Imagine the irony if that wasnt't the intent, but articles like this have now placed the idea in the heads of facebook engineers.
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is you can just use EXIF metadata and/or picture resolution/sharpness to easily sort old Vs. new. Cameras have come a long way in ten years..
As has internet privacy. Any social site keeping EXIF intact will pay big in their bug bounty to hear about it because that's a GDPR nightmare
Facebook most certainly keeps exif intact. Just because they don't publish it doesn't mean they don't retain it as metadata.
I dont know what you think gdpr is but it's not a magic wand which prevents companies from gathering data.
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#23"My flippant tweet began to pick up traction. My intent wasn't to claim that the meme is inherently dangerous."
He spun an offhand comment into full-on opinion manipulation, because we're now reading his article on the topic that not only has a clickbait headline, it seems to imply there's something more to the story, when in fact there isn't.
So now we've got all this digital ink spilled on the (entirely hypothetical) topic, and plenty of eyeballs buying it with their attention. But all of it is vapor, even at the admission of the authors.
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#24"My flippant tweet began to pick up traction. My intent wasn't to claim that the meme is inherently dangerous." He spun an offhand comment into full-on opinion manipulation, because we're now reading his article on the topic that not only has a clickbait headline, it seems to imply there's something more to the story, when in fact there isn't. So now we've got all this digital ink spilled on the (entirely hypothetica…
You are replying to an article written by someone named "Kate O'Neill", in which they include a photograph of themselves via Twitter, and you are referring to them as "he"?
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#25"My flippant tweet began to pick up traction. My intent wasn't to claim that the meme is inherently dangerous." He spun an offhand comment into full-on opinion manipulation, because we're now reading his article on the topic that not only has a clickbait headline, it seems to imply there's something more to the story, when in fact there isn't. So now we've got all this digital ink spilled on the (entirely hypothetica…
The issue with internet nowadays to be honest. As soon as you got a bit of traction with a tweet or with a blog post people try to milk it in order to market themselves or other narcissistic interests.
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#26A funny trend I've been seeing is posts from /r/conspiracy being mined by journalists for their stories. This exact idea was posted a few days ago to Reddit, and is not this tech writer's idea.
Reporters combing Reddit for story ideas has been going on for years and years. Heck, it might be worth an experiment to see how quickly someone can start from scratch and put together a portfolio of clips this way. The pitches practically come prewritten.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do they need to be Indian? Sure the data would reflect that a plurality of global low wage workers are from India, but there are also plenty of low wage workers who are not ethnically Indian or geographically based in India (such as all of the Americans working on r/beermoney).
By using Indian workers you are helping to provide a living wage for people who really need it, not just for “beer money”.
Did you really just belittle my 60+ hour work weeks and 45 minute commutes as some frivolity?
Do I have a choice about whether or not I have to hold down a job? No. No I don’t.
Do I have a choice about the level of competition I must bring to the table to simply tread water? No. No I don’t.
If I had a choice, I’d never program another piece of code again, but hey. Yeah, beer money. Like I have a life whereupon I enjoy it enough to drink beer.
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#28This research has been in existence for over a decade[1]. Clearly this would be a valuable dataset, but as others have mentioned, Facebook has probably the most valuable dataset. Realistically, the biggest hurdle in modelling aging is in children. The bones/muscles/everything are so elastic that it makes it difficult to accurately predict how they will look. The primary use for this tech has been for catching high-valued individuals that have gone in hiding or children kidnapped into human trafficking (hence the focus on modeling child face growth).
This entire thing sounds more like someone made a joke about "Big Brother always watching" and people without a real understanding of what's possible freaked out when they realized it is.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-y...
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#29Facebook already has access to a larger repository of photos going back over a decade and all the years inbetween along with decent face recognition to create a much bigger dataset than resorting to a hashtag challenge. But I guess that wouldn't be newsworthy.
As has been pointed out, people identifying themselves makes it easier to figure out which 10-year-old and current photos are actually:
* themselves
* 10 years old
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
By using Indian workers you are helping to provide a living wage for people who really need it, not just for “beer money”.
Did you really just belittle my 60+ hour work weeks and 45 minute commutes as some frivolity? Do I have a choice about whether or not I have to hold down a job? No. No I don’t. Do I have a choice about the level of competition I must bring to the table to simply tread water? No. No I don’t. If I had a choice, I’d never program another piece of code again, but hey. Yeah, beer money. Like I have a life whereupon I enjo…
I did not interpret matte_black's comment as belittling at all, the post being responded to literally talked about people on the r/beermoney subreddit.