decide to cut 1/3 of your savings, buy paypal and show them how to do it the right way? It's really hard to see any reasonable options you have as source of data.
Some cryptocurrencies are designed to preserve privacy, to protect people from exactly this problem.
Preserving privacy by having a public ledger where everyone can see your transactions?
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#23The tree visualization was kind of cool, so I turned it into a library called d4tree. https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree Throw it any JSON data whose structure is isomorphic to http://rebecca-ricks.com/paypal-data/data/paypal.json Here's an example of how to use d4tree on your site: https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree-paypal git clone https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree-paypal cd d4tree-paypal yarn && yarn dev Make any chang…
Do you realise that this is essentialy Mike Bostock's reference implementation of a Collapsible Tree [1]?
Why re-distribute it as a separate repository?
Rebeca Ricks added tooltips, but you haven't generalised these: the code in your repo still generates this text using .Data and .Purpose attributes of the data objects representing the leaves [2], which won't exist for general tree objects.
[1]: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4339083
[2]: https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree/blob/master/js/script.js#L7...
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#24If I zoom in enough to have readable text, the branches below the middle are unreachable via scrolling (Safari). Something is very broken with this presentation.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some cryptocurrencies are designed to preserve privacy, to protect people from exactly this problem.
Yeah, but the biggest ones are not inflationary, so they end up as exclusively hype-driven speculative investment vehicles. That's not good for a method of payment.
Monero is inflationary, but it still might not keep up with coin loss.
Even a coin with higher inflation will still be susceptible as a speculative-investment. It would be nice if there was a way to avoid that, and to keep value relatively-stable, but I can't think of anyway that does require trusting 3rd parties.
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#26The tree visualization was kind of cool, so I turned it into a library called d4tree. https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree Throw it any JSON data whose structure is isomorphic to http://rebecca-ricks.com/paypal-data/data/paypal.json Here's an example of how to use d4tree on your site: https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree-paypal git clone https://github.com/shawwn/d4tree-paypal cd d4tree-paypal yarn && yarn dev Make any chang…
Do you realise that this is essentialy Mike Bostock's reference implementation of a Collapsible Tree [1]? Why re-distribute it as a separate repository? Rebeca Ricks added tooltips, but you haven't generalised these: the code in your repo still generates this text using .Data and .Purpose attributes of the data objects representing the leaves [2], which won't exist for general tree objects. [1]: https://bl.ocks.org/m…
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Thanks! :) I did this mostly for the fun of it, but it's nice to know the source. The styling on Mike's tree is much nicer.
It's quite handy to have zooming and tooltips. The zooming is a little rough, but overall this seems like a nice way to explore huge amounts of hierarchical data.
My overall aim is to make an interactive bundle explorer:
https://i.imgur.com/Ww0ARCS.png
Graphviz is nice, but it's not interactive. What you really want is to attach a ton of information to each node, hidden by default. Tooltips are a small but promising step towards that.
It doesn't seem like this library can handle circular dependencies though. Anyone know of something along these lines that can handle arbitrary cycles?
DOT graphs try to display all the nodes at once, but it seems like the Collapsible Tree strategy could be applied to circular graphs: just let the user click on the edges they want to explore, and elide the rest. Then indicate which edges are "interesting" (lots of children, or children with significant effects), so that users aren't randomly stepping through a huge mostly-hidden graph.
I'd love to find something performant enough to display your entire filesystem as an explorable tree, but that'd be quite a challenge.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some cryptocurrencies are designed to preserve privacy, to protect people from exactly this problem.
Yes, a known example is Monero. The question is, first and foremost, if you should trust cryptocurrencies.
Trustlessness, in other words the property of not requiring trust in the ledger's correctness, is the cornerstone of cryptocurrencies.
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#29Maybe of interest: https://www.whotracks.me/ - A growing list of profiles on trackers and tracking landscape on popular domains.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think cryptocurrencies are protecting anyone from any problem.
OK, I'll bite. How is Monero not protecting people's privacy?
Because most Monero transactions are traceable, according to research by the National University of Singapore:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/338.pdf
If anyone can debunk this I’d love to hear more, but generally I think it’s dangerous to rely on claims of secrecy